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Therapeutic Learning (a picture is worth a thousand words)
Images that "work" in opposition to your fear The key goal for a therapeutic learning program is to find images that work in opposition to the fear response when you are "in" the situation. Far too often we learn things that go unused in the frightening situation. That is because what has been learned is deficient in one of the following qualities: 1) It is too difficult to learn; 2) it is too difficult to remember; 3) it makes no sense (e.g. can't connect it to the frightening situation. For material to be effective for therapeutic learning it must:
Take a moment and study the above display. It is one of the many (Total = 121) illustrations used in the therapeutic learning text of Flying in the Comfort Zone. Study each segment of the diagram in relation to your ideas about airplane turbulence. Take note of each descriptive fact. After completing that task, read the highlighted text below. Decide for yourself which is the most useable and clearest form of factual presentation.
Turbulence Turbulence occurs when an aircraft penetrates a volume of turbulent air that lies between two homogeneous masses of air of different temperature. Since air flows from high to low pressure, and because the collision of masses of air with different temperature and moisture cause uneven updrafts and downdrafts, aircraft penetrating these boundaries are subject to changeable currents of air - hence turbulence. Be assured, there are no such things as "air pockets". Turbulent movement of the airplane is produced by air involved in the situation described above.
Now I know that the above paragraph isn't 1000 words. I used that as a figure of speech. However, which is clearer to you, the above paragraph or the graphic display? Flying in the Comfort Zone contains approximately 121 illustrations of approximately 21 misperceptions that contribute to flying fears - and that's only in the book!. Chance are you will never forget the illustration above, imagine how fruitful the rest of the material will be!
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