How Do You Live With Fear?

Thought, Feeling, and Imagination Many of us live with patterns of thought and feeling that ignite our fears. These patterns begin with habitual thoughts that are negative. We think about how we’ve been hurt before, and we drift into fear and anger. We think about all the things that could go wrong with a situation, […]

Why Do People Use Fear to Influence You?

Fear and Influence

There are many therapies, techniques, and strategies that we can use to overcome fear.

But if we free ourselves from our big fears, and still have no sense of possibility, no place that we truly want to go to, what will we use our freedom for? Where will we end up going?

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Is Society Based on Fear?

(There are real dangers in this world, and the emotion of fear can be a useful response to alert us to those dangers. Even then, we have to be willing to look at those fears, and see what action we need to take.

However, there are many fears that we carry with us which do […]

It’s Not Your Fault!

Guilt

It’s not your fault.

You may not always use those exact words when you whisper to yourself. It may not even be a whisper, only a feeling.

But that feeling has passed through you, so many times.

We look at ourselves, and we don’t always like what we see.

But we hate to feel […]

Why Are We Afraid to Play?

Childhood’s End? “Stop fooling around!”

Did you ever hear that from a parent or a teacher?

Maybe you ignored it and got into trouble. Or, more likely, you eventually listened, and stopped.

But that wasn’t the end of your desire to play.

You probably still like to play in some way. Although you probably don’t […]