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	<title>Spreading the love around &#187; religion</title>
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		<title>Why do we feel fear?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is behind the inherent capacity to feel pain, pleasure, and everything that produces a physical reaction through your body?
In a way, it is obvious. There is a physical process involved when pain is created by our skin, but what is even more amazing is the physiological one. It can be felt as much as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="redtag">What is behind the inherent capacity to feel pain, pleasure, and everything that produces a physical reaction through your body?</p>
<p>In a way, it is obvious. There is a physical process involved when pain is created by our skin, but what is even more amazing is the physiological one. It can be felt as much as the physical one, but this one can be stopped through your own brain.</p>
<p>Why can’t we stop it? Have you ever paid attention to your brain as the uncontrollable begins to take control over your body? </p>
<p>Have you listened to your thoughts as the chain reaction unfolds? It is as if something that is not tangible, a thought, could create an alternate reality based on the data you possess at that moment. That is the reason most of us act, although we may not even be aware of it, you become a slave of thoughts.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16230215@N08/2592704701"><img style="margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px;border: 0px initial initial" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3118/2592704701_1c14e5157f.jpg" border="0" alt="River of Sorrow" hspace="5" width="500" height="337" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">by h.koppdelaney</p></div>
<p>If that is not crazy enough, those thoughts may result false or incomplete as time makes the truth be clearer. So, in such ignorance, we continue existing, creating chaos, and translating justice in our best suited verdict.</p>
<p>This at the long run creates a false world based on your own limits and prejudices, and we educate the next generation to act in the same way. We don’t question our own thoughts because the belief gives us a sense of being certain, safe, in control, and righteous.</p>
<p>Perhaps, we feel unconsciously that if we can keep that “unreal” world the “truth”, then there won’t be any reason to feel fear, when in fact, fear comes each time that “world” is in danger, psychologically speaking.</p>
<p>This is where rejection begins to rule society, we don’t understand the process in which fear beings to arise, so we try to repel everything that can endanger your sweet lies, so pain may not touch you.</p>
<blockquote><p>The more you try to keep pain away, the more you fear. The more you fear, the closer you get to pain.</p></blockquote>
<p class="write">Fear is deeply related to pain, therefore, why do we feel both?</p>
<p><strong>Thoughts</strong> create the perfect environment trying to keep everything in “order”, you don’t pay attention to them, so they become independent, they begin to form what you identify as your personality, sometimes even “who you are”. You are totally helpless. In a sense, you feel impotent, totally controlled, and abused.</p>
<p>However, you try to find excuses outside yourself, you may drink heavily, even use drugs to evade those irritating thoughts that create pain, and make you feel trapped in fear. Others, may do sports, do art, do science, and in a sense take the positive route to gain control, at least, keep it contained.</p>
<p>It is not enough, though. So, religion becomes another kind of “walked” route. However, if the “religion” does not let you understand yourself or the people surrounding the “religion” try to control you, then on the contrary, it takes you to the “bliss of ignorance”, and self-denial. It can be another path to self destruction like any other kind of addiction where you live a high that keeps you there, but at the same time you may feel abused and reliant.</p>
<p class="stickynote">So, why do we feel pain, fear, etc.? I guess it is time to listen to your thoughts, and try to dissolve the reasons you suffer, you live, and you act. It is like using a turbine to move the fog around you, until you are ready to understand why does the fog follow you, and then&#8230; Get rid of it from the source.</p>
<p>Question those thoughts. Question the thoughts written here. Question, analyze, and live what freedom really means.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/13797010@N08/2696475272"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/2696475272_c228843e42.jpg" border="0" alt="Breaking the Waves" hspace="5" /></a></p>
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