Emetophobia and Neuro-Linguistic Programming

September 8th, 2010 Posted in Phobias
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by Alan Densky

Many people have emetophobia, but this fear is rarely brought up or discussed. This phobia is the fear of vomit. People afflicted with severe emetophobia will do anything to avoid vomiting or the sight of vomit. Although emetophobics usually cope by avoiding the source of their fear, it can be eliminated using techniques like Ericksonian hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

Emetophobia is an extremely common phobia with many consequences for its sufferers. Some people will not dine out or with guests out of fear of acquiring a stomach ailment. Expectant women with emetophobia are often terrified of developing morning sickness. The phobia also makes it hard for mothers and fathers to tend to their infants or care for their young kids if they fall ill.

The phobia can interfere with an individual’s willingness or ability to go on trips and vacations. A person might dread the thought of visiting another country and falling ill. Many individuals will avoid public areas because they fear falling ill or even witnessing someone else who feels sick. The phobia also interferes with one’s ability to work in some careers, such as medicine and healthcare.

The phobia is often rooted in childhood cases of vomiting. Sufferers may recall the unpleasant experience of being ill and wish to avoid it at all times. They may also fear illness because they link it with a loss of physical control. The phobia affects many people of every age.

Emetophobia can lead to other anxiety disorders and phobias. Many sufferers will develop agoraphobia, a fear of unfamiliar places which can confine a person to their own home. People with emetophobia may also possess a strong fear of germs or hospitals. What starts as emetophobia can quickly escalate into a number of serious conditions caused by the original fear.

Some sufferers try to deal with their emetophobia by avoiding it whenever possible, but the phobia can be successfully cured with options ranging from therapy to medication. However, there are a number of challenges involved with treating emetophobia. The phobia usually becomes strongly associated with overwhelmingly negative imagery in the unconscious. The feeling is so deeply rooted that it cannot be regulated by willpower or conscious effort alone. People with emetophobia may realize that their fear is overblown, but continue to feel helpless to do anything about their fear.

Hypnosis therapy is a perfect tool for curing phobias because it can dissociate the sensation of fear from negative imagery in the unconscious mind. It is a proven form of safe and non-invasive therapy that provides a permanent phobia cure.

Hypnotic treatments often take the form of a program broken down into many, easy-to-understand sessions. A thorough program starts with relaxation therapy. This has a calming effect and helps make the mind more receptive to hypnotherapy. Once a person is relaxed and anxiety-free, hypnosis directs the unconscious mind into a new, phobia-free thinking process.

Ericksonian hypnosis is ideal for independent minded thinkers, such as the many emetophobia sufferers who always try to control over their own health and well-being. It uses indirect suggestions embedded in stories, metaphors, and dialogues. It offers an alternative to conventional hypnosis techniques, which use direct post-hypnotic suggestions to treat individual phobias. These traditional techniques may fail because people have a tendency to question and resist direct suggestions. These issues can be circumvented using Ericksonian hypnosis.

Because emetophobia frequently occurs other anxiety disorders such as germophobia and agoraphobia, it is important for a good treatment program to work for all these issues. Ericksonian hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques work more effectively than conventional hypnosis programs because they are not phobia specific; they can be used to cure any phobia, or even multiple phobias. Moreover, the combined program will work for most users because it contains a wide range of techniques to suit any person.

People are often amazed at how easily they achieve results using hypnosis. It has allowed many people quickly beat their phobias and it’s a leading form of phobia treatment. The techniques found in Ericksonian hypnosis and NLP are successful treatments for many fears and anxiety disorders. The techniques have the answer for helping many emetophobia sufferers vanquish their fears and feel comfortable and in control.

Alan B. Densky, CH has been curing phobias using Hypnosis since 1978. He offers phobia treatment hypnosis and NLP MP3s plus a broad range of Self-Hypnosis MP3 Downloads for stress & depression related symptoms. Visit his website for free NLP MP3′s.

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Necrophobia – How To Beat The Phobia Of Death

July 2nd, 2010 Posted in Phobias
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One of the most common fears is necrophobia, the fear of dying. This devastating phobia affects countless people and can develop regardless of a person’s health, age, or personal beliefs. It is a fear that may have far ranging consequences on an individual’s life. People are often afraid of anything that can be linked to death, such as funerals, or less obviously, hospitals and scary films. In extreme cases, the phobia leaves individuals paralyzed with fright. Despite the fact that this phobia is one of the most serious, through knowledge and therapy, people can completely rise above this anxiety disorder.

Most people can understand the fear of death, but when someone suffers from a phobia, they have more serious, debilitating sensations of dread that can disrupt their day-to-day lives. Necrophobia itself can lead to intense feelings of dread, paranoia, and serious panic attacks. Phobia sufferers frequently feel terrified of situations under which they are not in complete control.

While some individuals experience the phobia all the time, in others, it is only set off by specific situations and events. For some individuals, the fear of death may develop after a life-changing experience such as watching a loved one pass on. The phobia is marked in general by the sensation of an intense, irrational fear of death, dying, and all things linked to death.

Necrophobia is rarely as straightforward as it seems. This is seen because the phobia is linked to pain, hypochondria, fear of the unknown, and other underlying fears that make it challenging to overcome. This obstacle can be addressed by a treatment intended to work against multiple phobias. Such is the case with a comprehensive hypnosis and NLP therapy program.

Anxiety disorders can be treated in many different ways. Successful treatments include talk therapy and other forms of therapy such as hypnosis, NLP, anti-anxiety medication, and anxiety-relief techniques. Hypnosis combined with NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques tends to have among the highest efficacy rates among the various treatment options because it uses multiple innovative ways of addressing fears and preventing anxiety.

A hypnosis therapy regimen starts with anti-anxiety techniques that make the mind open to phobia-relieving suggestions. Treatment of anxiety and stress is a key part of phobia treatment because it is considered to be the first step in stopping panic attacks and warding off negative, fear-producing mental images.

Systematic desensitization techniques combined with the state of hypnosis are another successful mechanism of treatment. Under the hypnotic state, a subject is guided into imagery of fear-triggering situations and is taught how to dissipate anxiety. After successful treatment, patients are able to stay rational and calm under situations which normally set off fear. Patients also say that thoughts that normally cause fear no longer cause them distress. Systematic desensitization may also be successfully conducted outside of the hypnotic state, but it then becomes a more difficult, time-consuming and intensive process.

The NLP Visual/Kinesthetic Disassociation is among the most effective technique to terminate extreme fears. This technique helps patients “disconnect” their typical fears from the root, unconscious visualizations that cause an anxiety attack, in a process that causes them to quickly “snap out” of the sensation of fear. Due to this, therapy options with the V/K Disassociation are often considered to be “instant” phobia cures by their creators and patients alike.

Hypnotherapy has used highly advanced techniques for phobia treatment. Ericksonian hypnotherapy, so named after its inventor, Dr. Milton Erickson has proven effective in helping to re-work the thought processes responsible for a phobia. Using conversational language, it automatically guides the unconscious mind into a fear-free thought process. Similarly, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is used to reform the unconscious line of thought. With the NLP Flash technique, phobia provoking thoughts will naturally be reversed to quell the negative feelings instead, resulting in instantaneous phobia relief.

Necrophobia can be treated even when it is very severe. Traditional techniques teamed with hypnosis can speed up the cure process, while state-of-the-art hypnosis techniques work at the level of the unconscious mind to eliminate anxiety and fear. The non-invasive nature of hypnosis also makes it a safe technique as it can lower or eliminate the need for anti-anxiety prescriptions. Phobia patients regularly report dramatic and life-altering effects that come from hypnotherapy. For many people experiencing the fear of death, hypnotherapy offers an effective form of treatment.

Alan B. Densky, CH spent 31 years to help clients overcome illogical fears and phobias. He offers an effective anxiety phobia CDs based on NLP and Ericksonian hypnotherapy. Learn more at his Neuro-VISION hypnotism website using his Free article library and video research library.

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