Nature of Fear

To understand fear, its nature, its purpose, and ultimately how to use it you must understand where fear begins. Fear is a lower brain function, it is primal, an instinctual awareness to danger that the human body need not converse with the higher brain to understand. The only of two fight or flight responses, the other being anger. These are the first emotions any living thing on this planet has, a child’s first emotion is fear, this fear rules most of the infants early life and is only offset by relative comfort. Its first instinct is survival, fear leads the infant (in human or animal form) to the passion of and for survival. Its sole instinct and purpose is to continue its own survival, its only companion to fuel that passion at first, is fear.

You need not be smart to possess the capacity for fear, and only a fool would try to gain control over such an instinctual gift. Like a deer who knows the hunters around but cannot see them, a human can sense danger long before it is perceived by refining his or her perception of there fear. Fear can overwhelm, it can gain tremendous control over an individual, certainly there are those who have never gotten past there fear since there early infant years. Fear can cloud ones judgement and faculties, if you so choose to let it. Only fools, and cowards let there fear control them. Fear can turn into terror if you let it. Once this happens it transforms from a useful emotion to a debilitating one. This is a pitfall to any emotion, the line where it is useful and where it becomes debilitating.

However while you cannot control an instinct, certainly not one as old and as powerful as fear, you can refine your perception of it. As a Sith, and a martial artist, a warrior, I have spent much time and practice on refining this powerful emotion, to let my perception of it allow its instinctive impulses to let me take advantage of all that fear has to offer. Fear offers adrenaline and endorphin’s, this is what allows animals to escape predators, this is what allows mothers to lift cars off of children. Adrenaline grants you greater physical strength, it heightens your senses, and reflexes, fear grants you greater mental acuity as well, endorphin’s are natural pain killers and stimulate other parts of the brain. Though many are too consumed by there fear to use this emotion well, or at all, or to even be properly aware of this great alchemical change within them. This is mostly do to lack of understanding of emotion through lack of training…

Fear is also dangerous and extremely volatile in another way. Because we have higher brain functions, it interferes and warps our lower brain instincts. Intelligence and imagination are our greatest gifts to evolve, and also our greatest hindrance. People create irrational fears, monsters of the mind as I refer to them. These illusions are just that, illusions, and yet they have the power to cripple a person spiritually,mentally and physically. People actually create fears, irrational phobias that grow into debilitating situations that one often times cannot overcome. All people of all aspects or spiritual paths seek to rid themselves of these irrational monsters of the mind, these illusions we entertain throughout our lives. These illusions must be overcome, not only for the sake of spiritual growth but also so that you can utilize your fear for what it was intended to be used for,a primitive,yet powerful emotive response of heightened awareness and survival instinct.

Sith use emotions, They are both fuel for, and fueled by our passion, Sith are not puppets to there passion or emotions, we use them not the other way around. Emotions are powerful motivators, any Sith that has a full understanding, and grip upon there emotions are limited only by there imagination in what they can accomplish. Fear is a Siths best weapon in his or her emotional arsenal, and once focused properly through the lens of the will and is refined through proper alignment of perception fear becomes much more than an instinctual impulse to a threat of danger, it becomes a channeled focused beam of passion and emotion, capable of much power and motivation and awareness.

Use this knowledge wisely and responsibly.