How to get rid of fear: fear of failure, fear of death, fear of future & fear for everything….

How do I get rid of my fear? I have fear for everything. Everything is scary. Fear of failure, fear of the future, fear of death, fear of flying. Everything! Please help. This is the fear of a devotee participated in Satsang of Sri Sri Ravishankar Guruji, the Founder of Art of Living. Let’s hear the explanation or solution from Guruji in his own words….

Fear is simply an emotion or a sensation in the body. There is no need to associate or attach it to different things. When you start observing those patterns, those energies that happen in you, you will see that fear, love and hatred all happen in one region, and it is the same energy which manifests love, hatred or fear.

When you have some passion; if you are passionate about something, fear disappears. Fear appears when you don’t have any specific passion in life. Isn’t this the experience? Only when you have passion, or strongly hate something, then fear will disappear. Fear will disappear when you either have a strong hatred or strong love towards something. In the absence of either, a little lingering fear comes up. But, again, more hollow and empty meditations, pranayama, engaging in some seva activities; all this will help in eliminating that.

Written by Naveen Kumar Sanagala