Is life dangerous?

So you're working on making friends with your inner child and trying to comfort the litte one inside you - that part of you that you have perhaps neglected in your mad rush to grow up. And then you find that the little one is afraid because he/she believes, for example, "life is dangerous". And you try to comfort the fragile little one inside you and tell him/her that - well - "life isn't dangerous". But somehow it doesn't ring true. Or you just can't do it, because you find, to your great dismay, that you (the grown-up you, the mature you) has the same belief. You too believe that "life is dangerous" so you're just as afraid as your inner child!

Then what do you do? The only thing we can do is investigate this belief and see if it's true. Maybe it is and maybe it isn't. But before we can even investigate this belief, we find we have to define what we mean by "dangerous"... and so it begins... the unraveling of our most basic beliefs about life. I have a whole section in my new book "Are You Happy Now? 10 Ways to Live a Happy Life" where I try to investigate the belief that so many of us have that "life is dangerous". (See chapter 10).  One of the things I discovered when I tried to explore this thought for myself was that we can't think life is dangerous if we don't think death is dangerous! Interesting isn't it!

Comments

[Litsong]

why is death dangerous, why is it any more dangerous than living a life?

It is all possible you just go back to where you come from (hopefully a bit wiser).

or to something new
isn't it like "being fully alive"?

smiles
Litsong
oh, one more thing
every time when i go to sleep
i felt i melt away from this "world" or this life i am living....
then in sleep, there may come dreams... so often they can well be different lives....
then when i wake up from th sleep, i gradually feel the sensation of coming to life cell by cell.....
The life and death, to me, are no difference from that....
It is a comforting thought
(i do love my sleep and awaking the same)

[Litsong]

why is death dangerous, why is it any more dangerous than living a life?

It is all possible you just go back to where you come from (hopefully a bit wiser).

or to something new
isn't it like "being fully alive"?

smiles
Litsong
oh, one more thing
every time when i go to sleep
i felt i melt away from this "world" or this life i am living....
then in sleep, there may come dreams... so often they can well be different lives....
then when i wake up from th sleep, i gradually feel the sensation of coming to life cell by cell.....
The life and death, to me, are no difference from that....
It is a comforting thought
(i do love my sleep and awaking the same)