Overcoming and Facing Fear
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:52 pm
I am attempting to face my fears, but what I am about to describe to you feels more like pure terror. After all of our training, I am curious if anyone out there would be able to do the following. I have the option to take a tour of an old silver mine when I travel to Czech later this year. When you enter the, you walk 160 steps down into the mine which ends up being about 6 floors under ground. There is no light except for the flashlight each person carries. Eventually you get to a tunnel that is so small inside, no more than 4' high and super narrow, which you have to walk through. I am told that at this point you are happy to be wearing a hard hat when it scrapes the ceiling. Once well inside of the tunnel, the guide asks that all flashlights be turned off so everyone can “feel” total darkness, which is said to be VERY unsettling, to say the least. With flashlights back on, the tour continues into a more normal size tunnel that leads under a river and finally out. The tour is close to an hour in length and they advise against people with nervous, cardiac and/or respiratory problems taking it.
I have to stop and ask myself if this tour is something I really want to do or if my fears are stopping me. Thoughts anyone?
I have to stop and ask myself if this tour is something I really want to do or if my fears are stopping me. Thoughts anyone?