A phobia is any persistent fear of a specific stimulus object or situation. Phobia is from the Greek meaning to fear or dread. It is more than a simple fear, or being afraid. It is to be totally terrified of the stimulus.
What has caused the phobia?
A client will often say that nothing has caused the phobia, it just started, they've always been afraid of dogs, etc. If one person is afraid of dogs and another isn't, then clearly there is a difference between the two. One person has either been exposed to some causal event which has been repressed in the subconscious mind, or has learned to be afraid from a parent or other authority figure at some time earlier in life. The causal event may not have been very traumatic at the time, but the young mind will have seen it out of the context that would be understood by a more mature mind in later years. It may have caused an emotional response and/or motor actions to be locked away, repressed, and the emotional and possible motor responses will have been locked away and anchored to the event. The subconscious mind can often set up a kind of false instinct, whereby any sign of the stimulus, or even something resembling it, or associated with it, may cause a phobic reaction, and then the body's flight or fight response will kick in and the individual may begin to panic.
Hypnotherapy to relieve phobias
The mind can be reprogrammed to see things in a different way and to accept situations as normal that would previously have been viewed as threatening.
It is this notion that we address in this great hypnosis session. We take you to a deep relaxed state and give you suggestions on how to view your perceptions.
Fear tends to be an emotion which can develop out of feelings of uncertainty. It is this uncertainty that gives us the perceived inability to feel or be in control. When explaining it this way the whole aspect of fear and anxiety appears to be quite simple. Fear is not real it is only a perception.
