What can you do to tend to any anxiety or fear in yourself or others?

I find that doing mindfulness meditation works..focusing on something else and staying in the now. But this is only a temporary fix especially if it’s something that is deep and affects my inner self. What I’ve learned is that fear or anxiety is our reaction to what happened when we were young and in order to “protect” ourselves we tend to go back to our childhood reactions. I find that realizing that my reaction or emotion is my responsibility and that no one or thing can make me feel this way. My readings have shown that yes it is ok to have these feelings but we need to go back to the original time when we were a child to address the original feeling. The Buddhists call it using the golden thread. Ask why you feel that way, address it but then ask why again, address again and keep on going back to the original situation. Often you will find yourself back to the time and realize what happened made and impression on you. Try to face the facts back then of the reality or perceived perception of what happened. These original feelings may affect your self esteem and create personal lies. We then to support and nurture our inner child who is affected and who creates the feelings of what we experience presently. I I’ve been doing this exercise now for about 7 months whenever something is stressful for me. It has not solved everything, but I have to admit that the repeated going back exercises are helping tremendously on my inner child and it’s self worth. It’s onwards and upwards hopefully to the point where I will accept my feelings without reacting to external stimuli. I am responsible for my reaction..no one or nothing can make me react.