Are you scared of flying? If so, does it stop you from doing it or are you strong enough to face the fear and get on the plane?
I'm sitting looking at a Ryanair booking for tomorrow and all things considered, I don't need to make this trip, so my chicken-hearted indecisive streak is preventing me from booking.
I know it hardly makes an entertaining thread, but if you can reassure me enough that there is nothing to fear I may take heart and book (before the price goes up).
Originally posted by asromacalciowhy are you going?
Are you scared of flying? If so, does it stop you from doing it or are you strong enough to face the fear and get on the plane?
I'm sitting looking at a Ryanair booking for tomorrow and all things considered, I don't need to make this trip, so my chicken-hearted indecisive streak is preventing me from booking.
I know it hardly makes an entertainin ...[text shortened]... me enough that there is nothing to fear I may take heart and book (before the price goes up).
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Originally posted by asromacalcioTakeoff and landing is nervewracking to me. Otherwise, it's fine.
Are you scared of flying? If so, does it stop you from doing it or are you strong enough to face the fear and get on the plane?
I'm sitting looking at a Ryanair booking for tomorrow and all things considered, I don't need to make this trip, so my chicken-hearted indecisive streak is preventing me from booking.
I know it hardly makes an entertainin ...[text shortened]... me enough that there is nothing to fear I may take heart and book (before the price goes up).
Doesn't stop me from flying, but doesn't seem to get better either.
Originally posted by asromacalcioWhere abouts? You might get struck by lighting, get hijacked, bombed, turbulance, but that's all really unlikely, so just get on the plane 😛
Are you scared of flying? If so, does it stop you from doing it or are you strong enough to face the fear and get on the plane?
I'm sitting looking at a Ryanair booking for tomorrow and all things considered, I don't need to make this trip, so my chicken-hearted indecisive streak is preventing me from booking.
I know it hardly makes an entertainin ...[text shortened]... me enough that there is nothing to fear I may take heart and book (before the price goes up).
Originally posted by asromacalcioI was a scared once but I was a passenger on an old world war two plane. We only flew around for 30 mins but if a plane 60+ years old took me up in the air and back down a modern one will do it no trouble. I suggest book the tickets and then keep busy and don't think about it more then you need to.
Are you scared of flying? If so, does it stop you from doing it or are you strong enough to face the fear and get on the plane?
I'm sitting looking at a Ryanair booking for tomorrow and all things considered, I don't need to make this trip, so my chicken-hearted indecisive streak is preventing me from booking.
I know it hardly makes an entertainin ...[text shortened]... me enough that there is nothing to fear I may take heart and book (before the price goes up).
I used to be fine, grew up flying from country to country, no problem. Then I took nearly a ten year break and when I returned, I was petrified. It's not so bad nowadays, I don't like it much, but I can handle it. Strangely enough, I find that reciting the Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear helps greatly:
I must not fear, fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain....
Originally posted by StarrmanGreat help, thanks.
I used to be fine, grew up flying from country to country, no problem. Then I took nearly a ten year break and when I returned, I was petrified. It's not so bad nowadays, I don't like it much, but I can handle it. Strangely enough, I find that reciting the Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear helps greatly:
I must not fear, fear is the mind-killer. Fear ...[text shortened]... ner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain....
I tend to be tough as nails but there are a few things which slow me right down, this being one of them.
I used to fly quite frequently since I was 5 and suddenly at the age of 28, after a sad, sad moment of my life [which had nothing to do with flying] one day I just couldn't get on the plane [the flight attendant had to kick me out because I was frwaking the others passengers]... :'(
... the funny thing is that has nothing to do with fear to fly but with claustrophobia... a funny one that gets worst inside planes but also emerges in elevators or tiny cars...
Solution? I jump into planes high on pills [legal ones], after performing 30 minutes of the Jacobsen method and some digit acupuncture to lower the blood pressure.
So, mate, get on that plane high and enjoy the little chat Jim Morrison and Krishna will have inside your head 😉
My brother is Sky Diving instructor and I've been on a fair few jumps with him and the rest of his Sky Diving club. He deals with people that are afraid of flying all the time (mainly because their so called 'friends' sign them up for jumps as birthday presents, or they do it for charity), and his advice on it is just to face your fear as you would do with any other phobia.
Thousands and thousands of people fly all around the world everyday; from commercial jets, to private planes, military aircraft and even the one prop hunks of junk I jump out of. Fair enough, there are the odd accidents but you get that with any form of transport. You're actually more likely to die driving down a motorway/highway then flying, and how many times in your life have driven down one? You can even compare it to fatal accidents in the home, or some other random statistic and you'll find that you do a lot more dangerous things than flying every single day.