{"id":63,"date":"2007-02-01T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2012-02-18T11:12:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T19:12:32","slug":"fear-of-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/01\/fear-of-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear of Self"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today I am struck by how people are so afraid of themselves. Everywhere I go I see people afraid. At first they seem afraid of me if they know anything about me, and sometimes even if they do not know anything about me. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I see this as a \u201cproblem\u201d within society but here in lies the rub; maybe this \u2018problem\u2019 is only in MY mind. When I speak about this \u2018problem\u2019 with other people they only run from the discussion, so I speak about it more saying that people\u2019s running from discussions is a symptom of the \u2018problem\u2019. The more I speak about it the more people seem to be afraid of me.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, I recognize that I have had this same \u2018problem\u2019 myself and I found a solution to that problem: meditation or practicing relaxing around words, thoughts and ideas. I have found that what I make important I create tension around, so to relax I let go of making anything important. In order to share my insights with people I have to make them important, which creates tension or fear.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This is all a vicious cycle or a Catch-22 type situation. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I suppose that I just have to play with the dilemma; talk about it and then let it go. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Today I am struck by how people are so afraid of themselves. Everywhere I go I see people afraid. At first they seem afraid of me if they know anything about me, and sometimes even if they do not know anything about me. I see this as a \u201cproblem\u201d within society but here in lies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}