Conquer my fear of heights

Yeah! Yes, I rode it! I did it!

At our family reunion last summer I actually belted up, climbed a pole and walked around on the ropes course {UP IN THE AIR}. Yes, I cried the whole time. Tears of fear, determination, and unbelief. Tears that felt good…really, really good! Still scared to death, but getting there!

All that i did was push myself to go to those high places roof of many buildings, you just need to do it get out there.

I have places to see and mountains to climb!

Need to get over it

I don’t remember when I began to fear heights. When I was little I had no fears but as age has consumed me I’ve come to realize how much their is to fear and with that realization came an intense fear of almost everything. But the one I regret the most is heights. I’ve repelled down a 90 foot tower in Italy but it hasn’t helped at all.

I am volunteering for this tall ship which I think will help me get over my fear…I’ll have to climb up a giant swaying mast…gulp

for as long as i can remember, i have hated heights, weather its on my roof cleaning gutter out, or looking out the window of a plane. i hate it! my stomach starts creeping up my throat.
i can’t get close to the edge for fear of falling off.

We did go to the CN Tower in Ontario last year, in efforts to help work on my fears. I think it helped a little bit and I felt really strong for doing it. However, I had a very hard time standing on the glass floor that is thousands and thousands of feet above the streets below. I shook and had tears coming to my eyes, but I did it for a minute. It just freaked me out.

I still have to work on high places outdoors. We went to a very high Natural Bridge in a park – and stood on it (I have no idea how many feet up – VERY HIGH is all I know). I did okay if I didn’t get anywhere near the edge (if I do that—I start having a panic attack or something) and if the wind isn’t too high. That’s what gets me. If the wind is really fast, I feel like I’m falling or ‘swirling out of control’.

I think this came from being 3 years old and trying to slide down the bannister in an old old house, (top of the bannister is like 20 feet off the ground) and falling from that highest point. I fell onto a metal register/grate in the floor and fractured my right arm very badly. All I remember is climbing on the bannister, and falling and hitting HARD. Then waking up feeling awful and my arm very heavy and painful (in a cast). Ever since, I’ve been afraid of heights and have dreams also, of falling and hitting (most people just dream of falling, with no hit. I hit hard in my dream). I only dream it every once in awhile now. I used to at least once per week when I was younger.

i conquered my fear of heights..how i did it i will never know but i am no longer afraid of them..thanks to this site i have set a goal and have suceeded in reaching it…