“CURING” PHOBIAS THROUGH HYPNOTHERAPY

Imagine you’re in your bedroom and you have turned the light off. You realise that you have forgotten to close the curtains as the moonlight is streaming through the window.

Then you freeze in absolute terror. What is the demon in the chair at the end of the bed ready to pounce on you? For an hour you keep very still so it won’t move toward you. You hardly dare to breathe. Another hour passes and you haven’t slept a wink.

Now you are becoming desperate. You can’t keep this up all night “something” will have to be done. With microscopic movements you move your hand towards the light switch on the cord of the bedside lamp. Painfully slow but the thing doesn’t respond to such slow motion.

You feel the switch and flood the room with light. There on the back of your chair is the jacket you put on it earlier and then completely forgot about in your terror.

A far fetched example? No, because it is possible to have phobias about absolutely anything and this applies to clothing too. While it is hard to understand if you don’t have the phobia for people who do it is all too real.

It is a basic principle of hypnotherapy that the therapist helps to deal with problems but does not cure them as such. The closest one can come to a cure is when dealing with phobias.

It is possible for phobias to disappear when treated appropriately but the note of caution is that the person has to be aware that it can return. The idea then is to give permanent techniques to deal with phobias rather than aiming for a “cure” as such.

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Can Hypnotherapy Help with Anxiety and Panic Attacks?

This article explains how anxiety, stress, and panic attacks develop, and how hypnotherapy can help people respond to these experiences in calmer and more constructive ways.

In this article:

How hypnotherapy helps anxiety
Understanding panic attacks
Why panic attacks feel like you’re dying
How to calm a panic attack
Worry and anxiety in modern life

Anxiety, stress, worry, and panic attacks are common experiences in modern life. Hypnotherapy can help people understand these feelings, reduce their intensity, and respond to them in calmer and more constructive ways. This article explains how hypnosis works with the subconscious mind to support emotional wellbeing.

One person’s stress is another person’s pleasure. Often said but still very true. Stress is part of everyday life and always has been. It is just that the way stress is experienced in modern society is different from what happened in the past.

Now we do not tend to burn off the excess adrenaline that courses through our veins when we get stressed and this is partly what leads to anxiety and even to panic attacks. In the past, as far back as the Stone Age and until quite recently in historical terms, we had real reason to secrete extra adrenaline to get away from the physical threats in our environment. Then we had to flee to save our lives. This is called the “flight or fight syndrome”. Of course “freezing” is another response to perceived threat such as the “rabbit in the headlight” response.

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