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finding peace and truth. motto: liberty is always the liberty of the other-thinking one. An alternative explanation for the effect of EMDR and an idea to improve this effect (long version): Here it is marked that by a fearful face expression the environment can be better noticed. It can be seen more, smelled more and tasted more, because the eyes are far opened and the view goes fast around, the position of the nose wings is changed and the mouth is opened wide. The goal is to collect much information as fast as possible to find a good way out of the fear-releasing situation. In the Stone Age this fear reaction had surely usually outstanding functioned and humans had not permanently suffered from their fears, because the fear reactions were briefly persisting and appropriated reactions. But today it is not simple to find a fast and good answer on a threat and so the strong excitation of the fear reaction can change to an immobilizing feeling of fear. If for example somebody meets a tiger, then one could run away and bring oneself in a cave in security. But how reacts someone meaningfully, if someone is for example in an underground and then a technology-malfunction occurs? Here it is appropriate that humans be aware first of all that a fear reaction can run. This starts with the perception. Humans must be aware that all characteristics of the situation can be noticed now excessively clear. And to these characteristics of the situation belongs also the perception of strong physiological reactions: high heart rate, high blood pressure, accelerated respiration and sweating hands. These perceptions serve as information of humans in the sense: „Now the body is ready for fighting or for running away." If the situation is not clear for a fast meaningful decision, then the perception of the combat or escape readiness is not meaningfully and disturbs the necessary thinking procedures. Since the physical excitation is not reduced by fight or escape, the physical excitation can rise finally further and become an immobilizing feeling of the fear. Now it can help to shift the attention away from the body to characteristics of the environment. This perception-change can already reduce a strong physiological excitation. So humans can request themselves to be calmly and to light up exactly each small characteristic of the environment. For example: „Where is an alarm button?" or „Is there a connection to the world outside, in order to get assistance?" or „Smells it burned, so that I must immediately break a window here to have fresh air?" or „Where are the tools for breaking the window?" Thus humans must back to the origin of management of the situation and must not stop at the terminator point -- the perception of the physiological excitation. This technology is used also in the so-called „Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing" (EMDR). During EMDR a patient arranges the perception on the world outside -- for example with eye movements -- while the patient is aware of fearful experiences at the same time. In this way deeply sitting fears can be processed. I suppose, that it is not only meaningfully to move the eyes -- it could be also helpful to show further characteristics of a fearful face like far opened eyes and a far opened mouth. But the expression of fear is often not socially accepted. The expression of fear can be felt by many humans as a „disturbance". And we also want to show by suppressing the fear expression that we are strong and that nothing can make us nervous. But there are situations for each human, in which we are weak and dependent on the assistance of other humans. I supposed that a cause for the frequently founded fear illnesses is the inhibiting of fear-indications. If for example during a technology-malfunction in the underground the perception is not directed through a fearful face toward the world outside, then body-signals can be noticed more, that has to be the consequence that the fear continues continuing, because no fearful face is shown, also nobody hurries to the assistance or speaks to us in a sedative way -- so the humans remain alone with their fear. Therefore it is a task of training against stress to encourage humans in threatening situations to show their fear and accept that others could reject this.

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