A phobia is an extreme persistent irrational fear. Lesser fears can sometimes turn into a phobia, and some phobias take on the qualities of obsessions. So there is some overlap and ambiguity in the way these debilitating patterns play out.
There are amazingly long lists of phobias, all are very real for those who suffer from them:
Agoraphobia – fear of open spaces
Claustrophobia – fear of confined spaces
Anthropophobia- fear of other people
Fear of flying, fear of mice, fear of spiders, fear of driving, fear of public speaking, fear of such things as water, dust, bicycles, owls … the list is endless.
It used to be that back in the the dark ages of psychology (which may, unfortunately, still prevail in some quarters) it could take months to cure a phobia.
Then along came NLP and it became possible to cure phobias, even powerfully debilitating phobias, within minutes. How is this possible?
The first thing to understand is that delving into the original cause of WHY a phobia or fear exists may eventually help cure the phobia, but in a very long winded and roundabout way.
Discovering HOW the phobia opperates, how the pattern of thought and association plays itself out in sequence, is much more effective — because you can then learn to rapidly change it.
The way a phobia is evoked in the mind is usually fairly consistent… a sight, a sound, a memory, a feeling in the body, a strong emotion. Once that sequence is discovered it can be broken, scrambled, or even turned into a comedy routine.You will have blown its cover and it will never affect you again with quite the same power. It’s power will fade, perhaps even before your very eyes.
I say you will have “blown its cover” because that unconscious pattern had been hidden from you. When you make it fully visible, you are already half-way to resolving the phobia that depended on it.
Of course, you may not be able to do this on your own, but an experienced NLP practitioner can guide you through the process very easily.
Even people who are housebound due to extreme agoraphobia can be effectively treated over the telephone with amazing success.
Is there a “fear of success” of “fear of being great” ??
There certainly is fear of success, not usually to the extent that you would describe as phobic, but it’s a very basic fear that many people suffer from in one way or another.
It often shows up, innocently enough, as an unwillingness to embrace the challenges that comes our way, and to forget that the stretch they provide us can be hugely beneficial for our growth, emotionally, spiritually, artistically, creatively …
Of course, the best sort of coaching is often very much about helping people overcome fear and embrace all of life’s possibilities. Which is why hypnosis and NLP are such brilliant modalities to use in such work.
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