subject: Curing Phobias And Fears Forever [print this page] Phobias and fears are reinforced habits you've created in your mind that allow your body to have negative feelings. Your mind is so powerful that it's able to create any feeling you want in your body. Therefore by knowing how your mind works you're able to get rid of these negative feelings forever.
What is a Phobia of Fear?
A phobia of fear is all in your mind. It is a learnt behaviour that's allowed you to have a terrible feeling in your body. We're only born with two fears; loud noises and falling, all the rest are learnt. You may have had a bad experience in the past, you may have been speaking in front of people and now the thought of public speaking or presenting scares the life out of you. Or maybe you saw a spider or snake which made you scared or feel terrible. Now every time you think of a spider or snake you have these terrible feelings in your body. These terrible feelings in your body are created by the images and sounds you create in your mind that allow you to have these feelings. You've created these thoughts in your mind so often that it's become an automatic process, a habit. Whenever you think about it you experience all these uncontrollable negative feelings in your body.
This is how it all works:
You have millions and millions of neurons in your brain, think of them like little cities. Every city is connected by various roads, big and small. So too are your neurons, they're connected by neuron pathways which create every behaviour, feeling, memory etc you have. Your thoughts have specific neurons and so to do your feelings. In order to feel something in your body, a thought neuron has to be connected to a feeling neuron through a neural pathway; no connection, no feeling. Therefore in order to have a feeling in your body two cities need to be connected to a road; no road, no feeling. The bigger the road the quicker the cars are able to travel to the nearby city. The thicker the neural pathway the quicker that thought can travel to the negative feeling neuron.
When you had your bad experience you created a thought neuron and a negative feeling neuron. Each time you thought of this experience you created a neural pathway from the thought neuron to the feeling neuron. It started off with a thin neural pathway connecting the two neurons, but the more you thought about it, the thicker the neural pathway became until a major highway linked these two neurons. Now when you think of this experience you feel terrible instantly because you've create a quick and direct path from your thought neuron to your negative feeling neuron. You've conditioned it over and over in your mind for such a long time; think-feel, think-feel, think-feel. Now everything you see that relates to this fear or phobia you has an automatic feeling in your body. The great thing about all this is; you learnt this behaviour and therefore you have the ability unlearn it. All you have to do is get rid of this major highway between these two cities in your mind, and you're go to go. In future when you think of that bad experience you'll have no feeling attached to it, sounds crazy but it's just how your body work.
The Fast Phobia Cure
Dr Richard Bandler came up with the Fast Phobia Cure about 30 years ago when he designed the ground breaking field of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming). Dr Bandler researched and studied hundreds of people who had successfully cured their phobias. He came with the conclusion that if you disassociated yourself twice from the experience and ran the experience backwards in your mind at speed (like rewinding a DVD), while playing a little comical music, you're able to erase this neural pathway linking these two neurons. As you've now discovered, when there's no neural pathway linking two neurons you're unable to have this negative feeling. This may seem silly and really easy, and it is! Since Dr Bandler created the Fast Phobia Cure, he and many other NLP Practitioners have cure millions around the world of their phobias. You are no different and you're able to have your phobia of fear cured successfully in an hour!
