How to manage my fear

[BrownEye]

I am fearful to open myself up to the possibility of something bad happening.

Fear itself attracts negative experience. Fear is a choice in perception, a chosen perspective, which shoehorns all subsequent experience into that chosen frame. If we truly want to see things that scare us, it will be given to us.


I was recently discussing what a "successful life" might be. If we take two mirroring lives and compare them, where the only differences are the chosen perspectives, we can see a good life and a bad life, all from the shading of our lense.

One person can find meaning to every experience, find joy in the moment, knowing that all is in order, and that they are always in good hands. ---------The other person finds randomness in everything, seeks out the things to complain or be unhappy about, and considers themself to be the victim of life experiences.-----------Even though both went through exactly the same experiences, they chose opposite perspectives of experience.

One would say he had a great life, while the other would say he had a terrible life.

To refuse the experience of the life may be to come back and do it all over again. How is that for a perspective?