What Can You Do If You've Got A Fear Of Violence?

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Trevor_Johnson]Trevor Johnson
This article doesn't deal with domestic violence - that can be a very real fear and if you're unfortunate enough to be in that situation, you should seek professional help. What I'll deal with hear is a general fear of violence - whether that's on television or the news or anywhere else that affects you. Dealt with properly you can reduce or even overcome your fear of violence and reduce the amount that it affects your life.
Remember the news wants to shock you
Bad news sells, good news doesn't. So the newspapers, television and (increasingly) internet news channels will major on bad news. And violence is part and parcel of that.
The problem is that this causes you to become more worried than you should be.
The news reports things from elsewhere in the country or the world. Often isolated incidents are literally blown up out all proportion until even the most confident person would be affected.
The simplest way of dealing with this is to cut yourself off from as much news as possible. Become a recluse from the media. The news will happen anyway, whether you follow it or not, in much the same way as the weather happens regardless of if you've read the forecast.
If anything important happens, other people will let you know soon enough. But if you carry out this exercise for even a week you'll be surprised at how little of the bad news about violence (or anything else) is actually important. Most of the time it's a space filler.
The past doesn't always repeat itself
Just because someone was unlucky enough to get mugged in an area the other week doesn't mean that area is now a no-go zone.
Chances are that the very precise circumstances that created the problem are unlikely to happen again.
OK, this might not be the case for certain less than desirable zones in your town or city, where you'd be foolish to walk at night unless you were a member of a specific gang, but those are the exception not the rule. And simply following your common sense can keep you well out of the way of any possible violence.
Learn to chill out more
If certain images of violence don't get on with you, the simple answer is to switch them off or change channel. Don't sit there starting to panic!
Then find a way that will allow you to relax. Because there will be occasions when you're exposed to violence even if you were planning to avoid it. Trailers for shows on television or at the cinema often sneak up on you like that. Closing your eyes and muting the volume at home (or, better yet, using the fast forward button on your TIVO) can help reduce the effect.
But it also helps if you know a way to relax and generally chill out. Deep breathing is a quick and easy way to do this or using a hypnosis track to help reduce your fear of violence is another option to consider.
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