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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Now, there is a small remedy which is very very easy. For it is based on a simple personal question of one's common sense.... You must observe yourself a little and say that when you are afraid it is as though the fear was attracting the thing you are afraid of. If you are afraid of illness, it is as though you were attracting the illness. If you are afraid of an accident, it is as though you were attracting the accident. And if you look into yourself and around yourself a little, you will find it out, it is a persistent fact. So if you have just a little common sense, you say: "It is stupid to be afraid of anything, for it is precisely as though I were making a sign to that thing to come to me. If I had an enemy who wanted to kill me, I would not go and tell him: 'You know, it's me you want to kill!'" It is something like that. So since fear is bad, we won't have it. And if you say you are unable to prevent it by your reason, well, that shows you have no control over yourselves and must make a little effort to control yourselves. That is all. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p36</ref></u>
== Types of Fear ==
===Mental Fear===
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">In life it is the action of the subconscious that has the larger share and it acts a hundred times more powerfully than the conscious parts. The normal human condition is a state filled with apprehensions and fears; if you observe your mind deeply for ten minutes, you will find that for nine out of ten it is full of fears—it carries in it fear about many things, big and small, near and far, seen and unseen, and though you do not usually take conscious notice of it, it is there all the same. To be free from all fear can come only by steady effort and discipline. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p18</ref></span>
<span style="; color: #000000;">Fear</span><span style="color: #000000;">, desire and sorrow are diseases of the mind; born of its sense of division and limitation, they cease with the falsehood that begot them. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/gnosis-and-ananda#p16</ref></span>
= Vital Fear =