Is Fear worth worrying about?
When we are fearful about something it has a way of
infecting other areas of our life until we become anxious about all sorts of
unrelated things. Fear ‘wears a groove’
in our brain so that our default reaction repeatedly becomes one of
apprehension. Covid has provided a permanent
source of anxiety. It’s come to dominate
our lives and now we worry about stuff that might never have occurred to us
before. Will the children be safe on the
beach? Are there going to be traffic
jams? What if I don’t get to work on
time? Is there enough food in the house if one of us gets pinged by the Covid
app? Life takes on a nightmare quality, haunted
by constant anxiety of something going wrong.
Of course our concerns may be valid and rational but when
fear is dominant in the brain then we lose our sense of proportion. Taking Mimulus (or any combination of
appropriate remedies, such as Red Chestnut for worrying about others) helps us
to see things in perspective. It doesn’t remove our legitimate concerns but it
stops us from fretting unnecessarily.
Mimulus soothes our fears and enables us to face life with courage.
