motional Awareness.

What is fear? Fear is a survival mechanism that is a reaction to some negative stimulus. It may be shown as a mild caution or it can be an extreme phobia.
Fear can lead us to hide, to run away, or to freeze in our shoes.

Fear may arise from a confrontation or from avoiding a threat, or it may come in the form of a discovery. Fear can also change our behavior.
Ask yourself a question how can fear change my behavior?

Fear is a vital response to physical and emotional danger—if we didn't feel it, we couldn't protect ourselves from legitimate threats. But often we fear situations that are far from life-or-death, and thus hang back for no good reason. (what is a legitimate threat ?) Traumas or bad experiences can trigger a fear response within us that is hard to quell.

Primary Emotion	Secondary Emotion	Emotional Relation	Solution
Fear	Nervousness	Anxiety, worry, dread, apprehension,tenseness, distress. Other feelings of fear are, alarm, fright, mortification, panic, shock, terror and hysteria.	Identify The Distortion.(what am I thinking that is making me feel this way). Does what I fear have direct connection to me. Examine the evidence. (is my thinking true). Ask other people questions this will help find out if your thoughts and attitudes are true. Revert back to your NTR

Is Fear normal
fear is our internal risk assessor. Fear makes us cautious. Caution can helps us make better judgments, but being over cautious can also hold us back. Fear is an emotion that we all need to survive. It can gives us better judgment and keeps us safe.Remember ! you can’t spell fear without spelling ear, so listen to your emotion. BUT Question this emotion .

Q, Fear can be a good thing; HOW?
A, Fear is a vital response to physical and emotional danger—if we didn't feel it, we couldn't protect ourselves from legitimate threats.
Q, Fear can get in the way; HOW?
A, Fear of new situations can make us hang back for no good reason.
Q, Fear can induce body sensations; HOW?
A, Sometimes the feeling of fear can become so intense we can experience sensations of elevated heart rate, trembling and even become psychically sick.

REMEMBER ! “Fear is Normal, Understanding more helps us fear less”.
See fear through the experiences of those who have experienced it. Ask immediate family members or close friends to recall times when they experienced fear. You don't have to explain your real intentions. Simply listen. Begin to understand the emotions they experienced through fear and how they got through it. This is the process of cultivating a healthy mind by building self-awareness of fear for future situations.

Fear and anxiety have a message that desperately wants to be heard. When we can quiet ourselves to listen, like we would do for a friend, inner wisdom has potential to arise.

Q. What am I fearful of and why?
Q. What rational talk would you have with a friend who is experiencing an episode of fear ?
Q. Is what I am fearful of rational ?
Q. Does the fear I'm feeling have direct connection to me ?
Q. What part if any did I play in the scenario that has contributed to my fear ?
Q. Can I Mindfully change any part of the scenario?
Q. What's the worse case scenario?
Q. Can I Practice Mind Cultivation?

To become mindful of fear is to think for a moment about the last time you experienced fear. To think about the thoughts and sensations you felt. How long did the experience last. This is the beginning of your mind cultivation on dealing with fear. The practice is to carry this awareness into the next experience of fear with knowledge and courage of an open mind to address the experience before it spirals out of control by maladaptive thinking. Practice brings strength. Refer to your NTR.

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