Qiel's OF v3

[Johannesbrst]

So when you say almost getting into an accident, is it your fault or theirs?  I suspect you'll say it's your fault.  That would mean that until now, you've been relying too heavily on fear to keep you safe, and now you have to learn to stay safe by using your conscious, logical mind and paying attention.

Damn right, it's my fault. I don't said it but you know it. Could you elaborate more about "That would mean that until now, you've been relying too heavily on fear to keep you safe, and now you have to learn to stay safe by using your conscious, logical mind and paying attention." I really need deep explanation about that. Thanks.

Just consider what is happening with a little logic applied.

You start running Overcoming Fear, and you start noticing that every day for the past 4 days you almost get into an accident, and that you have no fear.  There is a small fear response to having no fear. This tells us the following:

1. Your fears are being removed.
2. The sudden and continuous "almost getting into an accident" is happening as a result of your fears being removed.
3. The fears were previously preventing you from doing that (almost having accidents).
4. Without the fear they are happening consistently, which means you were relying completely on fear to prevent them.

Fear is only one way you can keep yourself safe.  The other is to pay attention and think.  Fear might dictate that you don't walk a tightrope over the Grand Canyon without having mastered tightrope walking, because you'll fall 20+ stories to your death.  But guess what?  Common sense and logic would tell you the exact same thing.  You just have to engage that part of your brain.  

In other words, the other part of your safety net is not paying attention because it never had to before.  So all you need to do is learn to start paying attention, instead of relying on fear.

It's 0:00 o'clock here, I wanna sleep but after reading explanation above it's like mind opener. Something I never knew before something like that exist. Damn it's super interesting, I've gain some insight that I could apply in real life. Appreciated Shannon. 

Ah.. what a good day to live.

And Shannon, you need to write a book about Fear. It's gonna be big sale.

Perhaps I will do that.

So what would happen if we were faced in a situation where we instinctively need to react to something to not be in harms way? Would that instinctive fear based response of "not wanting to die" fall away with enough use of OF? Instinct is probably more effective in helping us react to something when you just have a few hundreds of a second to react rather than having to logically think through something.