others, etc. Many people who have had this type of experience have
been considered to be mentally unbalanced. And unless you are quite
an advanced spirit, that deeply trusts your own spiritual intuition, you
can become convinced that you are crazy and need psychiatric
treatment.
Fear.
Fear is a feeling of restlessness, confusion and unease, brought about
by the perception of danger, a threat which can be real or fictitious,
against ourselves or against a loved one. People affected by fear feel
very uncertain of themselves, defenceless, and doubt every important
decision that they make because they expect a negative
consequence from it, some emotional or physical harm. In addition
what happens is that fear feeds fear. This means that fear overexcites
the mind so that, out of real situations, it creates imaginary situations in
which a threat appears, that only exists in the imagination, but which
people end up thinking to be real, thus increasing their fear, not now
just of real threats, but of imaginary threats too. Fear also generates
worry, because we try to anticipate mentally all the threatening
situations, looking for the way in which to come out of each one
unharmed. Terror and panic are highly traumatising perceptions of
intense and acute fear. Fear is one of the most pernicious feelings for
the advancement of spirits, because it prevents them from showing
themselves as they really are. Even when dealing with well-meaning
spirits with the will to advance, if they do not overcome their fears, they
can remain stagnated in their evolution for quite some time.
But as I understand it not all fears are the same?
No, of course not. But generally fears cause spirits to repress
themselves, inhibit themselves from acting as they feel, even totally
repress their feelings, drowning them. For this reason they stagnate.
But fear of what, exactly?
The most common fear is the fear of a negative reaction from others
against us. Variants of fears that come under this definition would be
the fear of not being loved, of not being understood, being rejected,
being despised, fear of aggressiveness (physical or psychic violence),
fear of solitude. As I say, fear of a negative reaction by others against
us also feeds the fear of showing ourselves as we really are. If we allow
ourselves to be led by this fear, we will end up moulding ourselves to a
form of being that is not ours, but is rather what others want us to be.
The others can be people who are close, loved by us, or at least
people from whom we expect affection, generally the family (mothers,