How Meditation Can Help With All Kinds of Fears

Researchers have experimented with using meditation to relieve varieties of fear because, as one researcher put it, fear and relaxation cannot coexist.

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Meditation can help people overcome their fears, small and great. One study found that it helped cancer survivors overcome their fear of recurrence. Another examined how it helped with fear of the dentist.

Others have found it effective against the fear of death.