Phobias
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Phobias
Fast Phobia Release - Let Me Show You How
We are often asked if we can remove any phobia or fear and the answer is always, "yes", or rather you can. Even the severest phobias can be treated easily and safely.
Using fast phobia and systematic desensitisation techniques you can cure phobias and de-traumatise bad memories.
We regularly have clients who present with phobias. Simple phobias, or specific as they are sometimes known, are linked to specific objects or situations such as birds, spiders, water, buttons, insects, driving, flying, motorways, needles, doctors, dentists etc.
Non-specific phobias produce a more generalised anxiety state and can be linked to social or performance situations such as presentations, meetings or public speaking where the sole focus is, or is perceived to be, on the sufferer and are often accompanied by anxiety or panic attacks or both.
You may well have heard of the "fight or flight" response, the primitive trigger that causes the symptoms we feel when experiencing a phobic response.
Let me explain: Imagine if you would a tribesman walking in the open plains of Africa outside of his village.
Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he spies the biggest cat he has ever laid eyes on leaping from behind a bush.
As the cat starts to gain pace on the tribesman his fight or flight response is triggered; within milliseconds he makes the sensible decision to run (the flight response). On reaching the safety of his village and the other tribes people he turns to see the big cat retreating back to the bush.
The physiology of the tribesman would be panting, rapid heartbeat, jelly legged, sweating and feelings of impending doom. Ring any bells
This is the same response your body feels when presented with a phobic response.
Now one of the fantastic adjustments that have happened here is that the tribesman has had a learning that he will use in the future, albeit on an unconscious level.
Inside the brain is a small almond shape piece of nervous tissue called the amygdala.
This nervous tissue ensures that he remembers the event and elicits the same response should he be presented with the same scenario in the future.
However, as the unconscious mind stores this learning it can make a mismatch, ensuring that should an event, which is, similar, or not too dissimilar, present itself in the future
However, as the unconscious mind stores this learning it can make a mismatch, ensuring that should an event, which is similar, or not too dissimilar, present itself in the future, the fight or flight response is fired again.
Because of this mismatch, we can experience a traumatic event and then experience a situation in the future, which at first does not seem to have any bearing on the previous trauma, but with a little delving the mind makes a link or connection to the first episode.
If this mismatch had not happened the fight or flight responses would only respond if it was the same place, the same grasses and, importantly, the same big cat.
It is the mismatching that has made us one of the most successful species on this planet. Conversely, this same mismatching can be the reason why adults present with a phobia.
Cognitive Behavioral Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy, by contrast, utilizes the heightened awareness of the hypnotic state to help you explore your phobia more deeply. You will be guided by our hypnotherapists to visualize yourself in a state of peacefulness and relaxation, even when confronting the object of your fears.
During hypnotherapy, you remain in control. It is not possible for anyone to force you to do anything against your will, even under hypnosis. You will be tuned in to the work at hand, and so may not pay attention to your surroundings, but you will always be in charge of your own actions, behaviors and statements.
Dog Phobia
Jake 9 year old was bitten by a dog a few years ago and since then his fear of dogs had turned in to a phobia he only had to see a dog in the street and he would run as fast as he could to avoid it.
After working on his phobis using cognitive behavior hypnosis this is jake with his new best friend Lenny.
Testimonial
"I wanted to say a big big thank you for your help with Jake from me, Jake and the rest of my family.
Christmas day was amazing, and in a controlled way Jake decided to stroke Lenny by himself, with no anxiety.
I know he still has a way to go with all dogs, but to me he is already 100% better than he was prior to our appointments. Please see photos attached from Christmas day.And thanks again :)
Mel
P.S This is Jake with Lenny in the kitchen christmas day. (Picture top of page)