Human beings are responsible for what they think. Behaviour emerges from thoughts. The two are not separate. In other words, what you do results from what you believe.
Change can only truly happen at the level of the thinking process. Altering your behavior alone does not correct the thinking behind it. For example, you could choose to quit smoking cold turkey, but completely ignore or resist healing what motivated you to start smoking in the first place. Any change you make does not mean you grasp the motivation.
It is common for people to resist taking responsibility for what they avoid. Fear is like feeling responsible for an incorrect choice without admitting it. Fear is a sign you resist sensing energy imbalance or hesitate to do what it takes to re-align at soul level.
If you wonder what this really means, then remind yourself choices always relate back to your thought processes. One perspective of fear is that this is what happnes when you abdicate responsibility for your thoughts. To evoke fear inside is a sign you have made a choice that does not serve you. The result matters less than the underlying reasons.
How you behave right now is a symptom of what you think. You are invited to take responsibility, to recognize and dissolve fear. To hope to eliminate fear from your perception or to ask to be released is to ignore the conditions that created the fear.
Imagine how effective it would be to treat only the symptoms manifest of an illness. The result would not heal the cause of the illness. This would be like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound and ignoring the bullet embedded in and infecting the underlying tissues.
Rest assured, it is possible to evolve where you realize you have nothing to hide. You can also evolve to where you no longer choose to withold anything. Deception nurtures fear. Your authentic self knows fear when you resist dissolving your own illusions.