When you are up to your ears in Crocodiles it's difficult to remeber that your original intention was to drain the swamp
Tuesday, August 20, 2013 @ 5:36 PM
Fear is a debilitating condition. The cause of it most times is our own imagination. For many years I had a fear of flying. Getting into an airplane and waiting for takeoff got me into a sweat. It was a feeling of being trapped in a situation over which I had no control and the thought of the airplane crashing sent my head spinning in to a frenzy of fear. What I had been doing was visualizing an accident that would almost certainly result in my death.
A few years ago I read about conquering fear. The writer had a friend who was afraid of flying and he asked him why he was so afraid, and his friend told him the exact reason I experienced about flying. The writer then said the problem was in the thought. He, the writer, actually looked forward to flying. It meant that he would be travelling in comfort, with no interruptions and would be served refreshments by the attractive stewardesses. He could listen to music, watch a movie or read something in peace.
That was the end of his friend’s problem with flying and mine too. All we had to do was focus on the pleasant aspects of flying instead of visualizing the potential disaster of falling out of the sky. The problem of being involved in a flying accident is very much less than the chance of an accident while travelling to work in your car, but you do not focus on that happening, so it’s not a problem.
All of our problems are self generated through the medium of thought. If you can train your thinking and focus on positive rather than negative thoughts, your fear will disappear and be replaced by confidence.
How does this relate to my headline?.......... Sorting out your thought processes is like draining the swamp, which had caused the crocodiles to appear.