Caveat: I am talking about anxiety spawned from helplessness in normal life happenings, and not a real circumstance of danger (e.g.kidnappings, torture)

Anxiety overcomes a person when he/she feels helpless. Helplessness is rooted in our fear of the unknown. When we do not know the exact happenings and consequences of an unavoidable situation, it undermines our ability to protect ourselves. Hence, the anxiety.

If you contemplate this chain of thought further, what exactly do we fear of the unknown. What is the worst that can happen? Taking our human instinct for self-preservation into account, every fear is the ultimate fear of death. And death is the ultimate loss of what we define as our ego(i.e.the body, the mind, the perception, the ideas, the knowledge, the reputation, THE SELF).

Being more adept at observing myself, I managed to capture this particular finding today. Due to this new understanding, I managed to significantly lift my anxiety(the persisting response to something that happened earlier).

Our mere perception of the situation usually deludes us into thinking that protecting ourselves (from hurts) is impossible. Being distracted by the fear of not-knowing, we lack the calm to carefully analyse the circumstance. So long as we can proactively think and accept reality without the need of perception.

I’ve asserted my views above in a rather vague manner and will do a clearer one in due course. My mind is now affected by fatigue which is preventing me to dig deeper into the subject.

Up-coming entries:

• Follow-up on the post of habitual fears
• Clearer version of the current entry

- Logish