Awakening beyond fear or no fear
I was reading a post the other day from another spiritual teacher and he said that the way to deal with fear was to ignore it. Don't put your attention on it and you will overcome it. While I agree that meditating on fear is a distraction from being here and living life fully - I have to add that in my experience it's not about ignoring fear when it arises. For me, ignoring it and putting my attention on "the guru", for example, led to a great deal of bypassing what needed to be felt, understood and realized. In my experience, fear is just a shield from feeling the absolute rawness and vulnerability of what it is to be human. It's not something to overcome or conquer, it's something to be understood and seen for what it really is. It is a great teacher that is here to lead you to the Truth, if you are willing. To get in touch with this existential angst that is at the core of every human being is the only way to awaken into the heart of your own Being