Fear

"Today I let go of my fear of anything, and I trust God to take the fear away. The way that I let go is simply by knowing that fear does not exist. I truly know that fear is simply Ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life. To release this deluded perception, I must know that I am always filled with, and surrounded by, unconditional love. Whenever I experience fear, I can bring forth this unconditional love, and immediately the fear will disappear. Today I release all fear." - acquaintance's Facebook Status

This quote say fear doesn't exist but here's what to do when (the non-existent thing) happens.

For me? I simply don't see fear as the enemy. Actually, I don't see much as 'the enemy'. Fear has its purpose in life, just like everything else. Our labelling things "bad" and "unwanted" is the only thing that makes them so. What we think of anything is what determines our experience with it.

In a state of fear my body's adrenaline gets pumping and a decision of "fight or flight" is made. When it's my boy having a seizure, the answer is always "fight" and  I have to go into survival mode for him, as in on his behalf. Being in a state of fear (for his life) during this makes me extremely alert to all his surroundings and every little thing going on with him and it's important to his very existence that I be that alert.

Now, if I sat around every day, paralysed with the fear that he might have a seizure, well that would not be so good. I could even, inadvertently, cause situations to arise to bring on seizures if all I'm thinking is that is a seizure is going to happen. So, I would not want fear in my life that way -- and luckily, no one involved has a fear beyond what is necessary in the moment of a seizure. But what if someone did? How best to handle that?

Hmmm, I really have no answer other than anything at all that will distract you from the feeling and replace it with something better. It's so important to take charge of our thoughts, to be responsible with them.