Fear and the Separate Self go hand in hand together. Until we see that this sense of self, this sense of separateness is an illusion, that consciousness is not trapped inside a body but that a body appears within consciousness, fear and anxiety will always follow us around.
As we start to wake up from the fixations and identifications at the level mind and emotions we come to see that there isn’t a someone to be hurt; there isn’t anyone or anything to be threatened by life.
The dissolving of the separate self is a process of love falling in love with love.