Some people may have a fear of heights, and this applies not only to being on skyscrapers and airplanes. Such fear can even arise from an ordinary descent, for example, from a staircase.
Instructions
Step 1
Realize the fact that fear of heights is an acquired experience of the brain, a person is not born with it. A child encounters it at the age of six months to a year, when he learns to walk and begins to fall and hurt himself painfully. Many people live calmly with this fear all their lives, overcoming it as needed. But there are times when the nervous system fails. Then the normal, healthy fear of heights, which is associated with self-preservation, turns into a painful phobia.
Step 2
To get rid of this fear, it is necessary to determine its nature. Concentrate on your worst fantasy. What do you feel or see with your inner vision? It can be a return to childhood memories in gaining experience of the first steps. You can see pictures of falls, trauma. You are also able to experience feelings of panic, dread and fear when under stress, depression, etc.
Step 3
Don't ignore facts that prove you are afraid of injury or are under stress. The fact is that the brain can simply block with fear your possible wrong actions associated with climbing to any height. And in a state of stress, all possible attempts to translate your subconscious self-aggression into real actions, which are often associated with falling from a height, are paralyzed. If a person tries to escape from solving a problem that leads him to an oppressed state, there is often a combination of a fear of enclosed spaces (claustrophobia) and a fear of heights (acrophobia). A person begins to panic fear of elevators, subways, trains, airplanes, etc.
Step 4
Do not delay consulting a specialist. Depending on the cause of this fear, he will offer you the necessary trainings and recommendations. Currently, there are various methods of dealing with fear. There are even methods of dealing with the fear of heights directly on the plane, where an experienced psychologist helps to overcome this complex.
Step 5
Relaxing music, reading, meditation, physical activity, rest, etc. help to get rid of any stress and fear. Return to that childhood state when you did not have a fear of heights. Take your time, become aware of this feeling in real time, remember it. You can give this experience your own image or color. Use every training opportunity for yourself. Finding yourself at a height that can be no more than 30 cm, experiencing an adrenaline rush, remember your inner state during relaxing exercises, the image or color with which you designated your state without fear.
