Hypnosis in the treatment of Strange Phobias
You are a young child out shopping with your mother. You wander off in the shopping centre and suddenly realise your mother is no longer there. This is a circumstance with which we can probably all identify. You experience fear – but of what? Most likely it is a fear of being lost but that fear could be assigned to anything. A kind lady with white or pale blond hair may try to help. The child may assign the fear to her white hair and a strange phobia of people with white hair, or old people, is established.
The client who came to me with a strange phobia of the Telecom Tower developed it following admission to a London hospital as a young child. Her parents were excluded and she believed she had been abandoned. As a young child she did not understand these feelings so she assigned the fear to the one thing that dominated her environment – a magnificent view of the Telecom Tower. As an adult she found it strange that the Telecom Tower created terrible fear but its real cause was hidden. Interestingly, if any member of her family were present the fear was greater and extended to any tall building.
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The phobia that develops is not always an uncommon or strange phobia and quite frequently I find the source of a phobia to be something other than the obvious. I have helped people with fear of flying who had developed it from a fear of success and a fear of being alone. I also had a client who had “inherited” a fear of thunder and lightening from her war hero father who had suffered “shell shock” from bombardment during the Second World War.
It is possible to develop a phobia to anything – something strange or otherwise. There is generally a logical explanation that explains how any phobia has been created.
Hypnotherapy and NLP can be used to cure phobias however strange they may appear. With the correct treatment you can cure even strange fears and phobias. Hypnotherapy and NLP can be extremely effective as a cure for phobias.
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