How To Overcome Fear
Ways to overcome fear – including social phobia and any other phobia!

‘Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your fears.’ Rudyard Kipling.

If you are one of those people who get afraid and just can’t overcome fear, then help is here for you now. Why not try my method of controlling and eradicating fear?

Phobias are irrational terrors – extreme fear – of some object, creature, person, or situation. The fear is real. It may even fill you with extreme terror. But remember the anxiety, th fear, the phobia, call it what you will, is not real but something that has somehow got into your head and should be eliminated.

The first step is to rationalise and analyze the fear. Can it do you any harm? Let us say that your phobia is a spider, which is a very commonplace phobia to use as an example. Can a spider bite you? Can a spider poison you? Can a spider hurt you in any way? I think you will find that the answer to all these questions is no. You have now rationalised the question and found that the object of your phobia can’t harm you.

Now try gradual desensitization. Don’t take on a whole nest of real spiders right away. Start with a doodle of a spider, drawn in weird colours. Remind yourself it’s only a spider. Move on to a cartoon of a spider and then to a photograph. Take your time about it and gradually work your way up to confronting a real specimen. You will gain confidence at each stage until finally all that remains is a slight shudder. This process of gradual desensitization is a classic way to overcome fear.

Now print out a picture of it. Hang it on the wall and throw things at it. You can punch it or kick it, shout at it and scream at it. Do anything that makes you feel better. This gets the phobia down to its proper size and lets you know that you’re bigger than it. Now you’re well on the way to overcoming fear!

Now you are ready to stop fear directly. Start with a dead spider. You might need somebody to help you get one. Leave the dead spider in a place which you pass by frequently, for example outside the front door to the house. Every time you pass by, say to yourself. “It is only a spider. It is dead. It can’t do me any harm.” You are now learning how to prevent fear controlling your thoughts. You are moving the fear of the spider from inside your head and turning the fear into history.

Now to overcome your fear directly. Go to the basement and catch one of the harmless spiders. Place it in a box and watch its movements. The next day catch another spider and hold it in your hand. It moves about and tickles but it does you no harm. Such densenisitzation may completely cure your fear of spiders!

Here I have just used spiders as an example. You will find this method good for overcoming any kind of fear. Just remember that fear or phobias are just something that have got inside your thinking and so can also be removed from your mind by using the right techniques.

How to Overcome Fear

Eliminate fear from your life: fear is all that limits your health and wealth. Fear involves many symptoms - an anxious feeling, tension in your solar plexus, difficulty breathing, a racing heart and blood pounding in your ears, paralysis or a desire to run away, an inability to think clearly! No wonder that people want to know how to overcome fear!

The science of the mind and human behavior is complicated. But overcoming fear may not be as difficult as we’ve all been led to believe……for one thing, you always have a choice about how to deal with fear. You can go with it, struggle against it, or work around it.

Knowing that, think of F.E.A.R. as an acronym for False Expectations Appearing Real. FEAR takes yur sense of impending doom, magnifies it, and presents the outcome as something terrifying. So how does that help you to overcome fear?

Try making a list of all of your fears, including every single one, no matter how small or irrational. If you then read them aloud, you can acknowledge them without giving in to them. It’s helpful to have a frined around, as a witness. (Be clear that you are not asking for help in overcoming them!)

Tapping, EFT or the Emotional Freedom Technique

One of the newest breakthroughs in the field of how to overcome fear is using the body’s energy meridians for quick release of fear  and anxiety. It works when nothing else does! EFT is an alternative to NLP and traditional psychotherapy.