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How To Win The Battle Against The Pre-Traveling Fear

I mean the one you have before the trip. Before booking. Before getting on the plane. Before moving from one city to another. Weeks before I even decided to leave for London with a one-way ticket from Canada, I could feel the butterflies flying from my stomach to my breast and go up and down without notice every time the idea would pass through my head. I knew it was coming, but the anxiety would make me position myself more on the "oh could be cool" side than the "oh it's happening!" Different things helped me improve and finally move up the gear.

By Mherla "Karma" GPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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Concretion Is the Key

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Do what you are the best at to turn the imaginary into something real. Add some arrows on a paper map from a spot to the next one of what you want to run through. Create a to-do list of what you should do from preparation to departure to first day on the other side. On my part, I love writing tales, so I started to write a story as if I was leaving on the very next day and what I would have to do to leave in such a rush. Then the hours I "had" became two, then three days since a certain store would be closed for this particular item I needed or there was this formality I had to get an appointment for. Postponing only through a story and not in real life helped me plan exactly the time I required to make it happen. It concretized the idea.

JUST DO IT

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There are different ways to answer your fears. The Nike slogan is not just an annoying sentence that undervalues your feelings. Thinking so, most of the time, you will end up convincing yourself with a: "It's more complicated than that!" and these complications are often even less genuine than your "big" ideas of travelling somewhere.

To all intents and purposes, fears are what is keeping us alive. Whatever the craziest plan you want to jump on or the natural act of booking a transport ticket to a new city you have been thinking of, you can certainly use your fears against you and do nothing about it. Or you can decide to go for it and realize fast enough that you will - probably - come back from it well alive, maybe broke for a few weeks once back home, but especially rich from all the knowledge you will bring back with you. I can assure you: there is NO way you can regret this.

(This is from a 21-year-old who keeps listening, older adults, complain about what they "should" have done...)

Attract Your Dreams

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When you hold back on these kinds of plans, it is because you have things in your life, in the city you live in, you are holding on to so bad you won't even give a chance to the rest of your life towards all the worlds that still exist around. Once you dive in, you will realize two things: the most valuable tools for you will survive your week, month or year of absenteeism; the rest, you may not know yet, will only be secondary. These can be very easy to let go of as they can become hard sacrifices too. The moment some of the second list jump onto the first one, there is no worry to have as you will naturally find a way to get them back when needed. We call it the "Law of Attraction." Yes, it does work and no, it is not about some kind of magic in any way. It is about following a direction of purposes that aligns with the person you are meant to become deep down.

TALK About It

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You officially have the right to seek attention. Talk about it to your friends, family, social media (massive or almost unnoticeable.) There are every kind of group online to join or Facebook pages to follow for inquiry. Through them, you can see how it is going for others who might have the same story as yours. The more you discuss it, the more you share your plans; your adventures... The more you can lean on people to help you in of anything unexpected: money, stay, meltdown, fears. It can be so easy when finding a place where you don't feel so safe to stay at, to write on your online forum about it and have tens of people in the next hours reply to you with someplace or people they know that could provide you with your needs for the night or a few days. Speak about it, VANT, share the good and the bad days; your joy and your vulnerability. Don't be scare of asking questions to ANYONE who could help, starting with me!

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Here we are. You know the tricks. You know the resources and you have all it takes -- you and yourself -- to begin this epic journey. I wish you to learn something extraordinary every day of it and to cherish all the new friendships you will make, as well as the way they will reflect on the improved version of yourself.

Please give some love and share any inquiry, fear, interest or encouragement while I keep learning for you during my own discovery of the world.

Take care and peace out Luv!

Karma

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Mherla "Karma" G

Young traveller discovering the world 🌍 Getting richer of knowledge, love and strength every day ✨

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