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    ON FEAR
    ON FEAR
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    ON FEAR

    By kelvin

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    This is an average person's attempt to define fear for what it is, examine its effects on our cognitive abilities and at the same time come up with a solution to its debilitating nature. I will assume that everyone has had the misfortune of fearing real or imagined threats and I will also rightly assume that the experience itself was unpleasant.

    When engulfed by fear caused by a certain object, it is not the fear itself that we find crippling because we always pay too much attention to the scary object itself and forget that it is the feeling itself that overwhelms us. This book zeros in on the actual problem which is fear itself because we cannot hope to change the objects around us that cause fear within us but we sure can alter our ability to feel it.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherkelvin
    Release dateDec 9, 2017
    ISBN9781386180128
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      ON FEAR - kelvin

      DEDICATION

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      To everyone who might find fear difficult to deal with and wishes to  upend the current state of affairs.

      Kibera kelvin.

      CONTENTS

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      PREFACE

      If you have acquired this book, then without a doubt you are one who finds fear overwhelming and are searching for answers on how you may rein in on this most unruly of emotions. You are not alone. I myself have been in the thrall of this debilitating feeling. I am not an expert in psychology nor am I a psychiatrist. I do not hold any certifications that qualify me to describe and explain fear as I have in this short text. I did not subject mice to various laboratory experiments to come up with the concepts that I have in this book.

      I am simply an average person who wanted to find a way to control this emotion. My self-introspection led me to write much of what is in this book. I preferred to keep the book short and simple so as not to risk strolling afar from the relevance I wish the book to convey to you. Being a human being in this day and age, I do understand that the concentration demanded by long and arduous texts may deter one from reading them even though they may be a source of profound erudition.

      Others have studied and described fear in depth and have come up with their texts explaining their findings. I wrote this book as what I have tried to read on fear was either technical or too general to understand or too voluminous and jargon-laden to make sense of. Other texts on fear are not so practical.  I did not find it useful to read how knowing parts of the brain such as the amygdala or the hippocampus or thalamus were going to help me deal with the fear that I had.

      Not to say that I disregard these texts. They are accurate and concise, but for me long, technical and arduous to follow through and apply. I sought to look within myself and took long walks to find out about the specific fear that I felt and what could be useful to the average person to follow. I came up with thoughts which went a long way in assisting me and I decided to distill those thoughts in the contents of this book to help another.

      Even if they do not assist another as I hope they will, I am sanguine that they may form the thoughts on which another may build up on so as to confer more relevance to them. I do not guarantee that what I write here will make sense to everyone and neither do I guarantee that it will work. What I am saying Is that it worked for me, and since I consider myself a human being as the rest, so too do I surmise that it will be of assistance to the others.

      Kibera Kelvin

      1.ON FEAR

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      We all experience it to one degree or another. Some experience it more than others. Others experience it in reduced amounts. Others experience it in such vast and overwhelming amounts that they dare not do anything which might provoke it. We rarely do notice that it is the feeling itself we do not like. Because when overcome by it, it is not the feeling that we notice but the thing that provokes it. It is that thing that we are so apprehensive of, that we fail to notice it is the feeling itself that has made us beholden to it and not this thing for which we fear.

      Some have justifiable fears, as for others it is almost always unwarranted. Some fear water, some fear heights, some fear various creatures like insects or rodents or snakes. Some fear giving effect to their desire to show the world their talent. Some fear starting something new as the prospects of being in new territory are somewhat daunting to them. Others may fear actual and verifiable threats to their existence such us those due to a violence from those who would not have scruples about giving them offense.

      All the above fears whether real or imagined in as far as our bodies are concerned manifest as one and the same feeling. The feeling will vary in its extent and severity but it is indeed the same feeling. When you trip over a stair case, miss your step while walking, come to a near-miss when driving on the road, have someone close to you hang-up your call impudently paying no heed to your sensibilities or get spooked when watching a horror film. All the above situations generate the same feeling. Fear.

      In this book, I will apply myself towards talking about fear. What is it? Why do we have it? Is it good for us? Should it be allowed free latitude to come if and when it deems so? Are we so feckless in the face of fear that we cannot do anything to forestall it? I will attempt to answer this and other questions as I delve into this most unruly of emotions. Since fear is basically the same feeling notwithstanding the source that engenders it, I have since discovered that a technique used to combat one specific cause for fear can easily be used for the rest.

      In this book I will mostly gravitate towards fear evoked within us by other not so virtuous human beings. One will be able to see that once this fear is conquered, so then can other fears be undone. But let us see what is this emotion called fear, where it comes from, why have it, what it does to us and how to rein in on it.

      FEAR.  WHAT IS IT? WHY DO WE HAVE IT?

      WHAT IS FEAR?

      We human beings like other animals face all sorts of dangers at almost every turn in our lives. But nature in all her wisdom bestowed upon us a marvelous quality whose chief purpose consists in conferring the ability to us of removing ourselves in a quick manner from any danger that we might be facing. This quality would be aptly termed as fear. The Merriam Webster dictionary describes fear as an unpleasant emotion caused by being aware of danger. Also referred to us essentially a feeling of being afraid.

      Now, in this exposition I will modify that description to accommodate what I in my ephemeral existence have experienced, no doubt the facts born out in other texts might vindicate or vilify my findings, be that as it may however, I will still stand firm in what I believe in and in what I have seen to be the case. The views and observations expressed here are derived primarily from my own experiences.

      WHY DO WE HAVE FEAR?

      Fear

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