Sometimes, to make dreams come true you have to negotiate with fear, you need to live with them, even if not all block us and make us give up what we have decided to do, there are many that cause dizziness that indicate that you are approaching a very high precipice, full of adrenaline and unknown sensations.
This feeling of uncertainty and discomfort arises when something really motivates us, disturbs the feeling of routine because we want to turn it into something that makes sense. The feeling of fear traces the way forward, leads us to continue to investigate the contours of what they are telling us impossible, so that we can actually do it.
- In his book “The Biology of Fear.
- ” Gerald Huther says we’re not afraid of anything like our fears.
- However.
- It is precisely this.
- With its different nuances.
- That gives movement to intellectual and emotional development.
- Fear produces a stress response process in the brain that creates ideal conditions for intellectual.
- Emotional and physical behavior.
Quantum physics explains how the body and emotions cannot distinguish what is happening on a real or imaginary plane, so our brain triggers the same reactions, so we experience the effects of stress and those of other biological mechanisms in exactly the same way, whether experimenting with them, anticipating them or imagining them.
As we have just mentioned, fear appears as a totally incoherent feeling when it becomes a suffocating and continuous emotional state, rather than becoming an alert sign of potentially threatening stimuli from the outside. A feeling that oppresses the person in the circle of his own unpleasant. sensations because it is no longer able to distinguish?adaptively?moments of alertness and moments of relaxation.
The complex process and circuit of physical and hormonal stress are activated with sensory stimuli, such as sight or hearing, to send information to an area of the brain called the amygdala: it will take care of connecting with the hypothalamus to access memory and see how it reacted to us before in similar situations. In addition, it will send electrical impulses to the muscles to act.
At the hormonal level, the pituitary gland secretes stress hormones, which trigger the activation and generation of other hormones: adrenaline and cortisol. Adrenaline dilates the pupils, increases breathing rate and cortisol in turn increases blood sugar, which will generate more muscle energy.
The most curious thing about this complex circuit is that, in the end, it generates dopamine, a neurotransmitter linked to pleasure, which in turn accompanies the feeling of fear, risk or triumph.
Knowing this complex circuit of fear and its usefulness, not only for our survival, but also for our emotional well-being, it is normal for people who have been injured after being afraid to think that this warning sign has no value. danger, they couldn’t do anything.
For example, in people who are victims of aggression, if the harm is not treated emotionally, the fear node will be permanently activated, even for safe actions, not only can people who have experienced these situations directly suffer this strange sense of permanent fear. , but also people who have witnessed an action where escape resources have not worked.
In cases where fear does not function as an adaptive signal, but as a widespread feeling that causes us great discomfort, it should be treated appropriately, in cases where trauma has occurred, techniques such as EMDR and other approaches seem to have promising results. In any case, the best advice we can give you is to entrust the situation to an expert.
Fear is used to anticipate us, never to live as ordered. As we said before, ideally, it is a feeling that shows us the unusual principle and paths, but without following the meaning without question.
It would be like fearing what feelings towards goals that seem unattainable, but we know they really aren’t: that’s what an opponent thinks when he embarks on a study that can last for years or an elite runner wanting to surpass his previous speed record. . . Cortisol is activated, but it doesn’t kill them.
In this way, the ability to turn fear into your ally can become, if you are able to materialize it, a great success, so that you can assess the signals that occur without blindly obeying it. Feel this alert as present and real, but also face it head on and I know how to cross it. One day you may not be able to avoid or deal with what you feared, but you must distrust this experience in order to live the rest of your life to the fullest.
In the end, if fear did not exist Either would have felt successful, avoiding one is avoiding the other, with the same result: avoiding life, taking the luxury of being afraid and being able to tolerate it, surely interesting things will arise.