The Humanbecoming Concept Inventing Model: Feeling Afraid

This study adopted the humanbecoming concept inventing model to explore the phenomenon of feeling afraid. Through simultaneously immersing with explicit-tacit knowings, exploring with pattern preferences, and explicating with pondering possibles, the author unveiled the now-truth of feeling afraid as <i>paralyzing hesitation arising with daunting uncertainties of dissociating affiliations</i>. This now-truth was shapeshifted into an ingenuous proclamation, articulated within the language of the humanbecoming paradigm. The final declaration portrayed feeling afraid as <i>languaging the originating of connecting-separating</i>, with Edvard Munch's <i>The Scream</i> (1893) as the chosen artform. This inventive inquiry enriches nursing knowledge by deepening understanding of feeling afraid as a universal humanuniverse living experience.