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Fear is a primal animal response to possible pain, injury, and death. Moderate fears are healthy protections. Excessive fears are often formed in low-nurturance childhoods, and can significantly degrade self-respect, relationships, achievements, and health. What we fear, when, and how much is determined by who leads our personality. People con- trolled by over-fearful young and Guardian subselves can be called fear-based. They display clear symptoms of this tragic wound. Common false-self fears include the unknown (ambiguity, ta-king risks, and/or changing), losing control (fear of overwhelm and disor-ientation - e.g. from intimacy, conflict, and intense feel-ings), success (shame and guilt), social and/or internal ridicule and rejection (abandon-ment), and fear of loss (securities and comforts, including hope). These fears often spring from ruling subselves' distrust in the per-son's true Self and Higher Power to reliably avoid these horrors. Effective recovery from false-self dominance (Family Project 1) significantly redu-ces such crippling fears over time by harmonizing the person's team of subselves (personality). more detail / slides / Lesson-1 index and guidebook / research / close |
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