Product Description

A welcome new Travel Tool For Fearful Flyers - Powerful guided meditations and soothing
music that dissolve your fear of flying while imparting skills that can be applied to
any fear. Transforms an anxious flight into a tranquil journey of self-discovery.

Fly Without Fear is a powerful audio CD from stress expert KRS Edstrom which provides a
unique and highly effective program to free you from your fear of flying. Accompanied
by soothing music, Edstrom's guided meditations empower you to release the anxiety
associated with flying and more... This exceptional GET RESULTS CD includes calming
meditations for boarding, take-off, in-flight and landing along with a desensitizing
pre-flight Dress Rehearsal exercise. Fly Without Fear is a welcome new travel tool
that can transform an anxious flight into a Spa-in-the-Sky! Added bonus - this CD
imparts skills that you can apply to any fear or phobia for the rest of your life!

Thank you for relieving a normally stress-filled situation for me. I literally
drifted off the plane, having floated down like a feather. Even my ears were unscathed -
no pain or popping! Now that's what I call relaxed. - Emily Halligan

10 FLY WITHOUT FEAR TRACKS

1) Dress Rehearsal Practicing Fear-Releasing Skills in the Days Before Your Flight
2) Soothing Meditation for Boarding & Waiting for Take-Off:
Calming Pre-Flight Nerves for a Relaxing Trip
3) Fearless Take-Off Enjoying the Freedom of Birds
4) In-Flight Relaxation Vacation Transforming Fear to Tranquility
5) Tension-Release Meditation: Releasing Fear from Your Mind and Body
6) Breath Awareness Meditation: Staying Grounded in Your Breath
7) Mindfulness Meditation: Your Own Private Retreat
8) Relaxing Visualization: An Enchanting Magic Carpet Ride
9) Loving Kindness Meditation: Warming Your Heart and Soul
10) Smooth Landing Meditation Arriving with Dry Palms and a Happy Heart

Total Time: 73:00

A PERSONAL NOTE FROM KRS

It seems that fear either cripples us or impels us to resource everything we know and
then stretch beyond even that to unexplored areas areas that, once visited, seem
hauntingly familiar. After a nine-year fear-induced hiatus from flying, I once again
discovered the value of embracing the lessons that fear had to offer. Some of my most
meaningful spiritual experiences have since occurred, appropriately enough, high above
the earth s busyness, just on the other side of fear. May fear serve the purpose of
elevating you to higher ground in more ways than one.

Excerpt from Track 2:
[With a background of relaxing music designed to facilitate an enjoyable experience]

Soothing Meditation for Boarding & Waiting for Take-Off

As you are preparing to board, appreciate that an invention such as this plane exists
that can so quickly take you to your desired destination. How lucky we are to have
this convenience. This perspective is not only the truth but it will help reframe
your thinking about flying.

Now let's expand this relaxation, this pleasure by allowing the rolling waves of
release to flow down your entire body, gently but powerfully carrying away any fear
in your body and mind. Feel the tranquility flow through your neck and shoulders
and down through your arms even as you are boarding the plane and getting settled...

Notice that there is no room for static energy, fear energy. That energy is effort-
lessly and continuously swept away by the momentum of the calming waves.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57501 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-01
• Released on: 2002-01-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .19 pounds
• Binding: Audio CD

From Library Journal
More than a year after the September 11 attacks, many people still have a fear of flying, a fear of another terrorist incursion. In this audio, which is accompanied by soothing music throughout, stress expert and former fearful flyer Edstrom guides passengers through the entire airport experience, from boarding to landing, complete with airport sounds. With a clear, pleasant, consoling voice she offers relaxation and tension release exercises, having listeners close their eyes and imagine themselves at the terminal. "Fear is trapped negative energy," says the author. It is a "collection of thoughts inside your head." It is a habit, and habits can be broken. "As you look fear squarely in the eye, it will dissolve." This program for nervous travelers is recommended for most self-help and travel collections.
Ann Burns "Library Journal"
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

I am a frequent airline traveler who has a fear of flying, especially in less than
favorable weather conditions. I found listening to KRS Edstrom's program to be most
effective in overcoming my anxiety. It s not just the words she says, but it s how she
says them that makes it so effective. I have tried numerous other audios to no avail.
Despite the turbulence from a thunderstorm we encountered, I remained completely relaxed.
In fact, I actually fell asleep during the flight - a first for me. - Matthew Wikler, M.D.

A Chinese Zen master once said The average person is used 24 hours a day. The person of
Zen uses 24 hours a day. Traveling by air represents a natural window of opportunity to
cultivate and apply meditation skills. KRS Edstrom s Fly without Fear shows you how
to transmute the nervousness, impatience or just plain boredom associated with air travel
into relaxation, energy and even insight. Bon Voyage!
- Shinzen Young, director, Vipassana Support Institute

Many thanks for your great efforts! I have been advising my passengers to use your techniques.
I have more relaxed passengers now. --- Captain William H. Noyes, Hawaiian Airlines

If aviatophobia (fear of flying) is keeping you from your dream vacation, KRS Edstrom
may be able to help. Her CD, Fly Without Fear - is designed to walk trembling
travelers through an entire simulated trip, from boarding to landing.
- Pucci Meyer, New York Post

This terrific program combines mindfulness, imagery and body awareness to gently relax
the merely worried, and dramatically desensitize the truly terrified. KRS's excellent,
trustworthy voice and well-scored music amount to a first-rate-production by a master
of the craft. Tracks are segmented for each travel phase, but blend together easily
for one complete meditation. A superb resource. - Belleruth Naparstek

In this day and age where even the most savvy traveler may be wary of getting on a
plane, KRS Edstrom has put together the perfect preflight prepare yourself meditation
CD. I strongly recommend this relaxing CD for every seasoned traveler and for the first
timer; well worth the ride! - Awareness Magazine

Coach Madden should get this audio in his Christmas stocking! --- Denise Dador, KABC TV

About the Author
KRS Edstrom, M.S., is an author, lecturer, syndicated advice columnist, stress
expert and meditation teacher whose work has been endorsed by major airlines,
hospitals such as Cedars-Sinai and the media.

Her books and guided meditation audios offer solutions for healthful, conscious
living. Her steady selling Inner Mastery Series meditation audios, which can be
sampled on her website, offer effective solutions for stress, insomnia and pain.

KRS Edstrom has been widely quoted and featured in such publications as the Wall
Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Elle,
Glamour, Fitness, First for Women, Entrepreneur and Kiplinger's.

Her book, Healthy, Wealthy & Wise, is an enlightened HealthStyle Guide for busy
people who want to live balanced, productive, quality lives. It includes Edstrom's
groundbreaking study of the health habits and secrets of America's top executives
and CEOs. Edstrom has designed in-flight relaxation programming for USAir, American
and United Airlines.

Her Inner Mastery Series includes six audios: Conquer Stress, Defeat Pain, Relax
Mind & Body, Sleep Through Insomnia, Sounds of Serenity and Everyday Meditation.
Her CD Fly Without Fear was a Book of the Month Club selection for two of their
catalogs (cover placement).

Edstrom works with clients privately by phone and her Student Stress & Anger
Management Program is implemented in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Edstrom has used her masters degree in Health Science, her study of academic
and alternative health and more than 20 years of practical experience to help
individuals and corporations achieve their physical, mental, emotional and
spiritual goals.

Customer Reviews

I can FLY now!!
I listened to this CD at least once per day - sometimes twice a week before I had to fly for something related to my job. I have been so afraid that I have been avoiding flying for years. I had even grown so fearful of flying that just thinking about it got me upset. Listening to this CD taught me how to manage my fear and release it. Even when we were told to turn off electronic equipment on the flight, I was able to use the techniques I learned with this CD to stay calm and comfortable.

I won't say that I was not nervous at all, but I was far from terrified, and not upset. I was able to manage my feelings and enjoy myself and make it to my destination without drinking down any tiny bottles, if you know what I mean.

I CAN FLY!!! I CAN FLY!! I can't believe that I can fly - the world just opened up to me again and I am looking forward to seeing beautiful places! I am so grateful for this CD!

Guided meditations are enhanced with soothing music
Fly Without Fear: Guided Meditations For A Relaxing Flight is an impressive and effective 73 minute audio program to ease the fear of flying. KRS Edstrom's guided meditations are enhanced with soothing music and empower the anxious traveler to release anxieties associated with the experience and thought of flying. Strongly recommended for anyone with air travel tensions, Fly Without Fear is organized into ten segments: Dress Rehearsal (practicing fear releasing skills in the days preceding a flight); Soothing Meditation for Boarding & Waiting (calming pre-flight nerves while awaiting takeoff); Fearless Take-Off (enjoying the freedom of flight); In-Flight Relaxation Vacation (transforming fears and anxieties into tranquility - tracks 4-9 in-flight meditations); Tension-Release Meditation (releasing fear from the mind and body); Breath Awareness Meditation (staying "grounded" in that act of breathing); Mindfulness Meditation (creating a private, personal retreat); Relaxing Visualization (an "enchanting magic carpet ride"); Loving Kindness Meditation (warming the heart and soul); Smooth Landing Meditation (arriving with a calm mind and peaceful spirit).

Disappointing
I bought this CD in an attempt to diminish the anxiety and stress I usually experience before and during flights. It arrived one day before a connecting flight I was supposed to take (two take offs & two landings the same day!) and I was so relieved to see it because I had read good things about it and I was confident it will work for me as well. The truth is it didn't. It is totally useless from my point of view, because it lacks the logical approach in aiding the fearful flier. It's all about breathing and curling your toes, and I did try all that, but at the first sign of turbulence (even the lightest of those) I was horrified and turned off my iPod to look for better comfort. Besides, for safety reasons you can't use the recording during takeoff and landing, which are some of the worst moments a fearful flier may experience. So you're left with learing the breath-curl routine and supposedly practise it at these times.

If you need knowledge to conquer your fears, this CD is not for you. I recommend you buy a book that guides you through all the usual occurences of a flight. I found one that even explains all the noises you should hear (at the specific moments when they occur), or the dynamics of the wings for dummies and so many other useful pieces of information that can really help in dealing with your fears.

A definite no no for me.