Necrophobia – How To Eliminate The Fear Of Death

Written by admin on March 18, 2010 – 1:49 pm -

One of the most common fears is necrophobia, the fear of death. This serious fear affects thousands of individuals 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. Often, people are afraid of anything that can be linked to death, such as funerals, or less obviously, hospitals and horror films. In extreme cases, the anxiety disorder leaves people paralyzed with terror. Even though this fear is among the most serious, through education and treatment, people can successfully work past this irrational fear. Although most people can understand the fear of death, when a person suffers from a phobia, they have more intense, life-altering feelings of dread that can interfere with their day-to-day lives. The fear of death itself can lead to feelings of fear, paranoia, and serious anxiety attacks. Phobia sufferers often feel scared of circumstances under which they are not in complete control. Even though some individuals experience fear all the time, in others, it is only triggered by specific sights or events. For some individuals, the phobia may arise after a life-changing incident such as watching a loved one pass on. The phobia is distinguished overall by the experience of a strong, irrational fear of death, dying, and all things linked to death. The fear of death is rarely as simple as it would appear. This is because the phobia is associated with pain, hypochondria, fear of uncertainty, and other underlying worries that make it challenging to overcome. This complexity can be handled by a treatment intended to work against more than one phobia at a time. This is the case with a good hypnosis and NLP therapy program. Anxiety disorders can be treated in many different ways. Effective treatments include counseling and other types of therapy such as hypnotherapy, NLP, anti-stress medication, and anxiety-relief techniques. Hypnosis used in conjunction with NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques tends to have one of the highest efficacy rates among the various treatment options because it uses various innovative ways of easing fears and relieving anxiety. A hypnosis therapy program opens with anxiety fighting techniques that make the mind open to phobia-relieving suggestions. Relief of anxiety and stress is a fundamental element of fear treatment because it is believed to be the initial stage in stopping panic attacks and warding off negative, fear-generating mental images. Systematic desensitization techniques combined with the state of hypnosis are another successful mechanism of treatment. Under the hypnotic state, a user is gently guided into visualizations of fear-triggering situations and is taught how to dissipate anxiety. After successful treatment, patients are able to stay rational and calm under circumstances which normally set off fear. Users also say that thoughts that normally lead to fear no longer cause them anxiety. Systematic desensitization may also be effectively conducted outside of the hypnotic state, but it then becomes a more difficult, time-consuming and involved process. The NLP Visual/Kinesthetic Disassociation is among the most effective technique to end strong fears. This technique helps patients “disassociate” their anxieties from the root, unconscious images that set off a panic attack, in a process that causes them to rapidly “snap out” of the feeling of fear. Due to this, programs using the V/K Disassociation are often hailed as “instant” phobia cures by their creators and users alike. Hypnosis has utilized increasingly sophisticated techniques for fear treatment. Ericksonian hypnotherapy, so named after its inventor, Milton Erickson, MD, has proven successful in helping to re-shape the unconscious thought processes responsible for a phobia. Using metaphorical language, it automatically directs the unconscious mind into a fear-free thought process. In a similar process, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is used to redirect the unconscious thought processes. With the NLP Flash technique, fear provoking thoughts will automatically be reversed to quell the negative feelings instead, achieving near-effortless phobia relief. The fear of death can be treated even when it is very severe. Traditional techniques teamed with hypnosis can speed up the treatment process, while novel hypnosis techniques work at the level of the unconscious mind to eliminate fear and anxiety. The non-invasive nature of hypnosis also makes it a safe treatment option as it can reduce or eliminate the need for anti-anxiety medication. Fear sufferers regularly report dramatic and life-changing effects arising from hypnotherapy. For countless people experiencing the fear of death, hypnotherapy offers an ideal form of treatment.

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No More Fear: Eliminate your Public Speaking Fear Naturally

Written by admin on March 17, 2010 – 11:40 am -

 

Tomorrow is the day. You can’t sleep. Your thoughts are racing. Your body begins to shake and tremble.

The morning comes greeted by great fear and nausea. You feel paralyzed and have thoughts of escaping either back to bed or to a deserted island. Or maybe you could disappear altogether. What does tomorrow bring? War. Surgery. Court. None of these. Tomorrow brings the expectation that you speak in front of a group large or small. If you have lived this terrifying experience over and over again you are in the majority of people in the America. Public Speaking is the number one fear in America even before death. Most of us would rather be in the casket at a funeral than speaking at it.

So why is that? I suggest to you that Public Speaking is not naturally stressful. Stress and fear around public speaking is developed through a few different possibilities. The most common one is a traumatic event while either speaking or performing in front of others. This could be as simple as a show and tell experience in kindergarten where someone may have criticized you or laughed at a mistake you made. It could be a bigger event such as someone calling you names or mocking you while speaking or performing in front of others. There are thousands of possible situations that could create a fear of speaking in public. Each one is a personal experience that creates specific beliefs that then trigger a string of negative thinking that leads to the feeling of fear. The fear reinforces it’s self each time it is experienced. You may, as you mature be able to accept on a rational level that the fear is irrational. You can see that it really makes no sense in real life. But knowing the fear is not rational does not make the fear go away. You still experience the negative thinking and fear at the drop of a hat if you are expected to speak in public. You may tell yourself in your mind or out loud that you are fine. That speaking is not scary that you can do this calmly and easily. But when it comes to it you start to shake, your mind blanks out, your knees get weak, your thoughts race and you are off into the same pattern. Your experience then just reinforces your beliefs, which lead to the negative thinking which creates your fear and all the symptoms that come along with it. Again.

Lets examine for a minute how our feelings of fear are created. Most people believe that we are subject to our feelings. That we have no real control or choice about what we feel. Feelings are powerful things. They lead to love, marriage, divorce, hate, anger, charity, our choice in jobs, having children and more. Most everything we do is based on our feelings about it. Even when we are thinking about things logically we are still seeing the logic through our own set of feelings. Lets look at an example.

Lets take a woman who loves to go camping and fishing with her husband and kids. One camping trip in the summer they have an unusual experience. A normal activity becomes life threatening. On this trip a friend almost drowns, their boat comes unanchored 2 times on a very large river and has to be retrieved, they are forced to navigate this same large river in the pitch dark in order to try and return home. On the way home the wife witnesses her husband fall asleep behind the wheel cross the center line and almost flip their boat and truck, thankfully it was 2am and nobody was on the road. 6 months later this same women develops a crippling fear of driving after dark or riding in the car with her husband. She also over the years develops a signfigent fear of camping. Her life becomes full of fear. This is an example of how something traumatic can cause crippling fear in someone’s life. So how does this apply to the fear of public speaking you ask. Well somewhere along the line you likely developed a belief that is now creating your emotions of fear. This is your perception. As I like to say the glasses you look through in life. We all see things differently, like public speaking, depending on the glasses we are looking through. There are many beliefs that are creating your own personal pair of glasses. The feeling of fear is usually connected to a situation that felt like it threatened your survival either physically or emotionally. Fear is a natural response to something that could damage you in some way. However when a situation has no real threat in it and the feeling of fear is keeping us from it then it is actually harming us instead of helping us as it is created to do. It is a self-enforcing cycle. It is believed in many schools of thought that we actually hold the fear in our neuropath ways in our brain. And that each time we have a thought, speak a word or experience a feeling we are strengthen that neuropath way. So in order to break out of the damaging cycle of fear we need to interrupt the pattern and release the original belief that created the fear.

 
Once the belief is released then the response of fear is no longer needed. This all needs to be done on a sub-conscious and energetic level of the mind and body. Some beliefs I have found common in people experiencing public speaking fear are:

It is not okay to make mistakes
Everyone is judging me
I am not good at speaking
Others will make fun of me
I will fail
I don’t have anything important to say
I need to be perfect
I inherited this fear

Each belief is so personal depending on how and when the belief and fear started. It is important to discover your specific beliefs that created your fear. Sometimes it can be difficult to uncover our beliefs because we don’t believe that on a conscious level. But remember it is the sub-conscious in the neuropath ways of the brain that we want to address the beliefs. You may not even be aware on the conscious level that you have some of these beliefs. Once you discover your specific beliefs you can then work to eliminate those beliefs. The techniques that I have found most helpful for releasing and replacing negative beliefs are Hypnosis, Rapid Eye Technology and Emotional Freedom Technique. In all of these techniques we are working on both the subconscious level and the energetic level of the mind and body.

Hypnosis is used to discover the original event that created the belief and fear the first time. Our subconscious mind remembers all that happens to usein great detail. By contacting the subconscious we are able to ask directly for what we need to know about the fear. Hypnosis is also used to help teach the mind to have a positive experience and to use advanced relaxation techniques.

Rapid Eye Technology is used to facilitate the release of the negative beliefs and energy that is being held in the neuropath ways. We use eye movements and energy work to open up the neuropath ways in the brain to allow the negative beliefs to be released. Clients frequently report that they actually feel the energy moving and feel a great emotional release while participating in Rapid Eye.

Emotional Freedom Technique is used to balance the bodies energy system in relation to a specific thought or belief. It is believed that the emotion we feel comes from a imbalance in our bodies meridian system. The meridian system is the same energy system that acupuncture is based on. The meridians can become either over charged, under charged or blocked. When our energy system is unbalanced then we experience the feelings that come with stress and fear. By lightly tapping on specific energy points while using specific wording we are able to retrain the bodies meridians to stay balanced and in doing so we help to eliminate the negative emotions and feelings that come when the system is unbalanced.

All 3 techniques are natural and safe to use. Each technique can be learned and used at home to facilitate release and self-empowerment. Self-empowerment is the goal of all my work. I desire my work to allow my clients to feel powerful and in charge of their own work. I am just a support person lightly guiding them when needed.

Public Speaking can become a enjoyable experience for those who are ready to let go of the negative beliefs and feelings that are creating it. There is no sweeter experience then freedom.

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