Buck up Buttercup!

It seems that their is two types of scared. One for your physical life, and the other for your emotional life. I am really starting to think that the emotional scared is by far the worst. I have been involved with the physical fear for my life a couple times in my existence, and as scary as that is, their seems to always be a way out of the circumstance... usually by being physical. On the other hand emotional scared is the scariest because your mind knows all of your weaknesses, fears and insecurities. Throw in ones own ego and you have the makings of a real train wreck.
Metaphorically speaking that is.

So the question is how do you toughen your mind without going ga ga? Surely one doesn't purposely create situations that would cause such turmoil....that would seem counter intuitive, almost self destructive. But just like a boxer who has to toughen their knuckles by repeated strikes, their is no easy way to practice what we all must do multiple times in this life. That is to summons the courage to face the unknown,... knowing that to do so is the only way to gain the realization that our fears are what really keep us from being all that we can be.