Flying in the Comfort Zone is designed for immediacy of use and ease of use. As you will see from the Table of Contents, the problem of self control is dealt with first and foremost. The material presented in the first four lessons of the book (only 19 pages) underpins the rest of the entire text. We get right to the point! Then we keep making the point throughout the rest of the text and in all the "fear facts" and "aviation facts" we cover. Each lesson asks you to learn something that will assist your efforts at mastery. As you learn you will be building a formidable wall of new coping mechanisms and new perceptions. It is this wall that will serve your efforts at fear mastery. Examine closely the contents of the text, as they are both excerpted directly from the book as well as elaborated upon by the author

Anxiety Management Lessons

	Lesson Number One - Self Control - understanding your body, what you can and can't control and why.
	Lesson Number Two - Your Muscles and Your Anxiety - "your muscles will lead the way"- a lesson in anxiety management.
	Lesson Number Three - " Mother Natures Laws" of getting, keeping and losing anxiety. What you can expect from you body and what you can't.
	Lesson Number Four - Muscle relaxation - Facts to remember and tasks to perform.

Aircraft Knowledge Lessons

Lesson Number Five - Anatomy of an Airplane. This section, completely illustrated, will change the way you look at an airplane.

Lesson Number Six - Aerodynamics for Fearful Flyers - This section will first help you confront your misperceptions about how airplanes fly and also explains how you have those misperceptions in the first place. It then presents nine different flight (fright?) situations that cause anxiety and explains how to cope differently in order to stop the anxiety.

Lesson Number Eleven - The Flight Deck, Flight Safety and The Safety of Flight - This section de-clutters the flight deck, making the pilot's job much clearer in the eyes of the fearful flyer. Material is then presented on the multitude of safety practices inside the aviation system. This material includes material on safety standards for: 1) pilots; 2) airplanes; 3) airspace and 4) airports. With the fearful flyer in mind, each subject addresses a subject that could be a source of flight anxiety. This section also presents safety data, dramatically demonstrating just how well the aviation system works!

Self Knowledge Lessons

Lesson Number Seven - Couch Talk for Fearful Flyers. This lesson helps you to make sense out of your flight anxiety in a very personal way. Beginning first with a lesson on self analysis, Lesson Seven walks you through 11 psychological problems that can contribute to the fear of flying - with suggestions for coping differently with each problem. Special attention was given to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in this Lesson.

Lesson Number Nine - Anti-anxiety Medication, Alcohol and Hypnosis - In November 2000, Airborne 2000, an international Fear of Flying Conference convened in Vienna, Austria, unanimously recommended against the use of medication and alcohol as a defense against the fear of flying. This lesson explains why and makes specific recommendations about when and why these substances should not be used. Limitations on the effects of hypnosis are also detailed here, with recommendations for the most effective hypnotic suggestions, if hypnosis is used as part of fear of flying treatment.

Lesson Number Ten - Fear and Anger - If you are among the millions of individuals who become outwardly angry when afraid, this lesson is a must! Not only does this lesson cover, in depth, the reasons an individual acts abusively when afraid, it also details how this problem can be changed. Your won't find this chapter in any other fear of flying book. It can save the victim of this problem from a lot of grief, inconvenience and embarrassment!

Lesson Number Twelve - Coping with "what if?" - The goal of this lesson is to help you come to the conclusion that overcoming your fear of flying is worthwhile, even if you should, someday, be killed in an airplane crash. Step by step, this chapter guides you through the very real consequences of overcoming vs. not overcoming your fear of flying. As the lesson concludes, and after you write your personal epitaph, the conclusion of the value of overcoming the fear of flying is unmistakable and clear!

Turbulence

Lesson Number Eight - Turbulence - Turbulence during flight is perhaps the single most potent trigger for the fear of flying. For this reason, we have given a special lesson on this subject. The chapter begins with, "There is not an air pocket in the air without a myth in it!" By the time you finish this chapter, you will not only know that there are no air pockets, you will believe it too! Applying the lessons in this section will allow you to drastically reduce or eliminate your anxiety while riding through turbulence.

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