Yesterday, I went to an academy that specializes in teaching Parkour and Freerunning. During one of their Parkour classes we were to go through an obstacle course with three different routes. I attempted the more advance route, which involved a lot of small fears I overcame by my clear mind approach.
However, one of the more larger fears took me a bit longer for me to get over. There was an approximately a 10-11 foot wall I had to get up on to reach the end of the advanced route. Out of all the possible ways to get up it, I took one of the more intimidating approaches. I climbed up a slightly smaller wall, 6 feet away from the 10-11 foot wall.
What followed was me staring down the other wall with a straight drop to concrete. I took a few deep breaths and realize the clear mind approach was not going to help this time. I knew if I over jumped or under jumped the wall, I will take a fall onto concrete. I had to land it perfectly to avoid certain injury.
After a few deep breathes I remembered back to jumps I have succeeded, at larger distances, on the ground. The difference between this jump and other jumps I have done was the height. I decided to just think of this jump as any normal jump. I landed it without error and finished the obstacle. Afterwards, I decided to make the jump several more times.
Although the clear mind approach didn't come in handy for this particular fear attempt, my other approach still resulted in my success. I felt by belittling the challenge I removed the idea of intimidation. This caused a seemingly scary jump to be done with ease.
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