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Understanding the Nature of Fear and Its Effects on the Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Wherever we focus attention, we created direct relationship with
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  the object of that attention. It may be through aspiration
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  towards a higher, Consciousness, Devotion, to an ideal, or
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  through love for a revered guide or teacher.
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  Or it may be through the reaction of fear about some
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  person event or circumstance. However, it comes about this.
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  Focus creates a beacon or To the object of focus to interact with
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  us thus throughout aspiration. We work to create a new level of
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  Consciousness within our being and alternatively through fear.
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  We bring toward us the very thing about which we are
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  experiencing fear. This is the underlying and
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  essential principle behind what is being called today.
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  The law of attraction The reaction of fear results from
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  the awareness of the ego Consciousness about its own
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  fragility and weakness, as a separate being in the wider
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  Universal creation. This ego Consciousness is a
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  somewhat illusory construct. As we are never actually
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  separated from the universal Consciousness and its
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  manifestation, it serves a purpose of creating a Nexus or
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  point of concentration for the manifestation.
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  Yet. It is not in fact, something
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  separate and apart. When the ego Consciousness is in
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  the Forefront, we experience fears of death and dissolution
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  of pain and of Separation, through our experience, our
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  education and our perceptions, including our consumption of
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  information through media and interpersonal relationships.
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  We internalize certain dangers or concerns that become the
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  basis for fear. The very focus on these things.
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  Whoever opens a connection between ourselves and the forces
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  that we fear and thus, we become locked into a structure that
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  forces us to face and either overcome or fail in the attempt.
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  The objects, we fear. As we shift our standpoint away
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  from the ego personality toward the Divine standpoint, we begin
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  to recognize that. There is no ultimate cause of
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  fear as we focus, our attention on the Divine creation and the
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  next phases of its evolutionary development, we create a
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  positive relationship with that next future and bring that
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  towards us. Another aspect to consider is
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  the impact of negative and positive emotions on the vital
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  sheath that surrounds us as an individual Nexus of energy.
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  Negative emotions fear sadness, depression, anger hatred,
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  unhappy feelings tend to open holes and weaken the vital
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  sheath which normally acts as a protection of the individual
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  from attack and destruction. Similarly, positive emotions,
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  happiness, love Goodwill. Compassion act to strengthen
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  this vital sheath and thus afford more protection against
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  forces that want to weaken destroy or devour as part of the
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  dynamic of creation and destruction in the universe.
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  SRI aurobindo writes, quote. It is true that, what one fears
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  has the tendency to come until one is able to look at in the
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  face and overcome when shrinking.
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  It is a mistake to think that by fearing or being unhappy.
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  You can progress fear is always a feeling to be rejected because
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  what you fear is just a thing that is likely to come to you,
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  fear attracts the object to fear.
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  Unhappiness, weakens the strength and lays one more open
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  to the causes of unhappiness end quote.
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  Reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living within the yoga
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  approach to psychological health and growth, disturbances of the
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  vital fear Pages, 50 to 53.