Your Amygdala’s Request

If you can sense and appreciate your fear — be it of flying, illness or social rejection — as merely your amygdala’s request for more information rather than a signal of impending doom, then you are on your way to calming down and engaging more conscious, logic-dominated parts of your brain. At that point, you can assess the rationality of your fear and take steps to deal with it.

Just as fear can be contagious, so can courage, caring and calm.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/well/live/fear-anxiety-therapy.html