The first step on how to overcome fear is to understand what fear is. What Is Fear?
We seem to assume we know what fear is and we approach the solutions to overcoming fear based on this assumption.
I heard once that the real meaning of the word FEAR could be broken down like this:
F=False
E=Evidence
A=Appearing
R=Real
"If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough."
~ Albert Einstein
We seem to assume we know what fear is and we approach the solutions to overcoming fear based on this assumption.
"Fears are educated into us,
and can, if we wish,
be educated out."
~ Karl Augustus Menninger (specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)
F=False
E=Evidence
A=Appearing
R=Real
"Of all the liars in the world,
sometimes the worst
are your fears."
~ Rudyard Kipling (Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907)