The principle of life is: When the world influences you, it creates a positive or negative scar. This scar is the after effect of a joyful experience or something unpleasant. The latter is something that is often turned into a fear of the subject of activity. Fear, however unnoticeable, is always present in one’s decision making process and will be forever considered the most influential factor in the outcome of your resolution. Even a positive ramification can leave fear in your subconscious. To justify this we must look at the definition of fear and, furthermore, how and when it will affect you and those around you.

The definition of fear as a psychological tendency occurring in the subconscious is: An emotion under the constant pressure of a possible perceived negative outcome. In our heads we are always considering the outcome of future situations, but because of this, fear is always under consideration in all events, past present, and future. Under these situations we cannot remove fear from our life-cycle, however, we can determine when and how much impact fear has on our lives.

If we understand that fear is always affecting our lives then the next step is to ascertain when fear is most noticeably affecting the outcome. The obvious answers to these questions are the most important aspects to consider as these are also the most consciously affecting yourself. Considering that, ask the question, “What am I afraid of?” Consider childhood fears, as often these are never forgotten - fears of others around you, common fears, and possibilities that motivate you to change course or direction. Some simple examples that most everyone on earth has are: Death (possibly the most common of all), lack of job, dependency, singularity, disapproval, social interaction, heights, certain animals, and many more. Then consider how these fears have affected the outcome of some situations. Maybe you didn’t talk to a notable person because of fear of disapproval; you became too infused with work because of fear of losing the job; didn’t go on top of the Eiffel Tower because of a fear of heights. These are the most noticeable times when fears change your outcome. Many times this is happening in your conscious decisions. Depending on how these fears have influenced you, you may have had a worse or better experience than others, but everyone is constantly affected by fear.

Furthermore, we have to understand where fear comes from. We acquire fear from the past, in previous post I talked about external awareness and how the external world has affected you. Fear is simply the negative product of an event in your past. Depending on the events in which you partook, your fears might be different than others, If the mind works in a binary orderly system, then all events are processed with a positive or negative ranking. If all positive influences make similar future events more desirable then the opposite could be said with fear. All events similar to a negatively ranked previous event are then considered displeasurable until overwritten. From the point of being classified as either negative or positive, the mind is then reevaluating the event for further information determining the severity of the event. Obviously, the more severe events are considered to be the most influential events to be considered in future decision making. The other thought to consider is the number of times the event was recreated and also the transparency of the event. For instance, as a child you were scolded for not fulfilling chores and orders, then you might attribute failure as a negative perception, which is very common in all people. When this event is repeated a number of times, as often it is, you assume in life being a failure or incompetent is dissenting. As for the transparency, fear of failure is a very universal thing. You can fail in school, in a career, in socialization, in an activity, and almost any event you can succeed in. Because of this you will attribute the fear of failure to a multitude of actions which will lead to a limited possible outcome in the future. Thus your use of fear can be determined by an events quota and its transparency.

When you make a decision on you are analyzing the possibilities of an outcome. You look at the amount of pleasure you will achieve from completing the activity successfully, the difficulty of the task, amount of time it will take to complete, and lastly the analysis of fear attributed to the event. Depending on the situation fear can be the static fear from the past, this is the most influential fear, but also the variable action of the present. This meaning all other possibilities that could be in conjunction with the current consideration. You may need to go to a board meeting but by doing so you will miss you son’s track meet, which would be considered a failure by both your son and wife. However, if you go to the track meet you would miss the board meeting which could result in the loss of your job. These observations are constantly going on in your mind while you predict the future outcome. How you respond to each event is by calculating the risk you may take to complete an event, minus the benefit you will receive. In the case of multiple events you would take the same calculation and compare it the other event.

If we cannot eliminate fear, then how do we control the unwanted effects. In some cases like the track meet, you will be presented a problem where you have no choice but to decide what task has the least amount of negative side effect. It is human nature to cause the least amount of disorder to the system (reference), thus we must continue to balance some aspects of our life through fear. However, in singular events and ones were the choice is to be or not to be, you have a control on how you handle your fear. If we consider fear to be based of a conception of an event then by placing a value of zero on the conception we eliminate fear. However, the conscious does not work in numbers; thus, we must control our fear through the understanding of how, why, and when we fear affect us. Through this post we have learned the premise of how and why; when we discussed, but the exact time is a product of an individual. You must become self aware enough to understand when you use fear based on the understanding of your past influences. Practice recognizing situations that you fear and analyzing them until you can comprehend the root of the negative experience. Notice when you are in the present and fear is limiting your actions, attack the situation with an ability to put the fear in context to what you really want. Finally to rewrite fear you have to repeat the task until a positive effect is created and you overwrite any negative repercussions. The key in these drills, like so many things in life, is the be self aware of the times you are using fear to manipulate an outcome. By being self aware you know when and how you are using fear which then gives you the ability to analyze the situation. Other tips I recommend for trying to discover when fear is affecting you: Ask yourself, “How is fear limiting me?” Look in areas such as your daily routine, your perception of the future, and the unnatural - meaning all things different from your daily routine.

As before, fear is the most noticeable influential factor in your decision making.(Here again, you are making a somewhat unsupported assumption as to fear being the MOST influential factor.) It will affect the outcome of small and large events. While your subconscious is evaluating possibilities and outcomes fear can lead to the over analysis in a positive way, but also in a very negative, limiting way. You life is shortened in prosperity by the constant pressure of fear and as more actions become attributed to fear you decrease on the possibilities of happiness. I cannot over emphasize the importance of understanding the principles of fear and how it will affect you, but only inform through guides ways to recognize fear. Luckily, fear is a universally recognized emotion and everyone is aware of some situations where fear is affecting them. However, there is an infinite amount of decisions based on your personal fear and also a substantial amount of disregard to the understanding of fear and how much influence it plays in the outcome of your life. We will never be able to rid the world of fear, but, in a totally self aware society, our minds would be bound by no undesirable, manipulative, and limiting process called fear.

By this point in your life, you know you are influenced by all things around you. In every instant your subconscious is in-taking all information from your surroundings and other possible inputs. You mind analyzes all this information, concludes what is valuable, then proceeds to label and sort into appropriate locations. Before I continue, I want to point out that we do not know how much information the brain can handle, however for the point of this post I will assume the brain can have a near infinite capacity as long as all is not focused, or what this means is if your brain has no limit to stop gathering information; then how come everything is not present in our conscious. To answer this we have concluded the conscious is finite, and we are unable to focus on all matters at once.

We already talked about in the first post how and when the conscious analyzes and uses the information accumulated from your past, however we did not talk about when this information is commonly acquired.

As I am sure you have noticed in your life, many of your traits come from childhood experiences. This is the time you learned language, how the world reacts under your guidance, cause and effect, and other such things. We will get back to this later, but what if we look back even further. Before you could talk, before you could walk, even before you were born. Something that all people have experienced is life in the womb. Some scientist say this is the most important time to create positive model on life. Why? Because, this is the time when you have no previous records of influence. You conscious is young, every new thing is given the utmost attention to detail. There is nothing the mind misses and everything is saved in your internal memory. However, this time in life is somewhat universal, the difference in people in respect to this era is not very different. The senses you have available while in the womb also limit your ability to conscious notice influences obtained while a fetus.

While in this fetus stage you are a virgin to knowledge. Thus considering what resources you have available you will accumulate everything. It is a difficult task determining what knowledge is acquired during this stage, and if you are more interesting I would look further into this, however for this purpose I will discuss what I know and deem important.

The most important thing you will learn as a fetus is the basic need for food and water. Because the fetus is being nourished by its mother, it is learning the importance food. The baby would become aware of the struggles and difficulties the mother is undertaking to provide these basic necessities. In life we do not go through a struggle for no result, the baby would become aware of this and thus learn how important food and water must be. Second, the baby becomes aware of itself. I cannot place a time or trigger for this event, but at some point in the fetal state the baby would become aware of its own existence. Whether or not it is aware of its body is debatable, but becoming aware of a conscious location in the universe is an enormous accomplishment you can only imagine the effect this would have on the mind. Thirdly the baby would become aware of the outside world. Like the previous entry, I am not aware of a trigger or event that would cause this to happen, but at some point the baby must become conscious that it is not alone. Obviously this would come after the baby is aware of itself, but before birth. Like realizing your not alone in a disorder, habit, or some other trait the baby would become engulfed the understanding what is out there. The action would be similar to standing at the door way of all information, but the door is closed. The mind would be so amazed in the existence of an outside realm that I imaging this might be close to the birth period.

Furthermore, the second step in a developing conscious is the first moments after birth. We can be certain that the mind is aware of these outside activities, and I motivated by the understanding of this outside world, that these moment would be especially powerful in your mental development. Your first breath of the outside air, the incoming sounds of doctors and nurses talking in some strange but somewhat familiar language, the smells, the feeling of being held. Input from all around you is swarming your sensory system. Of course, the brain as mighty and powerful as it is, is becoming aware all this happening around you. This information is then classified, evaluated, then used in later events. So what would be the most influential happenings right after birth? As was just stated the first breath, the understanding that outside air is safe. Consider this, you subconscious determines it is usually safe to breath because of a positive first response. However, easily the most important event you will undertake after birth is both the discovery of outside humans, also the discovery of parents. The connection between the baby and mother especial is truly a symbolic discovery in the history of life, the moment you realize this figure is what has allowed my survival for the past nine months.

Before I continue on in the stage of life, I want to point out the exception to some of these influences. We have discovered the amount of influence life has in this relatively short period from conception to birth,. These stages are often not diverse among individuals and can be minimally aware to the conscious. Also the you will receive an enormous amount of both positive and negative reinforcement to these perceptions. Thus depending on your birth scenario, you may be considered positively affect or negatively affected. However, under either scenario you will receive enough positive feed back to either reinforcement these influences, or create a positive perception.

As you continue in life you will face an infinite amount of new experiences that welcome your subconscious with new information. Thus is the beauty of the mind, it has the ability to rationalize all information. The possible variances of information I could list are infinite, so I won’t continue throughout out the life span. However there are key events everyone must watch out for, and become aware of to achieve external awareness. Most all people will at some point witness a situation like the following ones, but allow variance as everyones story is different.

A trip or excursion. In life you will most likely leave home. This may be for a short time, or a total migration. Either way a new habitat is always something that creates a new experiences for the mind. This is especially true when you traverse into a different climate and culture. You are getting a new perspective of how a new world functions that may be vastly different from your own. These new perspective can create a new way of looking at even the simple actions in your present habitat.

Meeting new people. This one is huge in your early years. Early socialization is one of the foundations to how you market yourself in the future. Depending on how often and how positive these exchanges will determine your future. By learning about someone one you learn about similarities they have to your own life, and from the actions they partake during a gathering you determine how you rank them on a social chain. You will create opinions that will motivate you to act with or against people or organizations all based upon a simple gathering or meeting.

Death. Death is something we all face, it is happening around us everyday and has become a way of life. How you adapt and change to death can also provide information deterring how you handled past uncertainties. Death is a powerful event that will affect your future, thus it provides an excellent resource to evaluate yourself.

On that note, birth. An equal to death is the appearance of a new being, a action that is perceived as a new light in the world. From birth you bring about a new creature that will shape your next similar decisions. They add a factor the socialization aspect of life, and also the struggles and benefits you receive can influence you change many views on the world.

All things that provoke fear. Fear is a topic I will devote a large piece to. It is undeniably the most determining factor in life. Every influence you have also has a fear. Do not interpret fear os negative, but as the desire to not do again. Fear represents every action you have had that you do not want to repeat. You can gain fear through direct actions, like an injury, or through socialization. Fear will cause you to react in all situations, and most of the time you have false fear, but nonetheless it influences you to act and react.

Among these topics are millions of other possible influences and the traits that can be acquired. Through time you will either enforce these traits or will erase and replace. For every possible action you are basing the results off your past, under new circumstances you are escaping the situation to the closest relative event. Many time you approach a new event blind, and in the past you determined blind faith was negative and thus are afraid of new situations. Many people loose out on opportunities because of the fear of something new, something unexplored. We must become aware when or how we are being approached by fear and uncertainty, or else we will not develop a more positive external influence.

Self awareness is key to a successful life, but what else is key? Something I want to consider today is parallel to self awareness - external awareness.

So what is external awareness? Somewhat defined by the name, having external awareness is being conscious of all things happening exterior to your mind. If we view the mind as a separate part of the universe, then everything that is not a part of the mind is the external universe, including your brain, body, and for the sake of this post all other beings.

A quick recap on a way to achieve self awareness is necessary. Self awareness is the understanding of how all forces have affected your conscious. As we know, our brains and conscious are analyzing all sensory inputs. This information is then categorized and placed deep in our memory. It is debatable whether invaluable information is stored for any length of time, but obviously important items are kept and invoke a level of influence. So how does this data come back and more importantly how does it influence us in the future?

When your mind neatly organizes all information, it places hypothetical “tags” on each bit of information making it easy to find what is relevant in the future. Thus, past external influence is only accessible when a future situation is deemed relevant. Some actions are almost always deemed relevant, such as an emotion towards a common object or activity.

So to redefine, external awareness is every action or event taking place outside your conscious.

Going deeper in the subject I want to look at how information is categorized in your mind’s filing system. However complicated this may seem, I believe that it is really quite simple. First, all input is evaluated upon four simple possibilities, the necessities to survive: food, water, shelter, and I suggest: happiness. If information is deemed to be related to any of these four requirements, then it is stored as more valuable and less likely to be disregarded. Also, this the most influential and lasting information in these requirements is commonly acquired within the first days of life and is thus increasingly hard to overwrite. If the information is considered not related to these four possibilities, then it is re-evaluated to determined if necessary to keep, most likely not.

How is this information used? This is something you will be able to determine more easily when you achieve more external awareness, but some helpful tips are always appreciated. For one, I have already stated that you only use this information when it is considered relevant to your current situation. Besides obvious daily tasks, you may draw upon your past to determine answers to questions. These questions could be theoretical or physical, such as: How should I approach this stranger? In the past I have been hurt by strangers, could this one do the same? Questions like this are occurring in your mind in orders of magnitude every millisecond. These questions are answered based on your only data: your past and the current situation determined from your past. Your past influence may determine a smokey room is unsafe, thus you won’t approach a stranger in a smokey room, or other simple yet important questionable situations. The only information you have to analyze a current situation is how similar events have played out in the past or by what you have learned through observation, whether it be positive or negative.

How do we achieve external awareness? By now you are getting an idea of the emphasis I am putting on this subject, thus the importance of increasing the ability to notice external activities. To put this answer clearly and as simply as possible: notice everything. Notice simple things; notice complex objects; notice cause and effect; notice everything. Of course, there are many levels of complexity behind every action, and the conscious was not meant to function with this much streaming information. Thus we must create common observances and tricks to become more aware without the stress on our conscious.

First, notice what are the key influential actions that happen. These often happen most dramatically in the past, but recur everyday. They are as stated before: Survival - comprised of food, water, and shelter; Reproduction - all species must reproduce to evolve and adapt; Happiness, I suggest happiness to be included because so much of our life is determined by how to achieve our perception of happiness. If happiness is only the completion of a task deemed important, then it correlates with the two other necessities, thus making it a plausible third.

For the most part of a human’s life, we are trying to survive. So we are trying to achieve knowledge about food, water, and shelter, so observing how these most important items have affected you is key to understanding the external world.

Food: Do you eat luxuriously? Do you starve? Or, are you average? What was your past diet? What do you enjoy? How much is required to fill you? How have those affected you?

Water: A little easier for most readers. Ask, “Do I have an abundance of water, or enough to supply myself comfortably? How is the water quality? When foreigners come can they drink the water?

Shelter: How large is my house? Is it a shack, a mansion, or simply average? Do we have high quality furnishing? Do I enjoy nice furnishings? What was my past home like? How has housing affected you?

Also, when asking these questions, ask a similar question about when they affect you. If you live in a lower quality house, do you become jealous of nice homes?

If you can answer each of those questions with an in depth, well considered answer, you are in a state of external awareness. When you answer these questions don’t just say yes or no, but ask how have I reacted to these conditions?

Finally, I want to emphasize the importance of becoming aware of how you have been affected by the external world. If only to achieve self awareness, then being aware of how and why things affect you is key, but also in the context of life and the future. When shaping your career path do not get hung up by false interpretations of past events. You are in control of how you react to an action, and the past is only a small fragment of your life, by controlling what rolls into the future, you control how your respond to the future.

Without going into detail about subconscious happiness, I want to ask what makes you consciously happy? By Consciously happy I mean, the actions and events that bring you happiness you are aware of. These events may be a warm bath, seeing your kids play, a trip to the park, a movie, or whatever. People tend to forget why and what they enjoy and thus become very fundamental in their actions. It is important to realize how you achieve happiness so you can then seek the pursuit of happiness and nirvana.

After a trial run of The Daily Question, I found it was incredible hard to find new ideas to write about for everyday of the week. So now I have limited it down to three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Still feel free to send me an email with some ideas.

What if our universe was an infinite doorway? Or put in other words, you always could leave your current position and open the door to a new setting, a place where the current laws of physics could be different from our own. The landscape could be radically different, or it could posses the same features. On Earth we have great examples of this concept, the simple change in landscape over distance, or climate change in certain locations. An island is one gateway to the tropics, it has its own rules of weather patterns, sustainable life, and landscape. However, you open the doorway into the American midwest and you find a radically location with different rules Our great example of a dramatic change is the gateway to space, where not only is landscape and climate different, but the laws o differnt f relativity and gravity are drastically different from our earth bond inhabitants. So what if there was another greater gateway? A gateway that could be a different dimension, a different universe, or something we are not aware of yet.

If you are a parent you surly know the difficulties of raising a child. One of the most challenging task you will have is how much responsibility do you give a child. Some argue if you give them to much responsibility they won’t develop certain skills, they will be workaholics. Other say have them take care of themselves that way they will hit the ground running once they are on their own. It is no question if you have your child take care of themselves from an early age they will developed those skills faster and better later on. but how fast ca you develop these skills? Or, in other words, how fast can a mind mature. Of course somethings will depend on when puberty strikes, but if you have a child taking care of themselves from an early age how adult like will they be only a few years later. If a mind is taught how to function and survive before it is necessary will it be that much better in the real world?

For the nondemocratic nations reading this question will be especially interesting, but this is mostly geared for United States citizens. In America, our government is disorganized, overwhelmed in laws and rights, and is flawed in so many other ways. Some of these are attributes of a large, powerful society, but others are simply misinterpreted rules and regulations from the old democracy.It is no question the founding fathers did not intend our system of government to work quite this way, but modern ideas have spread quickly through rules made for the eighteenth century. Some of this modernism has left a positive effect, others good intentions, but conflict with antique democracy. When the Greeks formed the first formal democratic society it was very different from even the democracy of Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, and others. So without going in to detail, I ask should we rewrite democracy to fit modern theories? Also do we need to start ground up, or is a refresh all that is necessary?

This is a question I am sure you have already asked yourself many times before, but lets ask yourself again. So looking back on your life, how did you get to the very situation you are in now. Start easy, how did you get to the chair you are sitting in while reading this, or maybe your standing in that case I recommend sitting. How did you get home last night, what events led up to it. Why are you living in your current home, working at your current job, or maybe married to current spouse. Every time you ask yourself a question like this you are become more self aware of your past and thus you can help determine your future and how you would like your present self to act.

When I was a child learning algebra I was always curious about a mathematical inconsistent called an imaginary number. Defined by a lower case ‘I’ the imginary number is just that, imaginary. This occurs when you a given or come to the conclusion of a negative square root. However, being the young discoverer I am, I set out to find the value of an imaginary number. Obviously I failed at this task, for I now see the symbol for what it really is, but I have come up with a question regarding this most interesting mathematical definition. Can we define imagination? First off, what is imaginary? I consider something to be imaginary if it is not real, it is mythical made up, or has no current known truth. That being said, can we define something imaginary to the populous? Depending on your religious views you might consider the greatest example of this being a form of greater being in religion. Or perhaps being Christmas was just celebrated, Santa Claus, is he not imaginary? If we live with fables all around us, then is it not proven we can in fact define the most inner thoughts of our conscious and intellect, but the real question is: Can we define them with precision? When you spread an idea is is slightly differed by each observing conscious and thus each branch is different form the root. So is it possible to create an reality where every possible conception is defined by the populous.

Commercials, they’re all the rave these days. Who can sell the most advertising on their blog, on TV, in movies, and now video games. This onslaught of advertising is nothing new, nor is it something that will change, but how much do we notice it? When you go to a website do you notice every add and consider, Should I click here and look at this? or do you simply ignore them. I for one have a nice firefox extension, Ad Block Plus, to take care of these, but even this does not stop all advertisements. On television we can’t fast forward through ads, and i believe TIVo has started placing ads in previously recored events. So obviously this form of marketing is working, people are clicking through, calling, and even referring products to friends. So when thinking about ads, does it affect how we relate and use the world around us? Are we always conscious of these ads, or is more an action in the subconscious taking interest? When we see a commercial for a new Nissan do we think I should go and buy that car? As ads become more frequent we will learn to avoid them, but are we already there? I cannot remember the last time I followed up on a TV ad, they are not personally enough. Internet ads are closer to home, but even these are become so frequent we have learned to avoid them. So the question remains, do these commercials consciously affect us?