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# Scary stories come with scary feelings
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/scary-stories-come-with-scary-feelings/
- Published: 2026-07-06T06:00:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-06T06:00:42.000Z
- Description: I mean, that’s the whole point, surely? 📕
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Anxiety, IMPLICATIONS, Insight, Money, Presence, Real stories, Sharing, Thought realisation, #Premium CTA

There’s a thing that comes up regularly with people, and that’s the issue of feeling a bit scared.

I think we all feel this way from time to time. I know I do. And just last night, on our [Premium 🔖 Group](#/portal/account/plans) call, it was happening to someone with regard to money.

They were scared. About what would happen if they didn’t have any money.

It’s really common! (Kind of baked into our genes, I think.)

The other day I was listening to a client, who was being plagued with scary feelings. Something bad, that threatened their physical safety, had happened in the past and as a result, they felt scared in certain situations: being alone in the dark, primarily.

This sucks, but it’s perfectly understandable. When the mind has accepted an experience into that repository we call our Thought System 📦 then it’s free to pull that file back out at any time, [using the past to try and predict the future](https://www.gilespcroft.com/going-fishing/).

It’s normal, it’s natural, and as crazy as it sounds, these feelings are actually the mind [doing its best to be helpful](https://www.gilespcroft.com/trauma-and-triggers/) (I know right – doesn’t seem like it, does it)?!

Anyway, we were talking this problem through and I suddenly found myself agreeing wholeheartedly with it all and saying,

> *“Absolutely! Scary stories always come with scary feelings!”*

Which gave us both pause, because it was immediately apparent in the silence that erupted, that the reverse was true, too:

😲

Scary feelings are **always* the mind producing scary stories.

Which put a whole different spin on the situation my client was facing. Because all of a sudden they could see that:

- The scary feeling wasn’t actually happening now
- When it does happen, the subject/content of the story being created isn’t happening either
- There’s an almost infinitesimally small chance of it coming true
- Even if it did, that would be a different moment, and all manner of brilliant, built-in capacities we have, designed for this very situation—presence, focus, fight, flight—would kick in and we’d handle it.

All from seeing this ultra-reliable connection:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/2026/07/TF-coin---Two-sides_frame.jpeg)

🔑 ****Key Message**: We live in the feeling of a Thought-created perceptual reality.

Armed with this insight, imagine all the [scary stories](https://www.gilespcroft.com/the-fallibility-of-memory/) you can [safely enjoy](https://www.gilespcroft.com/your-zone-of-safety/)!

😁

Giles

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