Fear = Conscious Mind

I recently read an article about this we are so complicated and complicate our lives with an overactive Conscious mind, that has wants, needs, and a perceived vision of a life for us. Many influences come from others, our friends and relatives who have influence over us for various conscious reason will not block. They, the others take away a part of our true selves. 

The thing about our Conscious mind is it is a survival mechanism the real truths about ourselves lie in our subconscious our base of knowledge and understanding about ourselves and the work at large, basically an untapped area of us. 

How do we overcome this, take the power back, still the mind, spend time introspectively seeking our inner knowledge be soft on ourselves? Tools such as exercise, yoga, meditation, spiritual practices such as Reiki, Tarot and many other energy work areas help with this.