|
Hypnotherapy &
Hypno-Analysis
|
|
Phobias See below for the list of phobias
It is possible to have a phobia of anything at all. The list below shows some of them. Not all fears are phobias. Being scared of something like falling, isn’t a phobia because there is a real danger and there is a need for survival in the individual. Only when the fear becomes irrational does it become a phobia. Being frightened of something harmless like a spider or dust has to be classed as abnormal but it is surprising how many people have these fears. If you have never had a phobia you will probably not realise how overwhelmingly powerful the fear really is for the sufferer. It can also be very debilitating when the person has to avoid certain fearful situations. Phobias have been written about for thousands of years but their cause has only been understood in recent times. There are two types of phobia, direct and indirect. Both are a symptom of blocked emotions. There is a big difference in their formation. The simplest to explain is the direct phobia. It is caused by a frightening event, the emotion from which is held and locked away together with the memory of what happened. For example if, as a child you were frightened by a dog, you may become scared of dogs forever after, even if they are friendly. The memory is locked in and held with the original frightening feelings so that when you see a dog, the fear is brought out automatically. The indirect phobia doesn’t have a simple cause. It is caused by a build up of anxiety from many causes and often over a long period of time. There is no direct, single cause. This general, unconscious anxiety is projected onto an outside object or event by the unconscious mind. It will have some symbolic association to the original anxieties but it will often have been unconsciously changed and distorted by the person. It is impossible to tell which sort of phobia a person has unless they remember the event which caused it (direct phobia). But even if they do have such a memory, the phobia could still be the focus of other inner anxieties as well. The types of phobias which are most likely to be
indirect are fear of; Most hypnotherapists will use 'suggestion therapy' or NLP to help remove the symptom, with little regard for their underlying cause. Remembering that every phobia has buried emotion associated with it. Simply to remove the projected fear will leave the person open to the creation of a new phobia or even another type of nervous condition altogether. Their inner anxiety will get projected onto something else. This condition is well known as 'symptom substitution'. So to offer to remove phobias from anyone without any regard to the underlying cause is being negligent in the extreme. It is relatively easy to remove simple symptoms such as a phobia but when that person develops a worse phobia or even a completely different symptom, it can do immense harm. Imagine being claustrophobic and not liking to go into lifts or small spaces, and having this transformed into agoraphobia so that you can’t go out of your own house. It could also manifest as a nerve rash, or you might find yourself beginning to stammer. If that happened to you would you consider yourself as having been helped? The only safe way to deal with these symptoms, whether they are direct or indirect, is to remove the inner anxiety with a technique such as hypno-analysis, after which most of the phobias will go automatically. Any remaining ones can be safely dealt with afterwards, without the worry that another will take its place. It must be remembered that all psychological problems have a cause, and to bring permanent relief it is always necessary to deal with this underlying cause.
This is a small example of the more common phobias
|