Not quite sure which practice or experience led to a massive fading of fear in my life, but trying to reverse-engineer it to keep it going.
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Meditating exclusively on emotions with a negative valence (a la @cuttingmachine_) definitely helped a bit, but not sufficient in itself.
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A lot of insight meditation and mental discipline exercises definitely helped. 'Thinking' (babbling internally) less helps a lot w/fear.
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The stoics captured one thing better than most traditions: when in doubt, try your best and don't give a fuck.
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Identifying with a fictional self may or may not increase suffering, but better yet, why care about what bothers you? It's mostly nonsense.
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Understand you will die. You can't 'fix' that. This takes a lot of horror out, if understood properly.