Phobias
A couple of weeks back, the TV programme This Morning on ITV had a phobia week. This involved a selection of people with varied phobias getting treatment behind the scenes by a Hypnotherapist with some excellent results.
I love helping people to get freedom from phobias- I find it so rewarding when they suddenly realise that the problem is gone.
I recently helped someone to get rid of a fear of heights that he had since childhood. It took just a couple of hours to do and by the end of it, he had visited the London Eye without even thinking about it!
Appart from the satisfaction I get from helping people with phobias, I find the whole subject fascinating. The unconscious mind will put a phobia in place to protect us from something which it percieves as a threat. Most of the time it is mistaken but is doing the best it can for us given what it knows. Of course, once the phobia is in place, no amount of conscious comment on how silly the phobia is will shift it. I’ve lost count of the number of times a person has said to me “I know it’s silly, but I can’t help being scared of spiders”. Another popular one is “I know it is irrational…..”.
By using some NLP and Hypnotherapy, it can be so easy to lose that phobia. I just wish more people knew that. Then I’d be much busier in my practice and everyone would be so much happier!
Here’s a link to the phobia week clips on ITV:
http://www.itv.com/lifestyle/thismorning/features/phobiaweek/default.html
