Mike Tyson (The youngest boxer ever to win a World Heavyweight Title) says it well, “Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It’s like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you, it can heat your house. If you can’t control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert.”

Accepting yourself the way you are and loving yourself is perhaps the most important thing to reduce the fear inside you. Death is not what we are afraid of; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.

The two well-known techniques of putting the negative thoughts and emotions away are of course meditation and yoga. Its worth remembering Bertrand Russell’s advice; “To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom”.

A fear can be healthy if it cautions a person about anything that can be dangerous. But sometimes a fear is unnecessary and triggers more caution than the situation calls for.

To fight out the fear inside you, it is important to diagnose your fear content. The following tips will help you to do so.

1. Get aware of the type of fear you are having
2. Recognize the way you express your fear
3. Find out the factors which trigger fear

Make a habit of looking into the face of the fear. Start doing the things which you think you are not worth doing it or you cannot do it. A deep breath and a moment of pause can pull you out of a nervous and stressful situation. Learn to let go. Often, after something scares us, we feel the effects long after the event has occurred. Our minds tend to hold onto negative feelings, self criticism and apprehension.

Accept fear as a part of life, specifically the fear of change. Go ahead despite the pounding of the heart and say to yourself: I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.