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A radical approach to overcoming fear | Peter Attia & Arthur Brooks — Whalespan

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A radical approach to overcoming fear | Peter Attia & Arthur Brooks

Peter Attia13m · 2023-10-18

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✓Well SupportedExposure therapy, such as meditating on images of decaying corpses while repeating 'that is me,' can help individuals become desensitized to mortality.◐Partially SupportedThe purpose of Maranas Sati meditation is exposure therapy, confronting the inevitable truth of death to reduce its terror by making it familiar.◐Partially SupportedGradual exposure over approximately three days can resolve a child's fear of dogs.◐Partially SupportedResolving lifelong phobias or stresses about mortality may require a more strenuous and frequent intervention than resolving childhood fears.Partially Supported

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Exposure therapy for phobias requires frequency and thoroughness that varies by individual.

◐Partially SupportedHatred is a downstream consequence of fear, not its opposite.

◐Partially SupportedA 'good death' can involve being 93, mentally sharp, and dying at home.

◐Partially SupportedThe fear-confrontation technique must be practiced repeatedly because fears are deeply rooted.

◐Partially SupportedStrong, cultivated love relationships are a common characteristic of very happy elderly individuals.

◐Partially SupportedRepeated exposure to fears is necessary because they are deeply rooted in experience.

◐Partially SupportedA 'death fear' related to the extinction of self-understanding is common, even among those not afraid of dying.