[kjanyeaz1]

On the subject of getting rid of fear, it's important to keep in mind that your subconscious doesn't work in negatives.

Do not try to will yourself to "stop being afraid".

I remember, long ago in my high school Psychology class, one day the teacher wrote a number on the blackboard at the end of class and said he would give extra credit to anyone who could FORGET the number he wrote. As you can probably imagine, no one was able to forget the number. (One kid tried claiming he did, but the teacher tricked him into saying the number by saying that now he'd give him an A on the next test if he said the number. )

To reiterate: Trying to think about getting rid of your fear will really cause you to keep thinking about your fear!

Instead, when you find fear creeping up (especially if it's at night or if you are getting close to OBE and you feel a negative "presence" closing in), you need to replace the fear in your mind with something positive. Fill yourself with thoughts of courage and confidence. Tell yourself that you, and only you, have power over yourself. Remind yourself that the vast, vast majority of "negs" that bother with people are actually relatively weak without our fear to feed them; they do not have the limitless source of energy that we have. If you feel a neg, confidently tell it that it is not welcome and that it must leave. This doesn't need to be overly aggressive, but you need to establish that you know you are the one in control, and that you are prepared to defend yourself.

Another thing to do is, while you are working on leaving your body, imagine that your astral self is in a safe, serene, positive place in the higher astral where there are no negs. As you project, focus on going straight to this positive place and leaving any negativity behind.

Alternatively, you can use a projection as an opportunity to face down any negs around you. When you're projected and you're confident in yourself, you are something for them to fear.

I will relate an empowering experience I had years ago.

Back when I was doing a lot of energy work, trying to project (couldn't do it from full consciousness, but I could occasionally project early in the morning when I was drifting in and out of sleep) and having lots of lucid dreams, I occasionally woke up and felt negative presences in the middle of the night. I could generally make them go away by focusing on my shields and commanding them to leave, but it took some effort to keep my confidence and not feed them with fear.

On one of those occasions, I woke up and felt a negative entity enter my room. I was struck by fear. However, I sensed that my body was close enough to sleep that I might be able quickly project or enter a wake induced lucid dream. I instinctively pushed my body to sleep and lifted my consciousness up to a standing position.

I suddenly found myself standing high up on a mountain, looking at the neg, which happened to be standing near a cliff. (I'm not sure if I technically projected or entered a lucid dream state; either way, I'm pretty sure I was dealing with the neg that had come into my room.) The entity looked like a smoky black thing in a vaguely humanoid form. Suddenly I found my fear replaced by complete confidence and a fierce intention to defend myself. Without even thinking about it--and I'm not sure where I got the idea to do this--I stepped toward the neg (which seemed quite taken by surprise) and yelled "I BANISH YOU!!!" I yelled it more loudly and forcefully than anything I've ever yelled physically (I'm generally a very calm and non-temperamental person).

The neg immediately evaporated; it was like it just disentegrated into a fine dust, and then a gust of wind blew it off the cliff, dispersing it. I took advantage of the dream/projected state I was in to call on a guide to talk to, but of course I couldn't remember any of the conversation when I woke up; but there was definitely no more neg in my room.