Dialogue with fear: here’s how to make it your friend

There fear it is an ancient, powerful, profoundly human response. The mental coach Lorenzo Micheli explains that it “is the way in which the mind-body system warns you that you have entered a situation perceived as delicate, uncertain, risky or significant. Fear is activated when you sense that something may threaten your balance: the body, the image you have of yourself, the result you desire, your role, your security, your sense of control”. Fear is born to protect. Micheli explains that it is activated in these situations: