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How to overcome your fear of flying

The first thing to understand is that the fear or anxiety is always of a future event.. In other words, it’s part of your imagination, so it’s not “real.” But it sure feels real and affects you like real with your heart beating and your adrenaline pumping. So you treat the fear of flying by treating the imagination.

You have a vivid imagination and can easily imagine yourself crashing into a mountain., an engine explosion, a terrorist attack, a wing fall, a fire in the cabin, the impact of an asteroid shower; the pilot may be drunk or have a heart attack, etc. Any number of things can go wrong!

Then your rational mind steps in to remind you that the odds of such things happening are much higher than winning the million dollar lottery. And you have heard many times that flying is safer than driving a car. Then your imagination returns: well, people do win the lottery and accidents happen, and people get hit by lightning, and I’m 30,000 feet in the air without a parachute!

Einstein said that imagination is the most powerful thing in the universe. You have the free choice to use it for good or bad, negative or positive. If you want to use yours on negative things, then you could become a horror novelist like Stephen King and make a lot of money. Or if you want, you can use it for positive things like: not only relaxing and enjoying every plane ride, but also looking forward to it with the joyous anticipation of a child going to Disneyland. Everything is in your mind and everything is controllable. So how do you control it?

You control it the way a stage actor controls his performance, or the way in which a military maneuver is controlled: he plans it, practices it, trains it. You rehearse it over and over again until the muscles memorize it and you can do it without the intervention of thought. This is a definition of mindfulness: action without the interference of thought. So you don’t really have a fear of flying problem; you have a problem of fear of the unknown. Properly rehearsing your trip makes it fully known.

Correct rehearsal requires being deeply relaxed. Deep physical and mental relaxation allows your visualization to more effectively internalize and assimilate into your subconscious mind so that it can then operate on autopilot, no pun intended. Otherwise, your training won’t stick, it just goes in one ear and out the other.

Here is a basic method of self-hypnosis.: Sitting in a comfortable straight-backed chair or lying in bed, take three very deep breaths. Now scan your body from head to toe to relieve all tension. Simply focus on each muscle group and tell it to be heavy and relaxed. Tell the muscles of your face, eyelids, and jaw to be heavy and relaxed. Tell your neck, shoulders, back, arms, hands, fingers, chest, abdomen, hips, buttocks, legs, and feet to be heavy and relaxed.

Now relax your mind closely following your breath as it comes in and out. When distracting thoughts intrude, bring your attention back to your breath again and again, until your mind is fairly calm and still.

Now imagine seeing yourself on a big movie screen. the day of your flight. See yourself at home getting ready to go to the airport, as relaxed then as you are now. See yourself packing a carry-on bag and a check-in bag. See yourself carrying both bags to the car and placing them neatly in the trunk. You get in the car and start driving to the airport noticing how relaxed and calm you feel. You are satisfied that all the details of the trip have been taken care of up to this point.

Now you stop at the gate of your airline, Get out of your car and open the trunk. An attendant grabs your bags and heads to the parking area and finds a fairly convenient space. You walk calmly back to the terminal and wait in the short line at the ticket counter. You realize how perfectly relaxed and patient you are. The smiling agent hands you your tickets and you head to the gate. You go and stop at a newsstand and peruse the rack of novels. A civil war romance jumps out at you and you buy it for the flight.

Your mind is perfectly calm and clear as you enter and complete the security check. You hand your ticket to the attendant, who stamps it and gives you your seat number. You sit in the waiting room and flip through the book. Your flight is called and you stand in line with the other passengers, still feeling deeply relaxed and without a thought in your mind except how enjoyable this novel and this flight will be. You watch yourself enter the plane and head to your seat feeling perfectly calm and relaxed. You sit down, fasten your seat belt and return to the novel, hardly noticing the smooth and powerful take-off.

The heroine risks her life by hiding and caring for a wounded enemy soldier. in the family store. You close your eyes for a moment to wonder if you would have the courage to do something so risky. When a bit of turbulence distracts you, just take a deep breath and return your attention to reading him. You stop reading again to enjoy a good meal of chicken parmesan with a glass of Chianti.

You look rooted in the present moment now feeling calmer and more relaxed than he has ever felt before. You look out the window to realize how wonderfully beautiful the view is from this height. Before you know it, the plane has landed in Paris and is taxiing to the ramp, and you almost regret the flight ending so soon.

The flight is over and you can return your attention to normalcy.. If you want, you can replay your trip over and over again until you are perfectly clear on how everything will happen. You are learning to live in reality instead of mindset, living in the security of the present instead of the anxiety of the future.

Have a good trip!

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