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usetawuz

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Re: Help for someone suffering from thanataphobia
Reply #15 - Mar 12^th, 2010 at 6:03pm

SoldierOn wrote on Mar 12^th, 2010 at 4:21pm:

usetawuz wrote on Mar 11^th, 2010 at 11:31pm:

SoldierOn wrote on Mar 11^th, 2010 at 4:17pm:

Is it really just the next step?

From my standpoint, besides all the "next steps" you'll experience throughout this lifetime, yes...death is solely the end of the physical aspect of this ego's portion of your soul which lives on as a consciousness within that entity. It is indeed the first of another countless steps your soul will take through its journey.

Chances are you've asked this question hundreds if not thousands of times before as a human being in different lives. And if that percentage is even 1% accurate, you've obviously "survived death" many times...

And, once again, why fear something you cannot control?

But that is almost the fear itself. I want to be in control! I don't like the idea that one minute I could be here, the next minute I could be on the 'other side'.

Here is another question. Is the afterlife a genuine belief, or is it something that helps ease the thought of having to die? Some Atheists will tell you that something like Heaven was invented by people who were terrified at the thought of death. What are people's thoughts about this?

If control is the issue, that becomes an ego issue, which is not a pejorative...it is the basis of your personality in this lifetime. I learned a while ago after some extremely difficult undertakings that control is overrated...and if it is beyond your ability to control, then to let it go.

For me the afterlife is my belief bolstered with some intense experiences...and I don't fear death, so mine has no motivation other than what I have previously explained...

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Re: Help for someone suffering from thanataphobia
Reply #16 - Mar 12^th, 2010 at 9:35pm

I agree with usetawuz. Some problems are symptoms caused by something deeper. But some symptoms are the problem.

Logically, it just makes no sense to be concerned about something which you can't control. And in fact, I'm of the opinion, you can't control anything. This insight is scary, once you have it, but there is an antidot: There is no need to control anything. The proof is, since you never were able to control anything, and everything happened anyway, control obviously is overfluid. Leave it to God or whomever.

There are techniques to achieve that. In Zen we have it. I guess normal behavior therapy as well provides some methods to avoid overfluid concerns, to come to a more acceptive, "take it as it comes" approach.

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