Where my Fear of Flying began…

Ever since I was a young child, I’ve had a terrible fear of flying.

My parent were divorced when I was 3. For most of my childhood, I was put on a plane with my older brother to see my father out of State. The eldest, my sister, was put on a separate plane. This was in case one of the planes crashed.  My parents wouldn’t lose all their children at once.

My mother had this glum look on her face when we said goodbye and boarded the airplane. Like many young children, I got motion sickness from flying.

You can see where this is headed.

Already, at an early age, the programming is set in place. Planes bring misery. Possibly vomiting into and that little paper bag they provide. Possibly a horrific death.

This went on for many years. Summers and Christmases we’d be shipped off for what was first a 90 minute flight. Then my dad moved overseas and it became even longer and more full of horror and dread. I got over the motion sickness but never the fear of a horrific death.

I survived childhood…

Fast forward to August, 2001. I’m married and now my husband’s sister is getting married.

My husband and I grew up in the same State back east but met on the west coast.  Seeing our family was a big marathon of jumping around to different cities in the same State with a rental car.

The marathon finished off with his sister’s wedding. We flew back for what would be a very long time because as you know, September 2001 everything changed. You can imagine how I took it.

Welcome new members…

Obviously, I was not alone in this phobia. That day added many other new members to the Fear of Flying club. and fear that I experienced my whole life. Some of us vowed to never fly again.

Never say never…

Eventually, we had children of our own and we needed to make an effort to visit family “back east.”  My young daughter was excited to get on an airplane. I had to act excited with her.

I was tired of being scared and ruled by this fear.  I was tired of all the joy it robbed of me. Google was my friend by this time. I googled  “fear of flying…” and found the website SOAR.

Statistics? What statistics?

I knew all the statistics about flying. I knew all the “rational” reasons to not be afraid but it didn’t matter. No amount of talking myself down and going over numbers and statistics allayed my fears.

SOAR did something different. It worked on the subconscious level. I was flying in a few days so I had to get rapid response package.

I watched the videos. It showed pictures of happy images interspersed with everything to do with flying, going to the airport etc. It was re-programming my subconscious mind very quickly. There were other exercises to go along with it and the founder of SOAR, Captain Tom Bunn, is a retired airline pilot. He has many presentations and goes in depth of the more rational stuff like statistics and the technical aspects of flying. But he’s also a licensed therapist that uses behavioral psychology combined with his expertise as a pilot.

Newly reprogrammed mind…

With the very short preparation before our trip, I got over the biggest part of my fear of flying and experienced almost immediate relief. I no longer had these horrific associations with smelling jet fuel or walking down the dark corridor to get on the airplane.

It was really strange to me because it had been so automatic in the past. How was it that all I had to do was repeatedly watch these soothing videos of happy images mixed with images of airplanes, airports, dark corridors, and terminals?

Suddenly, I had a more neutral feeling towards going to the airport and getting on the plane. I was more focussed on the fun part of the trip.

It didn’t take hours of therapy. SOAR worked pretty quickly and I didn’t even get the more in depth program.

The subconscious mind is powerful!

To this day it still fascinates me and I will speak more on our subconscious programming and mind entrainment. These types of programs can be used as an EASY button and change our lives for the better.

Is this how we “create” our reality? Is it really manifesting? Is it Quantum Physics? Or are we making the wrong or right decisions through out our life based on how our subconscious mind has been programmed since we born into this world?

The exploration continues….

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