Fear is one of the most important basic emotions, along with joy, sadness, anger and guilt, all of which play an important part in human life.
While people want to feel joy, with fear it is a different story. Often it should be quickly pushed aside and ideally disappeared because it seems stressful and unpleasant.

Fear itself is a healthy feeling that saved people´s lives in the Stone Age. Without feeling fear back then, we would literally be dead: if we hadn´t been afraid of the dangerous animals, we wouldn´t have fled from them or tried to fight. Or not frozen, as a last alternative when we knew we had no chance to fight: then we played dead, hoping our enemy believed the same and walked away.
All of these strategies were extremely important back then.

These days, most of us are fortunate not to have real dangers in everyday lives. And yet our nervous system often doesn´t feel secure and fears develops and take up more and more space.

Fear can express itself in all sorts of areas: in the job, in private life, sometimes it is hidden more and sometimes less.
What many fears have in common are the physical signs described above, which often lead to further fears: Am I sick? What is wrong with me?

Fear paralyzes and this costs an incredible amount of quality of life: an authentic life in the here and now is impossible.