Head on. When I develop a fear, I dive right into it to discover what makes it tick. Then I kill it.

TheInquiringEye

rosiebear, i'm just so glad you're back and how happy everyone is that you are too. how happy does that make your heart feel?

my approach to fear is so complex over the years, as you know. being in the terrible shape i'm in (hopefully it will be temporary -- pray or think good thoughts for me!), i sometimes need a good cry because of the attack on my body and soul is sometimes too much but more and more days, I'm feeling my "Warrior" sense which is who I really am! I don't mean this in the sense of being a bitch but of standing up for everyone who can't for themselves, and protecting my precious boys in every possible way that I'm allowed! lol

I struggle with anxiety every day - most of the time I don't even know what I'm anxious about. that's FU.

Thankfully, my coping skills have been coming back as my depression has been decreasing.

When my fear is overwhelming, I first turn to my guides and if I need more, I turn to my friends and my children who are my cheerleaders.

Right now, I'm most scared about my health. I'm afraid to know and afraid not to know. It sucks. I think I shall go grump a bit!! LOL

Thanks for starting this group. It's a good place to let it out. I'll probably be visiting most evenings.

love and hugs!

are your killing methods quite efficient? no unhappy ghosts trailing along behind you?

No. It just came home from work.

TIE

thanks, mockingbirdfrenchartistsmockkitty for all that. it makes me think about the kinds of fears we deal with--rational fear, irrational 'where the hell did that come from' fear, and the fear you describe as related to your illness-- which sounds like a really big monster. the depression is like that with me--when i feel it coming on and am not sure if i have the resources to keep it from pulling me completely under.

a combination of factors is the way to try to manage that kind of fear.

the rational ones are good--they are warnings, giving us opportunity to act.

the irrational ones are dicey--am i having a premonition? or did i forget to take my meds today and here comes some unsummoned, floating fear.....was something triggered inside me by an event, or or is it just, TBD induced paranoia....

:-D

i used to have one of those. he isnt dead...yet....either.

I am very happy that I have done well with paranormal monsters. Occasionally, I'll notice a shadow and can "hear" them there and I'll ask them what they want and if it isn't my deal, I tell them where to go and they go. I don't think they are monsters though.

My fiancee and I though were actually nearly attacked by 3 extremely tall, like 10 feet, dressed in all black with hats and no faces in the middle of the night standing at the end of our bed. We both woke up at the same time and were screaming like banshees because their "message" was evil and we were scared to death.

My fiancee rolled off his side of the bed into the closet (bastard!) and with my leg in a cast from knee reconstruction, could only roll over onto the floor and get behind a dresser. Not knowing what to do, I screamed for my guide to protect us over and over again and they finally just disappeared. We were both so drained of energy that it took us both almost another 1/2 an hour to be able to crawl back into bed. We did NOT go back to sleep!

It seemed "silly" many years later but it was all very, very real and something I didn't really believe in. It was one of the worse experiences of my life - definitely the worse in the area of metaphysics.

I know that the more contact I have with the flip side, the better I feel physically and emotionally. I love knowing that they've all been with me even as a child when they came to me as angels and fairies while hiding tightly in the back of my closet, hoping and wishing for my parents to stop fighting.

For those who don't believe in metaphysics, you are missing out on a large part of who you actually are. For those who'd like to try to learn, start with meditation. Anyone interested in learning this technique can PM me.

Or go to the bookstore - there are tons of books and I highly recommend the early books of Jane Roberts (deceased now).