How does fear of change stop us from being fully alive?
We are always fully alive if we are in the now, the present. In order to be in the present, the voice in our head—the internal dialogue that comes from our mind’s machinery—needs to be in a nonactivated state. Fear engages our mental machinery, which is charged with the responsibility of protecting us. Fear commandeers or activates our thoughts and takes over looking for a solution to the potential threat—or perceived threat—that is linked to that fear. We can never be in the present as long as our mind’s machinery is bombarding us with thoughts. Fear always takes precedence over everything else going on at the moment. The machinery responds to fear by applying what it believes worked in similar situations in the past. This is mutually exclusive with being in the present, and we can be fully alive only in the present. 6. Why are we more comfortable in pain than in creating the possibility of happiness, and how can we change? Our dilemma is whether our current pain is less than the pain
