RE: Advice for the anxious plane traveler

[Guest guest]

I did it!!!!

I have to tell you, that willingness is stronger than any thought or emotion.

There was a lot of anticipatory anxiety leading up based on thoughts of what

might happen, but I decided that I was willing to feel anything that came up in

the moment, and just took it one moment at a time. There were moments of

heightened intensity, along the way, but I just sat with it, breathed, and felt

a sense of peace knowing that this was the only moment that mattered, and that

ultimately, if I had a panic attack, that it was out of my control, as the best

I can do is to use the techniques to prevent one.

On the way back, as luck would have it, I had major anxiety and fear about

getting stuck again in ville, like the first time where it all started.

Was snowballing, but again, willingness to experience it, prevailed.

Truly a tin can monster

On a side note, I saw that this discussion ensued after I left, and it brought

me to tears. Thank you all for being so kind and accepting towards my

predicament. Much of the fears I experience, is being held together by the fear

of what people would think, judgment, rejection, based also on early childhood.

Sometimes I think suffering is here to teach us to let go, to be compassionate,

emphatic, to love and care for ourselves and others. Can be a gift.

Best

Planes are just another method of transportation, nothing more nothing less. Oh,

and a bit quicker