My Actifit Activity Log [12.16.2018] F.E.A.R. V.S. FAITH

Here we are again and it’s time to address F.E.A.R.!

F.E.A.R. stands for False Evidence Appearing Real.

F.E.A.R. is a condition that dampens SPIRITUAL enlightenment. The author, Seth Godin, says that fear is our lizard brain 🦎🧠 telling us what we should or shouldn’t do. It is our lower inclination in operation. Our survival (not thrival) mechanism. Emotional defaults like F.E.A.R. make higher thinking impossible.

The opposite of F.E.A.R. is faith. Faith frees the SPIRIT towards a heightened state opening the way for the mind and body to operate at unlimited levels. A healthy person operates intrinsically from a faith based locus of control.

I’m not going to break into anything religious here. I realize that covering the health compounder SPIRIT is very difficult to do without at least touching on religious faith but I have my reasons for attempting to separate the two. Hopefully you will understand why this line is important to maintain from a purely intellectual stand point.

For many spiritual health invokes ideas of faith... but neither is that the sort of faith I’m eluding to. (Not to say that religious faith doesn’t have anything to do with a select number of people’s health and well-being. I’m sure it does!)

I guess I’m making an attempt to show you all that it is possible to take care of your SPIRIT and to have faith but in completely non-religious ways.

Why would I feel the need to make this point? Because so many people, when the words spirit and faith are used together, conger up these religious ideas and contentions... and it ends up being an unfortunate distraction from the deeper understanding and personal nature of the SPIRIT and why it’s important to health.

Perhaps you disagree with me... and that’s ok... so long as you keep an open mind to the idea of a healthy spiritual state outside the constraints and constructs of religion then perhaps we may have something to beneficially share.

With that out of the way let us continue...

F.E.A.R. and faith are mirror opposites of each other. Some would say that a health dose of fear is a good thing and I would agree fully with that premise. Swimming in a tank with hungry pirañas 🐟 , starring down the snout of an angry mother bear 🐻 , or standing on the brink of an active volcano 🌋 should all ring loud and clear that a healthy life preserving dose of reality and respect is in order! It is an ancient program that operates to keep the smartest among us alive and well among the land of the living!

However! Today’s modern and stressing life taxes even the best of us bombarding us with stimuli that shouldn’t activate F.E.A.R. but can and often does just that. As an operating system that used to serve us just fine as we evaded tigers 🐯 , lions 🦁 , and snakes 🐍 now it acts as a short draining away our vital SPIRITUAL energy and clouding our better judgment.

Most of the things we F.E.A.R. these days are abstract at best and likely a figment of our over activate minds and under stimulated bodies. It is important therefore to take measures to adequately appraise these stressors to see if F.E.A.R. is a rational and founded response. Often it is not and simply a distraction.

Put it this way... When’s the last time you got on an elevator and allowed it to hoist you multiple stories into the sky? Do you know who built and installed the elevator? How about the building? Do you know who designed and built it?

Likely you do not. But you have faith (faith being the operative word here!) in the lowest bidder that people you have never met 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 (You get the point! LoL!) years ago did a good J.O.B. (Just Over Broke)! Your F.E.A.R. is likely, on a scale of 1 to 10, at a 1 (1 being the lowest possible) and your faith levels at a 10. Without a shadow of a doubt your confident that you will reach the top of the building without incident.

Faith is the answer to F.E.A.R.

F.E.A.R. Has a way of contorting the SPIRIT... in fact this is only one of the many conditions that are capable of doing such a thing.

It is the continuance and compounding nature of such states that cause complications and deformities in the human SPIRIT. It is these underlying ways of looking at and experiencing the world that cause us to adopt unhealthy behaviours in mind and body. This is the reason I bring them up.

Have you heard anyone talk about this? I haven’t... and that’s why I feel the need to do so today!

I think about our SPIRITUAL health like that of a tree, similar to a bonsai tree but in nature, clinging to the side of a cliff overlooking the ocean. The forces of the world bearing down upon it. Wind and waves, sun, and rain. Each element shaping the tree. Twisted and tangled the tree clings to life hugging the rocky cliffs grasping at whatever it can hold onto to sustain it and keep it from careening downwards and dashing on the boulders bellow its perch.

That’s how life can effect us when we are not our position of self-empowerment and health. When we are not in a healthy environment.

F.E.A.R. is one of those forces that re-shapes the SPIRIT and changes ones identity. It can deform ones vision of the world and blueprint daunting years of struggle upon the individual in its grasp.

Freeing the spirit with the truth and ditching the False Evidence that Appears Real is the first step toward growing stronger straight towards the sky of your true potential.

Have you ever seen a stand of trees all shooting to the sky side by side one next to the other?
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This is what happens when you create a whole community of people who have faith in each other. They support each other’s SPIRITUAL wellbeing. They care about each other’s health. And together they stay true and grow towards the best possible versions of themselves. The wind can’t touch them. The waves can’t pound them. The sun can’t beat on them. They are unbeatable.

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