Fear as Arousal

A state of fear is also fearsome.

Fear, in its rawest form, is just another state of arousal. When we attempt to capture it with dialogue or a narrative, we try to mentally grasp a circumstance or sensation not meant for mental comprehension.

We add in an element of control and confuse it with power.

To “overcome” fear as we know it implies that we surrender to the wiser parts of ourselves, which means that we return to our body. However, to acknowledge the body as wisdom challenges the knowledge and lifestyle we’ve adapted to which upholds our current systems.

Fear does not lie with the known, but the unknown. It’s neither good nor bad.

We go out of our way to avoid what it is that we don’t know based on what we do know. To cause change, it’s imperative that we reshape our vocabulary; learn fear in a way that prompts internal communication to guide external connection and curiosity.