Fear is Behind All of Our Problems
The Archangels Tell Us What to Do with It
A life based on fear is never a pleasant life. Imagine waking up afraid, enduring the day afraid, and going to sleep afraid. Not much of a life, if you ask me. Anger is an offshoot of fear. Both are powerful emotions that don’t feel good, so why do so many of us hold on to them so tightly? For some, it’s because they’re so used to living that way, they don’t know how to stop. For others, someone has targeted them and used fear and anger as weapons to control and manipulate them.
If you look at history, many tragedies have happened, because people didn’t control their fear, and someone took advantage of it, named a scapegoat, and turned them loose. Look at Nazi Germany. People were struggling. They were afraid. Hitler manipulated their fear into anger and gave them a target in the Jewish population. It’s so much more concrete to fight a person or group than it is to fight poverty, frustration, and hopelessness, isn’t it?
More recently, look at the Capitol riot. I wonder how many of those people would have committed their crimes if they hadn’t been overwhelmed by the crowd’s emotions after being purposely incited. I asked the Archangels how we can avoid that kind of fear, and their answer follows.
