A key thing about these fears is that they are not real, and what you do by probing them and pulling them into present moment awareness is really just exposing them as illusions. You're not discovering them as objects within you, but rather discovering that they were never objects in the first place, so to speak.
When you're in a dark room, with socially conditioned thought patterns that tell you that there are monsters everywhere, and therefore make them 'real' to you, all that is needed is to turn on the lights; not to see the monsters illuminated properly, but to see that there were never any monsters to begin with.
I think it helps to look at it this way, because when you attempt to 'remove' or increase your resistance to fears, you've made them real.
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