Receiving an illness diagnosis is among the most dreaded events that you experienced. It arrives uninvited, unwelcomed & most of that time period unexpected. When receiving the news from your doctor apart from the phrase, "I am sorry to inform you...", you often notice a shift in the clinician's energy, darkening the area just like a cloud passing on the meeting. Shock is the most prevalent experience following the diagnosis, but once the shock melts away the most common experience is fear.What is it that we fear? A lot of people when finding a chronic or life-threatening illness diagnosis fear dying. The simple truth is that people all fear dying. You almost certainly don't believe me but stop and think for a moment about your death anxiety prior to the diagnosis. Do you have a will? Do you have life insurance? Are you experiencing a healthcare proxy? This is about preparation which his great, but it's predicated on fear that we're going to die. The simple truth is that we are going to die; the hope is that it's not very soon. When you can see that we all have death anxiety it creates battling fear easier.Fear is rooted in the unknown. Although you may have friends or family who has experienced a health challenge; it is rather different experimentally when it's you who is the patient. The fact of the problem is that we don't talk a lot about our mortality until someone dies. The theory that death exists is kept at arms length as if it were contagious. It's natural to want to retreat following your diagnosis, however the best way to combat fear is by experiencing it and putting fear in its place.Education is the primary component along the way of eradicating fear. The underpinnings of fear derive from lack of knowledge. Your first response to your diagnosis was most likely in line with the stories you've heard from others and even though some of them may be true, we all have created urban legends about our experiences, even when it involves illness. Get educated! Don't rely solely on the pamphlets in your doctor's office or the advertisements within most major magazines, rely on the community at this point you belong to predicated on your diagnosis. Find the national advocacy/education/support organization that serves your specific diagnosis. (Keep in mind that some organizations are umbrella organizations encompassing a massive continuum of illnesses)What stories do you have in your head that correlate to illness? You already have meaning mounted on illness before you've received your diagnosis. It is now time to throw the baby out with the bath water because there isn't a template for illness. The stories you've been told or tell yourself feed the fire of fear. As time progresses so does technology, pharmaceutical research and increased efficacy of allied health professions. Your story doesn't have to be a copy of those who have come before you. This is your journey to wellness and you also get to be the author, editor and publisher. Utilize the information you acquire to improve your story of health insurance and healing. Use your education to edit out the horror stories and replace them with possible options and alternatives.We're a culture that is afraid of illness yet overwhelmingly we don't take precautions to ward of disease. Is it really a surprise at the amount of people in Western culture who are diagnosed with an illness? The surprise is that it's you and like most folks you thought you're immune to the diagnosis. Fear impedes your curiosity short circuiting your search for possible solutions to your health challenge. Don't let fear detour you from your destination...health!Beat worries of illness. Get your FREE copy of the special report "The 5 Pillars of Health insurance and Healing". As an additional benefit I'd like to offer you the multimedia program "Instilling Expect Health". Want to reap the benefits of my experience with illness and twenty years of working with clients who've been diagnosed? Get your FREE report and multimedia program at [1] Browse the new health videos at [2]