Day 12 - Healing from the Influence of Trauma - Detox from Fear

Day 12 - Healing from the Influence of Trauma Detox from Fear

I declare from my spirit, body, mind, and soul that I am now doing the intentional work of healing from the influence of trauma. I cannot change my past. I can only change my perspective of the past. I can change my now and my future by healing now. I have the power to transform the lead of my past into the gold of my now and my future. I transform my pain into my path to happiness and joy. I am free to be the best me possible. I am at the stage of a continued new beginning and path to my enlightenment. I take my stand inside myself and I stand before all of creation to declare, I am free and no longer captive to what others did to me.in

The creator of the universe has gifted me to know that what others did to me for evil has proven to be for my ultimate good. Now, I am alive to live to love to bless myself and others. What I have learned, I will share and keep on sharing. That is my gift. That is my superpower. That is my privilege and I say, “I am healed. I am healthy. I am happy. I am whole in my spirit, in my body, in my mind, and in my soul. I AM.”

Helpful tools follow in audio, video, and print media that can be helpful to you.

No More Fear of Life by Marnix Pauwels – TedxArnhem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMi3rHuK0c4

20 Min Chronic Stress and Fear Detox – Guided Meditation – Healing Voice Practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ylIF3c92Q

Fear versus anxiety: is there a difference?

The full scholarly article is at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181681/

The main function of fear and anxiety is to act as a signal of danger, threat, or motivational conflict, and to trigger appropriate adaptive responses. For some authors, fear and anxiety are indistinguishable, whereas others believe that they are distinct phenomena.

Ethologists define fear as a motivational state aroused by specific stimuli that give rise to defensive behavior or escape.¹⁴ Animals may learn to fear situations in which they have previously been exposed to pain or stress, and subsequently show avoidance behavior when they reencounter that situation. Young animals may show an innate fear reaction to sudden noise or disturbances in the environment, but rapidly become habituated to them. When they are used to a familiar environment, then fear of novelty may develop. Ethologists have also made the important observation that fear is often mixed up with other aspects of motivation. Thus, the conflict between fear and approach behavior may result in displacement activities (eg, self-grooming in rats). Such displacement activities may be the behavioral expression of an anxious state, but anxiety is a concept that is apparently not used by ethologists, perhaps because their definition of fear does in fact include all the more biological aspects of anxiety.

Many authors, however, have argued that differences in their etiologies, response patterns, time courses, and intensities seem to justify a clear distinction between anxiety and fear.¹⁵ Although both are alerting signals, they appear to prepare the body for different actions. Anxiety is a generalized response to an unknown threat or internal conflict, whereas fear is focused on known external danger.¹⁵ It has been suggested that “[...] anxiety can only be understood by taking into account some of its cognitive aspects, particularly because a basic aspect of anxiety appears to be uncertainty. Also, it is reasonable to conclude that anxiety can be distinguished from fear in that the object of fear is 'real' or 'external' or 'known' or 'objective.' The origins of anxiety are unclear or uncertain [...].”³ Other authors pointed out that “[...] situations lacking in clear indications of situational contingencies or likely outcomes are associated with considerable stress. The uncertainty regarding these situations highlights a lack of control that contributes to feelings of anxiety and makes coping more difficult.”¹⁵ Barlow has described anxiety as “[...] a unique and coherent cognitive-affective structure within our defensive and motivational system [...]. At the heart of this structure is a sense of uncontrollability focused largely on possible future threats, danger, or other upcoming potentially negative events, in contrast, to fear, where the danger is present and imminent.”¹⁶

The fact that anxiety and fear are probably distinct emotional states does not exclude some overlap in the underlying brain and behavioral mechanisms. In fact, anxiety may just be a more elaborate form of fear, which provides the individual with an increased capacity to adapt and plan for the future.¹⁶ If this is the case, we can expect that part of the fear-mediating mechanisms elaborated during evolution to protect the individual from an immediate danger have been somehow “recycled” to develop the sophisticated systems required to protect us from more distant or virtual threats.

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