FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real

One consistent pattern that I’ve come to notice is this: With no exception whatsoever, every single good thing in my life is real and actual, and every single source of panic has been consistently false, irrational, what-if, worst-case scenario, unlikely, unrealistic, non-factual, and in many cases ridiculous or inapplicable. But for some reason, my brain is causing an emotional reaction of fear about the unreal worries, and is not causing the emotional reaction needed for what is real and actual. In other words, looking at reality and what my conscious brain perceives, I should have emotions of joy, love and happiness about what is really happening to me and in my life, and should have no emotional reaction of fear about what is not actually happening and what is also unlikely or impossible to ever happen.

That said, a cognitive shift needs to take place in my subconscious where it needs to bring the real, actual and tangible out of a background blur and into sharp focus, and then cause emotional reactions to those realities, and it needs to face the non-factual and unrealistic fears into the background where they may pop up from time to time, but for which no strong or persistent emotional reaction is warranted. It’s like in a movie scene where the camera focuses on the actor in the foreground and blurs the background, and then refocuses in a way where the foreground becomes a blur and the background comes into clear focus. Right now, the background – fears, illusions, non-facts – is in focus and inducing reactions such as worry, anxiety and panic, while the foreground – the actual, factual good reality – is a blur. But that needs to be reversed, and it will be reversed and my subconscious brain gradually catches on to the fact that the reality is the priority and thus deserving of emotional reaction and attention, while the worries and fears which are not facts need to fade to the deep background where they may pop up from time to time, but only in the background, briefly, and without resulting in a strong or sustained emotional reaction.

Again, Mr. Subconscious: You have things backward. You are prioritizing and reacting emotionally to fears which, as you know, are False Evidence Appearing Real. Sure, it appears real, but the fact is that it’s not, and does not warrant or deserve an emotional reaction of panic or fear. At the same time, you are blurring the facts and realities, all of which are good, and all of which do warrant and deserve an emotional reaction because they are real. Simply pay attention to the conscious brain and the five senses. They are your indicators of what is real and warrants reaction. If you can see, taste, touch, hear, or smell something, then it is real and you should react to it, for better or for worse. If, however, you cannot see, taste, touch, hear or smell it, then it is imaginary and not factual and does not warrant or deserve any emotional reaction. Perhaps in the past it was necessary to blur the harsh reality and focus on imagining a different reality and reacting to the imaginary, but now things are different, I have matured and have learned to face reality for better or for worse and to see and react to things as they actually are and the imaginary needs to fade to the background and the reality that is tangible with the five senses and the conscious brain needs to come to the foreground and be emotionally reacted to.