Fears & Phobias
A phobia is defined as a persistent, excessive, unrealistic fear of an object, person, animal, activity or situation. A person with a phobia either tries to avoid the thing that triggers the fear, or endures it with great anxiety and distress.
Phobias can be severe in some people while others can simply avoid their fear trigger and have mild anxiety over that fear. Most understand that they suffer from an irrational fear, but they feel powerless in being able to overcome their instinctual panic reaction.
Scientists say that only two fears are hereditary or naturally instinctive: the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. Phobias usually start while we are young. However, any traumatic experience we endure, such as serious accidents or injuries, can cause phobias in adulthood.
Everything else is learned.
That is actually good news...
That means it can be un-learned!
Hypnotherapy can challenge and relieve all types of fears, phobias, and anxieties in people. Below is a list of the top ten most common:
Arachnophobia – the fear of spiders.
Social Phobia – the fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations i.e. public speaking.
Public speaking
Performance anxiety
Public embarrassment in public
Aerophobia – the fear of flying.
Agoraphobia – the fear of any place or situation where escape is difficult.
Claustrophobia – the fear of being trapped in small confined spaces such as hallways or elevators.
Acrophobia – the fear of heights.
Emetophobia – the fear of vomit.
Carcinophobia – the fear of cancer.
Brontophobia – the fear of thunder and lightning.
Necrophobia – the fear of death
Hypnotherapists will use many different techniques to to desensitize you and reframe the initial moment you experienced the fear, which can allow you to function freely without it.
Maybe for the first time in your life!