Overcome Phobias
What is a phobia? A phobia is an irrational, intense fear of something that poses little or no danger. Like many fears, a phobia is a set of learned behaviors and thought patterns associated with feelings of intense anxiety or panic. These thought patterns, behaviors, and intense reactivity can significantly be decreased, and in many cases eliminated.
Phobias affect about 19.2 million Americans. Phobias usually appear in childhood or adolescence, but can be acquired as an adult.
Most people cope by avoiding the situation or object. Yet the mere thought of the phobia can trigger extreme fear or a panic attack, impairing a person's ability to enjoy day to day living and disrupting their normal routine.
A phobia is not something a person is able to talk themselves out of. The very nature of a phobia is that the person knows it is irrational but is unable to control the strong fearful reaction. Due to the irrational nature of phobias, hypnosis or neurolinguistic programming (NLP) can be very effective modalities to treat phobias because they address interplay of the body and brain, and acknowledge the power of one's unconscious and conscious perceptions.
Modalities Utilized to Overcome Phobias
1. Hypnosis can help remove the "filter of fear" because the process of hypnosis involves
an experience of detachment and the suspension of judgment. By disconnecting or altering the
"negative charge" toward the object or situation of fear, it becomes transformed it into
something more neutral and harmless.
2. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) encompasses a variety of techniques that enable
a person to develop new states of awareness. NLP allows the lens of perception to widen, so
rather than having one perspective you discover multiple perspectives. These new choices
create freedom and opportunity where previously there seemed none.
3. Relaxation training reconditions the body and brain from a physiological state of
hyperarousal to a state of homeostasis and calmness.
4. Systematic desensitization is a process that exposes a person to the object or situation
of concern in small increments until they become desensitized. This can be done in reality or
virtually. Conducting this process utilizing hypnosis and coupling it with relaxation training and
cognitive therapy can be very effective.
Benefits of mastering these life changing skills:
Phobias affect about 19.2 million Americans. Phobias usually appear in childhood or adolescence, but can be acquired as an adult.
Most people cope by avoiding the situation or object. Yet the mere thought of the phobia can trigger extreme fear or a panic attack, impairing a person's ability to enjoy day to day living and disrupting their normal routine.
A phobia is not something a person is able to talk themselves out of. The very nature of a phobia is that the person knows it is irrational but is unable to control the strong fearful reaction. Due to the irrational nature of phobias, hypnosis or neurolinguistic programming (NLP) can be very effective modalities to treat phobias because they address interplay of the body and brain, and acknowledge the power of one's unconscious and conscious perceptions.
Modalities Utilized to Overcome Phobias
1. Hypnosis can help remove the "filter of fear" because the process of hypnosis involves
an experience of detachment and the suspension of judgment. By disconnecting or altering the
"negative charge" toward the object or situation of fear, it becomes transformed it into
something more neutral and harmless.
2. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) encompasses a variety of techniques that enable
a person to develop new states of awareness. NLP allows the lens of perception to widen, so
rather than having one perspective you discover multiple perspectives. These new choices
create freedom and opportunity where previously there seemed none.
3. Relaxation training reconditions the body and brain from a physiological state of
hyperarousal to a state of homeostasis and calmness.
4. Systematic desensitization is a process that exposes a person to the object or situation
of concern in small increments until they become desensitized. This can be done in reality or
virtually. Conducting this process utilizing hypnosis and coupling it with relaxation training and
cognitive therapy can be very effective.
Benefits of mastering these life changing skills:
- Increased emotional freedom
- Decreased fearfulness and overreactivity
- Increased ease and comfort
Types of Anxiety Treated: