How do you measure fear and what do you measure it with?
To my way of thinking, attempting to “measure” my fear does nothing to alleviate it, in fact, the more you try to analyse it, the more involved you become with it, and I would think you want to be free of it.Sit and think about what you are afraid of. If you can answer that you are seriously on your way. If you can’t identify the source of your fears, then what you have got a hold of is good old panic.There is virtually nothing you are afraid of right now. All of your fears exist in the future, which is to say they don’t exist at all. This is because you have no control over the future, and you try to fill that void with catastrophes and problems and circumstances that seem really bad. I’m going to lose my job next week, I just know it. I’m going to come up short on the mortgage, my wife is going to divorce me, etc.“Whenever I’m up in my head worried about something in the future or something in the past that I can do nothing about right now, that’s called projection, and it’s a useless harmful exercise. Like I wrote earlier, right now there is nothing harmful going on in my life, but I can sure pile up things in the future to worry about. Not a single Goddamn thing I ever worried about ever came true the way I thought it wold. I am not a mentalist, I cannot predict the future.Anxiety, or fear, is just the pain I feel for something that hasn’t happened yet.Do something today, if there is anything to be done, to plan for the future. Arrange a meeting with your boss to clear the air, to see where you stand. Check with your mortgage company to see what needs to be done to salvage your home, And arrange for a marriage counselor, and go yourself if she won’t . Take action.Respect yourself enough to know that anxiety is the illusion that you are in control. Develop enough humility to recognize that you aren’t.Cordially, etc….
Is there a degree of measure of fear?
Yes....there is a degree, but not in a tangible scale.I first put forward some questions, 1)What is fear? 2)Why is fear so hard to overcome? 3)Whom or what does fear affect? 4) How do you deal with fear?Answering my first question,fear is a nasty trick played by your mind,to curtail you in your restrictive patterns.Any alterations in these patterns produce fear. Ex:All of a sudden you lost your well earned seat in a college. That resulting uncertainty is the propellant of fear.Upon close examination fear reveals its flaw.Fear is a conjuration in your mind.And quoting a statement from Will Smith's After Earth... "Danger is real,but fear is a choice."Yes,we are the subtle,unaddressed cause of fear.Our own memories and past experiences are what make fear overpowering.And that answers my second question.We are the ones who give fear its power. And fear my friends ,is so humorous, You are sitting under a tree,peacefully enjoying the cool breeze,the evening breeze gently strokes your cheek and you feel tranquillity in the air.The flowers are blooming and waving their petals at you,as meeting a long lost friend.In this midst,you see a small child,frowninga and scolding a something in his hand,you watch closer and its a mirror.The child frowns and forbids his friend in the mirror to not frown at him.Upon denial,he is infuriated and walks away.The person,resumes his conversation with the flowers,unaffected by the child's anxiety. Now...my friend...fear is like this....the mind asks the mind a question,and because mind can't answer the mind..mind gets fearful....and all the while the quiet observer that is YOU are being tensed.....Attachment is the cause of fear....and the degree of fear is based on your attachment to the object..Fear affects your ego,your tool for attachments... And you impose the fear of ego on yourself.To deal with fear,accept the fear,and let it pass.
Are there ways to measure societal fear?
The amount of threatening/offending a person does, could be the amount of fear it has.In case of societal fear, let us have the following example:Suppose I use to threaten other by the societal fear, and suppose one of my friends unmarried daughter is impregnated by unknown man, and I use to pass comment, shaming, taunting to my friends for this, and offend him. Suppose my unmarried daughter also caught in the same situation, then my fear of people like me, comments, shaming and taunting like me, will be much greater, than the one who never done shaming, taunting to other people. This is because, I myself is a creator of such comments, shaming and taunting, which I can really and very clearly feel for myself.So those who comments, shame, taunt according to what is socially ethical and acceptable, are more likely to be get trapped in a feeling to confirm with the social norms, and desire things in comfirmation with what kind of socially ethical and acceptable norms, for themselves, which they themselves have set for others.So those who pass comments on the basis of socially acceptable behave, could be the measure of societal fear of a person, which develops due to their own behaviour towards others.
What does it mean to fear that we are powerful beyond measure?
we need to respect the power we each have, power corrupts- take a look at history, Stalin, Hitler, et al.....power so corrupt and consuming it was beyond measure~
How do you propose we measure something intangible like fear?
While theoretically there is no way to do this, we can practically do this:Take some people for a scientific experiment, hook them with lot of monitoring devices (for measuring chemicals, enzymes, heart rates, breath rates, etc) and let them watch horror movies or horrific news or imagine different scary scenarios. Record their own levels of fear, along with the measurements.Now use this data for analysis and getting some empirical formulas for fear. Take the monitoring measurements in other people and use the empirical formulas to measure fear levels.The problem here is that we have to "believe" the participants, who say their fear level is A while watching the Exorcist or their fear level is B when they think they flunked an exam or their fear level is C when they think there will be a terrorist bombing or their fear level is D when they think they have been kidnapped.
How can I overcome the exam fear what are the effective measures?
There are relaxation techniques that you can get from the student health center for no charge. I have two formulas that helped me to live with test anxiety at university which I recommend. They may work for some but not all. A Buddhist acolyte gave these to me when he was still a student. 2 . Take obsessively good notes, read recommended texts, and copy notes into questions and study until you know everything that might be asked. There's no time for friends or other activities. You must study and know the answers beforehand and no professor has ever popped questions out of nowhere to trick a student. Test preparation requires absolute attention. 3 While studying it is important to be comfortable with snacks and both hot and cold drinks such as tea and water. Every couple of hours give your mind a rest by clearing the mind with 15 or 20 minutes of meditation. It must be quiet with lowlights to be effective. 4. Maintain good sleep. Do not reduce it by much. Cut your play time until after the exam. Eat and maintain good hydration. Not drinking enough water will be anunconscious distraction that will nag on you during the exam. The more you haveprepared, the less anxiety you will feel. This is true of most any complicated activitythat will have negative consequences as a result of not enough preparation.Good luckthanks for the A2A
Is it possible to measure the amount of fear a human is experiencing?
It is possible to make a qualitative subjective judgement based on experience, but not a quantitative objective measurement of fear.Even if I used a number - say class 4 versus class 1 fear - the judgement is subjective. It is no different than saying “very afraid” versus “not so afraid.”What the person reports is purely subjective:You could say “how afraid were you on a 1 to 5 scale?” They say “10” That just means very very afraid.
What doest the "our deepest fear? quote mean?
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.