Series #369: Examining the Components of Fear

Summary:
The Wonders explain how fear is viewed as that which creates uncomfortableness within the self, an inability to respond to the self, and the extent to which fear can affect your life on all levels.

Transcript:

First realize dear friends, that fear often times is defined by the mind, defined on the basis of control, on the basis of lack of control, on the basis of that which in effect, affects the physicality, to the degree that the physicality is unable to respond to it.

Fear is viewed as that which creates uncomfortableness within the self. As that which creates an inability to respond to the self. And as a result therefore, if fear, created by the mind, defined by the mind, is defined in such a way that it becomes real, it becomes palpable, it becomes physical, it becomes responsive and reactive. And if you observe yourselves carefully and observe the degree to which you yourselves define fear in your existence you will realize that what you do is you take a circumstance or situation and move it through a filter, a filter of responsiveness, a filter of reactiveness, in which you yourselves then can judge the response and the reaction as to your sufficiency and say I cannot react to this or respond to this adequately.

And because you’ve defined it and judged it as an inadequacy within yourselves you then view the circumstances or situation as being something that can be feared, something that must be, term it, pushed against in order to remove yourself from it and ensure your survivability.

The key to every fear regardless of what it is, is your survivability. Regardless of the fear, regardless of the circumstance or the situation, we assure you that what you fear, underlying everything, is the fear of survivability.

And if you view it through all of these filters, all of these words that we’ve described to you, you’ll begin to realize that whether it be a reaction or response, whether it be a definition or an illusion, that regardless, fear in and of itself has no basis on reality. It is based on the judgment of the mind, the mind itself taking circumstance and situation and judging it on the basis of its own survivability. The mind cannot see itself surviving a particular situation, and as a result, the reaction is fear, the resultant is fear.

Now, as good as this is, and it is good, we assure you, your minds are quite capable of making this fear so real that it will in some circumstances create a physical response into your body.

It will create a heart attack, a stroke, it will create a physical rash over your body, it will create heat prostration, it will create cold reaction to your body. It can create ulcers, it can create cancer, it can create lupus, it can create any form of auto immune disease. It can create diabetes, it can create — virtually every disease that you can think of, is created by fear, in one shape form or another.

So fear, viewed form the mind’s perspective is quite powerful. And the mind of course, wants to survive but what it fails to realize is that by creating fear, by judging the circumstance or situation as being affecting the sufficiency of itself, the survivability of itself, and finding it lacking, it creates a component called fear, and the very component that it creates of fear is that which will destroy it, regardless. Because eventually, we assure you, fear will destroy the physicality in such a way that you will cast off feet of clay and the mind will no longer continue as it has perceived itself to continue.

So the net result is that it is a self fulfilling prophesy. Fear in and of itself will fulfill the very thing that the mind is afraid of.

So now, given all of this, to define the “moving beyond the definition” of fear is to realize that everything that we’ve said is an illusion that the mind creates in order to gain control of that which it perceives is its environment in which it finds itself in order to ensure its survivability.

Your mind from the very moment it was created judged itself so completely, that your mind found itself incapable of surviving unless a control was established to ensure surviving.

The mind could not depend on the beneficial, benefactor, factor of the universe. It could not see how the universe would provide it that which it needed to ensure survivability. It could not see how the environment itself would provide everything it needed to survive.

And so the mind in and of itself, judged itself insufficient and as such therefore, created the need to control its environment.

And because of this need to control its environment, it created an illusion, an illusion so powerful that it can actually kill the mind. And that illusion is called fear.

Each and everyone of you has experienced fear to one degree or another in your lives. And we assure you, you will continue to experience fear to one degree or another.