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Step forward again, hold the shield steady. Peer over the top. Fear is screaming somewhere deep. Ignore it. You can smell the shit now. Shit and blood, the stench of glory. The enemy is more frightened. Kill them. Keep the shields steady. Kill.
Using awareness, personal responsibility and inner work to review our unskillful or frightened reactions, we become more adept at turning habitual reactions to balanced responses. These moments are very exciting and gratifying.
Iko was beginning to comprehend why humans curled into the fetal position when they were afraid.
Call it anything else if you will - fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating
- but "shyness" is the historic word for it.
But facts are facts and flinch not.
Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.
I can feel my face growing warm, and I hope I'm not flushing in my terror. The feeling of helplessness and fear hits me hard, and once my mind validates the emotion, the physical fear of being maimed and eaten hits my skin as goose bumps in the heat.
Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.
The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.
The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past.
The eye is easily frightened.
An angry frontal attack puts even the most invulnerable person on the defensive.
There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head.
Listen carefully, and don't panic." With his eyes still on that wretched spot behind her, he slid his right hand slowly to the hilt of his saber.
"What am I not supposed to be panicking about?" she snapped. He was scaring her to death, the wretch, and probably for nothing!
Heartmating hesitating unafraid
When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.
You're afraid of your own anger.
Fear translates to hesitation, and hesitation kills.
Safety is the preeminent concern of all creatures and it clearly justifies a seemingly abrupt and rejecting response from time to time.
She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata.
There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.
Face. Palm. Moment.
How often do we allow often irrational fears to paralyze us in our movements.
People do incredibly stupid things when they are frightened
Ducking, weaving, bouncing away from the knockout blow which must inevitably come.
psychological reactance.
Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.
Instinct's aware of reflex when mind ain't yet.
People attack out of fear.
I felt an odd sense of protectiveness. It flaked off my skin, revealing a red-hot anger at the idea that someone would hurt him.
Fear comes at me like a massive bull with lowered horns ready to gore. But I have learned of the insubstantial nature of fear: if I stand my ground, it will pass right through me.
Hesitation will get you killed.
We are all hardwired to react instantly to a physical or verbal attack.
Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.
I don't fear stopping a 100 mph slap shot. I fear not stopping it!
He is shivering, probably going into deep shock.
I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers.
I react badly to fear. I don't usually have the good sense to run, or hide - I just try to smash whatever it is that is making me afraid. It's a primitive sort of thing, and one I don't question too much.
That's what our training is for, we practice not panicking, we practice breathing, we practice looking directly at the thing that scares us until we stop flinching, we practice overriding our Can't.
Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.
There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.
When people encounter a significant threat, a response called "threat rigidity" sets in. The instinct of threat rigidity is to cease being flexible and to become "command and control" oriented - to focus everything on countering the threat in order to survive.
Most people avoid me, easily leaving two feet between us, and here is this little warrior trudging into battle without armor.
Terrified I'll break her, I weave my arms around her and hug her back. My eyes shut when she settles furthering into me. I rest my cheek on her head and simply breathe.
Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
You skin is so soft. Smells like ... "
She had to tilt him to get this other arm free and hated knowing how badly she was hurting him as she did so. "Sheer, unadulterated fear?
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
Like a cobra, your strike should be felt before it is seen.
What the hell are you doing?"
I smiled, thinking how odd it was that he was the only person in the world I could say this to. "I'm scared."
He was staring at me. "No way. I've never known anyone with more guts than you."
"We're just not afraid of the same things.
Danger has a bracing effect.
There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.
Fear is more human than bravery, you're scared and you're sorry, at least for yourself, but you force your fear back into your subconscious.
When you're fearful, you stumble.
I scratch at my forehead, my nervous habit when someone is really seeing me. "Well, I couldn't just walk away. I'd never be able to forgive myself if I did.
When I'm scared, my natural state is to hide and run for cover.
A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing
you are stretching ... You are going outside your immediate grasp.
Be afraid in proportion to the threat.
It's funny how those we care about can create the same reaction that we get when we are facing down a monster ready to kill us.
It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.
A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.
Fear isn't in my vocabulary.
Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?
The Warrior is terrified when making important decisions.
Watch this. 'Buenos Dios, Miguel.'"
A small, dark-eyed man looked up from his wood splitting, alarmed.
"They spook easy," Hobbs said.
Yes, well, people tend to do that when you come up behind them shouting, "Good God." It's just a habit, I guess.
smouldering away in a fit of impotent rage
Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke.
This can be tricky.
Fear is afraid of you. Don't think so? Walk right up to it, then right past it and see if it doesn't run and hide.
The Gift of Fear.
I was just about to open the door, when it opened up right in front of me. And there stood my parents.
Is there a word for that moment when two parties are so equally shocked to see each other given the circumstances that all they can do is stare at each other, openmouthed?
Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.
Fear is stronger than arms.
I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared.
Sometimes you say things to your fear - things like It doesn't matter, the words acting like pats on the head of a hyper dog.
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
Fear sees, even when eyes are closed.
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
I just try to think of all the things that could go wrong so in that split second when it happens, maybe your body reacts in a way where it protects you just a little.
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.
Fear is the root cause of just about all physiological disorders. Know that when people hurt you or attack you, they are living in fear.
Startled, I flinched "What are you doing?"
"Keeping you from going postal."
"You're doing it wrong.
Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.
When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.
I suspect that fright, like pain, is one of those things that slip our minds once they have passed.
exasperating composure.
People instinctively let down their guard when they saw a limp, an illness, a flaw in someone else. Not out of compassion but because it made them feel superior. Stronger. Those people, Gamache knew, did not always last long. It was not a useful instinct.
The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.
Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.
Fear forces you to attend to matters with the utmost grace and concentration.
Men see what they are most afraid of.
Wait, what are you doing?" She could apparently hear the strain in my voice as I craned my neck from side to side. "I'm trying to see past a little girl on my hood."
"Oh. Isn't that dangerous?"
"Normally. But she has a knife."
"Oh, well, then, I guess it's okay.
I think about Old Nick carrying me into the truck, I'm dizzy like I'm going to
fall down.
"Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing."
"Huh?"
"Scaredybrave."
"Scave."
Word sandwiches always make her laugh but I wasn't being funny.
My eyes flew open, and I pushed back against rock-hard shoulders. I let out a little squeak of horror.
"It's me," said a familiar voice.
... "Eric, what are you doing here?"
"Snuggling.
Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29)
I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.
You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You have to make up your mind to overcome it.
Thoughts that should be unthought before interacting with the public. Thoughts like [low guttural growl] or [knuckles crack, fists clench, teeth tighten, eyes stop letting in any new information, and water runs down a rigid face].
If you're not scared a lot you're not doing very much.