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I was afraid of flight.
I was afraid of being alone.
I was afraid I'll go to the wrong
I was afraid not to find yellow arrows.
I was afraid not to find albergue.
I was afraid of people (What if somebody hurt me? Who will help me?)
I was afraid of sun.
I was afraid of bulls.
I was afraid of pain.
I was afraid I will not reach Santiago.
I was afraid of Meseta (i didnt sleep two days before Meseta, it was night mare for me - but now - its the most beautiful place on Camino)
Acctually, i was afraid of everything.
Sometimes it was really horrible before my Camino. I think i didn't sleep for a month. It seemed to me like I jumped into the abyss and i'll die.
But i didn't. I made it all the way to Santiago.
falcon269 said:Fears often are conditioned like Pavlov's dogs, so just telling yourself not to be afraid rarely works. There are a lot of cognitive therapy techniques that work well, if you are paralyzed by fear that has no rational basis. If just telling yourself to do something worked, Dianetics would not be expensive (or be a cult), and many of us would be at our ideal weight!
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