NLP As A Cure For Claustrophobia
Sufferers of claustrophobia experience fears involving small spaces or areas where it could be difficult to leave quickly, such as airplanes, trains or elevators. Some people even get claustrophobic in MRI medical scanners. Due to their feelings, claustrophobic people often attempt to stay away from closed-off spaces. They also tend to sit near doorways or along the sides of a room, versus approaching the center. Claustrophobia sufferers often have anxiety attacks when they begin to feel “trapped” or closed in. For some people, being in a tight place is as alarming as the idea of being buried alive.
Having a panic attack in a crowded space can be an alarming incident for claustrophobic people and people near them. At the moment when a person’s claustrophobia is triggered, they may have anxiety attacks, shortness of breath, physical illness, fainting, and other, often extreme, reactions. A person may get claustrophobia at any time or in response to a traumatic incident, but its onset often occurs during childhood.
The phobia is triggered by various situations, which could be different between individuals. For instance, some sufferers might only feel claustrophobic while on an elevator, while other people find that crowds aggravate their condition. Regardless of the particular situation, claustrophobia and similar phobias tend to interfere with people’s daily lives and personal satisfaction. Phobia sufferers often develop avoidant behaviors and have a decreased quality of life as they focus their daily lives around their phobia.
For numerous sufferers, the aspect of humiliation over their fears is as debilitating as the the fear itself. Often times, people recognize that their feelings are exaggerated and irrational, but cannot seem to maintain control of themselves. The reason for this is because phobias are rooted deep within the unconscious, which no amount of conscious effort can be fully effective in controlling. This makes controlling phobias especially challenging.
Claustrophobia is usually cured with anti-anxiety medication or counseling. Hypnosis is an ideal, non-invasive, safe type of therapy with no harmful side effects. It works by targeting the underlying causes of fear in the unconscious to rapidly cure a phobia. Specifically, a system that uses Ericksonian hypnotherapy techniques and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) can be used to eliminate a phobia. This incredible program uses various techniques to help people beat their anxieties.
The first phase in curing a phobia is helping the sufferer become rested and anxiety-free. Hypnosis techniques have traditionally been used as a type of stress-reducing therapy, to help people focus deeply and clear their minds.
Traditional hypnotic techniques have made use of direct, post-hypnotic suggestions to help treat phobias. The drawback of the direct suggestion is that the mind tends to resist being simply “told” what to think. Many people put up barriers and reject suggestions. In today’s world, men and women are especially likely to ignore direct suggestions since we tend to be independent people who question everything.
Calm and focused relaxation is the basis of hypnosis. Once set the calm state, rather than using direct post-hypnotic suggestions, a better approach called systematic desensitization can help cure a phobia through visual stimuli.
Ericksonian hypnotherapy techniques use a more innovative approach than traditional hypnotherapy. It uses indirect suggestions hidden in interesting metaphors and stories to interest the unconscious and convince it to adopt a better, phobia-free thought process. Due to the fact that indirect suggestions are not required to be tailored to a single phobia like direct post-hypnotic suggestions do, a single good Ericksonian hypnotic therapy program can work to cure any phobia or even more than one phobia at a time.
NLP, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, is an innovative type of therapy that several experienced hypnotherapists have adopted. The best NLP technique for extinguishing a phobia is called the Visual - Kinesthetic Disassociation, or V/K. The V/K is recognized as the single session phobia cure, and for good reason. Irrational or panic reactions (attacks) occur because traumatic emotions are attached to and aggravated by mental imagery. With the V/K, the stressful emotions are disconnected from the mental imagery - often in one session, and the fear is essentially cured.
People battling claustrophobia can attain rapid relief using hypnotherapy. The use of Ericksonian hypnosis with NLP techniques can help anyone beat their phobias. Hypnotic therapy has helped many sufferers feel confident and secure in situations where before, they would’ve suffered a breakdown. Hypnosis therapy has provided incredible benefits for people with phobias and continues to enhance lives all the time.
Alan B. Densky, CH has developed many hypnotic methods for the management of fears and phobias based on NLP and Ericksonian hypnotism. Learn more at his Neuro-VISION self hypnosis website using his Free article library and video research library.
- Alan Densky
