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Originally Posted by Ammi
..I think that's it though, logic can be applied in different ways to combat fears and it's like most things in life..not a 'one size fits all thing'...for me, when I had my brain tumour..that for me was something that I didn't fear at all because that was out of my control, it was in the hands of all of the medical people ..but my fears came afterwards, through just basically 'not being a part of the outside world' for so long, almost 2 years and pretty much just fearing that stepping outside what had become a place of safety/a cocoon...just seeing people, going back to work etc all became 'monsters' to me...what gave me myself back was CBT and hypnotherapy...that's how I broke all of my fears down, which of course weren't real but just bridges that I hadn't crossed and was fearful of crossing....anyways, it's never going to be the same for everyone for the very reason that we're all entirely different..so I guess what it really is, is applying the logic that personally works for us...
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It's interesting you mentioning hypnotherapy as for that to work you're allowing yourself in essence to be rebooted by a force greater than your own conscious self, and you have to 100% be open and receptive to it therefore proving that the paradox in the OP is at work.