Calvin's Blog

Simply Stated Fear is a feeling. Nothing more nothing less.A feeling that comes about because of ones lack of information.

Whoever coined the phrase knowledge is power, knew what they were talking about. The presence of fear signifies that we have partial or missing information about a particular person, place, animal, thing, or situation.

The Recent Television Reality Show FEAR FACTOR uses this to its benefit. Of course, which producer in their right mind would publicly put people in imminent danger. They would face an onslaught of lawsuits and they would immediately be shut down by the health, safety, and every other department you can think of.. They actually play on people's ignorance. All the cockroaches, worms, spiders that they used in the shows looks dangerous but is actually less harmful than they look. Some of those creatures are actually packed with honest to goodness nutrients and protein. The ones who actually win this competition are the ones who understood this fact.

I remember when my little daughter found out that MacDonald's Chicken nuggets were actually made from real chicken, she was traumatized until I gave her the rest of the information. She still loves to eat chicken.

Tipping The SCALE

whenever you feel this feeling that you identify as fear it is because some new, usually "partial" information about a particular thing is placed in your mind through one of your senses. This can happen in a variety of ways. here's a few.

Scale Tippers

1. Things you hear. - People can tell you things to make you feel fear "partial information", - imagine being inside a building and hearing 3 loud bangs outside,-  The other night i was in my home office working on the computer, I suddenly heard someone banging on my door, I jumped up my heart raced I instantly felt fear, come to realize it was just the television.
2. Things you see - Spiders, Heights, Ghosts (well), Guns, Blood, Worms, Dead, Darkness, Sunlight, Moon, Computers. Actually, I think there is a phobia out there for everything. Some people are afraid of their own shadow. I think there's a new movie coming out this fall called MIRROR that's all we need one more reason to be afraid.
3. Things we Smell - Smoke, gas, burnt flesh,
4. Things we taste - pepper,
5. Things we feel/touch - cuts, wounds, ect.

In a popular survey I read about (cant remember the source) they said that public speaking was the worlds number one fear, ranked higher than death.

Bringing Balance

Well, when your emotional scale is tipped by fear you have to bring balance. Let's freeze frame for a minute, You are at the zoo and all of a sudden you hear people screaming. When you look around you see a lion breaking out of his cage and running towards you.....Ok lets pause for a minute right there......hello are you still here... I think I just lost 1/2 of my readers. Ok for those who are left and have not peed yourselves how do you overcome this fear.

Well if you really want to know lets just RUN LIKE HELL for now, so you can stay alive long enough to read the continuation of this blog in PART 2 (Facing the lion)