17. Watch: Watching a movie or a documentary can be as enlightening as reading a book. Sometimes it’s nice to distract yourself from your fear, but if you really want to, you can find dozens of movies on the fear you’re dealing with.

18. Diet: Did you know that the food you eat can have a dramatic impact on how you feel? All the sugars, additives, sweeteners, and other chemicals in our foods have a surprisingly powerful effect in getting our body out of balance. Stick to a clean diet that suits you. Meaning more fruits, and vegetables; just eat a bit more each day, and you will be amazed at what happens.

19. Positivity: Whenever fear strikes, flip it over. Instead of thinking of something bad that can happen, think of something positive. What’s a positive outcome to your fear? If you’re thinking about public speaking, imagine yourself being wildly successful instead of failing horribly. This is very similar to #9, but with a small twist.

20. Perspective: Learning to deal with fear is all about putting your negative thoughts in perspective. We tend to focus too much on the negative, and making a big deal of nothing; that we overlook all the options being made available to us. We must appreciate that we aren’t psychics, and so it’s impossible for us to predict the many things that can happen..

21. Surrender: Surrendering to what is powerful, because as long as we try to change what is, we are in war with reality. To learn more about how to surrender to what is, you may read Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life.

22. Your Story: We all tell ourselves a story about our fear. If I’m afraid that no one will like my writing, I tell myself a story (in my head) about how I’ll fail horribly, people will laugh at me, or even worse, no one will read what I have to say. What’s your story?

23. Release Control: We want to learn how to control fear. We want predictability, even though it’s impossible to get. Where we don’t have control, we experience fear. But is it possible to ever have control? Even if you can swim, you can drown. A professional guitar player can still make mistakes and butcher a gig. Give up the illusion of control, and you’re free.

24. Help: Be kind to others. If you’re shy, focus on helping people instead of being self-conscious about how you look or sound when you talk. Flip it on other people and make yourself feel good. This is very similar to #16.

25. Meaning: Appreciate that we all go through things for a reason. And that includes the fears we have, which also includes overcoming fear and learning the lessons that come out of it. Though this may not be the case 100% of the time, but when you look back at the challenges and fears in your life, you will see that more often than not, they delivered exactly the messages you needed at that time.

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