Practicing Turning Negative Self Talk Around Is Fun and Therapeutic

Just saw this on the Newsreel: Fear of Flying Grounds Mum. An interesting story, and a sad story. I'd be willing bet just from anectdotal evidence that at least 10 percent and perhaps 20% fall into this category. My first impulse would be to say, "I wish I could help her." But that's an example of un productive self talk. Instead I say, "I can help her." Also, since EVERYTHING is an opportunity, this is not a sad story, this is a happy story. This is a story full of opportunity. You're life is full of opportunity, and you know it right now.

Here are a few statements she makes in the article that I will turn around:

"I was scared to fly even then but I managed to do it, probably because I was younger and braver."

She, you, and I can and do turn it around to this:

"I was never afraid to fly. I'm not afraid to fly now, and I never will be. I've always been brave. My soul is brave, and it always will be."

The aerophobic said her problem has become worse with time and is totally unsure how to beat it.

We turn it around to this: "My problem has dissolved. It has dis appeared right now. My problem has become better with time, and I am totally sure how to beat it."

"But the problem just became worse after I saw a couple of movies that showed planes crashing."

Becomes: "The problem just became better after I saw a couple of movies that showed planes crashing, because I realized that, while flying is not 100% safe, it is safer than any other thing that I do in my day to day life, and I am not afraid of those things, and right now I choose not to be afraid of flying anymore."

"Every time I even think about flying I sort of lose my mind."

We turn it around: "Every time I think about flying I'm happy and peaceful and like it."

"I don't know what happens to me then."

Becomes: "I know what happens to me then, and I enjoy the feeling of knowing that I am in complete control of it."

"I simply can't make myself to go anywhere near an aircraft."

"I can go near an aircraft, and I do go near an aircraft all the time, and I love it."

"But at the airport my fear just got the better of me and when it was about time to check in, I just went berserk.

"At the airport my fear never has control of me, and when its about time to check in, I am happy and in a state of bliss because I have allowed all negative emotions to leave me. They no longer exist inside me anymore."

"I know we have to leave Bahrain for good one day, but I don't know how I'm going to do it."

Becomes: "I know we have to leave Bahrain for good one day, and I do know how I'm going to do it."

"Hopefully someone who has the same condition as mine could approach me through the GDN and we could work something out together because medical help didn't seem to work."

Becomes: "Someone who has the same condition as mine is approaching me through the GDN and we can work something out together because there is something that is working."


An exercise like this is fun because the more you do it, the more you begin to feel it, to feel good, to feel something actually changing in your consciousness because something good is changing in your consciousness. It's also therapeutic because any and all good self talk gets recorded by the Subconscious mind. And eventually, the Subconscious mind acts on it.

Actually, we change the title of this story to "Love of Flying Frees Mum!"