FEAR

FEAR

by Leda Green

Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real — the oldest trick in the human program, a shadow we were taught to obey. But fear is only a thought, a film projected by the mind.

For generations, humanity has learned to create from fear. Now, it must learn to create from love.

There is nothing we cannot do.
Nothing we cannot enjoy doing.
And where we are limited — there will always be help.

Fear contracts. Love expands.
One is survival. The other is life.
Choose love. Every time.

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Fear — False Evidence Appearing Real — is one of the most persistent illusions of the human mind. As Donald Walsch wrote in Conversations with God, it is not truth, but an image projected onto the screen of our thoughts. From the moment we are children, we are taught to fear. “Be careful” are the two words that echo through our earliest years. They come from love, but they train the brain to avoid rather than to explore. We absorb not only our parents’ fears but also the fears of our culture.

At its core, fear is the brain’s reaction to uncertainty — its resistance to change. To the brain, change equals risk; risk equals death. But in truth, change is not death. Change is light. And light is precisely what fear seeks to hide. Fear shows up as anxiety, hesitation, and self-limitation — the walls the mind builds to keep us inside the familiar.

Fear in Spiritual Wisdom

In Jewish tradition, fear is often linked to yirah — awe — which, in its highest form, is not terror but reverence for the Divine. The sages teach: “There is no place devoid of Him.” Even in the darkest moment, God’s presence is there. True yirah calls us not to shrink, but to stand steady in the vastness of existence. The Zohar adds: “Where there is fear, there is no wholeness; where there is wholeness, there is no fear.”

The Buddha taught that fear arises from attachment — to life, possessions, and identity. In The Dhammapada it is written: “From craving springs grief, from craving springs fear; for him who is wholly free from craving, there is no grief — whence then fear?” Fear is a chain forged by desire and expectation; let go, and the chain falls away.

From Japanese Bushidō comes the lesson that fear should be met with readiness, not avoidance. The samurai accepted fear as natural but chose courage as action. Nanakorobi yaoki — “Fall seven times, rise eight” — reminds us that fear is temporary; spirit is constant.

From the Greek Stoics we inherit the discipline of perception. Epictetus said: “Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.” Marcus Aurelius echoed: “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it — and this you have the power to revoke.” Fear, in this light, is a judgment — not a fact.

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Fear in Science and Energy

1. Neuroscience
• Fear is processed in the amygdala, a small almond-shaped cluster deep in the brain. The amygdala cannot distinguish between an actual threat and an imagined one — which is why a thought alone can trigger fear.
• Gratitude, prayer, and mindful breathing activate the prefrontal cortex, calming the amygdala. This is why blessing and presence physically weaken fear’s grip.

2. Energy and vibration
• Fear is a low-frequency state that contracts your energy field; love is high-frequency and expansive. The two cannot fully coexist.
• Mystics have always taught: “Where the light enters, darkness cannot remain.” By deliberately cultivating joy, kindness, and awe, you raise your vibration until fear loses its territory.

3. The paradox of fear
• Fear often disguises itself as logic or “being realistic.” Yet much of what is called “realism” is socially accepted fear.
• True courage is not the absence of fear, but moving toward the light while fear walks beside you — until it grows too small to notice.

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Fear as Illusion

Our modern world can feel like a vast virtual reality — a projection in which fear is used as a control mechanism. Whoever runs this “lab” or “dome” knows that a fearful mind is an enslaved mind. But if the projection is not real, neither is the fear.

Close your eyes, and the world disappears into darkness. The eyes — projectors of the brain — stop their work, and what remains is pure awareness. That awareness is who you are.

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Breaking Fear’s Hold

Humanity has been creating from the question, “What if it goes wrong?” It is time to create from the question, “What if it becomes beautiful?”

Two practices to dissolve fear:
1. Bless — Practice gratitude relentlessly, especially when it is hardest. Gratitude rewires the brain and starves fear of its energy.
2. Believe — Live with the deep knowing that the universe is generous. Trust that it will connect you to your heart, your true self, and the light.

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There is nothing we cannot do. We are capable of anything — and of enjoying it. Where we are limited, there will always be people, resources, and help to bridge the gap.

Fear contracts. Love expands. One is survival; the other is life.
Choose life. Choose love. Every time