Phobias are often associated with an unpleasant or traumatic experience that occurred earlier on in life and may also be triggered by a prolonged period of heightened stress or anxiety. The anxiety causes our subconscious mind to respond with panic and fear that we then associate with an object, place or event. Fears and phobias can have an adverse effect on our everyday lives due to avoidance behaviour that we develop to help alleviate the fear and panic.
Phobias can be a fear of a single stimulus such as spiders, heights, flying or they can be complex phobias such as social phobias and agoraphobia (fear of open spaces) that affect all aspects of a person's life. The fear or phobic response to an object, place or event causes the subconscious panic response, also referred to as the fight or flight response and the associated physical symptoms such as increased heart rate, breathlessness, nausea and felling faint. For many people the fear of these symptoms are often the worst aspect of the fear and phobic response.
Hypnotherapy can help to resolve fears and phobias firstly by helping you to reduce your overall level of anxiety and secondly by using a specific technique to remove the emotion from the unpleasant experience or event that caused the fear or phobic response. Hypnotherapy can also help develop new patterns of thoughts and behaviours to allow your subconscious mind to accommodate the object of fear and alleviate the fear or phobic response.
To find out more about how Experience Hypnotherapy Cheltenham can help you with Phobias and Fears or for an Appointment with Experience Hypnotherapy Cheltenham, Contact Experience Hypnotherapy Cheltenham in Confidence
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