Anxiety Is Fear-Based – Part 5

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Anxiety Is Fear-Based – Part 5

In the previous episode, we delved into the crucial topic of the seven core innate fears. These fears are the driving force behind all other fears, including anxiety, since anxiety is fear-based.

Understanding and conquering these core innate fears is key to reducing and even eliminating anxiety and the secondary fears that feed into them.

If you're new to these concepts, I highly recommend starting from the beginning of this series, "Anxiety is Fear-Based! ". The first four parts, available on our video channels, the public pages of our website,  and in the Recovery Support area in chapters 14 and 29, lay the foundation for understanding how anxiety is rooted in fear.

Yes, by overcoming the seven innate fears, you can eliminate all fears, which means you can eliminate all anxiety.

However, you can reduce anxiety by addressing secondary fears, too, although the results aren’t as in-depth.

For example, a socially anxious person is typically afraid of being ridiculed and rejected, which “feeds into” the innate fear of abandonment. While the person can address the fear of rejection in specific circumstances and situations, they might still experience social anxiety in other circumstances and situations. Only addressing the fear of rejection, a secondary fear, can provide satisfactory yet limited results.

That applies to any secondary fear. Addressing only the secondary fear provides less than complete results.

However, if the person overcame the innate fear of abandonment, they wouldn’t be socially anxious in any circumstance or situation, providing a more robust and lasting solution to fear and anxiety.

Therefore, it’s my opinion that for robust and lasting results, it’s important to drill down to the core innate fear and address that if a person wants complete and lasting relief from anxiety.

In the next video in this series, we’ll delve into this and much more, including explaining the three conditions necessary to become afraid and how addressing any one of those conditions can reduce and eliminate fear and anxiety.

Until next time, God bless!