The Mind, Seeing The Futility Of Fear, Lets It Go

Is there a way to completely end all fear?
I do not mean to end fear for a moment of time, I mean to end fear completely within myself so that it no longer exists.

Is that possible?

The reason I ask this question is that I see what fear does to myself and others. I see what fear does to the world. I see that the expression of fear creates discord, violence and pain. Problems that have existed for all time have not been able to be solved because of the persistence of fear. It seems that the ending of fear is vastly important if humanity is to survive.

So what is the actual experience?

In looking at it I see that there are two kinds of "things" I call fear.

One is the direct perception of danger to my physical being - like standing on the edge of a cliff or seeing a dangerous animal. I move physically away.
The other is psychological, a thought/emotion that anticipates an imagined future - whether imminently close or far off - that "I" do not want. My not wanting this future "reality" is a matter of degrees from mild to extreme.

The first kind of fear is biological and keeps me out of danger. No problems there.
The second kind of fear is the trouble-maker.  This fear is in my head and causes an emotional reaction in the body. It is stirred up by thinking. I am reacting to a perception.


This then leads me to other questions:
Who is it who is afraid?
Who is perceiving the fear?
Are those perceptions absolutely correct? 
Looking at the entire span of human history, has fear ever produced a totally sane result?
Do I think "my" fear is going to produce a totally sane result?
Do I think that "my" particular fear is somehow different from millennia of human fear?

It is the intensity of wanting to be free of suffering that brings awareness to looking at the problem of fear.
That energy is needed to open the doors that reveal the whole landscape of consciousness and the root of fear.

The mind, seeing the futility of fear, lets it go.

It Is Kind of Wonderful

The content of my consciousness is an ongoing movement of thoughts and emotions.
I have found that through any effort of will I don't seem to be able to bring this content to a complete stop and resisting it winds up in frustration and a wastage of energy.
What I have learned is that I can just observe it. I don't have to act upon it.
This action of just observing it is like standing on the shore of a river and watching it flow - all the thoughts and emotions flowing by and fading like a storm or clouds across the sun.
There are some beautiful thoughts and emotions that I can appreciate and enjoy.
There are some painful thoughts and emotions that I am just still with - as if I had the flu.
There are some angry thoughts and emotions that I watch like I would a dangerous animal.
Each set of thoughts and emotions comes and goes like a storm or a sunny day.
No matter what they are, they are a part of human life and they will pass - the good and the bad - so observe them and be interested in them like a scientist observing the natural world.
It is kind of wonderful.

Letting Go of What Is False

I have found that some of my so-called "facts" become fiction when challenged.
To transmute a "fact" into a falsehood takes a kind of alert discipline.
When I am holding on to a strongly held belief or mental/emotional state - something I believe to be a fact - I become aware of the emotions behind it. The resistance. The suffering.
I seem to find that the "facts" that have suffering underneath them wind up being strongly held beliefs.
So what is the use of this?
Finding out what is false is pretty important to me. The more and more I weed out the false in my life, the more and more something wonderful shines through.
The less cluttered my life is with the false, the more clear I am. The more I live in harmony. The depth of life occurs.
So what is the false?
Anything that causes conflict, pain, suffering, anxiety, fear - all psychological pain.
There are thing in this world that cause pain - a broken arm, the loss of a loved one but this kind of pain is not false.
The pain of fearing the future, anticipating some imagined event, is what I would call false. The actual event is real, the fearful anticipation of it is self-projected suffering.
Don't take my word for it. Take a look. See what is actual and what is just conceptual.