All of these forms are some of the masks that pathological fear takes on and each one has a common thread that can have deep roots and mechanisms that make personal development impossible.
Not recognizing and overcoming our fears leaves us at the mercy of those who know these mechanisms and manipulate us to achieve their goals. Those who take advantage of this situation, deep down, show another form of fear, which, instead of fleeing, has turned it into active or passive aggression.
However, although we can identify with all or some of the previous fears, they are nothing more than a small dot in the middle of the horizon, a simple impossibility given by a trauma, a bad experience or because they have been imposed.
As more evolved beings, we also have the limbic or emotional brain, which has much more power than our reptilian brain, because it is capable of calming and helping this instinctive part to overcome pathological fears.
On the other hand, there is the neocortex where knowledge and intelligence reside, which when properly aspected helps us understand and overcome any experience.
At this point it is important to understand part of the functioning of the brain, the mind and the SELF.
We know that the brain has many parts that help us with intellectual and functional aspects, so that our body can perform different mechanical actions. However, one of the most interesting aspects is the production of neurotransmitters and hormones that our neurons produce.
To make an understandable analogy I am going to give an example with a computer, we can say that the brain is the hardware (the tangible) and the mind is the software (the non-tangible), such as information, thoughts, ideas, etc.
Although we identify all of these functions in our heads and they work synchronously, they are not the same.
Depending on how we encode information in our mind, our neural network will produce a type of neurotransmitters and neuropeptides that will make us feel one way or another. A comment, for example, can produce a pleasant, pleasant or annoying reaction, regardless of the intention with which it was said.
In this part we can say that our neural network does not have a concept of values or ethics, it simply responds to the codes that our mind has established as real in certain experiences.
Therefore, it is our mind that evaluates, determines, calculates any situation due to certain circumstances. However, having so many options, it is difficult for the mind to make a decision, and it can remain in a neurotic state of; Black or white, I do it or I don't, I go up or down, I take the step now or not...
The “I”, on the other hand, is our most instinctive, intuitive and emotional part, which ultimately makes the decisions, which is why it is said in sales that decisions are more emotional than rational.