Perhaps something to keep in mind is fear (or any emotions for that matter) are responses to environmental or internal  happenings that are based off of your world view (this does not need to remain the same, the world view that is) in my life when something wasn't sitting with me correctly most often it was out of my control and to get past it I could give it up to "God" (omnipotent Being of your choice) and try my best to align my world view more along this vein (as opposed to my "old" consensus reality which never has done me much good as it is self generated by my very imperfect brain!

Fighting is a struggle ; surrendering the desire/ illusion of control is easy. That is if you can do it! As dmnstr8 said

Do it ! Let go! Don't let old stuffy ideas limit you! and the idea that you must remain in solitude sounds stuffy to me! Best of luck