When we feel excessive fear how can we correct the mind’s corrupted software?

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how to fix the corrupted software when the fear is excessive yeah we have to work at things which we can fix sometimes some fears may be so much that dealing with them is almost impossible so rather than trying to deal with those fears at that time, we focus on trying to spiritualize ourselves during the rest of our life trying to gain more knowledge gain better understanding, connect with Krishna if you consider our life the graph of our consciousness with respect to time you will find that there are times when the fear shoots up and those phases may be almost impossible to deal with when that happens rather than trying to think, oh, when that fear will shoot up, what will I do, how will I deal with it okay, when it comes, let’s see what happens say, this is the time when fear shoots up and this is the time when fear shoots up in between, what do I do if in between I am focusing on Krishna, I am trying to toughen myself internally by gaining knowledge, by strengthening my devotion, then when those phases come we will be able to better deal with it the nature of the mind is that it cannot not think of something is say, I find that this mic stand has some electricity in it, some current is going on I put, I feel a current then I decide I will not touch this now I can, because it’s a physical object, I can decide not to touch it but the mental level I can’t decide not to think of something, if I tell you now, for the next 30 seconds please don’t think of a pink monkey in your whole life, you may not have thought of a pink monkey but, now when I tell you don’t think of a pink monkey, you start thinking of it so sometimes, thinking of not doing something that actually increases the thinking of that thinking of that particular activity so rather than thinking I will not become fearful, I will not let myself become overcome negation doesn’t work well in the level of the mind, so what we do is, focus on the positive during the phases in between when the fear shoots up, try to cultivate some positive connection try to cultivate, develop some habit of thought which can fill us with positivity with energy, we chant the holy names of Krishna, read something constructive like the Bhagavad Gita, learn deep breathing, and we try to strengthen our positive connection and at that time when the fear comes up, still the fear may come, but we try to redirect our consciousness towards the positive habit which we have developed, and that way we will be able to overcome the fear