Claustrophobia is another main reason why some people fear air travel. The feeling of suffocating, falling and nausea leads to anxiety, and anxiety leads to stress and palpitations.
Conquering the fear of flying takes time and patience. People who have the fear of flying should know how to overcome their condition before it becomes worse. There are many ways to help you conquer your fear, may it be a medical or personal means.
Here are some of the simple steps you can take to conquer your fear of flying:
1. Before your flight, familiarize yourself. If it's your first time to travel by air, ask someone who has been on a plane many times. Ask a friend or a relative to help you understand the feeling whenever a plane takes off or lands.
2. If you have time to research, do it. It helps that you are armed with the necessary info before your actual flight and it will be easier for you to overcome the situation once you are on board the plane.
Buy a book, a DVD or browse for any online advice. Take note of the information especially those that are applicable to you.
3. If you are a frequent flyer who just can't get over the fear of flying, learn how to meditate to help you keep your calm. Meditate at home to exercise your breathing and your state of mind. Apply this technique on the actual day of your flight to reduce stress and anxiety.
4. Join a support group. You can check on the internet about groups and communities that help people with phobias. Search for the specific fear you have and log in. You can read and join forums from these online groups/communities, and you can exchange information from people who have the same fear. You can also get tips from other folks who have succeeded in overcoming their fear of flying through these forums.
5. Seek the help of a professional. If you think you can't conquer the fear of flying alone, you can always ask for a doctor's advice and a prescription.
6. Never resort to alcohol and non-prescription drugs because this could just make it worse.
7. Busy yourself while on flight. Bring a book, a Bible, your MP3 player or watch the movie or listen to the music on board.
I often talk about freedom from fear bringing you success but I want to impress upon you that this is such an important topic in the art of self development that I want to tell you more. Recently I listened to a short interview between Mike Litman, one of my mentors and Christine Schapp one of his many successful students and some fascinating insights of how Christine conquered her own fears to achieve success. I would like to tell you here what I took out of this great little interview.
To achieve success you have to do the following; Embrace your fears, get uncomfortable with them, and then conquer them to become comfortable. Get in the habit of dealing with your fears. Understand that your fears are also those of others and by conquering them you can help others to do the same. Remember that fears are only a state of mind. Re-live times when you have had success by conquering a fear and hang on to that moment as a tool to conquering even more fears.
Mike and Christine cover these points better than I can this article but let me share with you how hypnosis can help you achieve the last two points in the above list. By using self hypnosis you can take your subconscious mind back to the times when you have achieved success. Times when you have been in the flow and everything has seemed so easy to you. Everyone has had these moments and it does not matter how small a thing it was you that achieved.
A lot of small successes give you a lot more positive mind sets to hang too, the more your subconscious mind has to work on. Learning to ride a bike, swimming your first length in the pool, making your first speech, writing your first article or passing your driving test. These are all successes for you to use in conquering the new fears you meet on your way to even more success. To help you to put your own self hypnosis programme together write a list of everything that you were once afraid of doing but now holds no fear for you and has become second nature to you. Use that list to tell you and your subconscious mind how easy conquering fear can be.
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