Icey started a thread about this and i would like to continue it. Many times we come here with a vast amount of knowledge to discuss our findings and theories about life.
Most of these theories and philosophies eventually show the irrationality of our human fears.
The average north american lives in a perpetual state of fear, funded primarily by social pressures that they have been programmed to lead their lives.
I know when i find it difficult and tend to run back to my comfortable theories to find that they do not do much and just perpetuate my entrapment.
As people who share a vast amount of theoretical knowledge with each other, i would like to share my experiences with applying this knowledge and encourage anyone else to join in!!
On the to question!! SHARE ANY EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE HAD IN PUSHING YOUR SOCIAL FEARS AND OVER LOOKING THE PRECONDITIONINGS?
ALSO SHARE ANY IDEAS ON HOW TO BETTER TRASNCEND THEM, DURING THE SOCIAL SITUATIONS?
One time i talked to a guy in the changeroom naked for like 5 minutes. It was quite fun. I told a group of guys that i used to have sex with my cousins when i was 8-12 years of age. I speak about social fears and 'weaknesess' on the bus where there are large groups of people and i begin to get anxious and fearful.
I find looking at these things like a challenge and openly going against those programmed feelings, helps me feel better and like im in a game.
I look at it as a challenge because i know what the truth is that i believe, but i feel challanged by the programms to not live the truth.
What TRAPS me in these instances is believing the fear to be rational and being angry towards myself, or feeling guilty towards myself because i was not able to see through the program and acted on fear.
I think the only reason i do this is because although i do deem not being able to live truth and eliminate ate the truth and induce love, as negative. And when i feel these emotions i express them to what i think the orgin of them is, me, instead of the thoughts themselves, which cause me to feel and act in certain ways....
I know that i am not the cause of the feelings, because irrational thoughts are what cause fear, anxiety, nervousness, shyness and limit the spirit to create conciously throught he mind and body. And although i recognize that there must be a thinker that is thinking these things and causing them to occur, i notice that the thinker itself is not the orgin, because a thinker without anything to think about would not feel much fear, anxiety or nervousness. I thus see the orgin as a thought and try to bypass directing that energy at the THinker(myself the thinker), and directing it towards what will make it go from negative to positive, the rearranging of thought frameworks.
I am writing a book about this and i will post it up here. when im done, have fun, and challenge it all, oh and dont forget, LOVE!
-------------------- The mind is a creative tool. It searches to protect you, through message sensations(feelings). It is no different than a computer, you need to make sure its anti-virus program is in check and that it doesnt have a script that limits your experience, because of to much precaution. And remember the computer does not appear to respond to words of anger and frustration - just give it input, in the form of new meanings that you know to be true and its messages to you and the limits it lays out for you, will change. Guilt is an outcome of believing you are the cause of the problems. Yet, we are not a cause to something, we see is negative or bad - Unless you believe your intentions are directed towards a bad outcome....
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