{"id":1237,"date":"2016-07-23T06:53:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T06:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risky.tv\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2017-05-02T05:23:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T05:23:28","slug":"fear-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risky.tv\/fear-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to The Root Cause of Your FEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"
It may take a lot of courage to take-in the core message of this video… but, we have to agree with it:<\/p>\n
People who are afraid of dying<\/strong> tend to be the ones who are also afraid to live. This level of fear — avoiding acceptance of the inevitable — is what limits us.. AND.. the entire collective soul.<\/p>\n And, if you desire a warm-up the the idea of watching a video about why you need to accept the inevitable, then, check out this book summary, by Mark Manson<\/a>, of:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n What It\u2019s About:<\/strong> Speaking of being afraid of dying\u2026 Here\u2019s The Denial of Death<\/i><\/a> in a nutshell:<\/p>\n Because man is the only animal capable of conceptualizing his own existence \u2014 thinking about his life, questioning it, imagining future possibilities \u2014 man is therefore also the only animal capable of conceptualizing his own non-existence, i.e., his own death.<\/p>\n In other words, humans were given the gift of being able to imagine the future and who we want to be, but the price we pay for this gift is the realization that we will one day die. A dog doesn\u2019t realize she\u2019s going to die. Neither does a fish. Or a roach. But we do.<\/p>\n This knowledge of our own inevitable death leads to a kind of ever-present \u201cterror\u201d that underlies everything we do. Becker argues that this terror inspires us all to take on what he calls a \u201chero project,\u201d where we attempt to immortalize ourselves through our deeds and actions, to create something bigger than ourselves that will live beyond our own lives.<\/p>\n It\u2019s when people\u2019s hero projects contradict one another that we get conflict, violence, bigotry, and evil. It\u2019s when hero projects fail that we fall into deep despair and depression because we\u2019re once again confronted with the inevitability of our own death and meaninglessness of our lives.7<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n Notable Quotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cMan cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe irony of man\u2019s condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would create such a complex and fancy worm food?\u201d<\/p>\n Bonus Points For:<\/strong> Making you contemplate your own non-existence and kind of making you feel okay about it.<\/p>\n If This Book Could Be Summarized in An Image, That Image Would Be:<\/strong> The grim reaper silently laughing to himself watching you build an elaborate Lego set called \u201cLife,\u201d and you turning around and saying, \u201cStop laughing, this is important!\u201d<\/p>\n Read This Book If\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2026you plan on dying one day. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It may take a lot of courage to take-in the core message of this video… but, we have to agree with it: People who are afraid of dying tend to be the ones who are also afraid to live. This level of fear — avoiding acceptance of the inevitable — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[250],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-growth","tag-fear"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Denial of Death<\/h2>\n
by Ernest Becker<\/h3>\n
\n\u2026you think you take life a little bit too seriously sometimes and need to chill.
\n\u2026you want to read a convincing argument for why we should embrace our pain and our fear rather than avoid it.<\/p>\n