{"id":48009,"date":"2022-10-03T11:36:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T11:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=48009"},"modified":"2022-10-03T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T11:57:04","slug":"the-fear-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/10\/03\/the-fear-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"The FEAR contract."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;No, no, NO, you can&#8217;t be without fear!&#8221; says the mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It will keep you safe!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I will keep you safe!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It makes sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That extra layer of awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like mental CCTV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you eagerly agree and comply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You enter into an invisible agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this is the deal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As long as you believe your thoughts, the mind promises to look out for you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You start listening, and watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You become vigilant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you begin to avoid things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mind keeps you on your toes, day in, day out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just to help you stay away from danger, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s for your own good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scanning, searching, predicting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worrying, hiding, focusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what happens?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feeling unsafe becomes your status quo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you&#8217;ve learned to fear the fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stop it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if the mind says &#8216;you can&#8217;t!&#8217;, well: fuck that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mind IS the fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stop it now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Break the fucking contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo by @franku84, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No, no, NO, you can&#8217;t be without fear!&#8221; says the mind. &#8220;It will keep you safe!&#8221; &#8220;I will keep you safe!&#8221; It makes sense. That extra layer of awareness. Like mental CCTV. So you eagerly agree and comply. You enter into an invisible agreement. And this is the deal: As long as you believe your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[99,102,97,117,100,116,113,107,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48009"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48015,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48009\/revisions\/48015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}