The Power of Fear

If we're not facing it that fear blocks us. It actually has a certain kind of control over our life experience. One woman lost both parents when she was really young and her husband, who was about mid-60s, had a very weak heart so was kind of living on an edge. So for her it brought up real terror, the terror of abandonment that her husband would die. She'd sometimes drive and realize that she wasn't sure where she was, and that would be the time she'd open to the charnel grounds. We can do it in all sorts of ways because what we're developing is affect tolerance. That's what Western psychology calls it. The mind creates the