|  Repressing
emotions
When a person finds themselves in a situation of intense
emotion their mind has the ability to 'repress' those
emotions.
Once those emotions have been bottled up, the mind can
unfortunately create a phobia to warn that person not
to get into the same situation again.
In technical terms, a phobia is an 'external
symbol of an internal anxiety'...
What are the reasons for phobias?
Whilst some Phobias may seem to have an obvious reason
i.e. fear of fire, drowning etc. some clearly seem to
make no sense at all. Rest assured, all Phobias serve
a purpose. Some of the common ones include:
fear of flying [Aerophobia]
fear of spiders [Arachnophobia]
fear of being sick [Emetophobia]
fear of birds [Ornithophoba]
fear of death or dying [Thanatophobia]
fear of enclosed spaces [Claustrophobia]
fear of open spaces [Agorabphobia]
fear of heights [Acrophobia]
There are hundreds more!
How do you treat Phobias?
In therapy I will find the originating cause of the
phobia and release it. Clearly when the emotions are
released, the Phobia disappears.
Please be aware that in my own opinion, this form of
therapy is the best in tackling problems of Phobias.
Most other forms of therapy are reliant on the insight
and experience of the therapist to guide you through
what he/she thinks is causing the Phobia. The problem
is of course that they have no way of knowing!
If you don't release the cause of the Phobia, the pent
up emotion will still be there.
The reason that Analytical Hypnotherapy (as taught by
the IAH) is so successful is because it gets to the
'root cause' of the Phobia rather than relying on guess
work.
Queries and Questions
Please email Geoffrey
Schofield for further information.
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