There is a sense in which all human beings experience fear and anger. But based on discovery people have a temperament predisposition. All melancholies and phlegmatics have a fear tendency, and all cholerics and sanguines have an anger tendency.
WHAT IS FEAR?
Fear is the paralyzing emotion that inhibits or restricts normal feelings of love, confidence, and well-being, it triggers negative thought patterns, breeding anxiety, worry which can multiply like a giant snowball and consume a person's entire life. Fear is not related only to one area of a person's life, like your body, it invades the total person.
Everyone will face fear the first time he does anything dangerous in life. Everyone is nervous or afraid when facing the trauma of driving a car, motorcycle, or airplane, or diving off a high diving platform, etc. Those who let their fears inhibit them from attempting whatever they would like to door should do have crossed the line from normal fears to destructive fears.
The fears of the melancholies seems more intense an have a more inhibiting influence on them. Phlegmatics let fear inhibit their activities, but they don't get so upset over the incident. Vocationally, the phlegmatics is extremely security conscious, melancholy can hardly make the choice. Phlegmatics are easier to persuade to do something new than melancholies. Melancholies rarely change professions, they are more self-centered than Phlegmatics. A self-centered person worries about everything, even his worry.
The major difference between the fears of the melancholy and those of the phlegmatic is that the melancholy's fear are more intense, last longer, occupy more of his thinking and inhibit his life more. While the phlegmatic is a worrier and prone to limit himself by his fears, he has relatively happy outlook on life and can forget his fears as soon as he returns to as more familiar place in life.
Fear is a cruel taskmaster which inhibits every area of one's life. It takes us surrounding totally to the holy spirit to fix us and transform us. The holy spirit is the only counsellor, mediator who can correct the errors in our lives and make us better and transformed again.
Source: WHY YOU ACT THE WAY YOU DO- TIM LAHAYE