How to defeat the fear of flying and traveling with serenity

Booking a helicopter tour, perhaps to admire the beauties of the Amalfi Coast or to enjoy the view from the top of Vesuvius and the ruins of Pompeii is certainly a breathtaking and adrenaline-filled experience, provided of course that you do not feel fears and unjustified anxieties, alas rather widespread.

If you do not want to miss the opportunity to enjoy a unique experience, worthy of a film, and you want to overcome your fear of flying, let's discover together how to face it.

Tricks to overcome the aerophobia

Aerophobia is a rather disabling condition that manifests itself with different degrees of intensity, in fact, there are those who try to combat it, by facing anyway a flight (living it more or less badly) and those who prefer to completely give up the possibility of flying, sure that they do not know how to handle the connected fear.

In any case, it is a big limitation that allows us to be able to reach only destinations that offer alternative means of locomotion or anyway, to reach a specific city, it takes an infinitely greater time.

Without considering that in addition to the plane that we can take to reach a city, for holidays or for work, it is also possible to make fantastic helicopter tours, like the ones we offer, which are real luxury experiences, to admire panoramas, archaeological finds and, why not, even to surprise your partner with romanticism.

Fortunately, there are many remedies to deal with this fear and to experience the flight in all serenity, without having to preclude very pleasant possibilities:

• To tackle a flight in a serene way, it can be useful to concentrate on activities that calm and distract the mind, therefore listening to music, reading a book or drawing, are activities that make us concentrate on something else and therefore very functional.

• It can also be very useful to rationalise the fact that statistically aircraft accidents are numerically lower than car accidents, but we take the car every day!

• Focus on the fact that without that plane or that helicopter, you could not enjoy the enchanting beauty of certain views.

• Try to turn your emotions from negative into positive, focusing on the fact that after having overcome your fear, you will be much stronger than before.

• Making the trip or helicopter tour in company will surely give you that extra confidence and incentive you need. If the fear is so much ... do not be embarrassed to hold his hand!

In the case of high-intensity aerophobia, almost uncontrolled and leading to panic, it is possible to rely on some advice from psychologists, first of all, concentration on the breath.

Before taking off, sit on the seat with your back straight against the backrest, close your eyes, inhale and exhale deeply, only with your nose, prolonging the operation as much as possible. The experts guarantee that within a few minutes, you should already feel more serene!

Finally, for the most serious cases, ie those in which the subject does not even want to hear about planes, helicopters, etc., it is possible to try an approach with cognitive- behavioural techniques, which, in addition to the use of gradual relaxation methods, breathing techniques and "work" on the cancellation of catastrophic fantasies, even offers the possibility of attending courses, complete with flight simulations, conditioned by induced relaxation, also thanks to some stretching exercises.