Drop your Fear of Driving and Pass Your Driving Test
When a fear of driving is limiting your life it is time to take action. During your appointments we will quickly root out the causes of your insecurity, worries or fear around driving or being tested and become a happier, more confident driver who enjoys opportunities to travel for pleasure, or work by road and car. I have helped clients to stop unhelpful panic and to become confident about driving long and short distances in this country and abroad, to master their fears. I will help you with the best methods and techniques that will work for you in your situation. (If your fear of driving is one of many fears that you experience then we may need to take a more broadstroke approach and address the causative problems then focus on the driving!)
We Can:
Alter how you think about driving
Banish panic and anxiety around driving.
Eliminate unpleasant emotional effects of an accident.
Become confident with your instructor.
Many clients see great change from their first appointment and quickly benefit from a more positve attitude towards driving.
Top Tips to Manage a Fear of Driving ………….With Caroline
1. Recognise your panic is behavior resulting from your minds current way of dealing with a perceived threat just now, and that’s okay, its doing the best that it can with a limited amount of information. As you learn mastery your mind wont need to raise the threat and you can choose more helpful behavior.
2. Learn to Belly Breathe: That’s right…are you a chest lifter? If when you breathe in deeply you raise your shoulders and chest rather than pushing out your tummy it’s time to practice breathing deeply and slowly into your tummy, following you breath with your minds’ eye. When nervous, this is the fastest way imaginable to center yourself and keep yourself in the present moment.
3. Stop Watching Disaster Movies! Some people who have a fear of driving are drawn towards those TV specials and cinematic epics that revolve around the subject of car accidents and driving disasters. Many continually create a disaster movie in their mind, they see themselves strapped into their seats driving into oblivion, time and again. This exacerbates their problem. Chocolate box movies only please, with nice happy endings.
4.Pink Elephants…well not always the answer but focusing on a threatening image such as lorry for instance….pushing the image away in your mind so that it becomes smaller and draining the colour to become a paler shade of pink allows your mind to become enriched with the possibility that not all lorries need be threatening. Try it and see but don’t think of the pink elephants!
I Love This Feel Good Driving Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbUtSDoUud0
Plan for 1 to 3 appointments and to use support materials for stress and symptom reduction between appointments.
Book Here Online Text or Call 0742 8884466 or Email caroline@withcaroline.com