You Can Overcome Your Fears

Usually, fears are quickly learned after having an extremely intense negative or traumatic experience with that animal, bee, spider, confined space, situation, person, etc. that you now fear.

When the unconscious mind tags something as a “THREAT” to your life, then it will continue to alert you to that threat whenever it shows up, or in some cases, just when it has the possibility of showing up because you think about it or something reminds you of it.

The unconscious brain has the ability to learn things quickly as well as take something specific and generalize it to include other things that are like it. This is how one negative experience with a large black dog can become a fear of all black dogs or all large dogs or even all dogs regardless of color.

Our unconscious also learns through repetition, so every time you reexperience that fear, and don’t interrupt that pattern, you’re confirming with the unconscious that it is a situation in which you need to be afraid, thus strengthening the fear response.

Not all fears are generated by an intense experience. Some come by way of family who instill into your unconscious at an early age the fear they themselves experience.

Fears can also happen as a conditioned response to prolonged low-level exposure to a physical or emotional pain-generating stimulus or situation.

Fear is an important part of our built-in protection mechanism and is essential to our survival. So, eliminating all fears from our life would not be wise.

For example, a fear of rattlesnakes will prevent us from getting too close to a rattlesnake. And if we’re getting too close, we want our innate fear response to be activated in this situation.

We want it telling us to “watch out” and “be careful.” We want it to keep us on our toes, to give us an adrenaline rush so if we need to run, or physically maneuver ourselves, we’ll be prepared and able to do so.

When a Fear Becomes Phobia

So, fear is not always bad. Like stress, it can be a good thing. It only becomes a problem when a fear has no basis or there’s no real harm and it’s negatively interfering or disrupting your life. The fear is labeled a phobia once it becomes irrational in nature.

Symptoms of fears can range from mild to severe. A phobic episode can typically bring a wide variety of symptoms, such as: anxiety, increased heart rate, palpitations, sweating, shaking, nausea, problems speaking, and feelings of powerlessness and terror.

Now some people are only mildly affected because they can avoid the thing they fear and when they think about it, they experience only mild anxiety.

Other people, though, can’t even THINK about the thing or situation without a full-blown panic attack instantly emerging. And even though they may know it’s irrational, they’re still unable to control their reaction.

These irrational fear responses are habitual and will continue until our unconscious mind:

1. Learns that the stimulus is no longer a threat.

2. Has learned new ways to respond.

3. Believes that you are safe.

And since hypnosis allows us the ability to communicate DIRECTLY with the UNCONSCIOUS MIND, together we can dissolve that fear.

Some people know what event or experience triggers their fear while others have no recollection.

By targeting negative thoughts and emotions in relation to a fear whether those memories are repressed or remembered, the fears can be permanently and quickly dissolved or dialed down to an appropriate response level.