For a long time I had been wanting to make one of these reflections posts, giving myself free rein and letting myself go. Like my body was asking me to do it and I hadn’t done it because I was a little afraid. You know what I mean. And what I want to talk about is fear . A word so well known that expresses a concept so unknown to many. Mind you, I’m not talking about having ever experienced it. No, we all feel it on more occasions than we are aware of. I mean understanding its function and operation.
Add Your Heading Text Fear is natural and has a protective function.
That’s how it is. Fear is a state of mind that occurs when we perceive danger. If you want you can see the definition of fear on Wikipedia but I’m not going with that plan with this post. Just stay with this: Fear is emotion and alertness when danger is perceived . If there is no danger, there is no fear. If we do not top industry data perceive something as a danger, there is no fear. The physiological effects produced by fear are something like when we dope. I am not an expert in this matter but I will tell you that it improves our performance so that we can emerge from that threatening situation unscathed. It is therefore an emotion that, although it may seem distressing, has effects that make us better. So it’s not that bad.