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Overcome Phobias - Overcoming Fear

Resource for Professionals in the treatment of Phobias for Overcoming Fear Such as Acrophobia, Fear of Flying...

Have a problem with crowed places? Feel smothered when the door closes? Have a fear of flying, heights (acrophobia), water, bridges, traveling, etc.?  These are just a few of a long list of phobias. Click here for a very comprehensive list of phobias. See all types of phobias.

The techniques on this Overcoming Fear Phobia program have proven extremely  successful with our clients at the Biofeedback Center.

Yes, there can be freedom from all types of phobias and this is the one program that points you in the right direction.

The cause of all types of phobias
Many phobias are caused by a sensitizing experience in which the individual has a near mishap. Example, one client bit into a steak and got stuck with a needle that somehow was left in the steak. From that day on he had a fear of eating meat. The thought of eating meat made him gag.

Many of us as youngsters had a frightening experience with getting an inoculation and from that time forth were phobic with needles. 

Many of us nearly lost our balance while climbing developed a fear of heights or bridges. 
Whenever our intelligent brain perceives a threat to our existence, it prepares us to fight or run--the fight/flight. This is normal and healthy. However, our conscious mind gets involved and begins to wonder what would happen if we fell while climbing, swallowed the needle in the steak, or felt a lot of pain while getting an inoculation and before you know it, the thought, conscious or unconscious brings on the fear response. 

Another cause of phobias is what I call "catching a suggestion," i.e., someone tells of a hear mishap or of someone else's mishap which caused extreme hurt or loss of life.  When you find yourself in a similar situation you remember the mishap and begin to wonder how it could happen to you. Before you know it, because of your over concern or worry, you create a near mishap yourself and end up giving birth to a phobia. A scary movie can have the same affect. 

Sometimes, some fears are very much like superstition in which case, they generally are a compulsion and provide the value of secondary gain, i.e. as long as the person is fighting the phobia, he/she doesn't have to deal with other disappointments in life. In this case, the phobia is an excuse for lack of social, financial, professional success and so on. Once this is verified, the treatment is shifted to he methods of learning to overcome anxiety.  

The common Thread:

All phobias are irrational. In other words, if we reduce the fear to simple words, it means that the phobic is interrupting the object of the fears as a threat to his/her life. In other words, we never hear of a bridge capturing someone and killing them, or an airplane attacking its passengers, or a needle planting itself in a steak to kill the person dinning on the steak, or the closet squeezing one to death..,

Treatment of all types of phobias--the phobia clinic.

The most effective approach to dealing with phobias is to seek  medical help and counseling simultaneously. Your physician will prescribe something like valium, zanex, or zolof.

Let's not get confused. We're not just talking about simple butterflies in the tummy, this is the kind of anxiety that completely debilitates the sufferer. It forces him/her to pass up promotions at work because the promotion, for instance, may involve traveling over a bridge which is a no--no.  There are over 100 different recognized phobias. Psychologist often treat them with psychotherapy or flooding (exposing the client direct to the fear producing stimulus, i.e. throwing the person who is afraid of water into a swimming pool; hypnotists with age regression; psychiatrists with meds.  And then there's those--perhaps in the same profession as those mentioned above--who move in a productive direction utilizing a form of desensitization. 

This program combines hypnotic desensitization with a cognitive shift that frees the phobic from the conditioned reaction in relatively a few number of sessions. The only thing missing on this tape is the biofeedback instrument used which is really a fool proof feedback tool for the counselor/therapist.

The program begins by having the person suffering from the phobia/s changing the name of it from phobia to a problem--problems have solutions. Then a hierarchy is established, i.e. a list of ten steps where the person accesses the level of anxiety associated with each step from a place where he/she is perfectly relaxed to where he/she feels 100% anxiety.

Next, the client through a cognitive shift learns how to shift from feeling like he/she is his/her own worst enemy to her/his best friend. He/she gains a full comprehension of the fear (fight/flight) response so it can work for him/her instead of against him/her.

This is the one program that makes freeing one from phobias an a, b, c experience, i.e., you do this, that, and the end result is freedom.

All in all, everyone is different. One out of 30 people who listen to this program just once free themselves of anxiety as if by magic. With all that they've done, the program is the catalyst that makes it all make sense. But don't expect it to work that way for you. You may not be that far along the path or have been going in the wrong direction and it may take a few weeks with a supportive counselor to put it all together for yourself.