This helps us discriminate between the right and the wrong thoughts and does not let any False Expectation Appear Real.
Today, why is the whole world in panic? There is an ‘invisible enemy’, as the media calls it and we should use soaps and sanitizers, masks and gloves to protect ourselves. While it is good to take precautions, it is not good to let our our mind cause panic. This knee-jerk reaction is caused by uncontrolled fear and anxiety and leads to irrational actions. Thus, we are locked down, but the virus continues to spread. It continues to kill. Instead of using our intellect to protect those who are susceptible to the virus, we have just locked down the entire economy, causing irreparable damage, with a loss of millions of jobs, only adding insult to injury. What causes the panic? The fear triggered by the mind that paralyzes the intellect and stops it from right thinking or discriminating.
What has caused fear and panic today? Primarily, it is the way that the media reports that is brainwashing viewers on television and browsers on social media to believe that the killer virus poses a great danger. Pictures of people dying in hospitals and even fake news has created so much panic that it has destroyed our power of discrimination. Our fear has got the better of us as it has destroyed our courage.
TAKEAWAYS WHAT CAUSES FEAR?
Our optimism has been overcome by our pessimism. Instead of living with H O P E—Having Only Positive Expectations, we are living with F E A R—False Expectations Appearing Real.
The cause of fear is the mind. If we want to overcome fear, we have to kill the mind before the mind kills us. The mind is a rascal, it is like a monkey swinging to the past and then the future causing stress, worry and anxiety. It robs our present moment of peace and bliss, manipulating our intellect by bombarding it with fearful thoughts. It’s time to overcome fear.