Well then. That's that. Another part clarified and done.

All I needed was a "true" mantra.
"By stepping onboard a plane, you have made yourself safer." How simple! And bam! The fear was away... What a crazy human mind this one is!

I stumbled upon a website dedicated to erradicating fear of flying. Of course, as all others, this one offered guaranteed results if you enrolled in their multi-hundred-dollar online course. I didn't. But I nevertheless poked around the site.

I found a free 15 or 20 minute long prerecorded chatcam interview of sorts with the supposed pilot who offers these courses. Of course I haven't the faintest recollection about his name or that of the website, so, um, unlike usually I won't include a link to the site.
Anyhow, I decided to give it a go. An introduction the the company and the program - why not?

I sat through only about ten minutes of it as a friend was coming for a visit. But those ten minutes were worth more than the last 7 years I have spent struggling with this irrational fear.

Tha man - pilot - is so certain of what he says, so full of this "I have experience and I know what I'm talking about but don't need to prove it to you" -flair that he made a deep impression on me. And, amazing as it may seem, his few words (most of the ten minutes was about building his case about why he knows what he knows - aka building trust) helped me, for the first time in some 7 years, board a plane without loosing control over my mind and body. More than that, I managed to sit through the whole flight - from take-off to touch down - without uncontrolled fear. Actually, I experienced almost no fear at all! Amazing...

Sometimes, a few well placed words are worth much more than a Life of therapeutic research. I've certainly now discovered a whole "uncomplicated" part of my mind. How liberating!

Oh, and I'm still at the Copenhagen airport, so nevermind this last sentence.
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