Fear and panic

Fear is a feeling. And feelings are caused by something, and that "something" is always a form of judgment, or interpretation through your personality. About a situation, about what happens or does not happen or should happen, or whatever your personality expects to happen and what seems to be unpleasant.

Normally your personality will not draw your attention to that first step, the process of judgment itself, but rather to the results of its interpretation, the feelings. Fear as a choice for reaction is a very successful and powerful tool, especially used to prevent you from looking into any details, and instead look for immediate response like attack or fleeing from whatever your personality made through interpreting this situation. So you can avoid the expected experiences to follow from that interpretation.

Fear is known under different names, and has varying intensities. Intense fear can be called panic, a tiny bit of fear is also known as annoying, painful, dislike or similar. They have one thing in common: a feeling of powerlessness, and a profound response aimed at "away from this place, from this situation that your personality no longer seems to control, and start looking for a safe place in which his feelings of being in charge can be restored again." Also, it is successfully used to stop you from giving attention to your inner Self, because that is the very aspect of you were your personality is powerless indeed.

Fear does not have any power in itself. It is a feeling that your personality calls forth, and thus it is a feeling that you yourself can face and choose to no longer reinforce its mechanisms. By not believing the process in itself, by looking at the response-suggestions of your personality but no longer see them as the one and only way to deal with it, you start to weaken this pattern. Yes, your personality will react with feelings of fear. But that does not mean that the situation itself is fearful, only that your personality interprets it to be that way, highly due to his interpretation of the experiences-to-be: unpleasant SO unwanted SO they have to be avoided AND he sees no possibility for it within this situation SO you have to withdraw, mentally and preferably physically.

Powerlessness is very annoying for your personality, but closer to the truth than the feeling of being in charge of your life. If the last would be true, your life would be fantastic now, wouldn't it? Filled with successes, abundant financial possibilities, enormous personal fulfillment and never a dull or unpleasant moment, bodily unpleasantness, tension, the feeling that you are not really at home here, etc.

A situation is not pleasant or unpleasant, every situation is neutral in itself, until it is being judged.