Excellent write up sirGopalakrishnan
On Thursday, 15 June, 2023 at 06:29:13 am IST, Markendeya Yeddanapudi
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Mar Fear
Chronic fear is beliefin failure. Most of us do not live in the present. We
spend time introspecting.When we experience failure, it gnaws, we live
retrospectively continuing the failure.We disable ourselves from living in the
present.
The internalcommunication system between and among the cells is the hormonal
system. Ahormone is simply the instruction from the brain to the cell to act in
aparticular way. When the brain cannot free itself from the memory of past
failures,it automatically tells the cells that there is failure looming large
and feartakes over. The fear ultimately becomes automatic reflex and it gets
embeddedas the repression. In repression, you cannot know why you are fearing
or actingin a cowardly manner, because the repressed cause hides in the
sub-conscious,and plays mischief without being caught. But it devastates your
very capacityto live in the present. The negativism in the hormonal
communication systembecomes auto- matic.You develop the fear response as an
automatic reflex--- theflight or avoidance or procrastination or chronic
postponement response. It isthe chronic inability of self control.
It is a situation whereyour body does not obey your command. When someone beats
you, you want to beat back,but to your horror and shame you find that you are
shivering and running away.And you do not know why you are acting like the
coward, though you don’t wantto be a coward. The hormones no longer wait for
fresh orders, they havestanding instructions.
If you want to removethe fear, it will be good, if you can actually catch the
culprit hiding withinyou as a repressed criminal. By going to a good Psycho
analyst you may be ableto bring out the repressed or hiding cause and
deliberately not allow it to dothe mischief. You tell very vehemently your
hormonal system to stop sending thefear generating hormones. You have to watch
yourself and deliberately suppressthe mischief of the hitherto unconscious
memory.
Then you have topractise self control through yoga. Here yoga means not only
the health givingand other asanas but also repeatedly telling yourself some
success mantradevised by you.
That mantra musttrigger the helping hormone or the positive hormones. Then you
have to practiseliving in the present only. When you live in the present, you
face problemsinstead of using the usual avoidance tricks like postponement or
depressed surrender.You can live in the present and face the problems only when
you believe inyourself and approve yourself. Do good things that get you
certificate from yourself.Also give good certificates automatically where you
find really good deeds, anappreciation is always appreciated and it helps your
own positive hormonalsystem.
You have to stop livingretrospectively if you are suffering from failures.
Experience and analysisnever happen at the same time. All analysis is post
mortem.
If you ask me whetherthere is God, I automatically tell that there is God. Who
is that God? In yourcase it is yourself. Make it a point to adore and show your
bhakthi to yourpersonal God—yourself. If you pray to him/her show your devotion
and absolute belief,He/She will give whatever you want. So my dear God, start.
Actually you do notexperience any fear when the thing you fear is happening.
Only you startfearing after remembering the event. Then you start dreading.
Concentrate onlyon the objective or if possible on a mission you select, there
are alwaysbarking dogs, and dogs bite only when you show fear, no dog attacks
when it findsthat you are courageous. Courage building is a lifelong affair;
you have tocontinuously practice it, till it gets part of your internal
hormonalcommunication.
COURAGE IS NOTUNTHINKINGLY AND BRUTALLY BEATING SOMEONE.IT IS THE OUTCOME OF
THE CHRONIC ABSENCEOF SELF CONTROL....ACTUALLY CHRONIC FEAR, A BULLY CAN BE
TAMED VERY EASILY.
The best method ofbuilding courage, self confidence, and self esteem..., is to
take up a missionthat gives real help and happiness to many. Every small bit of
success givesyou an enormous dividend of self esteem. A Gautama Buddha or
Ramana Maharshinever shouted or ranted or smirked happily at others problems.
They tried to help.They understood sincere missions. But Hitlers always rave
and rant and Hitlernever had the courage to personally visit an extermination
camp and ultimatelycommitted suicide, because he was so definite that he could
not answer, so muchof embedded fear and self contempt in reality.
YM
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