Phobias, Anxiety and Hypnosis
Fears and phobia treatment with hypnosis at the Gloucestershire Hypnotherapy Clinic in Cheltenham. Covering Gloucester, Tewkesbury, Evesham, Stroud, and Bristol in the UK
There are literally thousands of different phobias, basically every object or situation can be associated into a phobia. Phobias are irrational fears, they are not logical. It is something inside us, but beyond our own control. Its a feeling of being out of control. We develop phobias in order to avoid anxious situations. Every person who has a phobia of some description already has an inner anxiety, a formless, timeless, unknown anxiety and a phobia develops from this anxiety so that we can avoid it.
Phobias are not about spiders, water, open spaces, heights, flying or anything else, phobias are formed so that we can avoid our own anxiety that we have had bottled up for many years. The anxiety we already feel would have been caused by an emotional event, normally from childhood, so when we develop a phobia, our psyche is telling our subconscious mind not to get into that anxious, emotional situation again. We can then choose to avoid that feeling, by avoiding the object of our phobia such as dogs, flying, water, heights or any other situation. Phobias may not surface for many years, but phobias itself are always an indication of internal anxiety.
Phobias are fuelled by strong emotions, and are all about us feeling out of control, feeling anxious and fearful, and not being able to cope with it. Phobias are rarely about the object or situation that we fear most.
When treating phobias, it is very important to find out the cause of your internal anxiety and why you are feeling out of control. Many other clinical hypnotherapists would use suggestion therapy or clinical hypnosis in order to treat phobias, but this is a short term fix, what I call ' sticking plaster therapy'. It will only control the symptoms of the phobia for a short time or until ' symptom substitution' happens where the phobia may disappear but the internal anxiety will then find another outlet to express itself. For example, another type of phobia may develop or you may start binge eating, you may start to smoke or drink more or perhaps even develop physical symptoms.
The only way to permanently get rid of your fear or phobia is to find the experiences and emotions that have caused the internal anxiety to begin with. The only way of doing this naturally and safely, is with pure hypno-analysis.
Some common phobias:
- Fear of flying (Aviatophobia)
- Fear of being judged (Social Phobia)
- Fear of spiders (Arachnophobia)
- Fear of heights (Acrophobia)
- Fear of enclosed spaces (Claustrophobia)
- Fear of death (Thanatophobia)
- Fear of needles (Aichmophobia)
- Fear of injections (Trypanophobia)
- Fear of blood (Hemophobia)
- Fear of insects (Insectophobia)
- Fear of dirt or germs (Misophobia)
- Fear of water (Hydrophobia)
- Fear of darkness (Myctophobia)
- Fear of being sick/gagging (Emetophobia)
- Fear of dentists (Dentophobia)
If you would like to know more about releasing your phobia permanently, please contact me and I will be more than happy to have a chat with you.
