I believe your unconscious mind only acts with your safety as paramount.

However sometimes, for whatever reason, your unconscious mind gives you, in particular situations, what you now may consider to be an inappropriate response.

Using my skills and your desire to change now we work directly with your unconscious mind to find both new and appropriate ways to be the way you desire that are ecological.

What are specific phobias and what are the symptoms?

Specific phobias are common - they strike 10% of people. Women are twice as likely as men to suffer from this illness. Starting in the teenage and adult years, they may run in families. They begin suddenly and tend to last longer than childhood phobias (like being afraid of the dark).

When a person has a specific phobia, they have an intense fear of something that poses little or no real danger. Because there is no or little danger, a person's fear is not based on reality (called irrational fear). Some of the more common specific phobias involve fear of closed-in places, heights, escalators, lifts, tunnels, motorway driving, bridges, water, flying, dogs, and injuries involving blood. And, a specific phobia often makes no sense. For instance, you may be able to parachute out of planes with ease but not be able to go above the 4th floor of an office building. Most people with these phobias know that they don't make sense. But, facing their fear, or even thinking about it, can bring on a panic attack or severe anxiety.

Specific phobias can be treated, helping a person have a full and healthy life. But, when the object of the fear is easy to avoid, a person may decide to do so rather than get treatment. Not getting treatment, though, can cause a person to make decisions that will affect their personal life and limit their career.

What are social phobias and what are the symptoms?

Social phobia involves feeling very self-conscious in everyday social situations. It is more than just being shy or nervous, and can cause extreme anxiety. A person can feel afraid and uncomfortable when around other people. It may be hard to be at work or school, when you have to interact with others. While many people with these phobias know that their fear may be extreme, they are unable to control it. They often worry for days or weeks in advance of a situation they are dreading. This illness most often starts in childhood or the teenage years, and may run in families. Women are just as likely as men to develop social phobia. Other anxiety disorders or depression often go hand-in-hand with this phobia. Some people also turn to alcohol or drugs for relief.

How can hypnotherapy help overcome phobias?

Specific phobias are often childhood fears that were never outgrown. In other instances they may develop after a traumatic event, such as an accident, natural disaster, illness, or visit to the dentist-in other words, as a result of conditioning. A final cause is childhood modeling. Repeated observation of a parent with a specific phobia can lead a child to develop it as well.

Hypnotherapy is helpful in treating phobias. A course of hypnosis therapy will help to assist in removing fearful thoughts that tend to perpetuate the specific phobia. This process will replace the fearful thoughts with positive controlled actions. This can easily be achieved through the use of Relaxation, Desensitization and Visualization and Positive Affirmations.