What is fear?

We run into fear all the time. We are afraid of all kinds of situations and things.
Fear makes us act in many ways that we would not act without it. It makes us do things we don´t want to.
And it stops us doing what we would like to do. So what is this mysterious fear?

We were not born with fear. There is reflective reactions when a baby feels like falling and they also react to very hard noises, but I would not call these fear. Only instincts to survive.

Nature and animals don´t feel fear. Animals has instincts to stay alive, but it is not fear.
Only humans have fear. Fear is a result of thinking and believing in thoughts.
If we are close to fall from a high place, the emotion gives a signal to react and stay out of trouble.
But these real life threatening situations are quite rare. So where does all the rest of the fears come from?

First of all, fear is a feeling. Feeling has been labelled/given a name called “fear”. Whenever the unpleasant feeling arrives, we call it fear. We have learned it to be that.
So fear is created by mind. We constantly think of possible events and results. We create worst case scenarios in our minds and assume them happening. We have a great imagination, don´t we?
Mind does its job, and provides descriptions in the form of thoughts about everything. It is happening on autopilot. It is so continuing that we are not able to tell the difference from an illusionary thought from what really is.
There was a short period of time when we did not have any thoughts yet. The time before we were been taught any language. There were feelings, but not fear in the way we experience it, after language and meanings to perceptions is learned.

People are afraid of different things, based on what they have learned to be good or bad, safe or threatening. On a physical level this is partly serving, but when the fear is controlling us on the mental level, our lives becomes a prison. The life protecting mechanism has taken over and run on things that are not life threatening. We become afraid of thoughts. How scary is that? We believe our imagined thoughts would have some reality in them, but there is not. Only learned thoughts running through mind.
We try to avoid fear in every way. But in real, we are avoiding to feel the feeling of fear. It is the worst feeling to be felt. By avoiding it, we remain controlled by it.
Fear is the main administrator of the illusion state of human awareness. Fear is the channel how people can be ruled and manipulated. It is happening everywhere. Without fear people are free.

 

 

Fear makes us very limited. We have beliefs that we will not be accepted, we will not be loved, we are not good enough. We are afraid of making mistakes, afraid to be freely what we are, afraid to lose our value in the eyes of others.
All this is based on feeling of fear. It shapes our behavior and character to become something that we are not. Fear is hidden deep and mainly we are not aware of its existence at all.
We only feel different kind of unpleasant emotions covering it up, like anger, irritation, hate, aggression, jealousy, blaming, quilt, arrogance to mention some. All these and many more are all based on fear and we would not experience them without the hidden feeling of fear. All the symptom feelings covering fear, are easier to stand than the feeling of fear.
We are afraid of the unknown darkness within ourselves. When it is brought to light, the fear is gone.

This is the reason we are stuck with all this. The symptoms and reactions keeps on happening when some situation triggers the fear. In every situation where this happens is a change and a key to see, what we are covering up and what false believes we still are carrying within us. But this requires understanding of how the mind is projecting everything unpleasant to be out there. We need to turn everything around and investigate our though patterns, believes, assumptions and the ways we describe the meanings of happenings to find out what is going on in our subconscious programming.

The ego-mind is kept alive by fear. The only thing that can give the impression that fear exists, is the belief in the separate “I, me, self”. There is an intelligence of illusion running and it is our own creation. If there weren´t, it would be easy to drop all off. But it is not easy. There is an inner fight between truth and illusion going on strongly all the time. Two wolfs fighting, the good and the bad.
If we don´t become aware of this, there is nothing we can do about it. The illusion is so strong and convincing that most believe it without questioning. It feels like the sound of reason. But it is not, we have only learned that it would be.

The only way to get out of the human suffering and from being on the mercy of emotions, is to get to know what creates them. To learn how mind works and how this energetic experience of physical life works.

There is no coincidence. All is happening within the laws of energetic rules. We can learn to listen to them and learn how to create with them. Life is constant creating and we do it all the time. It is much more pleasant to create from understanding, than from the “dream state” of the mind, when everything is happening by accident. Separation don´t exist, we co-create in this very moment.
I invite everyone to wake up and become aware <3

Learning in, learning out

The universe is born with you. The first moment you open your eyes for the first time, it is there.
All what is needed you bring with you, when you arrive within the body.
From that moment of the first breath, you start learning how all is working within this energetic, physical experience. From that moment on, everything is learned. The journey begins.

You have this pure perception, no extras.

The senses provides a body experience for you. It is clean, it is new, it is a wonder, it is amazing.
There are colors, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations. Everything appears as it appears.
There even seems to be company. Other colorful shapes making noise, moving around and touching you.
Great, this will not be a lonely journey.

Since you are new here, you start to follow carefully what others do and how they behave.
The urge to learn makes you suck in every single detail of your perception. And you start to learn by copying everything they do, say, feel, impress, deny, prefer, except, condemn. Also all beliefs and thought patterns. You will learn that your body will be called “I, me, self” and you will learn, that everything seems to be belonging to it. It becomes the owner of your life experience and the very core belief for separation to maintain. The programming has started. During first 7 years, the basic programming has been installed.

Thereafter it will be made stronger and additional parts added, based on what you have learned.
Illusion has been created and believing in it mostly done. The raw experience observed before words, has been forgotten and mixed with thinking. Thoughts about what has been observed, becomes the reality while the reality fades somewhere on the background. A difference between what really can be observed, and thinking about it, has become one big sea of separation. The illusion is blended with the reality.

Along the process of learning, we fall in sleep little by little. Believing in thinking lulls us into sleep.
The sleep state becomes our reality and we have no idea that we are dreaming.
We think we are awake, experiencing this life from awake state. We believe we are awake.
But until we stop believing and imagining a dream to be true, we have no escape from it.
The experience of life will pass by, while we are sleeping in it. In a dream, anything can happen. Look at the world and what we do there. What a dream. The only way to stop the craziness is to wake up from the dream.

Do the reality check and see for yourself what is true and what is imagined.
The answer will not be found from the learned thinking, it will be found from experiencing the observed.

One small thought in the past, was taken too seriously and it became truth by us believing in it.
This is why this experience of physical life is told to be created by beliefs, and it is. What you believe in, becomes your reality and experience while inside the dream.
Check again and wake up from the dream of suffering. “Egoland” is ruled by an imagined character, an imagined leader. There is no separate ruler, we just believe in those echoes that sounds like there would be. Stop listening to them and see for yourself. What is and what is not. You are home, you only need to wake up to see that.

When senses are gone, what remains?

Here is a rehearsal that helped me to realize how everything becomes reality and how easily it´s gone.

Sense play

We use our 5 physical senses to play with.

Seeing
Tasting
Smelling
Hearing
Sensing and feeling

By these 5 senses, our world seems to take form and exist. That perception we believe to be our reality.

Let´s examine this.

Lay down and relax. Notice all your senses and what they produce.
Be aware of it all for a while.

Now we start cutting.

First close your eyes. In a blink of an eye, the whole surroundings with its shapes disappear.
Now the visual sight of your existence is gone. No more existing. Only black.
If you imagine, that you would never have had your eyes open, would you know about the world and surroundings existing? Are you sure all is still there without opening your eyes.
Now you have 4 more senses proving the reality.

Now we move to the tasting. Imagine that you cannot taste anything. The whole tasting ability is gone.
Damn, there went the delicious tastes of everything. Absolutely the same what to feed the body with.
Though now there might go something that has gone bad and is not healthy for the body.

Time for smelling to disappear. You can´t smell a thing. No odors, nothing.
There went the important tool to enjoy good odors and discover what has gone bad.
All what you can do with your nose is breathing. That can still be sensed.

The existing starts to be quite different at this point. There is only sounds left and sensations with feelings by the body.

Let´s remove hearing. No sounds. Complete silence. No signs of anything or anybody else unless, something touches your body. You are completely alone with your thoughts and feelings.

Now the final hit. The sensation capability of the body is gone. Total num.
This was the last thing that made you think, the body existed. Now it is gone. No proof of it.
You have no idea if there is anything existing in any form. Silence with darkness with thoughts travelling around.

Go deep into each of the steps here and really look and feel, how it would be. If you look very carefully. Despites everything sensed is gone, there is this sensation of awareness.
Something still exists. What is this existing that remains? Some kind of consciousness.
So, there must be something greater than this physical existence, which is not depended of the physical existence.

This way we can see how the whole physical reality is created only by our physical senses. Without them, it disappears. So what is the truth of personal existence? Do you exist as a separate unit? Is there any separation at all?

From that state the body could as well be death, without “me” knowing it.
So the reality is delivered through body, but not by the body. Through body the senses appear and there by the physical world appears. A hologram or projection. When required components are in place, the existence appears and when removed, the existence disappears.

A creator playing game by creating and experiencing the creation through the created.

Fighting against reality

My way, or the way all happens.

We have opinions about everything. That happens without noticing.
We have this “my way or high way” program running beneath on auto pilot.

It can be recognized though, by paying attention.
I can resist or allow.

A simple example.

I am in the room with another person. The person grabs a chair and moves it to a different place.
I watch this happening.

There is two ways to take this:

1. I don´t like it. I don´t want it to be moved elsewhere. I resist what I see. I start to feel irritated.
Thoughts like; who said it can be moved? or, I was not asked if it can be moved, it would have been much better in the old place than there etc…. This all gives me an uncomfortable feeling and steels the natural flow away.

2. I will notice the chair being moved. I will see where it is placed and take a sit on it.
No other thoughts are necessary. It is only a chair, and the view is actually better from the place it is now, than where it was before. All well.

The first example is looking through the ego-mind. It is automatic reaction where the “me” is protected as a center of the universe. The most valuable core of existing.
There might also be thoughts like, “he is doing that on purpose to irritate me”, “he is not respecting my opinions, since he don´t ask me first”. In reality, the other person only moved a chair. He has no idea of what I am thinking about the situation. I thought my thoughts and felt my feelings, not him.
When this is recognized, it gives us great tools to be able to see differently.

No one is doing nothing to me, I am causing my own suffering with my own way of thinking. The habitual way I have learned to think during my life experience.
When everything is looked this way, and the right angle is found, it drops off the blame. We can release the other person from being blamed of something, he did not mean or even know about.
We can notice our own suppositions and realize, they are not based on anything real.
I should only ask myself: Why do I feel this way? What makes me resist?
What is threatened in me? What am I projecting outside, that I have not accepted in me?

This is the way to turn all thinking combined with feelings around 180 degrees.
All is happening right here within. My beliefs, my opinions, my feelings, my work to fix.
When solved, only thoughts, opinions, feelings remains.
Everything else is ego-based “I” structure. Illusion trying to remain itself.

Different points of view remains, but as long as there is an emotional reaction involved, there is something to be recognized and cleaned.