What Lets Fear Out of the Box
What Lets Fear Out of the Box
The Daily Word #29: Key (247 words)
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In my previous ‘door’ vignette, I told a true story where I experienced overwhelming fear of something unknown. My fear was dictated by my wife’s own fearful response. It was a crazy response, but I now want to look at why this embarrassing incident occurred.
What are the keys to fear? Why did this panic strike ‘out of the blue’? Well, out of the dark, really, and that is the first key.
Conditioning
From childhood, we have somehow been conditioned to be afraid of the dark. When we swung our foot over the bed and then started to imagine something was lurking under the bed, it was never benign. It was some monster or other.
Suggestion
Just as a good hypnotist can tell a subject that they can see or experience something, I was nervously primed to receive just such a signal as my wife Sandra sent. When she screamed, I did not stop to ask, ‘What’s wrong, dear? Let’s open the door. It might be something quite innocent.’ I was ready to believe.
The Amygdala alarm system
The Amygdala is the brain’s processing center. It detects threats and messages the nervous system. Sandra’s scream sent my Amygdala into overdrive.
Flight-or-Fight Response
Hell and damnation, I wasn’t going to fight that thing, whatever it was. I pressed my back against the door to keep it out. I am calling that flight.
As President Roosevelt said: ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’
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