Submitted by: Tamas Gloetzer

We manage to conquer some of our fears. Others, however, are transposed into introversions. The individual thus affected withdraws into himself. He grows highly self-conscious, antisocial, and gradually retreats into a private world all his own, where fantasy replaces reality. This becomes a psychosis and often leads to schizophrenia.

If your fear is already so deeply embedded that you need psychiatric care it would be foolish to try to help yourself, but if it is still within your ability to analyze it and recognize it, here are three ways in which you can dissipate it:

1. For fears based on assumption

If there seems to be no basic reason for your fear other than an assumption, face it frankly, boldly, and turn it upon itself. Start with an act of will and do the very thing of which you are afraid. It might mean sleeping in the dark or using a strange bed, talking to a stranger or taking a walk at night, holding a cat or patting someone’s dog, voicing an opinion or making a snap decision and sticking to it.

This deliberate act to “meet” an existing fear and “beat” it by doing what you are afraid of, is one of the simplest cures possible to take. Do such thing consciously, intentionally, several times in a row, and soon the old fear will be gone.

2. For fears based on emotion

If your fear is based upon an emotional angle, upon anger, irritation, resentment or frustration, it may be helpful to swear or to shout, to cry or to laugh, to grumble or to complain, to bluster or to express yourself volubly, strongly, vigorously. It tends to blow off the emotional steam. Used in moderation it becomes a safety valve to release pent-up feeling.

However, it is not recommended as an habitual way to be rid of an emotional fear.

3. For fears based on thwarted longing

If your fear is due to thwarted longings, to disillusionments or nurtured grievances talk to someone about them. Select a stranger rather than a close friend or a member of your family. Let him be the vessel into which you pour out your heart and your troubles, your fears and anxieties, your grudges and disappointments. Be frank with him, hold nothing back. And, should you find yourself associating your confidante or analyst with your troubles or identifying him with your hatreds do not be dismayed by it. This “transference” is one of the curious twists in our nature.

Yet, strangely enough, it is a form of release, because as you continue exposing your inner repressions before him the association with and the embodiment of your troubles will disappear and the healing process will begin.

Fight your fears

Fight fear with self-confidence and self-assurance. Fear feeds upon itself and grows fat with its own implications. Clarify doubt or suspicion as quickly as you can and do not nurture needless trepidations. Give groundless fear no chance to linger with you and it will seek other places in which to grow.

About the Author: To learn more, you can sign up for a free report on overcoming fear at this website:

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Tamas Gloetzer is also the publisher of a new book on the topic of fears and anxiety available here:

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