※SpinalGap24 ※

I found this article extremely interesting and thoughtful, changing the shape of my own day with it's depth.
Therefore, I post it herewith for you all...

Fear is our programmed response to danger, heightening our senses, supplying a surge of internal energy that we may require to save our lives. But our danger detectors never did work perfectly, and they were programmed in our evolutionary past, when sources of danger and means of escape were both different from what we face today. The result is that fear is very far from a reliable indication of danger, and yet it remains a powerful force within us. ‘Panic’ is the word we use to describe irrational fear, and it can deprive us of our critical functions at a time when we need them most. It may not matter so much that we are gripped with fear as we watch a horror movie, but the fear that engulfs us as we stand before an audience can distort our performance, alter the message we seek to communicate.

Deconditioning our fear responses is a lifetime endeavor. One by one, we replace them with sound judgment about what is a threat to be avoided, and what is an adventure to be embraced.

It has been said that transcending fear, we arrive at love.

~ Josh Mitteldorf

Though my energy is low, indeed lower than ever, I am replying to all your beautiful comments on my post, wordwards, as I owe you all so much.

No fear, the word is love,
lauren6

“It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same.”
~ Saint Teresa of Avila, born in this month (28th), in 1515.

The impossible may spark a revolution of possibilities
spoken of unknown pleasures and untold mystery
wistful fancies spiralling beyond the mind's dreamy eye
from dusky flights ensuing hours offer dawning rewards
destinations of the soul, travels of the mind
a heartwarming discovery awakening the senses.

From the worst, I witnessed the best...yes, watching Arsenal from my sick bed, last night was a great joy, even from a Liverpool supporter!
Apart from the opening minutes, Arsenal were exhilerating, and captured their dizzy heights of two/three years ago...maybe even exceeded them.
Juventus were made to look a complete shambles, and remember last season, Liverpool did the same to Juventus at Anfield, at the same stage, but for fewer minutes, and sadly allowed Juventus a solitary consolation goal to bring with them back to the San Siro, which was not enough, and Liverpool, with that blistering 45 minutes of total football, went onwards and into history.
So Arsenal, surely...you have the best chance you've ever had to make it through to the semi-finals.
As a lifelong LFC fan, I wish you the very best.

My wishes are also for Benfica to somehow overcome Barcelona in the Nou Camp.
Força Benfica allez allez