What is the difference between fear and fearfulness?
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what is the difference between fear and fearfulness yeah see fear as i said is when there is a stimulus when there is some danger and at that time we become alert we become cautious that is fear but fearfulness means even when the danger is not there still i am thinking about it and i’m feeling worried so like i am at the edge of a building from which if i not careful i’ll fall there’s danger so i do if it is good to be that time what the emotion that we have is fear but i have now come away from the edge i’m sitting comfortably safely in a room actually i’m thinking what if i fall down what if i fall down that is fearfulness so fearfulness means that actually that fear has fully occupied us so we that that means fear has become a habit so basically in the presence of stimuli in the presence of danger when we feel a little nervous we feel a little anxious that is fear but when there is no stimulus and then also we feel uh we feel worried that is fearfulness so either there is no stimulus or there is also no no possibility for doing something about it at that time that means there is a problem say okay uh somebody’s upset with me or you know something is wrong in my life then there are also times when we can do something about things sometimes there are times when we can’t do anything about something say if somebody’s upset with me i want to clarify with them now when i meet with them i can clarify but at other times i’m constantly thinking about it then that is basically occupying the mind consuming the mind dominating the mind so then that is fearfulness so either when the either when the problem is not there or there is no immediate facility or opportunity to deal with the problem and even at that time you just keep thinking about that particular problem and get worried that is fearfulness so i would put it another way is that if we are not living in the present because of worry because of fear then that is fearfulness so if somebody is attacking me i have to be cautious you know i have to protect myself at that time that problem is there and i have to do something solve it that is fear and there is a we will have proper response to fear but i’m just uh just thinking what if someone attacks me what if this happens what if that happens then basically if you live in the present then we can deal with uh we deal with fear and we can avoid being fearful the answer your question thank you question from mahesh