Your fear of bridges can significantly interfere with your life. You may find that your anxiety and anticipation of panic are overwhelming enough to cause you to avoid driving over a bridge. This phobia of bridges leads to problems with your ability to travel.
Bridging the Frightful Response
The strong emotional response you feel as you anticipate traveling over a bridge is directly linked to your thought processes. You may have become obsessed with the idea of traveling in mid air. The fundamental fear may involve being afraid of heights and this is a reasonable anticipation.
However, when your fleeting thoughts of the nature of traveling over water of over a gully become overwhelming, you find that you begin to avoid the situations. You know that you really have nothing to be afraid of but you can’t control your response. Consider bridging the frightful response to its source to work thorough your panic.
When you make the connection between the pattern of thinking and emotional responses, you begin to gain control of your fearful response. This may seem completely out of your control because the fear happens automatically and without conscious effort. However, you have the bridging ability to make the connections and the necessary changes.
Changing Fear of Bridges
Consider your fearful response to be nothing more than a habit. All you really need to do is rehabilitate your mind to develop new responses to traveling over a bridge. Self-hypnosis is an excellent fear self help approach that offers a viable method of bridging your thought patterns to your emotional responses.
You can make the necessary changes in your subconscious mind in order to take the reins on your fearful responses. You replace the negative image of traveling over a bridge with appreciation at the splendor of this magnificent feat of engineering. This valuable asset connects one place to another, opening vast opportunities to travel to the places you want to visit.
Perspective
Your perspective is an integral part of your recovery. Seeing a bridge as a thing of beauty and as a valuable resource is a step in the process. You can let go of the threatening image in your mind. Your new thinking patterns develop new, relaxed feelings that help you travel in any situation without anticipation or irrational frightful responses.
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