safe falling

As many said and noted already

the problem is not the fall but the landing

   jusqu’ici tout va bien, jusqu’ici tout va bien, jusqu’ici tout va bien.
   Mais l'important n’est pas la chute, c’est l’atterrissage."
 
                        Hubert Koundé, La Haine (1995)

 It's not the falling but the stopping. 

Try free fall. 
Falling is amazing, but the stopping is what kills you or whatever happens because of it.  (From a talk of Sadhguru, Guru from India)

I remember an old friend saying "I don't have a falling phobea, I have a gravity-phobea"

Different kinds of falling 

You can fall from the bed, fall on the street, crash on the floor, have a crash on someone. It's not the falling but the crash. 

So You can fall in emotions, sadness, depression, or get high on hapiness and other. 
Have been holding yourself for too long, not to fall? How is that different from a cautious fall ? 

How about Letting go ? 
Learn how to fall ? 

Dealing with gravity

Many people are afraid of falling 
Then what's best is to stay inside for ever ? or learn how to fall. 

 Especially in old age people and their relatives are extremely scared of a fall. 

95-year-old-shares-tricks-of-safe-falling

In aikido, judo and other martial arts, first you learn how to fall. 
In dance happens the same. One of my favorites is contact improvisation, where one of the very few rules is to always take care of yourself.  You know how to fall. So crash is not a problem.

Same with pain. Pain is not the problem, but how we look upon it.