“DO THE THING YOU FEAR; DEATH OF FEAR IS CERTAIN”

The title is a quote from Emerson. Anybody can kill the fear if there is deep faith in God and the willingness to dig deep into the sub-conscious and un-conscious mind to bring it to the surface of conscious mind and address it creatively and constructively.

There is a story about a gold mine owner in Africa who killed the evil of fear. He started as a mine worker and due to persistence went up in the ladder to become a mine owner.

One day he was inside the mine when an avalanche occurred. He could not escape from the situation; but did not die because a metal sheet was above his head when the stones and mud came down. Electricity was cut and around him was darkness only. He was so frightened that the fear haunted him even after the rescue. Whenever he wanted to sleep, he could not. When he closed his eyes, the terrifying experience haunted him like a ghost. The restless person went out of the bungalow and found the stars in the sky and felt the serenity of the nature. He tried to assert the faith in God in his conscious mind; but his sub-conscious and un-conscious mind still continued to haunt him. Fear made him restless and the sleeplessness made him miserable.

One day, determined, he went to the mine area. He asked the lift operator to take him down to the underground which is about 150 ft. below the ground level.  The operator was reluctant and discouraged him saying, “Sir, what are you asking me to do? It is dangerous and I cannot do it.” The owner told the person, “I am the owner of this mine. You are employed by me. This is a command. Do as I say.”

The operator reluctantly took him down. The owner went out into the mine area. The operator waited for his master to return. After a while the owner came back and told the operator, “I have killed the evil of fear and buried it under the mine. It is not going to haunt me any longer.” He took off the fear from all states of his mind and symbolically buried it at the very same place it crept into him. He replaced the fear in his mind with the faith in God. The story says that after that the mine owner had peace of mind and could sleep well.