What is Fear?

[Bridge to Infinity]

I was doing some contemplation today then i realized that fear is nothing but a sensation in the body around the chest area. Thats it nothing special.

i was asking myself....

why do i fear being alone?

what is the reason?

what is beneath that fear? 

And then i realized that fear is the same emotion no matter the situation, you just link it to different identifications within your mind, this is probably an evolved mechanism (identifying things and fearing them) to help us stay alive.

In summary fear is a sensation in your body that you are programmed to not want, and you also program your mind to initiate fear in the body when-ever you identify something as a threat.

[Joker_Theory]

@Bridge to Infinity You should go deeper into the feeling of fear and were it is and see what is the feeling really. Vibration, pressure, energy??? Feel for your self.

[Truth Addict]

9 hours ago, Bridge to Infinity said:

to help us stay alive.

In summary fear is a sensation in your body that you are programmed to not want, and you also program your mind to initiate fear in the body when-ever you identify something as a threat.

Egoic fear is not a survival mechanism for the body. It's rather a survival mechanism for the ego. This distinction is very important.

[Kensho]

Fear is the projection on an unwanted future outcome. 

The moment you fear something automatically you predict, you see in your mind a future moment that goes against your survival agenda. That agenda can be actual (e.g. if the snake bites me I will die)  or just conceptual-egoic (if the woman at the bar turns me down then 'insert your answer here'). 

[Bridge to Infinity]

@Truth Addict

you're right! however fear is fear no matter the label of why it came up, essentially there is some instinctual fear built in to your body, like the fear of falling down or the fear of loud noises, but other than that its all egoic, its all learned.

All fear is, is a sensation that you're programmed to not want, and so therefore it gets you to act oppositely to whatever cause you fear, and you program according to your experiences what you should fear and shouldn't.