Do You Want To Know How To Cure A Driving Phobia?

The brain is a complex little bugger. It basically stored the information of "driving=DANGER" in neural pathways.

Maybe you had one or a few bad driving experiences. Maybe you were in an accident. Maybe you were just nervous being a passenger of someone. Somewhere along the way, without you even realizing it, your brain "programmed" itself to send fear messages when you think about driving.

This is your "fight or flight" response. Good for survival, but not good for normal activities that do not call for it.

The hormones adrenaline and cortisol are released in your bloodstream when this "fight or flight" response is triggered. All of this happens in less than a second all because your brain is wrongly guessing there's danger.

The trick on how to cure a driving phobia is to "RE-program" your brain. Short and successful drives without too much anxiety kicking up will be the turn around.

Your body is going to have side effects from the fear.

You will go through things like...

Sweating excessively

Rapid heartbeat

Feel like you want to up-chuck

Feel dizzy and not like yourself

Have a dry throat

Have scary, uncontrollable thoughts of all the bad things that could happen

Driving this way for a long period of time is not safe. Pushing yourself to react normal will not help. This extreme anxiety will just become worse. You need to take it slow. Short trips with slight anxiety will eventually turn into long trips with no anxiety.

The way I learned was taken in step-by-step form. There are a few tricks to overcoming this driving phobia you have.

Breathing exercises DO help. Take in deep, slow breaths when you can feel your heart pounding. Relax for a moment. Your heart will slow down.

Listen to soothing music. This will help you to avoid the silence being filled with your own scary/anxious thoughts.

Have someone ride in the car with you. If they help you cope with other things in your life, chances are that they will help in this situation too.

Start out just sitting in the car with the car running. Then drive down your driveway. Make each trip a tad longer than the previous on

Celebrate even small progress!

The program that helped me was the Driving Fear Program. I didn't have the money to pay for a therapist. I know that my driving phobia had stemmed from a near accident experience along with already having an anxiety disorder.

This program helped because the stages you take are so slow and satisfying. I knew I had to be happy with each little step I took. I did not feel embarrassed working on my phobia. This program helps figure out exactly what aspect(s) of driving scares you the most. Techniques are given to recover from each different circumstance.

This program offers a free session that can be emailed to you. There is a money back guarantee(which is always a MUST when buying things online). This program is so worth it and I am just glad that I found my own personal cure to my driving phobia.

You can find this program at www.driving-phobia.info