Fears are not cured in a single moment.
You cannot cure a fear of heights by standing at the precipice once, just as you cannot cure a fear of public speaking in a single speech.
Fears are learned beliefs, wound tight with years of experience, reinforced with layer upon layer of running from them.
To unravel a fear requires consistent exposure. To be free of limiting beliefs requires commitment.
We all carry our particular terrors: making mistakes, facing judgment, hearing rejection, speaking before our peers, or leaping from great heights. Yet regardless of what makes your heart race; overcoming begins with acceptance.
Fears developed once to protect us from harm, and to help us survive in a time fraught with danger. But now, though many have outlived their purpose, they persist nonetheless, causing us to suffer when no danger exists.
We must accept the role fears once played while addressing them objectively in the moment.
When they emerge, rather than cower, we must observe them and see them for what they are. We must choose courage over fear and disprove these limiting beliefs in the contexts where they emerge.
With repetition and time, we might soothe the fears that in their essence are just signals of the brain that carry emotional weight.
All it takes is awareness when a fear presents itself; to meet it with compassion, and to treat with it in a way that is true to you in the context of experience.