Friday, July 30, 2021

Fear wears a groove in our brain

 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.



Mary Oliver's poem, 'I worried', is a memorable example of pointless excessive worrying.  View it on my Facebook page at https://bit.ly/2VirFCD

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