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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Miss Demeanour on April 12, 2012, 07:28:17 PM
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Does anybody believe this twaddle works ?
I mentioned the other day that I really don't like looking down at people and the world from any significant height scared2:
Now I have challenged myself a few times to do things at height .
Has it worked ?
Has it heck ?
Has it worked for any of you ( marriage is excluded as a fear !!! lol: )
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How can you look down on anyone from a significant height (except TMR of course)? rubschin:
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Well I'd normally have to climb up something of course 8)
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I don't like shagging Miss D... 8)
can you help me get a leg over it...
Thanks in advance...
Good Grief
nonono: Oh Pirate... noooo:
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Shrugs:
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noooo:
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Well if you go by my method if this is something you don't like you abstain from doing it rubschin:
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I've tried to abstain..but the urge is too great...can you not take me in hand and show me the way to come...to a successful emission of my fears...
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noooo:
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emission of fears or fear of emissions ?
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Hot air you say ? lol:
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Hot stuff more like... eyes:
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I've tried to abstain..but the urge is too great...can you not take me in hand and show me the way to come...to a successful emission of my fears...
::) Pull yourself together man.
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lol: lol: lol:
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Oh Good Grief! ::)
True story in answer to Miss D's opening post
Many years ago I spent 28 days with the Army (OK I was in the "Glass House" for minor misdeeds and the RAF don't have their own 'Correction Facility'). The daily routine was harsh and included an assault course, part of which was the "Tree Top Run". This consisted of a rope climb up into the trees and then a sprint long a series of planks tied to branches that led from tree to tree and a "Death Slide" back down at the end. H&S didn't come into it. To get from one plank to the next was a jump of about two feet. Not hard at the run, if it was on the ground but this was 30 feet in the air! The target was to complete the run from ground, up the ropes and then along the planks and down the "Death Slide" in 5 minutes.
The whole thing terrified me but the Staff Sergeant was having no nonsense. I just could not do it until he took me to one side and offered advice. "It is not the height that is your problem.... it's the fear of falling ..... Now what are you more afraid of? A few weeks in sick quarters with those luverly nurses or ME?" ........ "Come on lad, follow me and do what I do" and he went up the rope like a bloody monkey. I followed and managed the course with him shouting at me to "Buck up" the whole way. Repeat daily for 28 days and I was no longer afraid of heights. I still get that tingle in the feet and butterflies in the stomach if I stand on the edge of a cliff or tall building but I know what my fear is and that with effort I can cope with it
So in answer to you question: Yes you can conquer fears if you face and rationalise them.
For the benefit of at least one fellow ex RAF type here of similar vintage yes it was Colchester MCTC.
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Send Miss D on an assault course, you say? rubschin:
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Did me a power of good!
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True story in answer to Miss D's opening post
Many years ago I spent 28 days with the Army (OK I was in the "Glass House" for minor misdeeds and the RAF don't have their own 'Correction Facility'). The daily routine was harsh and included an assault course, part of which was the "Tree Top Run". This consisted of a rope climb up into the trees and then a sprint long a series of planks tied to branches that led from tree to tree and a "Death Slide" back down at the end. H&S didn't come into it. To get from one plank to the next was a jump of about two feet. Not hard at the run, if it was on the ground but this was 30 feet in the air! The target was to complete the run from ground, up the ropes and then along the planks and down the "Death Slide" in 5 minutes.
The whole thing terrified me but the Staff Sergeant was having no nonsense. I just could not do it until he took me to one side and offered advice. "It is not the height that is your problem.... it's the fear of falling ..... Now what are you more afraid of? A few weeks in sick quarters with those luverly nurses or ME?" ........ "Come on lad, follow me and do what I do" and he went up the rope like a bloody monkey. I followed and managed the course with him shouting at me to "Buck up" the whole way. Repeat daily for 28 days and I was no longer afraid of heights. I still get that tingle in the feet and butterflies in the stomach if I stand on the edge of a cliff or tall building but I know what my fear is and that with effort I can cope with it
So in answer to you question: Yes you can conquer fears if you face and rationalise them.
scared2:
You obviously have more of a fight instinct than my predominantly flighty one lol:
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If you had seen the power that those Staff Sergeants had over detainees in the 60's you would have gone up the rope too.
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Probably but the rope would have been well slippy for those following me as I woudl have wee'd meself redface:
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I guess it depends on how it is done, when I was a student nurse a couple of friends decided they were going to get me over my fear of heights so arranged an activity weekend with me. It started off well enough, rock climbing and a bit of abseiling was fine as long as I didn't look down so they decided to take things a little further......bridge swinging and a bungee jump (the latter they didn't tell me anything about). If you haven't heard of bridge swinging its basically a massive rope swing under a tall bridge or viaduct, jump off and physics does the rest.
Then came the bungee jump, I wasn't overly happy when they sprung it on me but I decided to give it a go anyway. What I hadn't been told was that there were to kinds of jump available, normal and 'daredevil' where you end up dropping far enough that your heard ends breaks the surface of the river below.....
No prizes for guessing which one that pair of evil feckers signed me up for. evil:
On the plus side I have to admit while I'm still not keen, I'm not as bothered about heights as I was before, but falling on the other hand... scared2: