JA JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDHYALAYA

NARWAR,SHIVPURI

“Benefits Of Facing Your Fear”

2022-23

NAME: SARANSH GUPTA

CLASS & SECTION: XII-A

ROLL NO.: 1213

SUBJECT: ENGLISH
 Class: 12th
‘science’
Guided By:
Prepared By:
Mrs. Sonia
Ma. saransh
Rana Rajput

Roll No.-1213

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I SARANSH GUPTA of class-XIIth
SCIENCE, session-2022-23 would like to
express my deepest gratitude to my teacher
Mrs. Sonia Rana Rajput (P.G.T. English)
for enlightening me with his valuable
guidance, motivation and enthusiasm.
Besides my teacher, I am grateful to my
Principal hon'ble Mr. R. Krishna for
bestowing upon me this golden opportunity
and providing me with all the facilities
required for the successful accomplishment
of this project.
Last but not the least I am really thankful to
all those who have directly or indirectly
extended every possible support for the
completion of this project.

Sign............
Name....................

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 CERTIFICATE
This is To cerTify ThaT Ma. saraNsh GUPTa,
roll No. 1213 of class XiiTh-scieNce, sessioN-
2022-23 has sUccessfUlly accoMPlished This
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dedicaTioN UNder My GUidaNce iN ParTial
fUlfilleMNT of The reQUireMeNT of cBse, for
The awrd of aissce 2022-23

i wish hiM a GraNd sUccess iN his life.

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 Index
S.No. Topic Page
No.

1 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE 5

2 PROJECT REPORT 6

3 BENEFIT OF FACING A FEAR 13

4 RELATE WITH THE “DEEP WATER” 16

5 QUESTIONS 19

6 REFERENCES 22

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 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

Abstract
The project about the given topic (i.e, Benefit of facing your fear ) is going
to be a detailed study and analysis of almost everything related to it and
will provide a brighter insight on the topic to the reader without making it
anymore intricate.

The aim is to provide authentic as well as indispensable information about

the chosen topic and taking a story DEEP WATER . How William Douglas
overcome her fear . This project report will be also containing some
images and diagrams for references, thus making it more efficient and
easier to comprehend for the reader to retain the information being read
by them.

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 PROJECT REPORT
To start off, first let’s see and get to know what we exactly mean by
‘FEAR’

What is a Fear.?

Fear is a natural, powerful, and primitive human emotion. According to psychology

research, it involves a universal biochemical response and a high individual emotional
response. Fear alerts us to the presence of danger or the threat of harm, whether that
danger is physical or psychological.

Sometimes fear stems from real threats, but it can also originate from imagined
dangers. While fear is a natural response to some situations, it can also lead to distress
and disruption when extreme or out of proportion to the actual threat.

Fear can also be a symptom of some mental health conditions,

including panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, phobias, and post-
traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Fear is composed of two primary reactions to some type of perceived threat:

biochemical and emotional.

Biochemical Reaction :

Fear is a natural emotion and a survival mechanism. When we confront a perceived

threat, our bodies respond in specific ways. Physical reactions to fear include sweating,
increased heart rate, and high adrenaline levels that make us extremely alert.

This physical response is also known as the “fight or flight” response, with which your
body prepares itself to either enter combat or run away. This biochemical reaction is
likely an evolutionary development. It's an automatic response that is crucial to our
survival.

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Emotional Response :

The emotional response to fear, on the other hand, is highly personalized. Because fear
involves some of the same chemical reactions in our brains that positive emotions like
happiness and excitement do, feeling fear under certain circumstances can be seen as
fun, like when you watch scary movies.

Some people are adrenaline seekers, thriving on extreme sports and other fear-
inducing thrill situations. Others have a negative reaction to the feeling of fear,
avoiding fear-inducing situations at all costs.

Although the physical reaction is the same, the experience of fear may be
perceived as either positive or negative, depending on the person.

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Symptoms of Fear :-

Fear often involves both physical and emotional

symptoms. Each person may experience fear differently,
but some of the common signs and symptoms include:

 Chest pain
 Sweating and chills
 Dry mouth
 Rapid heartbeat
 Shortness of breath
 Upset stomach
 Trembling

In addition to the physical symptoms of fear, people may

experience psychological symptoms of being
overwhelmed, upset, feeling out of control, or a sense of
impending death.

Phobias:

One aspect of anxiety

disorders can be a tendency
to develop a fear of
fear.Where most people
tend to experience fear only
during a situation that is
perceived as scary or threatening, those who live with anxiety disorders may
become afraid that they will experience a fear response. They perceive their fear
responses as negative and go out of their way to avoid those responses.A phobia
is a twisting of the normal fear response. The fear is directed toward an object or
situation that does not present a real danger. Though you recognize that the fear
is unreasonable, you can't help the reaction. Over time, the fear tends to worsen
as the fear of fear response takes hold.

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Causes of Fear:

Fear is incredibly complex and there is no single, primary

cause.4 Some fears may result from experiences or trauma,
while others may represent a fear of something else
entirely, such as a loss of control. Still, other fears may
occur because they cause physical symptoms, such as
being afraid of heights because they make you feel dizzy
and sick to your stomach.

Some common fear triggers include:

 Certain specific objects or situations (spiders,

snakes, heights, flying, etc)
 Future events
 Imagined events
 Real environmental dangers
 The unknown

Certain fears tend to be innate and may be evolutionarily influenced

because they aid in survival. Others are learned and are connected to
associations or traumatic experiences.

Types of Fear:

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 Agoraphobia

 Generalized anxiety disorder

 Panic disorder

 Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

 Separation anxiety disorder

 Social anxiety disorder

 Specific phobia

Treatment of Fear

Repeated exposure
to similar
situations leads to
familiarity, which
can dramatically
reduce both the
fear response. This
approach forms
the basis of some
phobia treatments,
which depend on
slowly minimizing the fear response by making it
feel familiar.

Phobia treatments that are based on the psychology

of fear tend to focus on techniques like systematic
desensitization and flooding. Both techniques work
with your body’s physiological and psychological
responses to reduce fear.

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Systematic Desensitization
Systematic desensitization involves being
gradually led through a series of exposure
situations. For example, if you have a fear of
snakes, you may spend the first session with
your therapist talking about snakes.

Slowly, over subsequent sessions, your therapist

would lead you through looking at pictures of
snakes, playing with toy snakes, and eventually
handling a live snake. This is usually accompanied
by learning and applying new coping techniques to
manage the fear response.

Flooding:
This is a type of exposure technique that can be
quite successful. Flooding based on the premise
that your phobia is a learned behavior and you
need to unlearn it.
With flooding, you are exposed to a vast quantity
of the feared object or exposed to a feared
situation for a prolonged amount of time in a
safe, controlled environment until the fear
diminishes. For instance, if you're afraid of
planes, you'd go on up in one anyway.
The point is to get you past the overwhelming anxiety
and potential panic to a place where you have to
confront your fear and eventually realize that you're
OK. This can help reinforce a positive reaction (you're
While
not inthese
danger)treatments can
with a feared be highly
event effective,
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confrontational approaches
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pastundertaken
the fear. only with the guidance of a
trained mental health professional.

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Coping With Fear:

There are also steps that you can take to

help cope with fear in day to day life. Such
strategies focus on managing the physical,
emotional, and behavioral effects of fear.
Some things you can do include:

 Get social support. Having

supportive people in your life can
help youmanage your feelings of fear.
 Practice mindfulness. While you
cannot always prevent certain
emotions, being mindful can help you
manage them and replace negative
thoughts with more helpful ones.
 Use stress management
techniques such as deep breathing,
progressive muscle relaxation, and
visualization.
 Take care of your health. Eat well,
get regular exercise, and get adequate
sleep each night.

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BENEFIT OF FACING A FEAR
8 benefits of facing your fears

fears and embark on things that scare the $hit out me and you
should too. The best things in life are on the other side of fear

1. . Know what you’re

capable of When we
challenge ourselves, we
grow and fulfill our
potential. Fear stands in
the way of taking the risks required to challenge
ourselves. When we face that fear and push ourselves
beyond what we thought we thought we could do or
achieve, we realize what we’re capable of. Plus, it feels
amazing to say “yes, I did that!”.

2. Turn your dreams into reality. Achieving our dreams brings

change and uncharted territory. This terrifies some people.
When I get there who will I be? What if I’m disappointed?
What will I do next? These fears lead to playing it safe,
staying in our comfort zone and experiencing varying levels
of disappointment, even if its self-inflicted. Boo! Focus When
fear arises, focus on the potential payoffs to spur excitement
or focus on one step at a time. Soon you’ll realize your dream
are your current reality.

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3. Fear alerts us to what matters. When the stakes are high
and there’s something we want to achieve, we feel either
fear or excitement. They are 2 sides of the same coin and
2-5 inches apart in the body. When fear arises, instead of
letting it paralyze you to, flip the feeling to excitement.
Recognize that the situation is meant to inspire your
continued growth.

4. Separate fact from fiction and move forward. Brene

Brown talks about “the stories we tell ourselves” when
we're in pain or chaos to make sense of the situation. Ever
experienced a friend or colleague frantically say “HR
wants to see me! I must be getting fired!” yet they
received a stellar performance review a month earlier?
Rarely is their job on the line yet they lose their mind and
fail to concentrate on anything else until that meeting.
When fear arises, choose how to react. Challenge it, ask
what is a fact and what is an assumption or story. If
there’s no basis to the fear, get back to being productive.

5. Avoid regrets. Facing our fears and “doing it anyway”

prevents us from wondering what could’ve happened. Ask
yourself, would I regret NOT doing this? How much?
(Yes, you can take risks without being irresponsible or
shooting from the hip.

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6. Develop greater resilience. Life does NOT get easier as we
get older and have more demands on our time and
emotion.

7. Encourage others to face and overcome their fears. Be a

role model to others. That feels just as outstanding as
achieving our own dreams.

8. Overcome future fears. Once you’ve overcome your fears

and reaped the benefits, you’ll have greater courage and
confidence to face other fears that arise.

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 RELATED WITH THE CHAPTER

“DEEP WATER”

William O. Douglas

Deep Water is about the writer’s journey of overcoming the fear

of water, which is deeply rooted in him since childhood. The
author started fearing water since the age of four. It starts when
he was visiting California with his father. He visits a beach
where a wave knocks him down and sweeps over him. This
terrifies the author, although the father laughs at this knowing
it was no danger. However, this experience terrifies him and
develops a fear of water. After that, when the author is 11 years
old, he experiences another incident which escalates his fear.

He is at a swimming pool in Yakima, trying to learn swimming.

On one fine day, a bully decides to pull a dangerous prank. He
pushes him in the deep end of the pool which frightens the
author. He reaches nine feet into the water and starts struggling
desperately to hold on to something.

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 Moreover, he yells for
help but he starts
feeling paralyzed and
only his heart was
moving now. Thus, he
gives up and readies himself to die but wakes up at the side of
the pool. However, the terror he experiences while drowning
never goes away. It continues to haunt him for many years and
even spoiled his future expeditions concerning canoeing,
swimming, fishing and more.

He even visits Marine Lakes, Columbia, New Hampshire and

more but is not able to enjoy it. Thus, he decides to overcome
this fear by hook or by crook. He enrols himself in a swimming
class and tries to learn from the instructor. The instructor
teaches him many tips and tricks for swimming. He begins with
the inhaling and exhaling part then he practices it for many
weeks.

Further, he moves on to the kicking the legs on the side of the

pool. Finally, he combines all this with the final move of
swimming. Although the author knows how to swim, he is still
terrified of water. Thus, in order to get rid of the fear, he
decides to confront it. He mocks it by thinking what can it
really do? Consequently, he plunges in to the water and to his
surprise, his fear goes away. He faced it in many places and at
last, manages to conquer it.

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Conclusion of Deep Water

To sum up, Deep Water

summary, we learn that if
we are determined enough
and have the courage, we
can overcome any fear that
comes our way without
letting the fear overpower
us.

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 QUESTIONS

Question : What’s the real reason for your anxiety?

Ans.- I had no rational reason to feel anxious; I had covered pretty much all the
bases.
Or so I thought.
As I dug deeper though, I realized my anxiety was essentially an identity crisis.

I had spent the better part of the last 20 years being an engineer, and in the pursuit of
making money.
And here I was, on the verge of throwing that away. And with it, my old identity.
While the rational part of me was okay with it, and even looking forward to it, a core
part of me found it hard to let go

Question : Is fear a good thing or a bad thing?

Ans.- Many times Scripture clearly views fear as a bad thing from which Christ has
come to rescue us. The apostle John writes: “There is no fear in love, but perfect love
casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been
perfected in love.”

On the one hand, we are told that Christ frees us from fear; on the other, we are told
we ought to fear—and fear God, no less. It can leave us discouraged and wishing that
“the fear of God” were not so prominent an idea in Scripture. We have quite enough
fears without adding more, thank you very much. And fearing God just feels so
negative, it doesn’t seem to square with the God of love and grace we meet in the
gospel. Why would any God worth loving want to be feared?

I want you to rejoice in this strange paradox that the gospel both frees us
from fear and gives us fear. It frees us from our crippling fears, giving us
instead a most delightful, happy, and wonderful fear. And I want to clear
up that often off-putting phrase “the fear of God,” to show through the
Bible that for Christians it really does not mean being afraid of God.

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Question : Can fear be sinful?

Ans.- This sinful fear of God is the sort of fear James tells us the demons
have when they believe and shudder . It is the fear Moses wanted to
remove from the Israelites at Sinai. It is the fear Adam had when he first
sinned and hid from God . Adam was the first one to feel this fear, and his
reaction in that moment shows us its essential nature: sinful fear drives
you away from God. This is the fear of the unbeliever who hates God, who
remains a rebel at heart, who fears being exposed as a sinner and so runs
from God.

This is the fear of God that it is at odds with love for God. It is the fear that
is, instead, rooted in the very heart of sin. Dreading, opposing, and
retreating from God, this fear generates the doubt that rationalizes
unbelief.

Question : How should one overcome fear according to

Bhagavad Gita?

Ans.- According to bhagvad Gita fear is nothing but illusion created by

your ignorance. One can overcome it by having his/her firm control on
Tamas guna characteristics .

I may sounds bit heavy to understand for mango people so let us

understand it bit more about what to control in Tamas guna?

Characteristics of tamasguna

Kama(pleasure) , Krodh(anger), lobh(greed), mohh(attachments), ahankar

(ego).

If you have self control on these above characteristics fear will never be
able to create illusion of itself around you and hence you will be able to
overcome it.

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Question : What's Your Greatest Fear in Life?

Ans.- “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that
most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? …And as we let our
own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the
same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically
liberates others.

1. “My greatest fear is that I will die alone.” – Anne, Bengaluru (India)

2. “Losing my social structure. I.e. Work, job, and thusly many acquaintances.” –
Dan, Stockholm (Sweden)

3. “My deepest fear is being alone without family or friends. I can’t understand
how people can love me.” – Saray, Spain

4. “My greatest fear is to look back and regret not having done something
because I was afraid.” – Mary, Nagoya (Japan)

5. “Fear of sudden/loud sounds.” – Parin, Rajkot (India)

6. “Death, that I or someone in my family will die (to lose control over the most
important thing we have – life).” – Lena, Dalarna (Sweden)

7. “My biggest fear is never taking a risk in an effort to find my true calling.” –
Anthony, New York City

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REFERENCES:-

1. https://www.verywellmind.com

[ verywellmind -what is a fear & cause ]

2. https://www.webmd.com

[ webmd – how to manage fear & overcome ]

3. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/boo-8-benefits-facing-
your-fears-doing-things-scare-jacqueline

[ linkedin- Jacqueline blogs -8 benefits of facing your fears ]

4. https://www.wikipedia.org

[ William O. Douglas image ]

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