Hypnosis for Phobias
Do you have a phobia, or is it just an ordinary fear of something?
- Is your fear affecting how you live i.e. do you drive the long way to work, through heavy traffic just to avoid driving over a bridge?
- Does your fear occupy your thoughts most of the time? Have your thoughts become obsessive?
- Would you rather suffer agonizing toothache instead of visiting the dentist?
If you react in this way, your fear would be classed as a phobia.
- If you found driving over bridges slightly uncomfortable.
- If you occasionally thought about something that frightened you.
- If you just didn't like going to the dentist.
If you reacted in this way, you would not have a phobia.
If your phobia is disrupting or spoiling your life in any way then it is time to do something about it. Some phobias are not really disruptive to ones life. A phobia of snow is not disruptive to your life if you live in a hot, tropical climate. A phobia of camels is not disruptive if you live in a country that doesn't have camels.
Your phobia could be the result of a bad past experience. If a snake bit you, you could then develop a phobia of snakes. Your phobia may be a learnt experience. Your mother may have been terrified of spiders and as a very young child you learnt to fear spiders. I have had a number of clients who had a phobia of being in the sea or a swimming pool and this was caused by a near drowning experience when young. I have seen clients who had developed a phobia of dogs, in all cases, at sometime in their lives, they had either been bitten by a dog or a dog had rushed at them and frightened them.
Hypnosis is a quick way of treating a phobia. In the majority of cases only one session is needed.
I have listed just a few common phobias but there are many more.
Heights
Spiders
Needles
Birds
Driving
Dark
Death
Vomiting
Crowds
Dentists
Doctors
Public Speaking
Enclosed Spaces
Occasionally a phobia may have originated from a traumatic emotional event, that happened over a long period of time and if so, more than one session would be needed to explore and deal with the cause which can often go back a number of years. There are many methods of treating a phobia when you are under hypnosis. One such way is regression to the cause of the problem. Sometimes regression can be distressing to the client, and if this is the case, there are many other methods that can be used.
Perhaps your particular phobia is a fear of heights. When you are very relaxed in hypnosis, you may visualize yourself on the ground floor of a building, looking out of the window. The next step you would be at the second floor, still very relaxed. In fact the higher you go in the building, the more relaxed you become. It is impossible to be so relaxed and anxious at the same time.
Maybe you are so frightened of heights that the above method would frighten you, this being the case, perhaps you would feel comfortable during hypnosis to visualize the building on a screen, as if you were watching a movie or television and to see yourself, on the screen, slowly moving up to the higher floors, feeling very relaxed and confident.
There are many different techniques that can be used in hypnotherapy to deal with phobias, I would use the most suitable technique for you.
You could also reinforce your hypnotherapy session by using self-hypnosis. I would give you written and verbal instructions on using this relaxing therapy, to use in the comfort of your home, in your own time.
Hypnosis for phobias is very effective indeed.
