fear

[Adam Blatner]

Dear Ann and all, yes! This also addresses my point. On my website I have a paper titled "a little bit." My thesis is that we flourish best when we maintain optimal amounts of a wide range of qualities---not too much, and not too little. I allude to fear, shame, guilt, victimization, pride, playfulness, and other qualities. For many, I envision it to be optimal at around 5-10% -- akin to our needing to maintain a certain tiny but definite range of Calcium ions, Sodium, Potassium, Carbonate... the body has all these mechanisms to keep these "electrolytes" within a certain optimal range---too much or too little and one becomes sick. What if we need just enough fear to combat extreme complacency, but more than that and it arouses our limbic system---the emotional centers in our brains---which in turn blocks or inhibits the inflow of rational thought. (This is the point Dan Goleman makes, speaking of emotional hijacking in his 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence. 

      Warmly , Adam
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ann Hale 
  To: grouptalk 
  Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 2:52 AM
  Subject: fear


  I heard a fascinating discussion 01/20/08 on NationalPublicRadio "New Dimensions" with guest speaker Barbara Hand Clow.( The Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind by Barbara Hand Clow )

  One of her statements struck me. She is convinced that there is a concerted attempt to keep people in fear, particularly citizens in the U.S.   Fear, experienced on the cellular level, interferes with there being more openess for heart connection, and acting on the intuitive information available to us from nature, the cosmos, our own bodies.  A lot of the work psychodramatists do, in protagonist-centered sessions is help a person access their internal truth, the part of us which knows what is going on, knows (via role reversal) the truth in others.  In preparation for the truth, we often explore the layers of resistance and masking of truth.  Fear is a powerful screen which can occupy energies needed elsewhere.  And, fear leads us into more and more solutions involving protection/sucurity/military intervention.  This is one way I see the connection between what we do in the field of psychodrama with what is going on in the world around us. 
  Ann Hale


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