Taking a flight requires preparation, especially for first timers, the anxiety to get on board and be on air might cost you to miss a flight, there are incidences of people who collapse or faint at the very hour they are intending to fly. To avoid such incidences here are some ideas that you can to help you relax before flying
Arrive early
Get to the airport early, this will help you to familiarize yourself with the new environment and will give you enough time to ensure you don’t miss a flight. You will be able to follow or the steps keenly and carefully without any hitch. Preparing yourself psychologically is very important, to avoid being bored, make new friends and talk about the flight, learn from others, it’s very easy to get someone you are travelling to the same destination at the departures desk. You can also consider reading the notices and stickers on the notice boards, you might note that your flight is expected to leave early or it will be delayed.
Meditate
Meditation is one perfect way that will see you relax and relieve or your tension before a flight. You can meditate from anything to nothing; you can just cut up to 10,000 in slow pace or just listen to your breath. Make sure you breathe deeply and slowly, do this through your mouth as well as through your nose, it works. Try and avoid things that will make you do a lot of brain work; take a flight to be easy and safe as a slow train is. You can also consider to get near a place you can see the escalators, watch people get down relaxed, in the process your mind will drift away and forget about the flight.
Accept the facts and appreciate them
Think of the advantages of flying, consider driving to a faraway place and driving to the same place, it’s a fact that flying across America is 261 times safer than driving across America. Think in that direction. Outweigh the options of flying and cruising in a ship that is going at slow speeds, you will be in the risky voyage for more hours than if you would take a flight to get to the destination, this will make you relax and you will start to appreciate the need of flights. Think of what made the Wright brothers come up with airplanes and how they have been modernized and built to perfection in this world; you will just appreciate the facts and relax as you await your flight.
Pilots and stewards
If pilots and stewards or stewardess find flying as a career, then flying must be very safe. Think in these lines, remember the many men and women who have worked and retired as pilots, if they made it in all those flights, yours is just a bus ride to them, relax.
In plane
From the moment your flight is called, get to the plane slowly, make yourself comfortable, seat and meditate till the plane is almost taking off. Relax as much as you can and find it in your heart the spirit to enjoy the flight. You can sleep when the plane has successfully taken off.
Flights are convenient and before you even woke up, hundreds of people were doing their best to see that you will enjoy your flight, think of the best engineers and pilots who must inspect the plane before it takes off, you will realize you don’t have to worry as everything is just taken care of, relax and enjoy your flight.
