How to manage my fear

[BrownEye]

This is a concept I see all the time in the New Age community, that everything that ever happens to you was a choice and your responsibility.

Yes, and you may not even come to understand in this particular lifetime.

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Your brain is being hijacked by the oldest part of your brain (this part is usually associated with survival issues - fear/anger - and its responses - fight/flight/freeze).

I see this as a refusal of something in the "past". This refusal of an experience forces that experience to appear again and again, rearing up with more "life" to it every time it returns. Catalyst works this way, becoming a stronger force every time it it presents itself to you, until it is finally dealt with and accepted.