Have you ever felt the absolute power of fear? You feel a certainty about imminent doom— no doubt that disaster awaits on the path ahead.

That absolute certainty is an illusion. Almost all fear arises from a mix of fact and fiction.

Some fear comes from real danger, but much of it comes from our imagination magnifying that danger. To deal with fear wisely, we need to separate the factual from the fictional.

That requires intelligence— the ability to observe carefully and differentiate the actual situation from imagination. Then we can reject fear’s exaggerations and respond appropriately to reality.

At the start of the Bhagavad Gita (1.44), Arjuna’s fear mixed real danger with imagined catastrophe. Krishna’s wisdom sharpened his intelligence— and it can do the same for us.

Let’s train ourselves to separate the fictional from the factual— and we’ll be better prepared when fear attacks next time

 

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