Arachnophobia fear of spiders treated using hypnotherapy hypnosis therapy

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HYPNOTHERAPY HYPNOSIS THERAPY FOR ARACHNOPHOBIA - FEAR OF SPIDERS

A phobia is an irrational fear. Phobics sense danger when danger doesn't exist. For example, there are 40,000 varieties of spider on this planet and only 30 venomous enough to kill a human being. Humans in the Western world are ignorant as to the important role the spider plays because of their isolation from them. In fact spiders eat mosquitoes (who incidentally are responsible either directly or indirectly for the death of more people on this planet than anything else!) - how many people have a mosquito phobia? How many people have a lion or bear phobia? As you can see, it is therefore NOT a logical process.

With this type of phobia, there is sometimes a fear of the transmission of disease through the faeces or mucus from that particular animal.  Following treatment, phobics actually develop a fascination for the particular animal or insect they were scared of.

Arachnophobia fear of spiders can develop in one of three ways:

• Learning - ie from an authority figure when the person was young (typically up until the person is around 6 years old) e.g. a mother screaming when she saw a spider

• Trauma - ie being bitten by a spider when young (not UK)

• Culture - certain races have specific issues.

Imagine you are one year old sitting in your high chair...you have never seen a spider in your life...one walks across your table. What do you do? You poke it, you investigate it, you are fascinated by it, you may even eat it! It is only when Mummy screams that your subconscious 'learns' that you are in great danger and reminds you of this throughout your life whenever seeing a spider.

HOW CAN HYPNOTHERAPY HYPNOSIS THERAPY TREAT ARACHNOPHOBIA FEAR OF SPIDERS?

Regression Hypnotherapy will allow a person to remember that particular event that caused them to have a fear of spiders and review it with 'adult' eyes this time around. This will then allow them to interpret the event correctly and it will no longer be an issue for them.

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WHAT CLIENTS SAY:

"The other day I came in from work and saw a spider in the corner of the bedroom. My old reaction would have been to leave the flat and wait in the car until my boyfriend arrived home. But guess what? I got a tissue and picked up the spider and flushed it down the toilet. I couldn't believe what I had done...and neither did my boyfriend when I told him the story!" B.S.

David Samson
Dip Adv Hyp

David Samson is a General Hypnotherapy Standards Council Validated Practitioner
and a member of the General Hypnotherapy Register. He also holds a Diploma in Advanced Hypnotherapy and an ITEC Diploma in Anatomy and Physiology.

Recently he has been a phobia advisor on the John Kearns Radio Show on London Talk Radio and also the Charlie Jordan Show on LBC Radio dealing with listener's phobias. Body and Soul magazine in The Times have featured his work on hypnosis for insomnia. The Barnet Press also produced a major feature on David's research into phobias and their treatment.

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