Modern medicine informs us that our earliest feelings were those of warmth, quiet, and security. We felt these as we grew within our mother's womb. It is interesting to note that today we often seek to experience these again and again.
Fear is a feeling of anxiety and agitation.
Carl Rogers defines it as the passion of our nature which excites us to provide for security. The Lord Buddha suggested that we curb, if not completely eliminate, our desires and wants. The practical philosophers make available to us tools that will aid us in curbing our desires which, they say, will eventuate into our being in control of our self in order that we become our Self. What we need to do, he suggests, is to first relax, then analyze ourselves calmly until we become aware of the real causes of our inner inconsistencies, tensions, and anxieties. Then the truth dawns upon us that they have nothing in common with our innermost being.