What Is The Effect Of Fear On Our Individual And Collective Psyche? (AbundanceTribe's BiWeekly Question)

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It's evident the world is going through rocky times and these somehow creates agitative emotions and this is natural because we humans senses this situations, we analyse the effect it might have on us and this definitely makes us feel threatened and in turn it causes us to cower, panic and of course; Fear. Generally fear limits the things we can achieve and even without looking at the dark times in the world, one of the biggest fear of man is the fear of dying. Now the fear of dying makes people want to live in the moment, it makes the mind demean our abilities to go past what we can achieve and this is because we don't have the power to be immortal we have dreams, we have ambitions.

We even want to conquer the sun, live on the stars but then the fear of dying and leaving it all behind makes us live in the moment and makes us relegate ourselves in some certain kind of physical limitations which of course affects the personal psyche. Now how does fear also affect our collective psyche? We humans thrive better when we're united to one cause, because individualistic virtues and values present are what forms a strong group. Nevertheless in a group sometimes the fear of failure is what makes the collective effort of some group never grows to mature or becomes realistic. The effect that arises from the fear of failure can be panic which leads to frustration which can then cause many irrational decisions.

Truth is, many people underestimate what panic is. It arises majorly from fear of what the outcome of something might be. The individual psyche conforms to courage, success, a sense of fulfillment and victory but then if it conforms to fear, then the opposite of the human positive virtues will directly affect the psyche making it relatively impossible for us humans to become productive. When you generally look at what it means to be productive it means to replicate success, to be creative, expressive and totally unique but then fear makes us ordinary, regular and common and this isn't who we should be but then that's the power of fear.

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Fear can also bring underlying regrets come to life and this can ruin our abilities to make decisions but then, how's this? Sometimes we recognise what we want but then we fear that the things we want might not want us in return. This comes because of our low self esteem, the lack of belief in how we look, what we embody and what we generally represent. It's okay to fear but then excessive fear shrinks us rather than guide or leads us and truth is, sometimes we live in regret of our inabilities to take the bull by the horn and do what we deem necessary.

Individual, collectively and otherwise; fear makes us the people we aren't, the people others see when we're tensed, angered or sad and this paints a bad representation especially if we're trying to create a position first impression. In the world now people judges is mostly from the first impression they have of us and sometimes these first impression might not be what we are but because at the moments when these people see us, we're erratic, unconditional and unorganized and this is because we're too afraid we might not be up to expectations but then our fear makes what we fear happen to us. It's imperative for us to understand that fear can be good, it keeps us in check but when it becomes excessive, that's when it ruins us.