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HANG-UPS,
FEARS, AND PHOBIAS
The Advantage Of Hypnotherapy
Specific fears often emanate from apprehension of
impending danger. Feelings of anxiety and
panic tend to develop into forebodings of
approaching disaster, the source of which is not
understood. The fear of loss of control is
primitive and is likely to be a common element and
basic cause in all phobia cases. It is not
uncommon in relationship break-ups.
The progressive
development of fear and phobic reactions often proceed through four
phases: Unrealistic self-statements create a state of alarm;
Fear of the fear itself develops; Personal feelings and reason
are rejected as the fear escalates; Avoidance begins of any
person, place, thing, or situation which generates feelings of arousal
or anxiety.
In mild cases reprogramming
through hypnotherapy can prove effective. Hypnotic suggestion can
replace catastrophic thoughts with truthful statements explaining the
nature of the symptoms and the realization that the physical sensations
can cause no harm. Hypnosis can slow the heartbeat, achieve a
sense of balance, generate relaxation through deep breathing, free the
throat to swallow, overcome sensations of temperature change and promote
clear-headedness.
In more severe cases,
symptoms are usually apparent, but true causes likely are unknown.
The condition which created the fear is a threat to the victim because
it is unresolved. Exposing the cause can diminish the anxiety
associated with the fear by taking it out of the unknown so that
rational suggestion can be used to alleviate symptoms. Some causes
apparently producing present symptoms, however, may prove to be the
symptoms of yet a deeper cause.
Age regression can be a
highly effective technique for uncovering causes. It is one of the
most beneficial procedures available in the therapeutic arsenals of
hypnotherapy and psychotherapy.
Once causal factors are
revealed, the hypnotherapeutic technique of circle therapy may be the
treatment of choice. This is a well-recognized desensitization
procedure to bring the psyche back into balance, eliminating the fears
by hypnotic confrontation. The fears are met and faced through the
subconscious mind. Repeated confrontation causes deterioration of
the fear symptoms and increases the ability to face and deal with past
traumatic experiences without apprehension, which the conscious mind
then accepts.
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