about fear

[Shannon]

All fear stems from an imagined threat. That threat ultimately boils down to fear of death, because death is change and change represents the unknown.

There are parts of the brain that activate when you experience fear, but that does not make the brain "hard wired" for fear the way a lot of people think. It means one or more parts of the brain are capable of allowing for the experience of fear. But fear comes from imagined outcomes that threaten your deep self with changing and facing the unknown, which is imagined to be scary.

The fact is that fear comes from a sort of slippery slope thinking habit your emotional awareness has of filling the unknown with imagined potential threats.