Deposits of Fear

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"Nothing is more frightening than

a fear you cannot name."

Cornelia Funke

Concerns for our country, unanswered questions about climate change, and uncertainties about health or finances are certainly areas to worry about.  We can seek professional help or explore resources to make us feel secure.  Then there are unexplainable things that go bump in the night!

Fear is an emotion we carry deep within us not necessarily having a factual basis.  It changes form, appears when least expected, and often cannot be expressed with intelligent reasoning.  We feel powerless as we do not understand the basis for the trigger nor do we comprehend how it all started or how to make it go away.

When fear appears and we have a startled response, we can probably trace it back to the origin of a trauma or unpleasant experience when we were younger.  When we are young, we do not have life experience or factual knowledge to talk ourselves down.  We are like little sponges absorbing every nuance of unexplainable emotion and then repress it.  Inside our emotional bank, we have endless unprocessed deposits of fear ready to unexpectedly appear.

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