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Fear can be classified as mental fear, vital fear and physical fear. The majority of the people, the physical is governed by the subconscious and fears that are driven out of active consciousness take refuge in that subconscious. Thus, the physical fear is in the subconscious hidden by the mental and vital fear which are much more conscious. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-march-1954#p24</ref>

'''Mental Fear'''

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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p18</ref>

'''Vital Fear'''

The fear is again that of the physical consciousness or of the vital element in it—it is afraid if it gives up desire that it will lose everything—or everything it wants—and gain nothing in exchange or at least nothing it wants.

<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/desire#p56</ref>

'''Physical Fear'''

It is a curious little vibration that gets into your cells and they begin shivering that way. But the cells are not like a heart beating very fast. It is in the very cells: they tremble with just a slight quivering. And it is very difficult to control this. Yet it can be controlled.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p17</ref>

=Why there is Fear=

Fear stems from a sense of inferiority. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/students#p35</ref> A vast majority of men like to live in a limited sphere bound to their littleness and falsehood. They fear freedom and light.

'''Vital Fear'''

We like, love, welcome, hope for, joy in whatever our nature, the first habit of our being, or else a formed (often perverse) habit, the second nature of our being, presents to the mind as pleasant, priyam; we hate, dislike, fear, have repulsion from or grief of whatever it presents to us as unpleasant, apriyam. This habit of the emotional nature gets into the way of the intelligent will and makes it often a helpless slave of the emotional being or at least prevents it from exercising a free judgment and government of the nature. This deformation has to be corrected. By getting rid of desire in the psychic prana and its intermiscence in the emotional mind, we facilitate the correction.

<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p7</ref>

'''Physical Fear'''

Because in the large majority of men, the body receives its inspirations from the subconscient, it is under the influence of the subconscient. All the fears driven out from the active consciousness go and take refuge there and then, naturally, they have to be chased out from the subconscient and uprooted from there. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/14-march-1951#p27</ref>

=How to Overcome Fears=