Ok - I'll tell you about a really weird therapy that I had to get rid of fear.
Before I started the treatment I felt anxious ALL the time. I didn't let this stop me doing things in life because when anxiety is your base level state you just have to get on with it.
I found out that I had retained the Moro reflex. Another name for this reflex is called the 'startle' reflex.
Moro reflex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a reflex that you are supposed to grow out of by six months old. However I had retained it into adulthood. One of the results of having this reflex is that at every little noise your body is flooded with adrenaline and cortisol. This is not a good state to be in!
As it is a reflex you can't control it, you can calm yourself down afterwards and rationalise it, but you can't turn of that adrenaline flood just by postive thinking at it isn't controlled by the rational part of your brain.
So the therapy. It took place over 7 months with an appointment every 5 or 6 weeks. Each appointment, I was tested and the therapy was to brush various parts of my body with a child's paintbrush about 40 or so times, twice a day for the weeks inbetween the appointment. I might have to brush the side of my face for 5 weeks, then across my lips for another 5 weeks etc. I was aware it sounded nuts, but I thought I'd give it a go anyway. I didn't feel any benefit for over 3 months, then all of a sudden I realised that I didn't have a constant churning in my stomach. People started noticing the difference in me, I was happier, calmer especially at work.
Unfortunately it isn't a very well know therapy, there are only 4 people in the UK that are practitioners. So I'm guessing this post isn't hugely helpful to those that don't live near a practitioner. However if you are feeling fear all the time it might be a physical problem, not just a mental one. I think you could use EFT to get rid of the reflexes once you knew what they are, but aswell as the Moro I had retained about 25 other foetal reflexes and they have to be treated in developmental order otherwise the earlier ones are retained.
I do think EFT is great for learned fears (which the majority of fears are) so can heartily endorse it in using it for fear of what others think.
As I'm not a practitioner in this therapy I don't use it on my clients. One thing I do for them is to do an 'amygdala balance' which takes a lot of stress away from the body. This is done by connecting to the clients energy system and holding release points on their body. I do this initially without an issue in mind, and then with them thinking about their issue. I can literally feel the stressful energy draining out of their body. (NB I'm using literally in it's proper sense there!)