HOW TO OVERCOME FEAR? 
Fear is not real. It appears as a real danger, but it is just fear, a mere false appearance. It creates worry because it looks like a real danger. We acknowledged that it is our own mind that causes fear and this happens when our intellect is inactive. How do we overcome fear?
The first step is to acknowledge fear as only fear, and not as a danger. We must be able to differentiate between a real danger and an imaginary fear. If we don’t acknowledge that we human beings live with fear, we will consider every illusory fear to be a real danger. Once we acknowledge that most of our fears are just fears and a very few are dangers, we have started the exercise of overcoming fear.
We have already realized that while fears are not real, fear itself is an actual phenomenon that we experience. What we fear is not a real danger but the experience of the emotion of fear is real. How does one eliminate this? It can be eliminated by developing courage. Those who develop the art of being courageous, do the things they fear and make that fear disappear. For instance, one has the fear of diving into a swimming pool. After developing courage, and repeating the dive several times, the fear disappears. Similarly, it may be the fear of a roller coaster or patting a dog. The fear can only be conquered and overcome by facing it.