How has FRM worked for you?

[Shannon]

Again, intellectually I haven't any problem with what you're saying. It's not hard to see those limiting beliefs don't stand up to intellectual scrutiny.  I think that yes I can live more happily without fear - safe i'm not so sure.

Still, I've accepted the premise that fear is counterproductive, and worth losing, in fact I've even said that fears tend to generate exactly what they're supposed to help you avoid which is pretty insane to reflect on.  I can literally see that I have a fear, and the actions driven by that fear create exactly the result to be avoided; some forms of procrastination are a great example of this.

Worth noting as an aside - none of this is a definitive proof of that premise.

The point is, those beliefs hold in physical sensations and are hard to shake - they go deeper than logic for me as you seem to have know with your reference toward modalities of focus (really interesting by the way, do you have any material on this you could point me toward on this?).

In any case, i'm up for the next iteration of FRM.

Fear is an emotion, and emotions are mutually exclusive to logic and reasoning.  If they were logical, they would be easy to deal with from a logical perspective, and they would not tend to result in what they are focused on "protecting you from".

Since they do tend to result in what they are "trying to protect you from", they obviously aren't always keeping you safe.  Who is safer?  The tightrope walker who fears falling - and thus causes herself to fall, or the tightrope walker who is fearless, and allows herself to focus on maintaining her balance?

As for modalities of focus, you can learn more about those by studying natal astrology and how it interfaces with the psychology of the personality.  An endlessly fascinating study, not just for how revealing it is, but for how well it works.  Of this, however, we cannot speak further in this section of the forum.