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Fear is a primal animal response to possible pain, injury, and death. Moderate fears are healthful protections. Excessive fears are often formed in low-nurturance childhoods. Unhealed, they can significantly degrade self-respect, relationships, achievements, and health. What we fear, when, and how much is determined by who leads our personality now and over time. People dominated by over-fearful Vulnerable and Guardian subselves can be called fear-based. Such people display clear behavioral symptoms of this tragic wound. Common false-self fears include the unknown (ambiguity, changing, and/or taking risks), losing control (fear of emotional overwhelm and dis-orientation - e.g. from intimacy, conflict, and intense feelings), success (shame and guilt), social and/or internal ridicule and rejection (abandon-ment), and fear of loss (securities, bonds, and comforts, including hope). These fears often spring from ruling subselves' distrust in the person's true Self and Higher Power to reliably avoid these horrors. Effective recovery from false-self dominance (Project 1) significantly reduces such crippling fears over time by harmonizing the person's team of subselves (personality). more detail / slides / Project-1 index and guidebook / research / close |
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