treating phobias with hypnotherapy

Treating Phobias with Hypnotherapy

Most people have at least one phobia, where they react with fear to a particular stimulus. Usually the phobia causes only occasional inconvenience or unpleasantness, but for some people their phobia controls their life. A fixation with avoiding a phobia can cause intense anxiety, and can be very debilitating.

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Fortunately, most people respond very well to hypnotherapy when it comes to curing a phobia. Hypnotherapy can help a person to identify the underlying causes of a phobia, and will reduce the fear by overriding their conditioned response. Typically, it will take multiple sessions to fully cure the fear.



Hypnotherapy works so well for phobias because the root cause is often repressed, or the event happened so early on in a person's life that they have no conscious memory of it.



A heightened state of focus and relaxation - which is referred to as a hypnotic trance - can create the ideal state for repressed memories to re-surface. Once the memory has been identified the person will understand their phobic response much better.



Sometimes the trigger for the development of the phobia cannot be accessed under hypnosis. However, this does not mean that the phobia cannot be treated. The person can be helped to visualize him or herself in the situation which triggers the fearful response.



If this hypnotic exercise is repeated multiple times the person will either become desensitized to the stimulus, or develop new patterns of thoughts and behavior in the neural pathways which changes their response.



How many hypnosis sessions are needed to cure a phobia will depend on a number of contributing factors. How deep rooted and long lasting the phobia has been can be important, as can the severity of the phobia. The personality of the sufferer can be a factor as well, as some people are more responsive to hypnotic suggestion than others.



treating phobias with hypnotherapy

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