Fearful is the temperament of a mind which jumps back to that which it knows. Projection is safer than analysis and panic rules a mind which views itself as unable to defeat trauma again. Understand that it is human to be afraid but it also totally within human capability to take actions that put one above their fear. New things are where great things come from, it is natural to explore and expand. The fearful mind clings to the safety of the familiar at the cost of expanding and growing for the melodrama of the past. Doing this retards life.
While it is natural to be afraid of things that can cause you harm, it can save your life to not fight lions or scream at trigger-happy cops, it is also natural to be excited and curious about life. Children know this and nobody alive was ever not or is not currently a child. Allowing this state of mind to be acceptable and a real, present choice creates the vacuum fear hates as it means its demise. The new things which we are projecting old fears upon, terrified of past insecurities coming to surface and hurting our face value or promises are not fit a platform. That is a whiney child being loud. That is running back to what we are used to, a beating. That action means accepting, asking, and reinforcing our own abuse. To avoid this, see it with excitement and the malleability it brings.
