Hi, my, name is Clare and welcome to Generation Calm. Today we're going to talk about what famous people do when they have a
fear of flying.
What coping mechanism do they use and from a psychological point of view
is that helpful and at the end you'll find out if one of their techniques is a good thing for you to try out on your next flight
By the end of this video you will have an idea of a couple of psychological techniques one of which might work for you
So the first celebrity i'm going to talk about is Jennifer Lawrence and it's reported in Vanity Fair this month in her interview
Jennifer Lawrence watches Beauty and the Beast the
2017 remake with Emma Watson over and over again on her flights and
This helps to take her mind off the flight itself and this is a great technique it's what
we call distraction techniques in psychology and
It just helps to take your mind off the feelings and the sensations of anxiety as it goes on
Just kind of takes your mind, distracts you so it doesn't just have to be a movie although I think the movie
That she's chosen is really good, any Disney movie is gonna be a feel-good movie
You don't want to be watching something that's gonna make you more stressed like a psychological thriller or an action movie.
But watching something on a flight, reading a really engrossing book
Listening to music, listening to a podcast any of these things are going to get you distracted and not
Thinking, about the actual flight itself and how you're feeling
Now, we wouldn't do this if we were working in therapy with you because we would want you to feel those sensations and realize you
can cope with it. But to get through a flight when you've got to go
on vacation or on a work trip
distraction is a fantastic technique.
So thumbs up to Jennifer Lawrence you get a 9 out of 10 for me. And in fact if she was to watch a
nature documentary
Something, by Richard Attenborough, where you know. You really look up close in to the to the natural world it's shown to be as
relaxing as mindfulness so if she could just tweak what she watches it'd
be even better. But nine out of ten for Jennifer Lawrence from me.
Nice work!
Next up is Jennifer Aniston
who apparently
taps beside the outside of a plane three times before she steps on board. Now of course this is a superstition behavior and
as psychologists, we probably, wouldn't recommend it as a
way of coping with your anxiety
Is because, well let's say she taps the plane three times she hasn't perfectly calm flight
Everything's good so of course that's
reinforced and she's gonna do it again next time and the next time. But what about the one time she forgets? or
Let's say for example you have a look at charm that you always take on a flight with you
Well what if you leave it at home?
Suddenly panic is going to ensue it's not a good coping
mechanism it's not going to work every single time
so Jennifer Aniston, sorry to say I only give you three out of ten.
My final one is Her Royal Highness
Camilla Duchess of Cornwall.
Now I've got to read these out because these headlines are crazy.
'Duchess of Cornwall won't accompany Prince Charles around Australia to avoid internal flights because she's afraid of flying'.
'Camilla axes trips to commonwealth games in Australia over her fear of flying'.
now
When i read a little further
Camilla will be flying the long-haul flight from London to
Australia and that's a pretty long flight and they're saying that she's axing her trip? I don't think so!
Now if she was avoiding a flight, avoidance is not a
good technique to use when trying to get over a fear or coping with a fear because avoidance will keep the fear and the anxiety
going, because you never realize that you can actually cope
The anxiety is never going to get out of control you will always cope.
In this, case the Duchess of Cornwall
Is not avoiding all flights, she's just avoiding some internal flights, because it's going to make the schedule too jam-packed and
Honestly I got to agree with her. I prefer the big flights on the big planes rather than the smaller
internal flights.
So avoidance is a common problem with
phobias but in this case I don't think that the Duchess of Cornwall is actually avoiding
because she is doing a very long flight from London to
Australia. So Camilla I give you
7 out of 10 because
you're doing a pretty long flight, no matter what they say. However if you were to avoid all flights at all costs
That would go down to my 1 out of 10. So to round up Jennifer Lawrence won in this category
Sorry, I don't have an Oscar for you or anything really but, sorry, about that.
But what I want you to take away from this today
is that remember you are not alone with an anxiety of any kind even celebrities have a fear of flying but
they just get on with it. They have to! It's part of their job and you can do the same thing too
We've learned, today that distraction works really well and that's something you can
take away today to use on your next flight. Find something ahead of time maybe download some podcasts and music
get a good book you
Know you can, watch a video on the actual flight, while you're there
But don't rely on there being a good film available
we don't all have first-class tickets so you're kind of at the mercy of what's there so download stuff beforehand
So use distraction to take your mind off of your anxiety and go and enjoy your flight. So i hope you enjoyed watching
This, video please click like if you did and I'll see you again, soon. Bye!