Original Source: https://londonreal.tv/roundtable Dr. Rashid Buttar is the osteopathic physician and author best known for his views on Coronavirus and its management.

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pnqWGBYP7Q # How to Overcome Fear When Facing Real Danger This is the method I use to manage fear. It has helped me in life or death situations. I hope it helps you. ## Transcript > It's possible to overcome fear when facing real physical danger and there are some very compelling reasons to learn how. Having the right philosophical scaffolding can help but in the end it will always be up to you. > > Let's begin with a reality check. This planet is and has always been a dangerous place. That adrenaline you feel when standing on the edge of a cliff or when you realise you almost just stepped on a poisonous snake or when you finally come to terms with the fact that the government that you live under has become a militarised police state; that feeling is there for a reason. > > Fear is our physical body recoiling at the prospect of annihilation. Fear is a biochemical alarm system which helps keep organisms alive on this planet by triggering a fight, flight or freeze response. If the attacker can be defeated, fight; if you can outrun it, run; if you can't beat it or outrun it, freeze and play dead. This alarm system has persisted in the gene pool and will continue to persist because in many life or death situations it is highly effective. > > Fear, however, is a double-edged sword. Terror can send a heard of buffalo stampeding over a cliff and it can make a crowd of humans behave in much the same way. If you need evidence of this, just take a cursory glance at the pages of history, or better yet take a closer look at current events. > > Fear doesn't make you smarter. In fact, studies have shown that terror literally shuts down the rational and logical parts of our brains. > > Now it's obviously not a good idea to face dangerous situations or to make important decisions with the most useful part of our brains turned off; but consider the implications of having an entire human society operating at this level. The trouble is ruling classes have always understood that it's in their interests to keep the peasants in a perpetual state of fear and insecurity. Those who are able to dictate the nightmares of a nation usual end up dictating everything else. > > The ability to control our fear and reduce or eliminate its hold on the mind is what allows us to take an intelligent action in the face of danger. Having full use of ones brain also helps to distinguish between real and imaginary threats. This skill is often referred to as courage. > > Courage doesn't just happen randomly. A man doesn't just get up one day and perform a triple twisting flip off of a cliff out of the blue. Chances are his heart was pounding like crazy the first time he stood at the edge of a high dive when he was a kid. > > The primary difference between an expert cliff diver and someone who passes their whole life paralysed by their fear of heights - is that one of them made themselves jump and kept doing so until it became second nature. You might gather from this example that the way to defeat ones fear is to face it. If you're afraid of snakes and you handle them long enough, fear will subside. The same principle applies to most individual fears. The trouble is fear is like a multi-headed hydra; cut off one head, and another will grow up to take its place. Furthermore, it's often not practical or even possible for us to overcome each little phobia and worry through direct exposure. For example, it would be foolish to attempt to confront one's fear of a dangerous disease like Ebola by contracting it. > > To overcome fear in a longterm sustainable way, you have to go to the root. What is the root of fear? The root of all fear, even seemingly petty and insignificant fear, is death. Social anxiety, for example, can be traced to the primal need to do well and be integrated into ones family and tribe. Being rejected by one's pears was a death sentence in ancient times and still is today in many societies. This primitive legacy leaves most humans unable to resist the forces of social conformity and authority. > > Being unconscious of the root makes the irrational by-products impossible to process. This underlying fear of death is the body of the hydra. Facing it effectively is the key to freedom. We all live under the shadow of annihilation whether we consciously acknowledge it or not. You are going to die. I am going to die. In three hundred years every single one of us will be dust. No one leaves this place alive and there is no getting around that reality, although some convince themselves otherwise. > > Do you find that thought disturbing? Does it fill you with dread and despair? Whatever you do, don't look away. Hidden within that discomfort is the secret of life. You see, death is the ultimate council, it is the ultimate point of reference. Will this thing you're afraid of right now matter in three hundred years? In most cases you will find that the answer is no. > > Regardless of how dire your situation may seem, no matter how serious your personal problems may be, death will erase them all for you one day. Once you fully integrate this reality, you'll find that it's a relief. Just a short internal glance at ones tombstone can be used to release those surface level fears. Take a deep breath, let it go, and do what needs to be done. > > We're dust in the wind. There's absolutely no sense in poisoning the precious little time that we have with inner turmoil. You're going to die no matter what, so you might as well look your death in the eye and smile like a kid who has been caught with their hand in the cookie jar, and eat that cookie anyway. > > But what if the answer is yes? What if this issues that's keeping you up at night will matter in three hundred years? What should we do then? Well, what would you do about it if you weren't afraid? What would you do if you knew you only had one year left to live? Answer that question and you have found your mission in life. You have found something bigger than yourself, something worth dying for but more importantly something worth living for. Are you afraid of walking your path? Then take another look at your grave. > > Ironically, confronting your death can also help you avoid it. Those who have accepted the inevitable actually have a tactical advantage over those who are terrified of it. Courage is a wildcard which can turn the tables against impossible odds. A small group of highly motivated fearless individuals can accomplish  far more than an army of cowardly and obedient sheep. > > Remember, we can negotiate the timetable to some infinitesimally small degree but no matter what we do, our lifespans are short like sparks on the one fleeting trajectory of existence. > > You want to really live? You want to make that spark count? You want it to start a fire before it goes out? Then do not sleepwalk passively towards the gallows. Stand up, look your death in the eye and dance. Dance like you're never going to dance again; sing like you're never going to sing again. Stand up while your heart is still beating and hold your child in your arms like this moment is all that you have; because it is.