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> "The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse; because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats that don't exist at all.

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> The rule for all terrors is head straight into them. When you are sailing in a storm, you don't let a wave hit your boat on the side. You go bow into the wave and ride it. So in the same way, old folklore says, whenever you meet a ghost don't run away, because the ghost will capture the substance of your fear and will materialize itself out of your own substance and will kill you eventually, because it will take over all your own vitality. So then, whenever confronted with a ghost, walk straight into it and it will disappear."

— Alan Watts

Coping skills: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coping

Defence mechanisms § Level 4: mature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanisms#Level_4:_ma...