Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

hi Shannon, i wanted to start OF 5.75 in 2 weeks.
i thought knocking fear out in 8 months might change a lot.

Do you think it will help with self worth, self esteem, confidence as well? i can be highly critical of myself
What about anger, hate, frustration? especially towards other people like gf or parents?
what about negativity?

are any of these based on fear?

thanks for helping.

People are very complex.  The best I can accurately say with certainty is that, if that aspect of your life is hampered by fear, and you use OF fear long enough, then it should help.

Here's a little bit more detail.

Let's say you have self worth, self esteem, confidence issues.  The reason why you have them will determine how they are affected by OF 5.75G.  Can they be based in fear?  Yes.  Must they always be?  No.  

If you get mugged by a gang and beaten within an inch of your life, and you associate that experience with things that result in self worth, self esteem, confidence issues, for example, it's a good bet that they are fear based.  But if you have those issues just because you were exposed to a steady stream of verbal abuse as a child, which had that result, then they may not be based in fear.

It's a much more complex situation than just "everything is based in fear" until you get to the root.  At the root, I have found, most things that hold you back are based in fear.

Now that may sound self contradictory, but here's a little more detail.

Let's go back to that last example, verbal abuse.  If the verbal abuse didn't result in the issues because of fear, but most issues are based in fear at their root, then how do we reconcile that?  Well, it would likely be an indirect influence from fear.  The reason you responded to the verbal abuse by developing those issues may not have been fear directly, but the beliefs that resulted in the interpretation of that abuse that ended up becoming those issues may themselves have been based in fear.  

So if the issue is directly resulting from fear, it may be very quickly obvious what is what.  If they are indirectly resulting from fear, the issues may need time to be adjusted because of the secondary nature.  And if they're not based in fear at all, then they won't likely be affected.

Since a human is a very complex web of memories and beliefs and experiences and interpretations to those and colored glasses through which to view them and point of view and expectations and and and... it is even possible to have a tertiary or quaternary effect.  The thing may not directly be influenced by fear, and what resulted in it may not be affected by fear, but what creates and maintains that might be.  And so on.

There will almost certainly be an effect, the question is a matter of what the effect will be, how directly it will be affected and as a result, how long the resulting changes will take place.