How Fear Affects the Mind
Let say you are a fearless person, what would you do to your relationship, career, and other important areas in life? Let say you don’t have to worry about urgencies and failures, what big plans are you going to start immediately? I suspect that most of us will do big and amazing things if we no longer worry about how much time it takes, and if we have no fear at all about the consequences of doing them.
Sometimes we fear too much. The only thing to fear is often the fear itself, because fears create exactly the problems we dread. If we have no fear, we would have made the best choices for our life long ago. It is the constant worry and fear that keeps us short-sighted, such as living from paycheck to paycheck, postponing profitable projects, hold on to destructive relationships, and so on.
I think if more children have no fear of failures, more would become prodigies, because most prodigies aren’t more intelligent than their peers, but they can master their fears better. They can go on days immersing in their subject of interest without caring about anything else. Normal people have learned to make compromise to their fears, and the fears other people impose on them.
If we have constant fears, we can’t think clearly. It will keep us in a robotic state, which only allows us to function mechanically. We can only reach the highest human potential by being joyful, secure, and brave. This state of blessedness allows creativity, strategic thinking, inspiration, passion, wisdom, and other crucial ingredients for fulfillment. That means if we are constantly frightened, we can only find low wage jobs, and get stuck in mediocracy. If we ever want to live life to the full, we must get rid of fears, or harness it, and remain in the state of blessedness.
Proverbs 29:25
Fear of man will prove to be a snare,
but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe.Proverbs 24:10
If you falter in times of trouble, how small is your strength!
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death–that is, the devil–and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
Fear Begets Problems
Things that we afraid would happen tend to happen. If we fill our mind with fears, what are we doing to ourselves? Our imagination and thoughts are spring of life (Proverbs 4:23). We must guard our hearts carefully.
I have a track record of bringing my own fears into reality. Maybe I was very good at predicting things, or I was very good at creating what I predicted. It is important to be able to watch out for dangers, but I find it useless to dwell on them. How do we manage our fears and prevent them from happening?
This would be a topic for my future post.
Fear Makes Us Pick Wrong Choices
It causes us to make the wrong decisions. Would you have made the same major decisions in the past if you were fearless? Would they be better decisions? If we are not afraid, we would have spent all our resources on things that we know are the best, instead of the ones that we are made to work on because of fears. Or we might avoid tough choices, although tough choices we know are best choices always turn out to be easy in the long run.
Fear Minimizes Our Brain Power
I can’t focus and think when I am afraid. Fears only help me when I do martial arts, sports, or public speaking, because I am able to turn them into adrenaline, which gives me tremendous boost. If I remain in fear, I am no good. When I study, I find it hard to remember things if I am doing it with a depressive, fearful, and worrying mood.
It’s the Small Fears
That sap our strength. Big fears come occasionally. It’s the small fears and anxiety that come frequently as a result of abuses, oppression, and wrong belief that damage us the most. Fears can come from years of conditioning. The only effective antidote to that is the word of God.
You Can’t Create Big Project Under Fears
I don’t think the brilliant minds can create millions dollars inventions under a fearful state. This website is a huge, ongoing project that requires much faith. Many times I wouldn’t know what to write for the next several articles if I didn’t have faith. When I placed my trust in God, he would show me what to write next. It’s the leap of faith that brings me from one step to the next. Still, this site could have been much bigger if I wasn’t so fearful about my financial needs, and inadequacy that I often felt.
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I spent a great chunk of my life in fears. Writing this post helps me discovered just how much it has destroyed my productivities. I could have done a lot more if we embrace more creativities, joy, peace, love, imaginations, and faith, instead of fears.
This is a fearful world. Most people get stuck in their compartments of the worldly system, instead of becoming the persons God wants them to become, because they are afraid. Fears keep them living under their potentials, including their spiritual potentials.
In the future post, I am going to share how to be courageous.
