What Is A Fear Or Phobia ?

A phobia is an irrational fear, the experience of which can produce an irrational response – such as pulling your hair out, or a massive response where your body systems are involved. We describe it in our everyday language “sweating with fear”, “paralyzed with fear”, “butterflies in the stomach”, etc. The word “phobia” originates from a god of ancient Greece – Phobos the god of Fear. There are countless definitions of phobia, but the most apt one defines a phobia as “a fear of a fear”. Perhaps, more accurately, a phobia may be described as ” an extreme reaction to fear triggered by a stimulus”.

Phobias are very common. One in nine people have a phobia of some kind – more than eleven per cent of the population. And one in twenty people have panic attacks at some stage in their lives, quite commonly triggered by a phobia. There is little that conventional medical science can do for your phobia, other than prescribing an antidepressant drug.

Hypnosis, on the other hand, can in most cases, eliminate or alleviate the phobia. In England, London Zoo runs a course in eliminating the fear of spiders under the guidance of an experienced hypnotist, and the participants end the course in the Insect House stroking spiders. British Airways at Heathrow runs a course for those who have a fear of flying.

So the benefits of hypnosis are truly remarkable, there is no need to hold onto that any longer.  People have all kinds of fears and phobias for all kinds of things, whether we understand the fear or not its very real for the person experiencing it.

Avoid having your life limited by fears and phobias, take the first step towards freedom !