Fear is both "motivational" and "debilitating!

Blog Article/Post Caveat (Read First Please: Click the Link)

Everything is attached to and derived from our fears. At one level or another our fears drive us to survive, they drive us to understanding and they drive our actions regardless. It is how we manifest and deal with our fears that matters. Positive Emotions tend to balance out our feelings of fear allowing us to achieve a certain level of control over them. Nature, in and of itself, is a dynamic dichotomy of opposites symbolized in the art and philosophy of yin/yang. Where things differ with humanity is that the dichotomy of such a dynamic nature does not adhere to the two sides being totally opposed or entirely different but with hints of each other the blend with the hopeful result of a balanced fear both motivating in nature while hindering its debilitating effects. 

The nature that is fear drives our very survival because as with all of nature it begins, endures and then ends… death… because death is the great fear we all live with and pretty much ignore daily. Any stimulus of the fear response will trigger that deep-seated natural fear of death resulting in its effects dependent upon other mitigating factors of life. How we deal and meld and mix and blend our positive, say love, to the negative, say fear, that creates all other emotional responses also positive and negative. So, in all things moderation is critical even with fear and its opposing emotions of which one is love. 

Only through exposure along with a full and comprehensive understanding of it all can we hope to develop the ability to mediate our fears, our emotions, so that the primary survival emotion of fear can be, not suppressed, but modulated to a ‘doable’ level of emotional control to make it motivational and beneficial to all we do no matter the level of force it applies to us in mind and body. 

It is why such meme’s, quotes and other maxim’s are symbolic and beneficial toward that objective especially in martial arts self-protection defense skills through the symbolic meme’s like “fear is the mind killer.” 

For reference and sources and professionals go here: Bibliography (Click the link)