Phobia Treatment Revealed

An irrational dread of an object, situation, or activity that you feel compelled to avoid could be classified as a phobia. We know that phobias can impede with our capacity to function, affecting our ability to work, socialize, and go about our normal daily routines. From experience we also know that people with phobias can be so overwhelmed by their apprehension that they withdraw from the specific objects or situations, lest 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 feeling. The phobia trigger could be an event, a situation or a specific object. At some deep emotional level what seems to happen is that it becomes integrated and neurologically linked or 'anchored' to the emotion. This anchoring process is something that we naturally use to remember significant events. For example, you can hear the sound of music and instantly be transported back to a time, place or event in your life that was significant. This is a positive anchor at work, and we all have thousands of them stored in our emotional memory. A phobia is simply an extreme version of an anchor linked to a negative emotion.

Anchors are easy to create. In a well quoted test, Martin Seligman an American psychologist integrated 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 required to cause 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 meaningful emotional event. That's because the brain 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 Cured?

All the research indicators are 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 with a treatment book that the client works though, was used to ameliorate 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. The conclusion, apart from the success of the process was that it works without the need to see a phobia specialist..

Should you wish to visit someone then there are a number of well proven techniques to remove phobia. Firstly, Time Line Therapy demonstrated online by talkingcures.org is a approach 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 few decades and is the foundation of many phobia treatments.

The study suggests that phobias can start easily and removed just as easily - whatever the feelings linked with it. It's easy to be phobia free, after all what have you got to lose, except that old apprehension.

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Two popular techniques that will 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 Overcome Anxiety Now audio therapy. Whatever you decide, I hope you find a solution.

Author (jbrackin). Submitted on Mon, 21 Nov 2011 Time: 11:55 AM

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