> But fear/panic will always be there, you can learn to live with it, but it's not a "monster you can kill". This is not true. Fear, like all emotions comes a

> But fear/panic will always be there, you can learn to live with it, but it's not a "monster you can kill". This is not true. Fear, like all emotions comes and goes. This is one of the first things you learn when you have a consistent meditation practice. By clinging to an emotion, feeding it with conscious energy and identifying with it, you prolong the suffering it causes. The quicker you disidentify with it, the quicker it passes, just like every other emotion. It may come back again, but that's not the same as "always be there" and the better you get with not associating and identifying with it, the less intense it becomes over time.