Fears & Phobias

We are all aware that fears are, in the most part irrational and illogical. I have heard fear described as an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real.

That being said, to a sufferer the fear or phobia manifests itself as a very real and uncomfortable feeling up to and including paralysis in some cases.

The reason we react in a fearful way is because of the way we have coded memories of past events (stimuli). When we next encounter the same or similar stimuli, we react as if the threat was real.

This can even work with apparently unrelated stimuli. Take for example a fear of people in white lab coats.

This may result from a distant event when there was a bad experience in a hospital or medical centre, perhaps a painful or very unpleasant injection from a doctor or nurse who was wearing such a coat. So in addition to a fear or phobia about injections, there is the apparent unrelated fear of people in white coats, because the way we coded that experience included a person wearing a white coat.

Depending on how deep seated or complex the issue, it may be resolved by a simple NLP intervention, especially if the original ‘sensitising experience’ is known or, by nesting NLP within hypnotherapy to regress the client back to the initial or most significant event.

So, if a fear or phobia is stopping you from doing something worthwhile, or even just getting in the way, give me a call for a no obligation chat