Many people suffer from fears.  Fear is a scourge that does not exclude anyone.  There are two ways to deal with fear: first, admit the fear and try to live with it or quickly push away every fear that springs up from the subconscious.  Out of its hiddenness, however, fear begins to develop destructive power like a "demon".  It is the nature of fear to drive a person precisely to that which he or she fears the most.

The fear of death in Jesus wrestling in prayer in Gethsemane serves like a reflector oven to gather up the fear of all people in all ages.  Jesus endured suffering for us so that our fear has a "place" where it can be brought.

- Luke 22:39-46 (struggle at the Mount of Olives)

Expose the fear that is in you-    look into the darkness of that fear and seek to look through the fear in you, so to speak, until you break through to the most profound depth in you where basic trust lies.  In this inner depth find Jesus with his fear of death - and also with his victory over fear.

Willi Lambert suggests the following exercise.  In the morning sun of springtime one can often see a freshly plowed field with a layer of fog rising above it.  "This is a form of prayer not unlike this rising layer of fog.  It is helpful to lie stretched out like a small piece of land...then  plow your inner self with a question that generates fear... Open oneself for an hour and let everything (layers of fear) rise up - fear in looking at the past, at the present and at the future.  Lay there and say: 'Lord, when I am honest, then I have fear about...!'  Do this for the entire time of prayer.  From my experience I can say that there is hardly any other form of prayer that is as freeing and as life giving as this."  Do not let this "layer of fear" simply evaporate, but know that it has been taken up and surrounded by the presence of Jesus Christ who in Gethsemane also suffered through your fear.