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    Fly Without Fear or Stress: Learning Mindfulness & Meditation
    Fly Without Fear or Stress: Learning Mindfulness & Meditation
    Fly Without Fear or Stress: Learning Mindfulness & Meditation
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    Fly Without Fear or Stress: Learning Mindfulness & Meditation

    By Dr. Eugene Barron

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    All of us have been marked by the 9/11 tragedy. For many, whatever latent fears of flying have become more manifest. Within the realm of fear, flying looses its excitement and pleasure. There is another way.

    Drawn from traditional Buddhist wisdom and modern psychology this book helps us confront these fears and anxieties. The approach offered is to show and teach how meditation and mindfulness can be used to confront those fears.

    Included in the book are:
    *easy ways to quickly learn meditation
    *mindfulness training to quiet the mind while in flight
    *practices to reduce stress on the flight
    *meditations to help encourage serenity

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJun 12, 2002
    ISBN9781469737799
    Fly Without Fear or Stress: Learning Mindfulness & Meditation
    Author

    Dr. Eugene Barron

    Eugene Barron a practicing psychotherapist and past professor in social work, poems are in in poetry magazine and a documentary filmmaker, had resided and worked in East Harlem, the setting for many of the real, life stories.

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      Fly Without Fear or Stress - Dr. Eugene Barron

      All Rights Reserved © 2002 by Dr. Eugene Barron

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system, without the permission in writing from the publisher.

      Writers Club Press an imprint of iUniverse, Inc.

      For information address:

      iUniverse, Inc.

      5220 S. 16th St., Suite 200

      Lincoln, NE 68512

      www.iuniverse.com

      ISBN: 0-595-23132-2

      ISBN: 1-469-73779-5 (ebook)

      Printed in the United States of America

      Dedicated to Alex, Karina and Michael

      His thoughts turned to the pilot.

      I am saving him from fear. I was not attacking him who face the unknown. If I listen and sympathize, if I take his adventure seriously, he will fancy he is returning from a land of mystery and mystery alone is the root of fear. We must do away with mystery. Men who have gone down into the pit of darkness must come up and say-there’s nothing in it! This man must enter the inmost heart of night, that clotted darkness, without even his little miner’s shoulder’s breath away.

      Yes a silent communion, deep within them, united Riviere and his pilots in the battle. All were like shipmates, sharing a common will to victory.

      Night Flight

      Antione De Saint-Exupery

      Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      CHAPTER 1

      APPLICATION FOR THE FLIGHT: DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS TO MEDITATION

      CHAPTER 2

      TRAVELING BEYOND RELAXATION: MEDITATION

      CHAPTER 3

      FINDING YOUR SEAT AND BALANCE: STRUCTURE TO MEDITATION

      CHAPTER 4

      WAYS TO FIND TRANQUILLITY ON YOUR FLIGHT: APPROACHES TO CENTERING

      CHAPTER 5

      HOW MEDITATION CAN SERVE AS THE ANTIDOTE TO FLIGHT WORRY

      CHAPTER 6

      MEDITATION FOR THAT SQUEEZED IN FEELING

      CHAPTER 7

      FOOD, DRINK AND MINDFUL MEDITATION

      CHAPTER 8

      A LESSON IN FLYING AND MEDITATION

      CHAPTER 9

      WARRIOR, FLIGHT AND MEDITATION

      CHAPTER 10

      DEATH AND LIFE ON YOUR FLIGHT

      CHAPTER 11

      A SUMMARY FOR A PEACEFUL LANDING

      CHAPTER 12

      YOUR MISSION IS YOUR WEAKNESS: FLYING INTO THE LIGHT

      NAKAZORA

      READINGS

      INTRODUCTION

      There was a time when flying was magic. The wild blue yonder opened up the skies with a sense of adventure and delight. Suffering from the post World Trade Center syndrome, the reality and fantasy of flying means delays, impatience, anxiety, sometimes fear; the magic seems to wane.

      Even with the frustration of delay or the anxiety and fears from turbulence, meditation offers a learning opportunity and chance to reclaim some of the pleasures of flying. The path to take is not unique and not difficult to master. Bring awareness to the breath, joined with associative peaceful images, meditation will become your ally on the flight. Learning to meditate through the use of breathe can help us enter into the heaven of serenity. By using focused breathing, guided by meditative images, the passenger lets go and shifts into a peaceful, alpha state of mind and can commence an inner vacation.

      All that is asked is a slow inhale and exhale in accord with meditative images.

      With this aware breathing, one can be freed from restless states of mind during the flight which sometimes lead us to unsettled feelings, fear and anxiety. The use of breath is available to all of us. One focuses on the breath’s rhythm; inhalation, exhalation, breathing in and breathing out.

      To further quiet the mind and help with concentration, one can use meditation cues. Similar to what is known in Buddhism as gathas; a variation of Buddha’s dharmic teaching poems that can be keyed to the breath.

      Concern about the past and future reference to the flight, need not be disturbing if you learn to be in present time with breath. You learn not to worry about whether the plane will arrive late or obsess about disruptions. You attempt to empty the mind of active thought and become passively aware. Where thoughts or feelings occur, dispassionately take note and allow them to drift away. You are attempting to shift from your problem solving mode into a relaxed, free flow state. You observe rather then think about events or feelings that flow through the mind. For example, if you are worried about the flight, just acknowledge to yourself, "yes I am

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