Fear of Things: animals, inanimate objects, physical forces.
Fear of Others: human beings, apparitions, devils, Deity.
Fear for Others: children, parents, husband, wife, relatives,
friends, strangers.
Fear of Events: present, future, imaginary, possible, probable,
contingent.
Fear of the Future: in life; beyond the present life.
Instinct and reason strive to place us in right relations with all
these causes. The existence in us of fear shows that we already
are, either in mind or in fact, in wrong relations therewith.
The mastery of fear involves the discovery of right relations,
mental or concrete, and the placing of self in those right
conditions which are determined and provided for by the ground-
plan of our nature.
And the first thing thus provided for is health. All treatment for
the conquest of our universal enemy must begin with development of
individual tone: tone of body, tone of mind, tone of the deeper
self.
I am not writing for those who are constitutionally fearless, but
I have in mind all who do yield to the feeling of fear.
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