Why True Positivity Demands Facing Hidden Fears

Details: Monday, 06 July 2026; Written by Sonia Barrett; Views: 14023

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In this age of mindful-awareness and going inwards through common practices like yoga and meditation, it seems contradictory, but it is quite possible to sweep our fears under the rug while busying ourselves with these practices. While these ancient tools are truly a natural part of maintaining balance as humans, we’ve also found ways to avoid our fears and vulnerabilities. They can often be cloaked in justifiable avoidance.

There is often a chant for positivity which may lead some to feel guilty or inadequate in not living up to this positivity protocol especially among the “spiritual” or the “awareness” community. To observe what is occurring before us doesn’t automatically create “negativity” as is the dreaded avoidance.

Ancient contemplative practices such as Vipassana speak of the observation of sensations for a reason. They understood that our fears and perceptions are not simply stories in the mind but are often experienced as sensations throughout the body. Modern neuroscience now demonstrates that emotions are embodied experiences involving networks of the brain, nervous system, hormones, and physiology. To objectively observe a sensation, a feeling, or a fear without immediately reacting to it is very different from endlessly thinking about it. Rumination simply strengthens familiar pathways of perception, while observation creates the possibility for new pathways and new relationships with our experience. The observation of sensations expands conscious awareness by bringing into awareness aspects of our internal experience that are continuously present but normally filtered from attention.

This avoidance may include the observation of personal experiences along with your external observation on a global scale. To become overly cautious about being positive can actually drive one to the very thing that you are working diligently to avoid. For one thought to be held, the opposite must also be true or at least a possibility. Both options are possible.

We are constantly in this polarization swing; it's good, it's bad, it's black, it's white, it's positive, it's negative, it's dark, it's light etc. So, because of this there is discomfort in finding center or of being able to see things as they are with a level of acceptance. But the desire to judge into one extreme or the other often lands us in avoidance or in the safety of positivity.

But how does positivity serve us when used to cloak our fears instead of a state of positivity that is based on a true acceptance of what is being presented in the moment? What fears are showing up for you or for me in that moment requiring our attention? Fears want to be dealt with and that

is why it rises in our faces!

Your wish is my command! Fear asks the question, “Where do you want me to go, where do you want to place me? Do you wish to disguise me? Should I pop up again in 5 minutes or in 24 hours or in 20 years? What would you like to do?”

This is much like the upgrade or reboot messages we receive on our phones and computers. It will not simply go away until you select an option and often if you don’t select an option the system will automatically begin the process.

Many select the option to delay the observation of fear and instead run the positivity program or whatever avoidance option we may have.

It is important to understand that repeating positive statements while secretly feeling unsafe can sometimes become another strategy of avoidance. The body often keeps a record of our unresolved fears, beliefs, and emotional imprints. They do not necessarily disappear simply because we have chosen a more positive thought. Instead, they may become buried more deeply and later reveal themselves through recurring emotional patterns, relationship challenges, or even disturbances in mental and physical health. Positivity works best when it is not used to escape fear, but when it is paired with the willingness to acknowledge what is truly present.

Yet we have the option to stand in a state of Positivity, while standing in a state of Power. Free-standing positivity is about an inner trust that through it all you will be fine. There is a sense of certainty that no matter the road before you, “I trust that I will get across. I may not know exactly how it will happen, but I know that I will get across and that I will be okay even in the darkness of not knowing what is on the other side.” This is a very different level of positivity because it doesn’t require you to convince yourself or others. It doesn’t require a polarized view having to choose sides in judgment. But instead, one is certain that all is well no matter the outcome.

This is the science of the design and not simply a “spiritual” or “religious” concept (although still a science). This science we can all attest to because we have each seen it in effect at different times in our lives. Particularly when we have thrown our hands up because we have run out of options, then out of nowhere somehow you make it through. (We are, however, programmed to slide the experience into whatever religious programming we may may be running and that’s okay too. It however reduces our ownership of who we are as ‘the’ fabric of our existence).

This is truly a mind game! Fears present us with opportunities to see that they have no power but only the power we allot to them. Neuroscience also suggests that the brain becomes efficient at whatever it repeatedly practices. If fearful interpretations are continually rehearsed, even unconsciously, the brain becomes increasingly familiar with those pathways and begins to predict reality through that lens. This is one reason why repeatedly looping fearful perceptions is not the same as healing them. Observation without judgment interrupts the automatic cycle and creates the opportunity for perception itself to be reshaped.

Yet fear serves many essential purposes in the “survival” of the physical form. However, survival is contingent on stored programs and protocols for this life.

This game we call reality is a complete feedback loop interacting with our action-reaction response which feeds into the network or field around us.

So perhaps in this moment, examine what's before you, what is it that keeps raising its head whether it is global or personal. Know that no matter what the outcome let nothing threaten your mortality, your passions, and your imagination for a grander life experience.

Observe; get frustrated if you need to but remember that you are engaging in the human game and that there is purpose and opportunity in it all; in your transformation and in your re-membering your master self! Sometimes the greatest act of positivity is not pretending that fear does not exist, but having the courage to sit with it, to feel the sensations associated with it, and to witness it without immediately running from it. In doing so, we often discover that ‘the’ fear was asking to be acknowledged rather than hidden. From this place, a more authentic positivity can emerge, one that is not built upon avoidance, but upon acceptance, trust, and a deeper relationship with ourselves.

"Sometimes the greatest act of positivity is not pretending that fear does not exist, but having the courage to sit with it."

The future may not belong to AI alone. It may belong to those willing to remember what it truly means to be human while simultaneously evolving beyond what they once believed possible. If artificial intelligence teaches us anything, perhaps it is not simply what machines can become, but what humans have forgotten about themselves.

References

Weder, A. (2020). What is Intelligence? Max Planck Institute.
Karl Friston – Predictive Processing and Active Inference.
António Damásio – Emotion, consciousness, and decision-making.
Michael Merzenich – Neuroplasticity and brain adaptability.
Daniel Kahneman – Cognitive bias and decision-making.
Andy Clark and David Chalmers – The Extended Mind and cognitive offloading.
Geoffrey Hinton – Foundations of neural network architecture.
World Economic Forum reports on AI, workforce adaptation, and future skills.

Author

Sonia Barrett Sonia Barrett is known for her cutting edge insights with much of it supported by quantum physics. Theoretical Physicist Dr. Amit Goswami refers to her as a true mystic. Her work bridges the gap between science and spirituality in a simplified format. She addresses the programming, beliefs and concepts by which we have lived our lives both individually and collectively.

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