Take this trick in the first chapter of the book 'Impro': The author asks you to point at a few objects and say what they "aren't". This halts the "naming" mechanism in the mind and makes the world look "fresher".
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The greater your understanding, the more difficult and dangerous things you can do. You push back fear by befriending it, by having it show you where you need to improve.
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Instead of memorizing a bunch of useless information (the trap of philosophy) you instead just do what you need to do. Take just that One More Step into fear. Not to punch it, but to hug it. (but also, don't just go up and hug starving rabies stray doggo)
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E.g. an easy way to reproduce this dealing with fear is with exercise. Work to your and just do One More. Don't aim for a target, fail, and then beat yourself up. Truly sense your limit and just squeeze one one more. Not ten, just one. Like a kind teacher pushing you.
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Incidentally, the target method or "planning" works by creating a False God. You push yourself to fulfill the requirements of the plan and lose touch with your inner sense of limit.
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Whether or not you push yourself correctly is subject not to your inner attunement to your limits or to your fear but to how well past you was at predicting and controlling the future! "The healed mind does not plan."https://youtu.be/_qIGyry7wLo?t=1003 …
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