CONQUERING FEAR THROUGH HYPNOTHERAPY.

Do you embrace love, life and the opportunities that come your way fearlessly or are you like a scared little mouse whose fears set your whiskers a trembling and stop you from experiencing your life fully? 

I hope not, but fear is like an unseen disability which left untreated can become a crippling disease. 

Some of our fears are obvious yet others lay just behind our consciousness for fear likes to take us unawares. 

• It skulks around corners. 
• It hides in the shadows.  
• It pops out from behind closed doors. 
• And it slams head first into us when we are least expecting it.   

We then stop our dash for the tasty cheese of life and tell ourselves we are satisfied with the mouldy crumbs that someone else has left behind. 

BUT WHAT IS FEAR? 

Fear is our survival instinct and warns us when we are in danger.  It protects our bodies and also our egos. 

• We instinctively throw up our hands to ward off a blow. 
• We dodge to avoid a collision.  
• We grab onto something to stop us from falling. 
• And as we grow we also learn that words and actions can be frightening and can harm us emotionally. 

So although fear has it's place in our lives and does a wonderful job in keeping us safe, it does a much better job in keeping us stuck.  Stuck in our old patterns of behaviour and stuck in our old ways of relating to ourselves and each other for.....  

• Fear keeps us small when we could be living a larger life. 
• Fear keeps us in our comfort zone and stops us opening the door to the unknown. 
• Fear stops us taking risks and so we do not grow. 
• Fear restricts, tightens and binds our life force and we give up trying. 
• Fear creates limits so we cannot fly free 
• Fear confuses us as we cannot see clearly when we are afraid. 
• Fear lies to us as it builds false evidence against the new. 
• Fear keeps us from saying YES! to love and to life. 

There are  countless fears and they are called by many names, but FEAR IS NEVER OUR FRIEND.

FEAR ATTRACTS FEAR.

Fear is a very powerful emotion and grows by feeding on itself.  The more we fear, the more that we discover what there is to fear.  Indeed our fears can become so powerful, that we can end up attracting to us the very things we are afraid of. 

I remember reading a newspaper article a number of years ago about a brutal rape in broad daylight of a young woman in my home town.  She had only recently relocated there because she suffered from a terrible fear of being raped and had thought by living here she would be safer than in the city where she had previously resided.   BUT NO! for now she had finally attracted to her the very thing she was most fearful of.... being raped. 

You see, her fear had become so powerful she could not leave it behind.  She may have changed location but instead of escaping, she brought it with her and ran right into it. 

FEAR IS COMMON.

Fear is common to us all, it is just the shape of our fears that vary.  In fact, it appears that no matter what there is in our world, we are able to attach a fear to it.  But whatever our fears may look like on the surface, underlying each, we will find the same constant themes. 

The fear of.... 

• Feeling pain. 
• Being hurt. 
• Experiencing dying. 
• Death, the great unknown. 

All of these fears can ultimately be traced back to the primal fear of survival that we all carry deeply within us. 

Some of our fears have been a part of our lives for so long and have become so familiar to us that we believe that they are just a part of who we are.  But this doesn't have to always be the case. 

So let us stop tying our tails in a knot and go ahead and make some changes.    

HYPNOTHERAPY CAN HELP YOU.