Fear – What is it?

Fear Imprisons

Fear imprisons and controls its captive. Physiologically, fear is the unpleasant emotion that signals our brain to produce the adrenaline we need to remove ourselves from a perceived threat. The common reaction to which is either a flight, fight or freeze response.

Psychologically, fear is relinquishing control to the object of your fear where the object now has power over you. You may say, but what if it is something that can cause great harm or even death, does it not have power? The late Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were fully aware of their possible outcomes. Yet their belief in their cause overpowered the foreboding dread of what could happen.

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