Do you know HOW you developed a fear of falling?
As you’ve grown older, you’ve stopped riding on your bicycle, practicing yoga, and rowing down the river in your canoe. The result? Your balance has deteriorated and you’ve started feeling the impact on your mobility. The fewer balance-orientated activities you do, the less you hone your balancing skills, thereby allowing weight to be unevenly distributed throughout your body. This causes straining and overcompensation in some areas and weakness in others. Subsequently, an unbalanced body wreaks havoc on your brain: it is that much more likely to fear falling. After all, it knows your balance is off! What can you do? Well, get back on the yoga mat, dust off the bicycle, and start practicing activities that increase your balance. A daily effort to evenly distribute weight and create a greater awareness of your body’s balance is, ultimately, a giant leap on your road to overcoming the fear of falling.
Muscle Weakness Contributes to Falling.
Just as you’ve given up rowing, you’ve also neglected to do your daily walks or stretches. Thus, your muscles have started to weaken and lose strength. Without muscle strength, your body isn’t capable of providing the confidence needed to overcome a fear of falling. Again, your mind understands that your body is incapable of compensating for a fall if you have weak muscles. It trains you to restrict movement accordingly: it tries to lessen the probability of a fall. Why not start walking for 30 minutes a day? Muscle weakness starts alongside a sedentary lifestyle. Get active and feel the confidence return to both your body and mind!
Obstacle Awareness Decreases your Risk for Falls
Clutter, mounds of clothes, various sofas, and random chairs in your home place before your body a daily obstacle course. From stepping over a coffee table to swiveling around a badly-placed chair, these movements impact your peace of mind, place stress on your already weak muscles, and increase your fear of falling. The stress associated with navigating the living-room is, at its most basic level, akin to traversing an uneven hillside. The fact that you do it every day makes your mind and body feel as though you need to be protected, and thus your movements become limited. Obstacles feed your fear. Watching Marie Kondo helps with motivation enough to clean out the clutter. If you want to protect your body and mind, then waste no more time! Clear a path to freedom from fear!
Being afraid of falling is as much about your body as it is about your mind: the limitations your mind places on your body is affecting your life for the worse. Freedom from fear enables you to live the life you dream of, do the activities you long to do, and be the person you hope to be. We’re here to help you and we look forward to speaking to you about how we can assist you on your journey to achieving confidence in yourself and your body. Call us today at 208-237-2080; we look forward to hearing from you!
I do have a fear of falling. I have no idea where I got if from because I did not experience any accident where I fell, so I am sure that I am not traumatized. I think my fear of falling comes from my fear of feeling pain. I am very much afraid to get into an accident where I will be physically hurt, so I tend to avoid all activities where I might fall. I do hope that I can develop some sort of defense mechanism to overcome my fear of falling because it does make me anxious sometimes.
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