Phobias

There’s only so much avoidance you can do when you have a fear or phobia.  And, you may be surprised by how many people have more than one fear of phobia too.

Imagine being in the future and looking back on your life…are you just seeing all those things you avoided, too afraid to do, all the stress, the anxiety, the tears, the nerves? Do you want to look back with regret, feeling exhausted by all the unnecessary fear of the fear?  And, as you may know, it’s not just about you.  Your fears and phobias can impact on your relationships too, your career, your freedom to live.

By now, I think you’ll agree it’s time to change this.  Enough is enough.

Most of us know by now that we are only born with TWO fears. The fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. Everything else we fear is self taught or learnt.

This means that if you have taught yourself to fear something, such as heights, spiders, needles, the darkness, visiting the dentist, dying, crowded places, flying, driving, lifts/elevators etc, you can just as easily teach yourself to unlearn that fear.  Phobias are just an extension of a recurring irrational fear.  For many, these fears and phobias can be so distressing that you can no longer live a happy, comfortable and enjoyable life.  The impact can be so draining that often people, who do not have phobias, cannot understand or relate to just how much this can affect your mind and body and your overall wellbeing.

One person’s fear may be another person’s passion!  So we know that the fear is in your head. What we also know is how to target this and more importantly, how to release it.

Your mind is remarkable.  It is continually working for you 24/7/365 to ensure that once you’ve learnt something (such as recognising a door and how to open it), you get to do this automatically without having to consciously think….”hmmm, this looks like something I’ve seen before, I wonder how it works!”.  Our brains are constantly scanning for patterns, recognising similarities, images, sounds, smells.  This information is interpreted, filtered and stored based on our own brain landscape and allows us to know what we think we know. Being an automatic process (our subconscious mind), this means we can do all the many other things we do in our daily lives without consciously having to think about it (breathe in, breathe out, move hand, open door, walk forwards, look ahead……get the picture?).    We can truly appreciate just how magnificent we are.  So what happens with fears and phobias?

We also have our built in survival system.  The one that alerts us to threats and dangers to our lives (or lives of those around us). This powerful system instantly generates the right chemical state (adrenaline, cortisol, nor-adrenaline etc) to prepare ourselves to either flee (flight), freeze, fight, panic or get into defensive rage, depending on what we are faced with. Without getting into the fascinating learnings from neuroscience, what this simply means is that with your fear(s) or phobia(s), your mind does not currently know the difference between a real threat and a perceived threat.  So, it will fire off the same survival system to prepare our mind and body to take necessary action, whether we want it to or not!  See the confusion here?  It gets so exhausting that you’ll just end up avoiding driving over that bridge, or flying on a plane, or moving house because of the spiders!

Now that you’re here, you are likely to be at that point where you’ve either tried other therapies to get rid of your fear or phobia, or, this is your first step to getting help.  Either way, you are in the right state of mind to make this happen now, even if it’s just to pop your details in the Contact Us form.

We are not interested in just putting a sticky plaster over the fear or phobia in the hope it goes away or suppresses it.  Our learnings, experience and research equips us with the right tools to be able to specifically target fears and phobias at a neurochemical level using the power of touch.  This is not energy based or meridian point tapping, this is the result of over a decade of research and development by neuroscientist Dr Ron Ruden MD, using the power of the Havening Touch® with Havening Techniques® to make a positive physiological change in the brain.  Blended with Neuro-Linguistic-Programming (NLP) and the natural state of Hypnosis, we find this approach to be year’s ahead of methods such as exposure therapy or talk therapy.

But don’t just take our word for it.  Naturally, this has to be your choice, but going by our testimonials and knowing that we are 100% committed to helping you, because we come from a place of wanting you to be out there living your life sooner and not stuck in a therapy room for weeks, months or years, we hope we’ve answered your questions and by now, you’re ready to make that potentially life changing decision!