What is Fear?
 Generally speaking, Fear is an adaptive reaction to an exceptional situation or event that you experience as unpleasant or painful, like an accident, pain, or a divorce. Fear is not always bad. Without stress or fear, most people will not get very far. People who never experience fear will often lack the necessary motivation to act and to achieve. Such people usually also lack prudence and thoughtfulness. Fears are a very normal and everyday phenomenon. But it can take such proportions that they can torture, bother, and hinder people in their daily functions and work. In such cases, most people start looking for help or begin to practice Meditation.
A phobia is an unreal fear of places and/or situations where there is no real danger. People with a phobia often feel an irresistible urge to avoid certain places and/or situations where they think they will be overcome by their fears. There are many ways in which fears can manifest themselves. Some people experience a fear reaction when they are confronted with phobic stimuli like closed rooms (claustrophobia), blood, animals, a thunderstorm, the unknown, injuries, bridges, tunnels, dentists, etc. Other people have a terrible fear of situations in which they can feel embarrassment because people disapprove of them, or they are afraid of situations or places that are hard to get away from. This kind of fear and the consequent urge to avoid places, situations, as well as people can seriously hinder people's daily life.
The experience of fear is usually more of a mood or an emotion than a feeling. In the same way that people can feel gloomy, glad, sad, happy or depressed, people can also be fearful. Excessive or unrealistic fear is often accompanied by fearful premonitions, worries, feeling of discomfort, anxiety, nervousness, impatience, stress, or even panic. Fear brings our body and our mind in a state of alertness to cope with a real or an imagined danger.
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