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Life as we all know is not without fears and doubts. From the first moment of our birth, we find ourselves fearful of life and we cry. Every day we are beset with doubts and fears. Some of these doubts concern our relationships, our actions, our thoughts, and even our beliefs. There is hardly any person in this world which could be perfectly trustful and believing saved for the newly born child maybe. But even the simple cry of an infant shows an inherent fear and doubt about his/her safety and comfort. Fears and doubts, therefore, can be rightly said to be a part-and-parcel of human existence, and we will have to bear with this fate in our existence up to the time that we come face-to-face with the death.
Yet, it would do us some good to be able to figure out the sources of our doubts, fears, and anxieties, after all knowledge leads to freedom. Most of our common fears are based on selfishness. We fear the loss of a friend because we fear being isolated and alone. We fear the loss of a husband or a wife because we don’t want to be lonely. We fear losing our money because we don’t want to live a mendicant existence. Looking at these examples, we will discover that one fear engenders another fear and it goes on and on in a vicious cycle until we reach the ultimate fear of life which is the fear of annihilation or death.
There is so much misunderstanding about the concept of fear. In the primitive time, fear is one way of signaling that we should either “fight” or “flee.” It is a fight or flight indicator. Say for instance, a cave man comes face-to-face with a lion. He finds himself with two options—either to take a flight or in the worst case fight—and in the process, he figures out what is the best thing to do. His body reacts to the sight of the lion by producing more adrenaline which he could utilize for whatever option he takes. He flees and the extra adrenaline enables him to run so fast and eludes the lion.
Yet, in our modern age, the same mechanism happens whenever we are anxious and fearful of something. The only difference is the fact that modern men are no longer confronted with an obvious danger but an imagined and anticipated danger. We fear when we think that the stock market will exhibits a down-trend and eventually plunges; thus, we could say that most of modern fears are basically imagined.
Transcendental Meditation can readily free us from the onslaught of these modern fears and doubts by allowing us to enter into a relaxed state of mind which is the natural state of the mind. The regular practice of transcendental Meditation allows us to enter into the desired transcendental consciousness—a state wherein we are no longer confined by the limited fears and anxieties—which buffet and bother a highly-anxious modern mind. When we expand the realm of our consciousness through TM, we immediately see the real value of all the material situations we encounter. We readily conclude that everything is fleeting and all the worries we harbor in our mind suddenly would abandon us.
Transcendental Meditation puts us in a state wherein we could readily accept the outcome of whatever would happen in our lives. Acceptance becomes very easy, and once we are capable of readily accepting all the happenings in our daily life, the struggles, fears, and doubts in our lives become immaterial and useless. How can you fear the loss of your car if you understand perfectly that everything will sooner or later fizzle out and pass away? Would you still wallow in your own misery thinking that you own your husband or wife? Transcendental Meditation would readily help you acknowledge the fact that these people are just gifts who for a limited period willingly shared their life to you, but in the end would be gone from your life. Transcendental Meditation helps us realize that everything is just a passing shadow and clinging on to something like a niggardly miser would do us no good. It is a stark realization that we should enjoy and appreciate everything and not hoard everything as if we will last forever. These realizations culled from the constant practice of Transcendental Meditation give us a novel perspective on how to treat and deal with the situations of our lives.
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