Fear

1. What is fear?
There are two primary emotions, love and fear. Fear is the emotion that arises when we believe that we can be physically harmed or annihilated, and is caused as well by threats to our self identity or self esteem. All people when in the human state, will suffer from it if we believe that the only reality about ourselves is that very human identity and existence. It is not experienced when in the spirit mind or spirit realm.

2. Why is it so much a part of our lives?
We have chosen to believe in the reality of our human condition at the expense of experiencing our divine, immortal God-created identity. What we believe in will seem real. To the extent that we believe at any moment in our human state, and the belief that our well-being can be injured and annihilated either psychologically or physically, we are vulnerable to the fear emotion.

3. Why does it cripple us?
Belief in the human identity cripples us because it means that sickness, or death can end our existence and we now face the end of ourselves as an entity. We enter into nothingness, which is intolerable to our wish to live on and on.

4. How do I rid myself of fear?
The only answer to my experience of fear throughout my own lifetime, which I learned after God revealed His existence to me and showed me the spirit dimension and my soul as the source of existence, was to go to Him every time I experienced fear. My human mind never dries up, and continues to press me into awareness of its belief in its own reality. But when I am in the grip of fear I am made aware of that state by the Holy Spirit, and can get rid of it through prayer. I simply go to God and will state, "I choose to feel right now only as You would want me to, not as I feel." Or many variations of that prayer - "I want You as Me Love" or "None of me Lord, only You." I can't turn to God and offer that and feel fear at the same time. And the reason it fades, is because God now takes me into His mind in which nothing can harm Him or me as His eternal God-son. I now have a different viewpoint about my earthly existence. It is simply an imagined and chosen state which God counters with His mind whenever I so choose.

Fears will come back on me because of the incessant chatter or my human mind, and frequently will need repeated praying, but that's normal and I will continue to pray it until I feel the required relief which is delivered in increments for each prayer time I undertake.

5. Is fear evil?
Absolutely not! And if that belief continues to exist, that too mush be put to prayer to get relief, for your human mind would be trying to use that belief in your being evil as a way to get you to stop going to God as a reality, and once again believe in your human mind as the only reality. A simple prayer would do - "God, help me to understand fear as you do rather than the way I would see it." Or, "God, is my belief in fear as evil correct?" etc...

Remember, if it is helpful too, that when fear of Christ's teachings about the unreality of the human state caused our attack on Him (for His remarks about turning the other cheek and unconditionally forgiving as a threat to our human existence), Jesus did not call us evil but simply pointed out that this is how we act when we don't know what we're doing. It can have destructive consequences in this illusionary world, but does not come from our wish or intent to be evil.

6. Do we control fear or does it control us?
At al times fear controls us when it is not given over to God to see it with God's perspective. When given over, God controls it in us by simply revealing its absence in our true state of existence. We can have that God perspective any time we choose to obtain it by receiving His mind as ours.

7. Why does God allow fear in our lives?
God has permitted us to have free will and utilize our creative abilities even to create worlds not of Him. But as I saw, when leaving this dimension, the true me existed untouched in the spirit dimension. I was untouched by the human mind and its machinations. God's creation of me had no fear qualities to it, while in this world it was an essential aspect of my mind. Thus He permits deviations because it does not change His creation of us, similar to how a dream does not change the reality of the dreamer once the dreamer awakens. As God is free to be God and think as He would wish, so did God give us that right. But we can do no injury to ourselves because our imagination does not affect the reality of our divine identity as God created us.

8. How can we overcome fear?
By giving the moments and circumstances of fear to God, and observing how it abates, fear loses its tight grip on us, because now we know there is a solution. Fear will continue to strike us as we reexperience the human dimension while in the human mind set, but now we know that our "I" cannot be annihilated, and that experience with His mind joined with ours, God can always successfully replace our human mind experience with His mind.

9. How can we never let fear take hold of us?
I suspect that is quite impossible at least for me anyway. Fear will occur with me, but now there is a countering to it from handing it to God. The phenomenon of fear will only end, or be non-existent in the kingdom.

10. Is fear related to trust... trust in God perhaps or lack there of?
Good point. Let's just add one more point. A lack of trust in God stems from an ignorance of His oneness with us and of the love He has for us and the eternal life that is His gift to us from His own makeup.

11. Is fear the root of all hurts worries and anger?
Yes. Jesus points out in A Course in Miracles that there are two primary emotions, love and fear. Hurts, worries and anger are all secondary derivatives of fear.