http://www.counsellingconnection.com/index.php/2009/11/13/why-we-fear-special-friday-13th-post/ Training and content in counselling and life effectiveness Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:28:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.counsellingconnection.com/index.php/2009/11/13/why-we-fear-special-friday-13th-post/#comment-34255 John Newton Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:25:06 +0000 http://www.counsellingconnection.com/index.php/2009/11/13/why-we-fear-special-friday-13th-post/#comment-34255 My feeling is that this post does not distinguish clearly enough between, on the one hand, physical fear such as fear of physical danger of some kind, and on the other hand psychological fear which is solely a product of thought. At the psychological level thought's basic division is between that which it desires (money, power, status etc.) - those things that provide transient psychological pleasure in the form of psychological security - and the things which thought fears (those things that provide psychological pain in the form of psychological insecurity (not gaining money, power etc. or losing them if we have them and the whole game of thought defending the limited "me" it constructs). My feeling is that this post does not distinguish clearly enough between, on the one hand, physical fear such as fear of physical danger of some kind, and on the other hand psychological fear which is solely a product of thought. At the psychological level thought’s basic division is between that which it desires (money, power, status etc.) – those things that provide transient psychological pleasure in the form of psychological security – and the things which thought fears (those things that provide psychological pain in the form of psychological insecurity (not gaining money, power etc. or losing them if we have them and the whole game of thought defending the limited “me” it constructs).

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