Galactics, Ascended Masters and esotericists alike formulate love and fear as opposites and that Ascension basically comes down to love replacing fear in the Earth plane. The dark elites try to stoke fear in the hearts of people and lightworkers plant the seeds of love. Fear has a low vibrational frequency from which parasitic extraterrestrials can draw vital energy and a fearful person gives his power away to dark charlatans. However, during Ascension people are also experiencing a kind of fear other than induced by negative outside forces. Fear can also be a way in which your Higher Self draws attention to spiritual issues you need to resolve within yourself. After all, fear can be one of the strongest forces of motivation within the human being and can go far beyond a simple fight-or-flight survival reflex. Fear can drive you to places in your mind that you've been stubbornly avoiding because you were afraid of what you would find there. Then one, more acute source of fear can drive you to overcome and brave another, deeper fear. You may face a practical problem in your life that causes fear and your normal response would be to do everything possible to remove that fear. You may come to a point, however, that you feel you're running out of practical options and that may be a good time to ask yourself if the issue really is of a practical nature or that, indeed, your Higher Self is trying to tell you something and lead you somewhere. If you suspect the latter to be the case then it might be helpful to simply give in to the fear and let it permeate your being, however blasphemous this may sound to some. I'm telling you this, because I've had this experience myself and that embracing fear (in very specific cases) thought me things about myself that I wouldn't have known otherwise. In that sense embracing fear can be a medicine and like all medication it should be used with the greatest discernment and NEVER under the influence of outside forces. This post simply aims to lift the taboo from fear, the onesided picture of fear being a bad thing per sé. Knowing when to battle your fears and when to embrace them is an art that you must and will master as your Ascension progresses.