Most people have at least one phobia, where they react with fear to a particular stimulus. Usually the phobia causes only occasional inconvenience or unpleasantness, but for some people their phobia controls their life. A fixation with avoiding a phobia can cause intense anxiety, and can be very debilitating.

1. Treating Phobias with
Hypnotherapy

2. Most people have at least one
phobia, where they react with
fear to a particular stimulus.
Usually the phobia causes
only occasional inconvenience
or unpleasantness, but for
some people their phobia
controls their life. A fixation
with avoiding a phobia can
cause intense anxiety, and
can be very debilitating.
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3. Fortunately, most people respond very well to
hypnotherapy when it comes to curing a
phobia. Hypnotherapy can help a person to
identify the underlying causes of a phobia,
and will reduce the fear by overriding their
conditioned response. Typically, it will take
multiple sessions to fully cure the fear.
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4. Hypnotherapy works so
well for phobias because
the root cause is often
repressed, or the event
happened so early on in
a person's life that they
have no conscious
memory of it.
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5. A heightened state of focus and relaxation -
which is referred to as a hypnotic trance - can
create the ideal state for repressed memories
to re-surface. Once the memory has been
identified the person will understand their
phobic response much better.
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6. Sometimes the trigger for the development
of the phobia cannot be accessed under
hypnosis. However, this does not mean that
the phobia cannot be treated. The person
can be helped to visualize him or herself in
the situation which triggers the fearful
response.
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7. If this hypnotic exercise is repeated multiple
times the person will either become
desensitized to the stimulus, or develop new
patterns of thoughts and behavior in the neural
pathways which changes their response.
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8. How many hypnosis sessions are needed to
cure a phobia will depend on a number of
contributing factors. How deep rooted and
long lasting the phobia has been can be
important, as can the severity of the phobia.
The personality of the sufferer can be a
factor as well, as some people are more
responsive to hypnotic suggestion than
others.
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