Your Opinion...

I feel that we each have to acknowledge our feelings. Our fears are usually warning systems that are part of our primitive survival instinct, but they have been utilised for life in modern times. So where once we would have been terrified by an angry tiger of grizzly bear, we now have other fears of loss, that these negative thoughts are based on. Fear of losing a loved one, our wealth, our health, not being accepted by others, feeling foolish and so onm the list is endless... Apart from a real physical threat, if we are afraid, it is important first that we acknowledge that we are afraid and look right into that fear and see it for what it is. Usually an illusion of danger, not danger itself. Boldly stating "we will not be shaken", could be a denial and using this we will push it into our subconscious mind causing all sort of strain on the nervous system. What I am saying here, is feel the fear and do it anyway - some may have heard of the book by this title. Facing our fears in this way, will not bury them in the depths of the mind, but allow us to see the fears as mere mental images that have no strength whatsoever. :-)

I try to think that way but I am not always that strong. It depends on the situation. Some things I have learned to deal with in that way and other...no.