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Hypnotherapy for Fears & Phobias PHOBIAS A phobia (from the Greek "Phobos" meaning Fear), is defined as a persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it, despite the awareness and reassurance that it is not dangerous. The most common phobias are: Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces What they all have in common is FEAR. We are only born with two phobias:
All other phobias are learned. They are learned from past experiences in our lives. For example, maybe a young child saw his mother screaming when confronted with a spider. Or maybe the child had a spider thrown at him. Or maybe the child was being bullied and the bully happened to wear a t-shirt with a spider on it. In all of these cases the spider could have become associated with a fear. And each time the person says or thinks "I don't like spiders" they are reinforcing their fear.I sometimes tell my clients the story of the woman with the cat phobia. A woman who had a fear of cats for most of her life. However she didn't know why she had this fear. Through the use of hypno-analysis we discovered that when she was a baby she'd had a frightning experience. One day, while she was in her pram, it was thundering and lightening. She was frightened by the loud rumble of the thunder. Nearby was a cat. The cat, iteself frightened by the loud thunder, jumped over the pram. The baby saw the cat and the image of the cat became merged with the fear of the thunder. And from then on each time the child saw a cat she reinforced the negative association, so strengthening her fear. In this situation what we would do in hypnosis would be to disconnect the emotion from the event. So the client can think of a cat without having any emotional turmoil. Some phobias are more complex. A fear of flying, for example, may be a fear of being out of control, or a fear of heights, or a fear of being in an enclosed place, or a combination of all of these. Furthermore, the cause of the phobia may have had nothing to do with object of the phobia! For example the client who had a fear of driving over motorway bridges - the problem started many years earlier when the client fell off a roof, so developing a fear of heights! Here at Hypnotic Solutions we treat all kinds of fears and phobias, from fear of flying to social phobias. And in as little as one session!! |
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