Many people suffer from fears and phobias.  Fear is an emotion that can manifest itself as a small worry, or it can be as severe as a phobic experience or a panic attack. Fear can be specific when there is a known trigger such as an airplane, an elevator or heights. Or, it can be non-specific, some people experience general anxiety and they are not sure why.

When someone is having a fearful experience, it is extremely difficult to control their emotions, yet alone stop them, because fear manifests from the subconscious mind. This is why there is little or no success when we try to talk ourselves out of a fearful experience. We lack the ability to control fear because our intellectual or conscious mind is not capable of handling a subconscious reaction of the nervous system.

When you enter a situation that frightens you (or even if you are just thinking about going into that situation) you get a fearful reaction. At that very moment, your subconscious mind is pulling all kinds of memories, ideas, assumptions and negative thoughts from the files of your mind and your nervous system reacts by creating a fearful feeling. A major quality of the subconscious mind is that it cannot tell the difference between imagination and reality.  This is why, for example, a person can be frightened even a week before they go on a flight or someone can react to seeing a snake on television or can be nervous about an upcoming interview. Although they are not in the actual situations, the subconscious mind cannot tell the difference and “believes” that it is already in the scary situation.

Hypnosis is an extremely effective tool to resolve fear because hypnosis works directly with your subconscious mind which is at the root cause of fears, phobias and anxieties.  The idea of hypnosis is to have you enter a trance state and the fear is worked on at that level of consciousness. This is done by giving your mind a more positive frame of reference such as positive thoughts, constructive ideas and pleasant images. By doing this, you will now have a better outlook on yourself and your surroundings. Those fears that used to haunt you will not happen anymore because you will instead be able to enter situations with a newfound optimism, calmness and confidence.

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