PHOBIA
  
     
 
Terrified to fly? --- Afraid of Spiders? --- Do heights freeze your blood?
  
     
A phobia is an inexplicable terror of something often seen by others as insignificant. It can be so embarrassing that we go to great lengths to avoid getting into a situation where we might meet our fear and make fools of ourselves.  
 
Only someone who knows from experience just how debilitating that can be really understands what it is to suffer with a phobia.  
   
You know, those miserable fears that you have been suffering from can be eased.  Breathe a sigh of relief because you can say goodbye to terror. NOW.  Don't spend another minute hiding away from all the fun of living. Hypnosis can set you free!  
   
The fear response in your brain can be changed to one of pleasure.  It’s simple. I will use a sort of re-wiring technique that allows you to experience a new reaction to the fear-producing stimulus, a calm, peaceful feeling when you find yourself in that situation. Much of the fear can be released by finding the cause of the problem, the initial trauma, and releasing it.  
     
 
Releasing a phobia need only take a few sessions
  
     
 
the way in which memories are formed and transformed in our brain and how hypnotherapy successfully releases the fear associated with those memories was described in a recent issue of the "New Scientist "; [read more]
  
     
 
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  from New Scientist 24 May 2003 p26  
     
 

The model of memory recall in which a consolidated memory becomes labile when recalled and may then be reconsolidated in an altered form helps explain the success that hypnotherapy and neurolinguistic programming achieve in removing entrenched phobias, often in single sessions (New Scientist, 3 May 2003 p26)

The therapist guides the patient in a relaxed state to recall the circumstances linked to fear, in a way that avoids the fear reaction - for example, by visualising the situation as a distant picture, or a film that can be run backwards and forwards, chopped up and destroyed. The memory may be altered by adding someone the patient trusts, or by associating it with funny music.

An imaginative therapist conjures up many ways of removing the fear----- and I have been surprised by the wide variety of phobias removed by these seemingly simple techniques: fear of flying, motorways or meeting people seem more common than the traditional spider phobia, but all are removed by reconsolidation of the memory.