Fear of insects, butterflies and snakes - hidden quirks of the fear of death
We turn pale from fear, our eyes widen in horror, words get stuck in our throat, only "oh!" or "ah!", goose bumps run down the spine, but inside everything is getting cold and freezing …
HEART IN HEEL
We turn pale from fear, our eyes widen in horror, words get stuck in our throat, only "oh!" or "ah!", goosebumps run down the back, but inside everything is getting cold and freezing, we either shy away and rush headlong, or freeze in place unable to take even a step, like a rabbit hypnotized by a boa constrictor.
It seems that at such moments the brain is completely turned off, and we are guided by some ancient instincts, the mechanisms of which are laid somewhere deep in the psyche at the subconscious level. Fear! Panic! And it seems that it is impossible to consciously get rid of them.
The traditional way of treating phobias, based on getting closer to the object of fear, is a long and unpleasant process, and sometimes even painful.
Yuri Burlan's training "System-Vector Psychology" offers a fundamentally different approach, based not on getting closer to the object of the phobia, but on revealing its deep psychological cause, that is, understanding the origins of any fears, the mechanisms of their development and the formation of stable phobias.
Understanding your psychological characteristics, way of thinking and emotional potential makes it possible to control your fear, and over time, learn to get pleasure from emotional outbursts of a different kind and completely forget about any phobias.
In this article, we will find out where the most exotic phobias come from, how you can get rid of them yourself, and what are the deep psychological mechanisms of the formation of obsessive fears and panic.
FOBIUS
Whatever the reason for the fear - a robber in the stairwell or a mouse behind the closet - we experience the same sensations, differing only in intensity. If you try to find what phobias are in the vastness of the worldwide network, you will recognize their countless number. Among them there are even such exotic specimens as fear of water (hydrophobia) or fear of cats (ailurophobia).
In recent years, the level of anxiety has increased significantly, especially among young people under the age of 30, phobias are becoming more common and becoming more exotic in nature.
For example, a phobia that applies to all insects can be divided into separate phobias for each insect species. Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders. Lepidopterophobia - fear of butterflies. Etc.
Such seemingly unusual fears can cause no less discomfort to their owner. Such people especially suffer in the warm season, trying to limit their stay outside the city, they even avoid parks, squares or flower beds, any walk is fraught with a state of panic fear, reaching horror at the sight of the most harmless insect.
Fearing a panic attack, a person tries to avoid situations in which his fear may manifest. Does not use the elevator, does not rise above a certain floor, does not approach bodies of water.
Behind all fears and dreads, whether it be the fear of insects or the fear of flying, there is one native fear for the visual vector.
I'M NOT A COWARD, BUT I'M AFRAID
Within the framework of the training "System-vector psychology", a single psychological root of all fears and phobias is considered - the fear of death, which reaches such intensity only in one of eight vectors - visual.
How can you be sure of this? And try to imagine what exactly you are afraid of, what exactly this black, huge, deadly poisonous spider with shaggy legs and a sharp sting can do to you. What's the worst thing? The sensation of how it crawls on your skin, wiggling its paws, or winds a cobweb in your hair, or maybe the most terrible chilling fear still instills in you the idea of piercing pain from a piercing sting and the expectation of impending death?
You are certainly more likely to die from a brick falling on your head, but fearing a tropical spider is certainly more prestigious.
Having the ability to experience emotions of huge amplitude and possessing imaginative thinking and rich imagination, we are able to swing our fear to incredible proportions. For example, a fear of snakes can develop even after watching a couple of movies and documentaries about them.
This is how we, representatives of the visual vector, experience any experience, feeling or emotion - with increasing intensity and bright shades, creating in our imagination more and more frightening images involving the object of our fears.
The most observant, with eyes of special sensitivity and the habit of looking around, contemplating all the overflows of color and light of the primitive savannah, we performed the role of the daytime guard of the pack. Only our special eyes were able to notice the approaching predator, mimicking a picture of the landscape. Immediately giving out a fright of the highest amplitude, we saved the whole flock from the attack of leopards.
And there was something to be afraid of - to be torn apart by a predator was painful and scary.
Today, predators no longer threaten mankind, but we continue to be frightened, inflating a threat to our lives out of nothing.
After all, we know theoretically that, falling from a height, we can crash, swimming in the river, we risk drowning, and the bite of a poisonous spider can be fatal, but the fact that a meeting with such a spider in a city is reduced to almost zero, fades into the background next to the growing fear of death.
Emotions that overwhelm us, spectators, require going out, accumulating inside our psyche, they create tension that can result in hysterical states, panic attacks or phobias.
Knowing, understanding and realizing the nature of our emotions, we get the opportunity to direct them in a positive direction, which brings pleasure to ourselves.
Realizing the properties of the visual vector, we are able to turn our fear into a creative feeling, which is its direct opposite - love, - increasing its amplitude to the same size.
Through compassion and empathy, you can redirect any fear inward, in yourself, for your person to others, worrying about the fate of disabled people, lonely pensioners, street children. When your sensual heart is preoccupied with caring for other people, any spiders with cockroaches automatically move to the farthest plane and are completely lost from sight.
According to numerous testimonies of people who have undergone training, they have passed many years of fears and phobias, some for the first time in their lives sighed calmly
Systems thinking, acquired in the course of Yuri Burlan's "System-Vector Psychology" training, gives us a tool that allows us to consciously work with our fears and phobias and, perhaps, for the first time in our life, gain control over our mental state.
