7 Quick Fixes to Combat Fear

1. Arrive on site earlier than usual
   Inspect and feel the environment. Then choose an area which particularly makes you feel comfortable and safe, and stay there.
2. Feel your body and use your senses
   Make yourself comfortable by finding support for your body, like a chair, and adopt a relaxing and securing posture. Then feel the weight and warmth of your body where you feel most relaxing and secured.
3. Breathe using your stomach not lungs
   Breathe all the way into your stomach, and you should feel your stomach moving if you do it right. Then breathe out, and it should last longer than your breathe-in. Indeed, the more we breathe into our lungs deliberately and rapidly, the more nervous we are making ourselves.
4. Tell your problem to your friends, and seek their immediate support when in fear
   You'd feel more resolved if you tell your friends about the fear you have. Also they can help you when your next panic attack comes. Tell them immediately when you're frightened, and seek their comfort and support.
5. Soothing visuals
   Find something visual that appeals to you and make you feel comfortable, be it a laughing puppy on a poster, or a meaningful bookmark of your own. Focus on it so that you'd be less affected by the threats around.
6. Acknowledges your fear and physiological reactions
   It's okay to tremble, has intense heartbeat and random involuntary movement when we confront with our fears. It's normal and human. But then you begin your road to healing and overcoming it by having your own inner peace of mind and thus regaining control of your mind and body.
7. Know that life is about ups and downs and, most importantly, balance
   We all have our ups and downs. It's life. To stay sane and move on, we need to strike a good balance between the two ends. As my counselor said to me, 'good food, good friends, good sleep.' Treat yourself properly so that it'd better counteracts the negative side of your daily life.