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  • May 5, 2016 at 1:55 am #103619
    humour
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    Any comments or incidents you’ll wish to share?

    May 5, 2016 at 6:37 am #103623
    Anonymous
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    Dear humour:

    My answer to your question: no, fear, sensitivity and authenticity are not mutually exclusive. They are inclusive. The thing with fear is that we need to accept it and not reject it, examine the message in it for us, and not reject it, resist it, try to get rid of it as if it was an alien bad entity. If we do the latter, we are not authentic. If we do the former, we are authentic.

    Regarding sensitivity: if sensitivity includes us projecting inaccurately unto others, for example imagining we are negatively criticized by another when we are not, then that will lead to dysfunction that promotes lack of authenticity. But if we examine our projections for accuracy before jumping to dysfunctional behavior, then we are authentic.

    anita

    May 5, 2016 at 7:14 am #103625
    Gary R. Smith
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    Hi Humour,

    Fear is its own frequency, the carrier wave of fragmentation in humans.

    It generates and supports the illusion of separation in all its variations, and its fruits are smallness, suffering and slavery.

    Authenticity is what is real in a human. The world has not witnessed but a fraction of authenticity. Its fruits are the fruits of love, of real love, giving, emanating.

    Sensitivity towards fear and authenticity, with discernment, enables a person to make informed choices. Most people choose fear because of its familiarity, which gives comfort to the immature. The immature remain a seedling. When a person chooses to grow into maturity, they are steadfast to go through the discomfort and experience themselves as the mature tree of their original design.

    And what are your thoughts and feelings on the subject you raised?

    May 10, 2016 at 8:06 am #104143
    humour
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    Thank you for your crisp answer, Anita 🙂
    Thank you for your thoughts Gary 🙂
    I’ve been thinking about this for a while but its all muddled in my head and I wanted hear from others.
    I keep wondering if its possible to be completely authentic and if sensitivity and fear justify un aunthenticity and many more thoughts like these but this line of yours “Sensitivity towards fear and authenticity, with discernment, enables a person to make informed choices” makes things clear. Thank you once again, both of you!

    May 10, 2016 at 10:00 am #104153
    Anonymous
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    Dear humour:

    You are welcome. More of my thoughts:

    It can be confusing in that people think to be authentic they have to express their emotions as they experience them, any time. But unlike animals who are strictly emotional beings and do express their emotions as they are, we humans are emotional AND logical, so to be authentic means to be authentically both. When we feel a certain emotion, we accept it (not reject it), use logic to figure out what we need to learn from the emotion, to figure whether to express it or not, and what behavior to execute as a result, if any.

    So to be logically authentic would be to follow the values we believe in (so when angry we don’t automatically react but choose not to hurt another because we value Do-no-harm, for example) and we use the skills we believe in (deep breathing, taking a walk, etc., instead of hurting another, in the example).

    Does it make sense to you? Being authentically both emotionally AND logically?

    anita

    May 10, 2016 at 11:23 am #104164
    humour
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    Yes Anita. What you wrote finally closed the case for me 🙂 I really wish I knew it much before. I wonder why we have to go through painful experiences to learn to do/ not to do certain things in life. Anyway it’s upto me how I choose to label it- it need not be painful, it can just be a learning experience. It’s all in the mind I guess. Have a nice day Anita 🙂

    May 10, 2016 at 11:29 am #104165
    Anonymous
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    Thanks, humour. I am glad you brought up this topic. Anytime you want to come back to it, please do. There is more to it.

    anita

    May 10, 2016 at 1:11 pm #104173
    Gary R. Smith
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    Hi Humour,

    You wrote that the case is closed for you, and added, ‘I really wish I knew it much before. I wonder why we have to go through painful experiences to learn to do/ not to do certain things in life. Anyway it’s up to me how I choose to label it- it need not be painful, it can just be a learning experience. It’s all in the mind I guess.’

    I have a theory about why humans think they have to go through painful experiences to learn, and it does have to do with, as you said, being all in the mind. It also has to do with powerful forces on the earth which have the will to keep humans small and in fear, dependent upon the systems of the world — and with the conditioning of society and environment. There is a way out of it, but few choose to go through the discomforts to be free of fear. I have just published new blog posts on the subject of fear, including a litany I wrote and use effectively to counter the ill effects of fear and its fragmenting influences. Those posts can be found at http://www.wholehuman.emanatepresence.com/realizations-blog

    I agree with Anita, there is more to it. And also welcome you to come back to the subject.

    May 28, 2016 at 6:42 am #105839
    humour
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    Hi Gary,
    I read your blog on the litany against fear and the litany of love. Its beautiful. Do you repeat these lines(the ones in your blog) everyday, sort of like meditate on them or do you put it up where you can see it everyday.

    “A person of higher nature goes through it and out the other side in order to remove the threat permanently.” Wow!
    I want this statement to manifest in my life. I’ll do my best! Thank you for the wonderful article Gary 🙂

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