fear vs Fear
There is a quote from Abraham Hicks floating around from March 2020 in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic.
Predictably, I received the “tell that to my friend on a ventilator” response to the quote. This prompted an exchange where I attempted to explain my take on “fear” vs “Fear”.
“fear” is that feeling you get before you lean in for a kiss, before you jump out of an airplane, that feeling when your spidey senses are tingling due to potential danger, the fight or flight response is kicking in and your hearth is beating fast. In short, that feeling that let’s you know you are alive. It is temporary, once the event is over you normalize.
“Fear” is that feeling of dread or anxiety you cant shake. I felt that after 9/11 and collectively as Americans we were fearful to go anywhere, every person of middle eastern decent was a terrorist and out to kill us. That feeling of not feeling safe wherever we want permeated everything and you couldn’t shake it. I was in the military at the time and a war on terrorism was definitely on my mind. We freely gave away our freedoms to “keep us safe.”
I had similar feeling when I was depressed in 2016. I was in prepper mode as I felt we had an impending nuclear disaster coming and I was powerless to do anything about it or have any way to protect my family. The only thing that made me feel marginally better was buying prepper supplies but the buying really only curbed that impending feeling of doom and powerless for a short amount of time.
I feel like we are in that situation, only collectively, now in 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. When this started up in Feb 2020 I was getting gripped in fear again. The difference is now I was conscious enough to notice myself slipping into it and I took action to bring myself out of it.
I’ve come to understand though my Law of Attraction and Reality Creation work that what we think about we bring about, our external reality is created by our thoughts, beliefs, and actions, and “Fear” is a choice.