Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

From what I've been learning, the way to grt rid of fear (and the real way anything is truly learned from it) is to fully experience it. To "process" the fear and discharge it by fully experiencing it. If you're trying to get rid of it, the best way out is through.

That is not the case.  At least, it is not universally the case.  I have not verified that it is not the case at all, but my research and experiments have so far showed that that is one way to deal with it, which may be effective for some people, but not everyone; for some it can be very damaging, and for some it would lead to death from an overload of fear.  It is possible to die of fright.  

In fact, I think that's the only way out, and if you get out anybother way, I think what happens is you just manifest another traumatic situation like the one that created the fear un the first place so you can experience it like you refused to the last time. Only way to learn the hidden lesson it has to teach. So you unconsciously will manifest another chance to face it, so you can learn the lesson you didn't learn the first time around. At least, that's based on what I've been told from people who have worked real closely with it and learned a lot about healing it. That's why I'm looking to process my fear by experiencing it fully. But I don't know how to get into it. My German mentor says to "relax into it" maybe there's a way to get the subconcious mind to "relax into" the fear and process the emotion fully?

There are other ways to learn what you need to learn to be free of fear.  You cannot escape the lesson, but you don't have to "go through it".  You do have to change your level of understanding, which is why "going through it" kills fear in a lot of cases.