The Fear Paradox

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The Consequences of the Comfort ZoneOver the last five hundred years, life for the average human being has changed dramatically — plagues no longer wipe out entire families, and no longer do we empty our chamber pots into the street. Nope, not today. But, western progress has shown that no matter how many dangers we neutralize, new ones emerge. Why? Because our level of fear remains constant.Safety not guaranteed. For years, Dr. Frank Faranda studied a state of fearfulness in his patients—an evolutionary state that relentlessly drove them toward avoidance, alienation, hypercriticism, hyper-control, and eventually, depression and anxiety. He began to wonder how embedded these fears might be in contemporary society. This book aims to break us free from what he found.A culture of fear. Society is reaching increasingly extreme levels of comfort and safety, all while living in fear. As a result, fear is...