I hate being afraid of heights
6 months ago
I have this slight fear of heights that I think is rather silly on my part and should get over it.
I find it tends to be a little on how safe I feel. I hope I can overcome it.
How to get over my fear of heights
It made me
conquer my fears. 
"Skydiving cured every fear I've ever had."
How I did it: I have always had a crippling fear of heights, but for some reason, I agreed to go sky diving with my brother and my dad while on a family vacation.
I was strapped to an instructor, told that there was a $300 fee for "chickening out", and flown up 10,000 feet in a bare bones prop plane.
Watching my brother jump out of the plane first was actually the most terrifying part of the experience, but it certainly wasn't easy to jump when my turn came. It really helped that I was strapped to my instructor and didn't have much choice in the matter.
But as soon as I stopped holding my breath and looked around, I was cured. The view from 10,000 feet in the air is the most humbling sight you can imagine. It was such an exhilarating experience that as soon as I got back down on the ground, all I wanted to do was to jump again.
Not only did this experience cure me of my fear of heights, but the fact that I jumped out of an airplane made me realize that many other fears I had were just as curable.
Resources: I used Skydive.com to find places to jump.
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7 months ago
I think my fear of flying is improving but it depends on the company :) I am almost sure by now, that fear of heights is not related to fear of flying.
IN CONNECTION TO FLYING FEAR
7 months ago
I think my fear of flying is improving but it depends on the company :) I am almost sure by now, that fear of heights is not related to fear of flying.
7 months on...
8 months ago
...and I went up the tower on Vaalserberg in the Netherlands/Belgium/Germany. (The tower is actually in Belgium).
I nearly didn’t do it, but my lady was very good and I decided that rather than suffering meta-anxiety, I’d go and suffer some real anxiety. I was very pleased with myself in the end.
Video here
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10 months ago
I’ve been doing really well with this due to all of the climbing (some outdoors and very exposed!) and summiting peaks and things like that- I was summiting a 13,800-ish ft peak, and there was a razor edge on one side, hundreds and hundreds of feet straight down, a sheer drop-off, and I was RIGHT on the edge, looking out to the other peaks, etc. My dad got scared for me and had to yell at me to come back to the safer side!! I also went to the Royal Gorge a few days ago in Canon City, it was 1,055 ft where we were- I walked across the bridge, too!- the highest suspension bridge over water in the world! It was sooooooooo insanely high up, and it was pretty far across the gorge, so I was pretty scared, but rightly so, and it was exciting scary, not I-want-to-go-home-and-cry-in-a-corner-in-the-fetal-position kind of scary.
- the picture is looking out from the bridge, about 1,055 ft. above the water… the bright blue rafts in the bottom left are so tiny, you can’t see them.
chellie67 :) ♥
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10 months ago
after going on the kama kaze at magic mountain.. i am no longer scared of heights. :)
Vicky has done her good deed for the weekend.
Blackpool Pleasure Beach
11 months ago
tomorrow.
Wish me luck :)
Vicky has done her good deed for the weekend.
I went to Alton Towers
12 months ago
and didn’t care about the height of any rides after going on Oblivion.
I must be getting better at this goal.
Vicky has done her good deed for the weekend.
I went
12 months ago
Sea Cliff Traversing last weekend and went pretty high. I didn’t feel scared at all :D. Then we jumped off the side of the cliff into the sea and I felt a bit frightened but I jumped anyway and it was great!
