🔼: [[💡 Anxiety|Anxiety]] # Death Anxiety The fear of death is the fear of not living out our lives as we were meant to, because as children we weren't allowed to. Our fear of life has been transferred to our fear of death. It's also the first stage of rebirth. Remember, babies are born crying. Birth is in itself traumatic. When we start getting a handle on our lives, when we become more connected and attuned to our true self, when we discover our real meaning and purpose for being here and take steps to live it out, our fear of death will diminish to insignificance, it could even disappear. In a sense, we are immortal. In another sense, we live only once — but if we do it right, once is enough. The more afraid we are of death, the less we'll be able to enjoy life. "Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage." "This may not be much, but something that helped me was this dragonfly documentary. It shows how nymphs somehow know internally when its time to come out of their life from living in the water and to go make a cocoon. Inside the cocoon, the nymph turns to goo. It completely disintegrates, the body of the nymph creature that it was dies in a way, and then the goo forms into a dragonfly. A whole new creature...but with the same memories and same life. Somehow this creature destroys one body and transfers "itself", its awareness, to a whole new body. And its a natural process running on a biological clock, in internal mechanism that flows it through the process of life. https://youtu.be/knlXTU1R_rE" ## Related I think part of our fear of death comes from misconceptions about what it is. Death isn't an ending, nothing ever ends, it only changes. To die isn't to stop existing, it's to become something else. [[💡 Sleep Apnea]] [^1]: