As you know, fear is a kind of psychic signal, saying that somewhere there was a danger. Like any human emotions, fear carries a positive effect on our body. True, it is worth remembering that it includes a healthy and pathological fear. The latter kind is acting negatively on personal development, and its roots can go far into the subconscious. It reminds about itself when there is not the slightest danger on the horizon. It manifests itself in the form of causeless anxious conditions, premonitions. Let's return to the first form: healthy fear and find out what it is useful for.
The Benefits of Fear
Has it ever happened to you that in a single moment you realized the falsity of some of your fears? Moreover, such fear helps you to look differently at the situation, this emotion actually hides behind your true desires. So, when you are in a difficult life period, which can be accompanied by sleep disorders, frequent stressful situations and, most importantly, fear for something or someone, you should ask yourself a question. Ask yourself why you are afraid. Do not be ashamed to admit yourself. Maybe he prevents you from becoming such a man, to the ideal of which you strove since childhood. Perhaps you are simply afraid to satisfy your true needs, as a result, you create unnecessary problems yourself, burden yourself.
Fear is an equally important emotion that affects your feelings for loved ones, because it can improve them or vice versa, turn the relationship upside down. The boundaries within your personality is a main reason. They were created by you. As a result, the second benefit of fear is that it helps to get rid of these benefits of fears of limitations. Before implementing the latter, admit that you are afraid of something, accept this state. Fear, like a room that does not burn a single light bulb. Your acceptance is like a lit candle, helping to see what is hidden in the dark.
Also, fear is a sure helper in mobilizing human power in the event of a critical, dangerous situation. In addition, thanks to it you better remember unpleasant events and for the second time you will not get wet hands into the outlet.
Benefit and harm of fear
If you can add to its usefulness also the fact that during your fear all senses are aggravated, and this allows you to anticipate the danger, then the list of its harm should include:
the emergence of phobias;
unresolved fears adversely affect human health;
fear can paralyze a person.