Human emations: Fear

        “Every human has his or her own personal dream, and just like the society dream, it is often ruled by fear”(Ruiz, Miguel. The Four Agreements, page .14). Every person goes through a separate path of life, and each path is different. In our life paths, we are faced with a variety of emotions. Our emotions have an influence on our health and psychological condition. Health and psychological condition are closely linked with a condition of life. What is happening with your life affects physical and the mental status of you, and vice versa. The negative impact on life are the reasons of: irritation, psychological disorders, alcohol, drugs, beatings, and other negative thoughts, which can worsen health and physical conditions of a human. The positive impacts of life are reasons of: sport, learning of unknown, drink a lot of water, be in peace, and have positive thoughts. Emotions are powers that human can use to create the life that he or she wants. But, sometimes people use the power of emotions against themselves and other people. The strongest emotions for every human being, like love or hate, is fear. Fear was used as a tool by religion, in order to control us and to confuse our minds, causing us not to think or act logically.
          Fear is a weakness. Confusing your mind, making the situation more difficult than it really is, to make something big out of something really small. The fear makes you think so, or it’s trying to control you as a puppet - a movable model of a person or animal that is used in entertainment and is typically moved either by strings controlled from above or by a hand inside it.
         The difference between a coward and a brave man is very little. Here is the only difference: the coward listens to his fears, then it confuses his mind; the brave man puts them aside and moves forward. The brave man ignores the fear, because he knows that it is the negative emotion, and it won’t bring him a good mood. The brave man goes into the unknown, in spite of all fears, in order to achieve goals that are a sight for. Courage does not mean fearlessness.
          We are all people, everyone has personal or social fears. Fear consists of different meanings when it is used with other words, such as “Arachnophobia – The fear of spiders affects women four times more (48% women and 12% men); Ophidiophobia – The fear of snakes; Acrophobia – The fear of heights; Thanatophobia – The fear of death (FearOf.net.)” and so on. People put their fears into themselves by seeing something, feeling something, supposing or listen to someone. The biggest fear that people listen to was propagated by religion.“By making people afraid of hell, religion was able to control people emotionally”(The Unbounded Spirit). Man - is the most fearful animal. He fears many things – old age, disease, natural disasters, poverty – but most importantly, death. Indeed, man is a unique animal in that, and he can be aware of his own death. No animal can foresee its death, except man. The absolute fact is that man knows that he will eventually die in this life. That causes a tremendous amount of fear in him – fear of the unknown. Religion gave people an idea of hell in the afterlife, and by that, they prepared the puppet strings for their new listeners and believers. The solution of the idea of an afterlife was solved by creating a religion and a God that judges. These judges who will decide where our souls will go after life, according to how we lived our lives. People who follow the rules that created religion are under control because they are afraid. Humans never know what can happen to them after death, but why do we have to live in fear? Eventually, we all going to die, there is nothing to be afraid of. Think positively and curiously about death, when we will die, we will learn about afterlife existence.
      Our emotions have a straight influence to our life. How we think, talk, see the world impacts on our ways of life. Negative emotions are strong enough to change life into a nightmare, but we have a choice to ignore them. By using your power of emotions you can build the life you like. The emotion of fear was used as a tool by religion, in order to control and to confuse our minds. They change our life paths by causing us not to think or act logically because we have fears. People under control of fear can easily be manipulated. Fear confuses our minds, then we allow it control us. Stay in your control, turn on your logic. We make fears in our minds, we are the creators, so we are able to switch it into the positive emotion.

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Ruiz, Miguel. The Four Agreements: A Toltec Wisdom Book. San Rafael: Amber-Allen Pub., 1997. Print.