Any Way Of Reducing The Existential Fear From Meditation?

electroBeam
By electroBeam in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God,
the meditation practice I follows involves me looking at myself in the mirror(gazing meditation) and then asking myself "who is looking at this person in the mirror" anyway this meditation technique is really really really effective! "I" start to forget who the person is in the mirror within 5 minutes, and the discovery of who is aware of the experience becomes very apparent very soon. But this meditation techniques is very very scary. Forgetting who the person is in the mirror/realizing its not you, and then realizing that the 'thing' who is aware of experience is not real, is soooo scary. Its like combining 1000 horror movies into 1. Is there any way of alleviating this fear? I've tried reassuring myself that "don't worry, everything will be ok. Enlightenment is beautiful, this is a good thing" but then eventually the realization occurs that experience is just talking to itself when I try and say these things to myself, and those reassuring sentences loose meaning.   This is a very uncomfortable experience to have. Any way of making it less daunting?
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