This episode of Martfotai: Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way examines instinctive fear: the difference between the body’s genuine response to actual danger and the manufactured fear the emotional centre constructs from imagination, which exists before any object appears and finds something afterward to justify itself with.
Every fear, traced back, is shown to protect one of three things: the body, relationship and belonging, or the constructed self. Two practices are given: a structured fear inventory, and a second practice for holding a feared outcome alongside a genuinely possible alternative.
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