what is fear?

[Diana]

Fear can be beautiful. It has positive attributes. 

Fear is often the best protector. The predator doesn't know exactly why it fears the brightly colored prey...it just knows it does & stays away. Turns out the fear prevented the predator from getting poisoned to death. 

Fear can give the best adrenaline rushes. When I was a little one I loved haunted houses & intentionally causing myself to feel fear bc it would make me feel so alive. 

Fear can inspire positive action. Fear can enhance a performance. Fear does so many great things. 

If at all possible, embrace fear when you can. Love it. You are that. You are Fear. Fear has its purpose. It shouldn't only be looked at in a negative light.

I like this. I agree that fear has a purpose. Just as guilt does. I also remember the feeling of fear being delicious as a child while playing hide and seek at dusk outside in the summer. I did this with my nephews when they were boys and I was adult, and I loved bringing that feeling of aliveness, excitement, and tingling anticipation back, and the feeling of camaraderie and connectedness with them and their friends.

I think the new age community has maligned certain socalled "negative" emotions to the point that some fear to feel fear, and feel guilt over feeling guilt. Instead of resisting these things, I agree with isis—embrace them, with a sense of gratitude. These are feelings that represent messages. Whether the message is to run from a predator or explore why you feel fear (your intuition is trying to tell you to look at what you're doing and why), or examine your guilt (to discern where it springs from and why), or any possibility for these feelings, they are a gift. Ignoring them, suppressing them, judging them because they don't match up with an idea that an advanced being wouldn't feel these things, is denying who you really are now, and what you need to see in order to evolve and grow.