Chapter 7Conquest of Fear
There are a number of emotions which can be
be so overwhelming that they swamp our beings, wreck
our personalities and make our lives almost unbearable.
And not just "almost" unbearable. Sometimes so terribly
unbearable that they are the principal causes of suicide
and murder I
Hate, revenge, jealousy, sense of guilt, with-
drawal and, the subject of this chapter: FEAR. These
emotions are so destructive of happiness and often of life-
physically, mentally and emotionally-that we shall discuss
some of them, and perhaps all, elsewhere in this book. But
right now, we're going to engage in the conquest of fear.
If you could be free from fear-all fear of
everything and everybody-your life would be much better,
wouldn't it? Well, within the next few minutes you will
have the means of eliminating all fear-foreverl
First, you have to drag your fears out into the
open so you can get at them. That may seem surprising