ERASURE

There is a movie starring Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey called 'Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'. It is about the fascinating idea that,
when a love affair breaks up, instead of feeling pain, you just go to a
psychologist who erases all memory of that person.

After their breakup, Carrey goes into the store where Winslet works.
She looks up at him, and says, 'Can I help you?' He goes into
near-panic that this woman who is so important to him does not
know him at all.

She has erased him from her mind. Carrey is shocked. Nothing he
can do or say causes her to remember anything about him or their
relationship. Carrey decides to erase her. But things go wrong with
the procedure and . . . well . . . it is a movie you will either hate or
love.

In some cases, there has been a flight which was so traumatic that
just to think of it causes a reaction. Obviously, that gets in the way of
feeling good about any future flight.

So erase it. I did years of study in various institutes in New York looking
for ways to deal with anxiety. One year was spent studying NLP. I found
little there that was effective - except for the Erasure exercise. This
exercise can actually erase a memory. It is not always wise to erase a
memory. But if a person has had a traumatic flight, there is no reason
not to - at least - make the memory fuzzy enough so that recalling the
flight causes no anxiety at all.

How Is It Done?

When you watch a movie, it starts at the beginning and runs to the end.
Memory is like that. When a past event comes to mind, you pick up the
memory at a certain point and then memory leads you forward in time.

Imagine you have a movie of a certain event. Normally you run the
movie from the beginning to the end. But what if you reversed things?
What if you decided to run the movie repeatedly starting at the end,
and viewed everything happening backwards?

After a few backwards viewings, it would become difficult - if not
impossible - to remember some of the actual sequence of events.

After a few more backwards viewings, interspersed with some
forward viewings, the whole thing would become like scrambled
eggs.

That's what happens in the Erasure Exercise. The awful flight starts
to become a bit scrambled, and it takes only a little scrambling for
the anxiety connected with the flight to disappear.

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BUT EVEN WITHOUT ERASURE . . .

Hi Tom,

I finally took my first flights since my phone counseling session
with you, and they were great! I used the Strengthening Exercise
the week before, 5-4-3-2-1 en route to the airport, and 'Jello' on
board, and it all worked very well - I felt like I was on a bus. This
was the first time I've flown in five years, and probably my first
anxiety-free flights ever.

I've passed along your website to some other nervous flyers I
know, and will certainly spread the word. Thanks again!

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. . . ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPERIENCES OF MY LIFE

Capt. Tom,

I just wanted to send you a short note thanking you for helping me
to be able to fly again without fear. I still need to work on it a bit,
but as you said, the worst part was right before the flight. After I
talked with the captain and got on board I felt great and actually
enjoyed the flights.

Anyway, thanks for all of your help because without it I doubt I
would have been able to go on my trip and it turned out to be one
of the greatest experiences of my life.

Thanks Again,

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