We make decisions based on logic, intuition and emotions. Hence, emotions are one of the levels at which we make decisions, the other two being logic and intuition.

There are basically five natural emotions: grief, anger, envy, fear and love.

Although there are five natural emotions, the first three (grief, anger and envy) are an outgrowth of the last two (fear and love). In fact, even fear is an outgrowth of love. Your fear is always of a loss or damage of the self (or an aspect of the self) or of someone or something you love. If you don't love yourself, somebody or something, then you won't have fear of losing or damaging yourself (or an aspect of yourself) or the other person or thing.

So fear in itself is not bad. How can it be bad when it is an outgrowth of love? A mother who saves her child from an accident is expressing both fear and love at the same time: fear for her child's life and love to risk her own life in the process. But her fear is actually an outgrowth of love.

If you don't express and experience fear from young, as you grow older it becomes panic. So, if you don't express and experience the fear of public speaking, as you grow older you will panic when asked to speak in public. If you don't express and experience the fear of failing in doing something from young, as you grow older you will panic (an unnatural emotion) when asked to do that thing. Therefore, children should be encouraged to express and experience their fears.

Expressing and experiencing applies to all five natural emotions. Children who are not allowed to express and experience anger, as they grow older will find it difficult to express their anger and will go into a rage(another unnatural emotion). Anger is turned into the unnatural emotion, rage. Likewise grief repressed becomes the unnatural emotion, depression; envy repressed becomes the unnatural emotion, jealousy. Fear repressed becomes panic.