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An irrational anxiety of an object, situation, or activity that you feel compelled to avoid may be classed as a phobia. It’s common knowledge that phobias can impede with our capacity to function, affecting our capicity to function, even at a basic level. From experience we also know that those who suffer from phobia can be so devastated by their worry that they avoid the specific objects or situations, because they start those feelings of panic, dread, horror, or in some cases, even sheer morbid terror.
What causes the creation of a phobia?
The root cause of all phobias can be tracked to a ‘Significant Emotional Event’ in which the person links the phobia trigger to the negative emotion. The phobia trigger could be an event, a situation or a specific object. What appears to happen is that it becomes integrated and neurologically linked or ‘anchored’ to the emotion. This anchoring process is something that we humans use to remember memorable events. For example, you can hear a piece of music and instantly be transported back to a time, place or event in your life that was meaningful. This is a positive anchor at work, and we all have thousands of them stored in our unconscious minds. A phobia is simply an extreme version of an anchor linked to a negative emotion.
Anchors are easy to create. In a well quoted experiment, Martin Seligman an American psychologist interlocked a small electric shock to certain images. Only two to four shocks were enough to create a negative anchor or phobia to images of spiders or snakes, while a much larger series of shocks was needed to prompt a neurological link to images of flowers. The major elements are the intensity of the experience, in this instance the pain of the shock and the number of repetitions needed to create the link.
In real life rather than in laboratory conditions it is much easier to create a phobia in just one important emotional event. That’s because our mind learns very quickly in intense situations – you only have to touch a naked flame once to learn not to do it again.
How is a Phobia Stopped?
Well the good news is that the ‘anchors’ that neurologically link phobias to situations or events can be painlessly disconnected. There are a number of well proven ways of doing this some of which have been well publicised. The Phobia Free Therapy was publicly put to the test by The Daily Mail and Women’s Own as part of a British national press investigation. The Phobia Free Therapy, which included an mp3 therapy used in conjunction with a treatment book that the client works though, was used to treat a 30 year old needle phobia in less than two hours. Should you want to read the coverage for yourself it’s featured on the talkingcures.org site. One of the main benefits, apart from the success of the process was that it can be used without the need to see a phobia professional..
If however your preference is to visit someone then there are two well proven techniques to remove phobia. Firstly, Time Line Therapy demonstrated online by talkingcures.org is a technique that has very high success rate in dealing with phobia. It’s popular because the client does not have to relive any of their traumatic experiences before the anchors are disconnected. Secondly, the Fast Phobia Cure a technique developed by Richard Bandler, co-founder of NLP has proven it’s effectiveness over the last twenty years and is the basis of many phobia treatments.
The bottom line is that phobias can be created easily and removed just as easily – whatever the feelings associated with it. So why wait any longer to be phobia free, after all what have you got to lose, except that old dread.
Two excellent techniques that are proven to end panic attacks are the Panic Away programme which has a video or click on the link and listen to a sample from my own Stop Anxiety Now audio therapy. Whatever you decide, I hope you find a solution. Jim Brackin
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