Fears & Phobias 0800 6129550

FEAR IS NATURAL & TO HAVE A PHOBIA IS NOT!

let's be honest, to have a fear of spiders, snakes, tigers, heights, deep water etc is absolutely 100% normal.

Humans are pre programmed to stay alive and it is our natural fear response that keeps us alive.

Even though we don't have venomous spiders here is the UK it is still perfectly natural to be a little afraid of them.

However the big difference between a fear and a phobia is that a phobia is an unnatural fear response to a certain item or situation.

Yes, it is ok to be afraid of spiders, but to check under your bed and around your house 5 times looking for spiders before you go to sleep is not!

Being afraid of snakes is a natural response but being terrified that one might jump out of the fruit and veg in Morrisons is not.

The list of known phobias is huge.

People with extreme phobic responses tend to have experienced being out of control at some stage in their life. The phobia is a means of maintaining control over a situation that generally may never arise.

An example of this would be having a phobia of flying. It is natural to be a little afraid on an aircraft. But vowing that you will never get on an aircraft because of your phobia is a means of you exerting control over something that nobody can ever make you do.

Lets face it, there is no law in this land that condones you being dragged kicking and screaming onto a plane because the rest of your family want a holiday in Majorca.

If you can see that your fear has developed into a phobia response then I would reccomend a course of "Pure Hypnoanalysis".

This treatment will deal with your underlying feeling of being out of control and help you to see your behaviour in a clear and rational way. You will probably find that the cause of your phobia has nothing to do with the subject of the phobia its self.

Please call for a FREE initial consultation. We will have a friendly informal chat about your thoughts and feeling and I can have you decide which is the best way forwards.

Selby Hypnotherapy provides professional hypnosis & hypnotherapy services for Selby, Howden, Goole, Hull, Beverley, Escrick, Cawood, York, Brayton, Pontefract, Castleford and surrounding areas