Phobia Treatment With Hypnotherapy and NLP To Stop Phobias Before They Stop You Enjoying Life!

by John Townsend ~ December 9th, 2009. Tags: Phobias Filed under: Stress Management.

Imagine this. You are young and scared, even phobic of the dark because deep down you imagine that some scary snake is going attack you. It isn’t the dark that is dangerous but your imagination is running wild, creating panic attacks or a phobia. But just imagine if you turned on the light and saw the rope on the floor, your phobia would melt like snow on a hot stove because, and here’s the point – it is not enough to know intellectually that there is nothing to be afraid of, you have to train your mind to feel safe deep down.

Hypnotherapy CDs and MP3s are relaxation recordings incorporating NLP can help treat phobias. A hypnotherapist can assist to treat phobias at deep levels of mind. A phobia can be debilitating. Phobias can literally ruin your life if untreated.

Take emetophobia for instance; intense fear of vomit or being sick. Emetophobia sufferers may fear getting sick or other people getting sick. They think about getting sick and in turn restrict their relationships significantly. They rarely go to restaurants for fear of eating food that may be off.

Where such phobias may be symbolic of deep, childhood based traumas, manifesting in many ways such as fear of abandonment, they remain unprocessed as it were. Thus the fear of vomit symbolises a fear of feeling. Such excess avoidance of feeling fears turns a mild fear into a full blown phobia with all the classic symptoms, like increased heart rate, blood pressure, breathing shifts, shaking, chest pain, marked anxiety and more.

There are so many types of phobias, but some common ones include:

fear of rejection, fear of crowds, fear of confrontation, fear of public speaking, social phobia, fear of flying, dental phobia, needle phobia, elevator phobia, driving fear, bird phobia, dog phobia, claustrophobia, agoraphobia, arachnophobia and many more phobic reactions abound.

Whatever type of phobia you have, a skilled hypnotherapist can assist you to release the cause of your phobia. Hypnosis can also retrain your mind to relax your body symptoms and feel good the next time you think about or are confronted with your fear and phobia. If you don’t have a hypnotherapist, it may be worth listening to a hypnosis CD to cure phobias daily. There are some good self hypnosis titles around to help treat phobias. Phobias are learned every day, and people are becoming phobia free every day, and so can you.

This Stress Tip has been kindly supplied by Adam Szmerling of Bayside Psychotherapy.