Then, there is anxiety, which is false ‘fear.’
The minds ability to create fear from nothing and thrust the physical body into a fight or flight reaction when there is, infact, really nothing to fight or flee from. lol
It is the minds imagination futurizing, catastrophizing and inventing unpleasant scenarios that do not exist in reality, and maybe never will.
The great ‘what if’ scene that mind is so famous for writing volumes of fictitious stories about. haha
Who was it that said…( Sam Clemens? ) that everything they ever worried about never came to pass.
This is where watching mind is the most important ‘work’ we can do.
Stopping the stories when they arise.
It is amazing how one can be safe in their bed, all needs satisfied, and yet, through their mindmade anxieties have their bodies whipped into a frenzy as if there was a lion crouching at the foot of their beds ready to pounce. haha
I am grateful that I do not suffer from random anxieties and am able to catch my thoughts before they spiral out of control and write disaster novels that ramp up my heart rate to about 200 beats per minute.
It is important to conserve ones heartbeats for the fun stuff life has to offer.lol