Fears and Phobias

Are you being prevented from living life to the full because of an excessive fear or phobia?

People can develop a phobia to just about anything at any time of life. From the common ones we all know about such as spiders, heights and claustrophobia (fear of enclosed spaces) to obscure ones like nail varnish, red post boxes, blue cups, etc. The techniques I use have an excellent success rate in terms of eradicating or radically reducing a fear or phobia.

Phobias are often caused by a trauma from the past which locks excessive emotion (usually fear or anxiety) into the subconscious. Such traumas may be from events in this lifetime (usually childhood) or sometimes from a past life. Quite often the actual event is not consciously remembered – here is where hypnosis can be so effective in guiding you back to the source of the fear or phobia. In this way the locked in emotion can be safely unlocked and the phobia released.

I also use EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques to clear phobias. These are highly effective and rapid techniques enabling a phobia to be released without regression, sometimes even in one session.

A few cases Andrew came to see me with a fear of heights, even finding a few feet up the step-ladders difficult. Using hypnosis he was regressed back to his childhood to recall a memory of falling down the stairs at the same time as his father fell from a ladder outside the house. The fear that these two simultaneous events had created was released and a few days later he was up a ladder washing down his conservatory roof.

Jackie told me of her overwhelming fear of red post boxes. So bad that she would spend hours working out which routes to take so that she would not have to drive or walk past one. Regression enabled her to remember being 3 years old and having her favourite doll “posted” in the post box. She had been crying and when telling her to be quiet had no effect her father took her doll and told her it was going somewhere deep and dark forever and so would she if she didn’t behave. Unlocking the fear linked to that event freed Jackie of her fear of post boxes and changed her life.

It is such a joy for me to treat fears and phobias. They respond so well to hypnotherapy, EFT and NLP that there really is no need to suffer. No-one needs to live with the discomfort and limitation of a fear or phobia.

Building Confidence

Lack of confidence limits our choices in life, preventing us from achieving the success and happiness we deserve. Underlying poor confidence is a lack of self-esteem. Self-esteem is one of the fundamental influences on nearly everything we do. When our self-esteem is low, almost all areas of life, working, socialising, loving, family life – are made more difficult.

One way to improve self-esteem is by reprogramming your subconscious through hypnosis. Sometimes all that is needed is to replace old thinking patterns with positive suggestions and visualisations during hypnosis. However, poor confidence and lack of self-esteem are usually rooted in your past and, more often than not, the most effective way of freeing yourself is to uncover the underlying cause and eliminate the problem. This is achieved as the hypnotherapist skilfully guides you to causal emotional events, often not consciously remembered, thus allowing them to be released.