Have you ever felt fear? Fear is a defense mechanism of our body to prepare us for danger. Sometimes it can be real but sometimes it can be imaginary. Fears must be faced; it is not advisable to hide from them because sooner or later you will have to face them.

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Feeling fear is not bad because physiologically it prepares our organism to defend ourselves against an aggressor element. When we feel fear the sympathetic system is triggered and begins to produce a series of substances such as adrenaline that allows us to control the body to be alert and feel nothing but strength to fight against the aggressor.

Adrenaline helps us not to feel the fear that paralyzes but responds in animal form, it helps us not to feel other different things, it is as if it separates us from pain, space or time, and only gives us to resist the fear that we have at that point.

When there is fear, we are stronger, we dare to fight against threats that duplicate our physical strength but at that moment the adrenergic discharge helps us to believe that we can overcome the imminent danger.

We cut ourselves, we fall and it does not hurt, we continue to fight against the aggressor agent and fear through adrenaline separates us from anything other than thinking that we can overcome it.

There is also the pathological fear, the one that the person feels that he/she cannot. That someone must come and help, otherwise he/she will not be able to live. The fear that we feel when we see an animal that attacks us, that animal that is small and terrifying, a spider, a cockroach, a butterfly. Those insects make us think that they will attack us and we are already defeated, we feel that the adrenaline paralyzes us and we only emit a cry for help, of fright.

What happens if no one can come to our aid? Do we let ourselves be dragged by the aggressors; do we continue to scream? What happens to us?

If we allow our mind to tell us that we cannot fight against what is attacking us, we will simply not succeed, but if we fight the feeling of fear, then we will defeat our imaginary enemies.

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Our organism is prepared to overcome obstacles. If we allow fears to minimize us, it is not that they are really great aggressors, it’s our mind that conceives them that way and we end up defeated. Our organism is prepared with tools to fight hand to hand with enemies that surpass us in size, in speed, even in intelligence, if we put our mind and our strength to fight, we will succeed, but if on the contrary we consider ourselves defeated, then we will be defeated.

Feeling fear is a defense weapon of the organism that can act to help and can also be our enemy, depending on the way we face it. Fear can paralyze us; it can alter our excretory system both urinary and intestinal and it can also depress the respiratory system. Everything will depend on us and our mind to face stressful situations and aggressive agents.

It’s not bad to be afraid, it’s bad not to face it. It is bad to let ourselves be carried away by fears unfounded by small insects that are more afraid of us. It is necessary to fight against these fears of insects, reptiles or even people.

To prepare our mind is to prepare our body before the different situations of fear that day by day are presented to us.

Going to a psychologist when we cannot control unfounded fears is necessary. They give us tools such as exercises that will free us from such pathological fears that are unbearable in our life. This is my best advice for people who do not overcome small fears and magnify them to such an extent that they do not overcome them by themselves.

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