I went spearfishing once with my friend and apart from feeling like I was in outer space with all the sea life I was seeing and nearly swimming into, I noticed that I had this fear of being eaten by a shark and also that that fear disappeared completely when I was focused on trying to catch a fish.
You can’t play offense and defense at the same time. If you don’t want to be scared, be something else.
You don’t have to be scary. But you don’t have to be scared.
Of course this won’t make a shark go away, but if you’re on land and there’s no immediate shark-like danger around, then you might just have the power to change your thoughts, and change your world. You might have the power to make your monsters vanish, by thinking about something else.