Many people suffer from anxiety and depression because of a traumatic event which has happened in their life, and it can show up in a number of different ways. Some people have a fear of heights so that when they are put into the situation of being high up in a building, for example, they feel their heart beating rapidly, they become very sweaty and agitated and the feeling of fear is absolutely unbearable.

There are a number of ways to overcome your fears and anxiety, and one of those ways is through the use of listening to CD's, which will work on your subconscious mind and make you feel totally relaxed. One such CD is called "Dissolving Panic & Anxiety Now!" People who suffer from anxiety or panic attacks have negative chatter going through their mind. So the purpose of listening to CDs is to retrain your thoughts. You can banish the negativity forever.

All it takes is listening to a CD for a couple of minutes each day and you will notice that your thought patterns will change over time. You will no longer be fearful of the problem, which is affecting your life so dramatically.

Your anxiety and depression will not go away on its own, so it's up to you to get yourself back to a healthy state of mind and body, so get your copy of "Dissolving Panic & Anxiety Now!" and once again take control of your life.

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When you’ve lost a loved one from your life, you feel as though you will never recover from the grieving process. Every time you think of that person your eyes well up with tears and your sense of loss feels inconsolable. Allow yourself to grieve and you will find that with the passing of time your grief will lessen. You won’t ever forget that person, but instead of grief you’ll have wonderful memories.

Dealing with sorrow can be a difficult time for you, but don’t complicate it by turning to alcohol or drugs to ease your pain. What happens when the effects wear off? You’re right back where you started.

The real secret to quickly dealing with sorrow is to live your life as you normally would. Go back to work and socialize with your family and friends. If you were playing sport beforehand then start playing again. Keep your life as normal as you can even though you may still experience feelings of grief from time to time. This is perfectly normal.

If you feel that your grieving period is going on far too long, then you might consider going to a grief counselor. These practitioners are trained to deal in that specialty so ask the experts for some help. Don’t try dealing with it on your own because it can lead to depression which will take longer to get over.

There is always help out there for dealing with sorrow. All you have to do is ask for it.

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The law of attraction can be used in building courage to improve your personal life, by determining that no matter what you decide to do with your life, you will have the courage to step out and do it.

So how can it help you? Think of the challenge you have given yourself and how terrified it makes you feel. You’re probably asking yourself if you try to attempt the challenge you may fail at it, so you have to find a means to make it easier on yourself.

To overcome your fear to attempt a challenge you first have to ask for it. Write down exactly what you want and then use visualization to see yourself overcoming the fear, which has a hold on you. See yourself on the other side, as you overcome any personal issues to come out a winner.

Once you have written down your goal you must become totally absorbed in it. It must be in your thoughts day and night so that your vibrations are in harmony with what you have asked for.

Within a reasonably short period of time, your goal will actually become reality. Whatever you want in your life all you have to do is ask for it and take steps to put it into motion.

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We all know that "Fear is The Mind-Killer". Here in this post, I collected some of the best quotes about fear to encourage ourselves to FACE it. I hope you enjoy them:

• Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: "Is this the condition that I feared?" — SENECA

• I'm an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. — Mark Twain

• I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. — Frank Herbert

• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

• Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. — Virgil Thomson

• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. — Helen Adams Keller

• Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. — Dorothy Thompson

• Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom. — Marilyn Ferguson

Go Practical! Follow These Links to Learn How to Face Your Fears: 

• Conquer Your Fears and Phobias
  
• Facing Fears and Finding Freedom
• Overcoming Your Fears

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At the same time, these usually aren’t the fears that keep us up at night, or prohibit our day-to-day activity and movement.

Most of our fears are actually phobias; a phobia is a fear that is totally irrational, and, when viewed from the side, can seem utterly ridiculous.

“Phobia” simply means “fear” in Greek, and, when combined with other Greek words, it gives us the names of some common phobias: “acron” (summit) plus “phobia” gives “acrophobia,” the fear of heights. “Agora” (marketplace, city square) plus “phobia” gives, “agoraphobia,” the fear of public spaces and crowds. Triskaidekaphobia, from the Greek word for thirteen, means a fear of the number thirteen!

See how absurd some phobias can become?

If your fears are frustrating you, and interfering with your daily life, it’s time to get serious and overcome your phobia. Below are just a few useful tips on how to conquer your fears:

1. Trace your fear to its source.

Some fears are a bit murky; we need to study them a bit to better understand them, to pinpoint their original causes, and thereby confront them. Brainstorm about your greatest fears; jot down word associations that come to mind. Try to analyze what you write, and make your description of your fear as precise as possible? What exactly scares you about this place or thing or situation? Once you know, you can begin to attack the problem.

2. When does the fear begin?

When exactly does fear really kick in for you? At what point does it become debilitating? This can be easily tested. Take agoraphobia, for example. Does the very idea of going into public frighten you, and make your hands clammy? Does the sight of a marketplace fill you with dread? Or is it only inside of this space that you begin to feel uneasy? Test your fear threshold; that’s your battlefield.

3. Make the frightening familiar.

Challenge yourself to gradually approach your fear, and become familiar with it—because it’s very hard to fear that which we know. This can be done in baby steps, if necessary, as long as you dare yourself to make progress with each confrontation. Back to the agoraphobia example. Spend five minutes in a crowded store. If that’s enough, back off. Next time, insist on spending ten minutes. Soon, you’ll realize that, in fact, there’s nothing to fear, as the frightening becomes more and more familiar.

4. It’s all up to you.

Fear lives within us. It’s not an external enemy to be fought, but rather an internal enemy, to be overcome in our hearts and minds. Locate that enemy and root it out of your thoughts and feelings, and the physical symptoms of your fear—the rapid heartbeat, heavy breathing, sweating—will fade away. If necessary, turn to a doctor. There’s nothing wrong with seeking expert counsel if your fears are interfering with your life.

On the blogsphere:

• Anxiety and Phobias
• How To Conquer Public Speaking Fear By Morton C. Orman, M.D.

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• Facing Fears and Finding Freedom
• Overcoming Your Fears

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Some fears are reasonable: fear of upcoming surgery, fear about troubled children and fears related to certain life challenges that can have a negative impact on lifestyle or health.

However, many people have fears that may be exaggerated and take the pleasure out of everyday living.

Fear and anxiety are probably the most common psychological problems people face. Mental health workers spend a great deal of time helping people cope with fears and anxiety.

According to Dr. Deborah Osgood-Hynes, it is very uncomfortable for people to feel the bodily sensations that go along with fear and anxiety. They can cause a racing heart, dizziness, racing thoughts, and nausea. In order to gain control of the fear, there is a multitude of advice, and there are several therapies that have been employed over the years.

Dr. Phil recommends a few simple things to think about when trying to face your fears. One is to understand that an irrational fear of crossing bridges or going through tunnels, or flying, or other commonplace things is just that: irrational.

These things should not engender such an intense fear that you keep away from them.

Secondly, Dr. Phil suggests that you understand that you do have control. Fears have a lot to do with the fact that people feel they don’t have control in a particular situation. This comes from one’s internal dialogue.

It always helps to balance your fear of things like plane rides and crossing bridges with statistics. We can never predict what will happen to us from one day to the next, but we are armed with statistical information every day when we know that millions of people fly in planes safely and cross bridges safely. There’s comfort in numbers.

If you have really intense fears that don’t seem to go away, even with the above suggestions, you can take advantage of behavioral therapy. In this type of therapy, you have to face a fear in order to reduce a fear.

This has been used very successfully in people afraid of flying. For example, if you fear plane trips, you need to take a plane trip. Some airlines in the past have even offered sessions for people with a fear of flying, leading them up to the plane, and then actually sitting in the plane and taking a short flight.

You need to remember that as long as you have irrational fears, you will avoid certain things in life and not really live to its fullest.

Therefore, it’s important to begin to face your fears, and put them in perspective. Once you take the first step, the next steps will be easier.

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Take the fear of airplanes, for example. Everyone knows the statistics, which prove that one is actually safer in an airplane than at almost any other time in this unpredictable life of ours! Few are afraid to step in a car, although the fear of a car wreck would, in any case, be a more reasonable fear, based on the facts. Often, the fear is actually of the unknown or unfamiliar. Car trips are a familiar part of our everyday routine, so it’s hard to be afraid of them. But for those unused to flying, a plane ride can be downright traumatic. At the same time, if you refuse to fly, it can be very limiting in terms of your mobility, preventing you from taking that next step at work, or from visiting friends and family.

Here are just a few practical pointers on how you might work to overcome fear.

1. Know your enemy.

The enemy is fear, and to fight it, you must understand it. Pinpoint the source of your fear, and ask yourself about its origins. Fears that at first glance seem completely illogical may actually have their own strange logic, since they can be traced back to frightening incidents from childhood. A single incident, which you may hardly remember in your conscious thought, may have simmered in your subconscious for all these years, producing fears and phobias. If the problem is serious, hypnosis may aid you in discovering the origins of your phobias.

2. Enjoy a change of perspective.

The way we see things can radically change our impressions, and that goes for the objects of our fear as well. Shifting our viewpoint may eradicate our fear completely. Often, we fear things that are far away from us, imagining them to be much more horrible or difficult than they really are, whether they are things or events. If we force ourselves to approach them just once, we’ll realize how overactive our imagination had been. Fear of flying is a great example. Even a single flight can convince you that flying really isn’t that bad. You may even find it exhilarating. In any case, it won’t be mysterious anymore—and remember, we rarely fear that which is familiar. Make your fear familiar.

3. Give yourself a pep talk.

Don’t be a defeatist, or beat yourself up. You’re not too weak to overcome your fear; you simply need to take action. Fear despises action; it prefers to see us tied up and powerless. When we take the initiative, and being doing, we tend to stop fearing—because the ball is in our court. Be positive, and encourage yourself as you confront your fear.

4. Learn acceptance for the way things are.

Some things we cannot change, such as the fact of death, so we must simply make peace with the fact of mortality; there is, obviously, little we can do about it! Most of our everyday fears, however, are quite different. These are the things we can change, and can take practical steps to overcome.

To conquer fears and overcome phobias, remember that the fear is inside you. We often imagine it as some monstrous thing looming on the horizon, when in fact, it’s lurking in our mind, in the way we see the world. Refocus your vision, confront your fears, and watch as they disappear.