Karen Thompson about what can we learn from fear

Writer Karen Thompson Walker believes that with the right attitude of our fears - this is a wonderful gift of imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, when we listened to them, we can still influence events, to change or avoid the consequences of which we so afraid.

We write the fears as well as stories or poems. Fear, too, have common components. There have heroes - is ourselves. I fear there are scenarios. The beginning, the climax and the end. At present fears intrigue. And like every good story, fear fills our consciousness, displacing everything else. The result - the fear causes us to think seriously about the future. We scroll in his head a huge number of scenarios and possible endings. The result also depends on which option we choose.

But our fears do not arise out of nowhere. Very often, there is anxiety because we subconsciously collect, store and analyze information and smallest events that happen around us. And writer Karen Thompson Walker believes that with the right attitude of our fears - this is a wonderful gift of imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, when we listened to them, we can still influence events, to change or avoid the consequences of which we are so fear.

The mantra that all this is really only in our imagination, it is possible, and helps to calm the time of our fear, but real actions that we can begin immediately to take, can help much better and avoid the very real consequences. If you are afraid of problems with blood vessels and heart, then what are you comforted, I am sure that the one to blame your imagination, your blood vessels become healthier. But if you decide to take action and begin, finally, to eat right and keep active, you will simply have nothing to fear.