Dumb Little Man: “Feararchy” – The Hierarchy of Fear

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“Feararchy” – The Hierarchy of Fear Posted: 26 Aug 2014 05:04 AM PDT "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." ~Nelson Mandela An often used definition of fear is: An anxious feeling, caused by our anticipation of some imagined event or experience. Although there is a wide spectrum of things people fear – death of a loved one, Heights,Darkness, rejection from the opposite sex, injury from a car crash , embarrassment during a presentation, failure at the job- almost all of our fears are manufactured from these 5 basic fears, with #1 being the most natural one and #5 more of a socially constructed idea! Extinction—the fear dying or “no longer being” arouses an existential anxiety in most healthy humans. Remember that fast heartbeat you get every time you look […] The post “Feararchy” – The Hierarchy of Fear appeared first on Dumb Little Man.

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