How to get rid of fear and panic

Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (diaogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Questioner: How to control fear and panic, and move towards our objectives?

Acharya Prashant: Ah! Now you have made it very difficult for me. You are saying that you do not want to panic, and yet you want to keep moving towards your objective. Yes? Where do your objectives come from? From the structure of your mind, your beliefs, all that has been fed into you. That is what gives rise to your goals, and objectives, and targets, right? And where does fear and panic come from? From the same stuff that has been fed into you.

You want to retain the goodie-goodie part, and you want to get rid of all that troubles you. You say, “No I want to chase those objectives, but I do not want to feel the associated pain and panic.” How is it possible?

In fact, those objectives, those goals and targets, are inseparable from fear. Wherever there is an objective, there would be fear associated with it. You hope to get something, and you fear that you may not get it. Don’t you see that a man, who is chasing goals, has condemned himself to live in fear?

Whenever you are having an objective, you want to meet the objective, don’t you? And when you want to meet it, there is always a parallel thought that you might miss it. This…