Ways that humans overcome or manage their ongoing cumulative fear (whether effective or not is another story):<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Simulated-recreation. Scenario-training that replicates the experience(s) as close as is possible to the real or imagined fear to attempt to re-live the original or feared experience and manage it or react differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Exposure. Picking professions or activities that put one in direct and ongoing contact with the source of the original fear, eventually <\/a>lessening or eliminating the fear over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Time. Gradually the fear naturally lowers or is mitigated over time as it is shown to have diminished or obliterated impact the further away from the stimulus it travels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Professional therapy or assistance. Tools are given to lower the fear or put it into contextual accuracy by someone disassociated. Conditioning, inevitably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Breathing or meditation. Controlling the negative mind-talk that compounds and exacerbates the problem and turns it into something far grander than its origin would\u2019ve dictated. (passive\/proactive)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Avoidance or evasion. Not addressing the issue in any way and avoiding any situations that could trigger that fear\/anxiety. (passive\/defensive)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. Hypnosis\/visualization\/guided imagery. Designed to lower anxiety and alter thought patterns and state-management to mitigate the physiological effects of the source of the fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. Education, information, and further study. A common sense and pragmatic self-reflection as to why you feel fear at this particular element, understanding fear itself, research on the focal-point\/central-concern\u2026all to become more educated by looking through a clear lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. Empowerment. Martial arts classes, self-defense classes, combatives classes. Motivational speeches or seminars. Personal-empowerment classes. “Re-wiring” those cylinders that gave us the original fear and continue<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others? There are a lot of direct correlations to the counter-violence world here as many professionals delve dangerously into areas they’re not qualified for. (therapy, psychology, etc.) Can you tell by an instructor\u2019s (MA\/SD\/PP\/CM\/whatever) digital imprint if they\u2019re helping alleviate or adding to the fears of potential or current clients\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ways that humans overcome or manage their ongoing cumulative fear (whether effective or not is another story): 1. Simulated-recreation. Scenario-training that replicates the experience(s) as close as is possible to the real or imagined fear to attempt to re-live the original or feared experience and manage it or react differently. 2. Exposure. Picking professions or … Continue reading FEAR MANAGEMENT<\/span>