Fear of abandoment

[Jay]

Shannon what if you just make a subliminal to overcome the feeling of fear in general? Wouldn't that kill many birds with one stone?

Yes, that would kill many birds in many silly ways, even without the stones

I've read about experiments where they exposed chimpanzees that had a damaged or removed amygdala (responsible for fight or flight response) to dangerous circumstances, for example snakes. Without fear they picked up the snakes and played around with them, and even after being bit they didn't feel the need to abstain from them. Being totally fearless would be awesome, but it would also mean doing (more) stupid detrimental things to our bodies. Although I think it's interesting to see how far you can go and if it's possible to turn off basic human responses with the help of affirmations or subliminals.

Fear is a typical human response, and when you feel fear or anxiety towards a situation means that there was a time and place (for example childhood or war) where it was necessary for your own well being/survival to be fearful/anxious of that person/situation/circumstance, however it doesn't mean that the same circumstances always or still apply. It's basic pattern matching, and when external circumstances bring us the right variables we respond accordingly to them, whether our beliefs about those circumstances match with reality or no doesn't matter.

Luckily you can unlearn these "habits" and learn new ones, it just takes a lot of time, congruent effort and courage :/