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Phobia Control
Understanding
First of all, if you haven't already, checkout my Hypnosis Mind Model that explain about the conscious, subconscious and unconscious minds.
What most people don't know is that there are actually two different types of phobia:
Direct
Direct phobias are where real experiences that caused a huge emotional response have become anchored to a trigger and now each time a similar situation is experienced, the subconscious relives the original exerince thus producing the phobic response.
Indirect
Indirect or learned phobias cause exactly the same response as a direct phobia and are those we pickup through constant or regular exposure to the emotions that are experienced in the phobia.
This kind of phobia is often learned off other people who have phobic responses.
Take the popular snake phobia: For most people in the UK it is unlikely that they will have had a truely terrifying experience with snakes. Instead, as a child exposure to other people being "scared" of snakes becomes a learned response and thus a phobia later on in life.
There is a good argument that things like fears of snakes and spiders are almost cultural for the UK!
Changing
The two types of phobia will often need two different types of therapy as they have two completely different causal factors and thus will sit in different places in the subconscious.
For direct phobias, I use a process of dissociation where we can take the phobic response outside of the core subconscious allowing you to re-evalute the danger level and set a suitable response level. Sometimes, at the client's request, we can use regression to find the originating event that created the phobia, but it is by no means a necessity in order to make real and lasting change.
For indirect phobias, a more metaphorical and un-learning approach is used. Allowing the subconscious to find out where it learned the phobia and again re-evaluate the appropriate response to the trigger.
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