Fear leads to anxiety, phobias, panic disorder, “obsessive-compulsive disorder,” “post-traumatic stress,” trauma, worry causing paranoid over-activation of the stress response.

The Source of Fear

Stressful fear enters through emotional memories of terror, intimidation, bullying, scary events, accidents, war, confinement, being lost, near drowning, abandonment, and even scary movies at an inappropriate age.

Extreme Anxiety and Panic

The emotion of wounds of the past is reflected in current events.  Excessive emotion in a current event indicated the current event triggered some aspect of an old memory where high emotion actually occurred.  The emotion was remembered, but the details remain in the subconscious memory.  Flashbacks, dreams, or triggers cause a great reaction of primarily great fear.  Modern research has found that traumatic memories can even be formed at or before birth.

Fear/Flight Factor, Both Good and Bad

Symptoms of anxiety include muscle tension, trembling, shortness of breath, fast heartbeat, dry mouth, dizziness, nausea, irritability, loss of sleep, and not being able to concentrate.  These symptoms are triggered by the stress response system in a fear/flight situation.  The human body reacts the same way to internally or externally generated fear.  People with anxiety experience constant stress related to fear.

 Unfortunately, the fear/flight response will not produce any relief from fear.  One cannot run or fight to get away from internal fear.  This constant response results in very uncomfortable feelings and prolongs excess exposure of adrenalin and cortisol that damages our physical and emotional health.

Perceptions Not Always Based on Fact

These anxiety-related responses are based on our perception of the situation.  Our body was not designed to operate by constantly over-responding to fear and worry.  Medical science’s answer is drugs to treat the symptoms, and psychotherapy for managing and coping with the fears.  The simple and obvious answer is to eliminate the fear, but that is not always easy, and usually appears overwhelming.  Elimination of the false beliefs of fear in the past memories brings freedom from these symptoms.  The answer to why phobias are in your life is held in your memories.

Fear Before Birth

It is scientifically known that fear and other emotions of an unborn child can be conditioned from the mother before birth.  Chemicals produced in conjunction with our sympathetic nervous system trigger physical responses such as heart and breathing rates.  These chemicals called “catecholamines” produce the physical reactions to fear and anxiety.  These chemicals will translocate to the unborn child, who will also have a physical reaction to what is happening with the mother. Repeated occurrences (conditioning) can cause the baby to be born in fear.

Colic in Babies Is a Symptom of Fear

“Excessive maternal neurohormonal secretion creates an overcharged autonomic nervous system, which leads to low weight at birth and/or gastric disorders and/or reading difficulties and/or behavior problems.”  (The Secret of the Unborn Child, Thomas Verny, M.D., with John Kelly.)  Perhaps you have observed this in colicky, irritable, restless, fidgety, shy, or anxious babies and toddlers.  Obviously, the best time to deal with our fears is before pregnancy.  If that didn’t happen, this knowledge can still be used to help your children.  How the father feels about the mother and how he impacts the relationship can be the most important aspect of a mother’s emotions.  How the mother feels about her baby is also very critical.

God’s answer to fear is that we are not to live in fear.  Proverbs 29:25 (NIV) “Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe.”  When we fail to follow God’s Word, we are not being obedient, which is missing God’s mark.  Missing God’s mark is sin, which is God’s way of telling us how we should live.  It’s not His desire that we consume a bunch of anxiety pills with side effects.  He wants His best for us.  Check the “Would Ministry Benefit Me” page for issues of fear.

Healing Fear

There is a prescription for elimination of fear and it is the desire of our ministry to show and lead people through this prayer process.

Further Information:

Babies are Conscious
http://www.terrylarimore.com/babiesareconscious.html


Anxiety
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anxiety


Anxiety and Panic – Gaining Control Over How You’re Feeling
http://familydoctor.org/013.xml


New Paradigm for Healing
http://www.terrylarimore.com/shock.html


Recognizing Emotional Trauma and Building Emotional Intelligence
http://www.jeannesegal.com/trauma/index.htm