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Advice for Fear of Flying
The best advice for fear of flying is contained in the information
below.
Have a good read and if you have overcome your fears and have your
own advice for fear of flying why not
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1 - Understand Your Mind
No-one is born afraid
to fly!
Fear of flying is a learned fear.
A short psychology lesson...
 Some
advice for fear of flying would be to first understand how
your brain works. In broad terms the brain is divided into
3 distinct areas.
The reptilian brain is our earliest brain it
operates quietly in the background always assessing situations
and people.
The
reptilian brain looks at everything in a very
basic way –
Can I eat this?
Will this eat me?
Can I reproduce with this?
We have no control over the reactions
of our reptilian brain, but it has a lot of control over us.
It is the reptilian brain that makes us jump back from the
path of an oncoming 10 ton truck – we don’t have
to think about how we feel about the truck and we don’t
have to stand and assess the closing speed, we just jump.
It is the reptilian brain that
stops us walking down dark alleyways at night. The reptilian
brain is able to trigger automatic responses within the body
– particularly the fear based fight or flight response
– without any conscious input or thought.
The next area is the limbic
brain – the seat of the emotions –
and the third and final area is the cognitive
brain – the logic powerhouse. The imagination
can be a wonderful friend or self-sabotaging enemy. The sub-conscious
mind has no way of differentiating between reality and imagination;
it just accepts all inputs from every sense and files them
for future use. Our minds have no way of differentiating between
what we watch on the news and what we watch during the film
that follows the news.
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| Tip 2 - Understand
Fear More advice for fear
of flying would be to understand fear itself. Fear
is the mechanism that keeps us safe. We do
not want to do away with all fear – we want to retain
the capability to react without thinking, when appropriate.
If this looks scary...
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It's because you don't feel in control. You
probably don't know how your car engine works (maybe you do),
but being in control of the pedals, the gears and the steering
helps your mind ALOT!
For further advice for fear
of flying take a closer look at what
fear is from our Fear Fact
File and why it develops into an anxiety
disorder.
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Tip 3
- Understand Re-programing
Advice for fear of flying, at a cognitive level, we can rationalize;
we can look at statistics; we can read
books; we can talk
to pilots and we know that flying is safe. However, communication
between the rational brain and the reptilian part of the brain,
(that keeps us safe), is not good and it doesn’t matter
what our logical mind knows, if our self-protection mechanism
believes us to be in danger.
When fear is experienced, it
is the reptilian brain that is triggered. Your cognitive brain
can read as many safety statistics
as you like – they will not affect the reptilian brain.
It only knows how to keep you safe and, for whatever reason,
it has determined that flying is not safe!
So good advice for fear of flying
would be to re-program your mind and re-program the reptilian
brain. It is important to get the message through to this
part of the brain that flying is safe.
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Tip 4
- Understand Hypnosis
Further advice for fear of flying would be
some kind of guided relaxation
and imagery or even hypnosis
is a good place to start.
In a state of relaxation it is possible to
by-pass the cognitive and limbic brain and begin to communicate
directly with the reptilian brain. Over time, the message
it holds becomes changed and the fear of flying is replaced
with a more positive reaction.
For more advice for fear of
flying and to learn about some great hypnosis programs, click
here... |
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Tip 5
- Understand Your Health
Flying Health Risks
More good advice for fear of flying
is to understand the health risks at the root of the
fear of flying, experienced by many. As with all things
in life, knowledge is the great vanquisher of fear and
by learning more about the reality of the health risks
you encounter when flying, you help to diminish your
fear.
The popular press is full of stories, mostly overstated,
about certain health risks. These are just a few of
the health concerns expressed by aviophobics:
Click the links above to
learn more about
any of the concerns you may have.
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Tip 6
- Understand the Aircraft
Aircraft Maintenance and Serviceability
Understanding what you are flying in and how it is in the
air, is more good advice for fear of flying. It's true that
unless an airplane is maintained, it could pose a danger to
the safety of its passengers and to everyone and everything
else on board.
There have been airplane crashes that have been reported
that were caused by poor aircraft maintenance. This is a sad
thing because of passenger safety and the crew should come
before the aircraft takes off.
Click
here to read more... |
Tip 7
- Understand Flight Noises
Also more great advice for fear of flying is to understand
the noises you hear during flight. The noise from the airplane
can come from many
sources. They could come from the vibrations and the whirring
sounds during the retraction of the landing gears, the slamming
sounds from the loose articles in the galley caused by the
movement of the modules during take off or the reduction of
power after airborne to comply with the noise abatement procedures
in certain airports.
The air-conditioning noise may change to cater for the cooling
or heating needs. The Tick-tick-tick sound you may hear five
minutes before landing comes from the operation of the landing.
All these noises are normal and are nothing to worry about.
Any abnormal noise would be picked up by the Flight Attendants
and they would in turn notify the Captain. If you sit near
to the engines, the noise level is usually higher than elsewhere.
Fore more in-depth information and extra
piece-of-mind, click
here, where we explain the
noises you hear during airplane flight.
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Tip
8 - Understand Statistics
Statistics play a very important
part of piece -of-mind and advice for fear of flying. Statistically
passengers are safer in an aircraft than they are in a car,
but that does not prevent those who are frightened of flying
from experiencing intense anxiety,
nervousness and even panic
attacks that cause palpitations, dizziness, nausea, hyperventilation
and, in extreme cases, loss of consciousness, just at the
thought of taking a flight.
Take at look at these statistics...
For some, it may help a little!
| Odds
of being on an airline flight which results in at least
one fatality |
Odds
of being killed on a single airline flight |
Top
25 airlines with the best records
1
in 4.25 million |
Top
25 airlines with the best records
1
in 6.3 million |
Bottom
25 with the worst records
1
in 386,000 |
Bottom
25 with the worst records
1
in 543,000 |
Click here
for more information about airline safety...
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Tip
10 - Get Extra Help
Secrets Revealed
More advice for fear of flying
would be to get all the help you can. If you knew how a plane
worked would you feel in control? - Yes!
Watch our DVD and you will probably
know and understand more than the person sitting next to you
on any plane!
This
DVD will show you everything!
Click
here to find out more... |
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