Good advice. I have a fear of flying...and yet I plan to do an around the world trip this year. I have an appointment to see a hypnotist before I leave...I'll let you know!
LOVVVE this. Like I'm teaching my kiddies: there is nothing wrong with fear, as long as you are working on it. Fear can very quietly and very easily become a bad habit. ;) C.
Fly Girl
· 11 months ago
Great points to remember. I force myself out of my comfort zone on most of my travels and it makes me briefly impressed with myself. Discomfort isn't fun but facing your fears helps you realize that it is manageable.
Fear, definately, influences our daily life along with our travel. A lot of people won't go to certain countries or approach individuals in the countries they visit primarily from this emotion. I'll go with FDR: you have nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Sometimes you have to be pushed into things you fear, which is one of the strengths of the oft maligned "group travel" experience.
Most of the things I've done while traveling that involved facing my fears - eating food I had never tried before in France, climbing waterfalls in the Dominican Republic, cliff jumping into the Mediterranean - I did because there was a group leader telling us what we were all going to do and I had no choice in the matter. Not wanting to be the only one who chickens out, you do it! Those are some of my best traveling memories.
Solid advice Erica! I'm scared senseless of deep water but that never stopped me from trying out whitewater & blackwater rafting.
I remember whale watching once from a tiny raft with two other people out in the Pacific, and wondered what would have happened had the whale breached close to us.
Had I let my fear of deep water take over, I would have missed out on a totally amazing experience.
@Tanya, Good point about being pushed into things you fear. If you're on your own, there might be a risk you'll bail out since 'no one is watching'. But when you're in a group, you automatically become even more motivated to meet the challenge.
Thanks for the feedback and I'm glad to hear you all agree that facing your fears is the only way to go!
I love the idea of leaving the map behind. Some of my best travel experiences happened by accident (and without a map or with horrible map-reading skills:).
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Most of the things I've done while traveling that involved facing my fears - eating food I had never tried before in France, climbing waterfalls in the Dominican Republic, cliff jumping into the Mediterranean - I did because there was a group leader telling us what we were all going to do and I had no choice in the matter. Not wanting to be the only one who chickens out, you do it! Those are some of my best traveling memories.
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