How has FRM worked for you?

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I believe that the idea that we need fear to survive is a fear based belief, and therefore wrong. It might have been true back before we had a neocortex, when everything was running on instinct, but now we have the neocortex and we can reason out that "if I step off that scaffolding 20 stories up, I will die" before doing it by using that neocortex. The idea that "what is the ego without fear" is a limiting belief based on never having experienced a real freedom from fear before. If all you have ever known is fear, that's what your brain's neural pathways will be primed for, and you may not be able to even imagine something else.

Fear is indeed tied to survival. It's a lizard brain response that in many cases, doesn't work anymore in our current world. The lizard brain doesn't understand that. It's awareness extends to eat, sleep, fuck, run. That's it. Unfortunately, it is in many cases more in control than the neocortex, because it operates largely without notice by the neocortex, which then does nothing to affect what it's doing. We are changing that, and figuring out how to do that is no simple task.