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Everyone has fears and to some extent it is healthy to have fear. It keeps us from walking down that dark alley in a risky part of the city. Fear can make us more aware of our surroundings to help us stay safe. For children, a healthy fear of the consequences might ensure good grades in school. For some people, though, their fears become a hindrance to everyday life.
How do we begin to address our fears? We do what scares us - that is, we work against emotional and psychological resistance; we lift that mental dumbbell. And then we lift a heavier one. Once we face our fears, we become stronger, we develop new skills, our mindset shifts, the "weight" seems lighter and we move to the next (heavier) dumbbell on the rack.
Fears have been raised over strains of drug resistant gonorrhoea that have emerged in England and Wales.
AFP - Authorities in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi have temporarily closed at least a dozen dog slaughterhouses on fears their unclean conditions may help spread cholera bacteria to people, an official said Monday.
An Egyptian religious leader says the annual Hajj may have to be delayed because of swine flu.
Nearly half of Americans were concerned five days ago that they or their family might actually get the H1N1 "swine" flu.