Phobias Removed In 15 Minutes Or Your Money Back

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Before I crack on with today’s thrilling installment of NLP Demystified, I feel I should add a caveat to Sundays post on Instant Confidence. There is a common misconception that confident people don’t get nervous. Yes they do, they can even get just as nervous as anybody else. The difference is they push through and don’t let it show. If you are expecting anchoring to give you confidence and all your nerves will just dissolve, you may be disappointed. That could happen, but it most likely won’t, it’s more likely that you will retain a few nerves but just be more accepting of them. Anyway, we need some nerves in certain situations; they help us to perform more effectively so embrace them for all your worth.

Today I’m going to tell you how to remove any phobia you may have in about 15 minutes.  I know, I know, it sounds like yet another ludicrous Brownson claim, but I’m on a roll now on the ludicrous claim front.  If you have been in therapy for 9 years with a phobia of snakes, spiders or salesmen, I can help you. I have to be careful living in such a litigious society as the US, so a caveat before we continue. If you try this, make a complete pigs ear of it and your fear gets worse, then it’s either your fault, Richard Bandler’s (the guy that developed it), or the Governments, are we in agreement? If not you can leave now, but watch out for the spider lurking in your bedroom, it’s got hairy legs, big fangs and a baseball bat.

There are a few ways to deal with phobias and here are 3.

Avoidance – Make sure that you never ever come into contact whatever it is you’re phobic about. Not a problem if it’s White Rhino’s, Moon dust or brilliant ad libs by George Bush, but more problematical if its spiders, needles or cheese. This is not recommended because fear will often intensify if you use the avoidance strategy.

De-sensitization – I have to say I’m not a psychologist or psychotherapist so I am giving you a layman’s take on this process and the one below. Imagine you have a fear of snakes and you go to see your therapist. She may suddenly wander off to the other side of the room and open a book. From 25 feet away she then shows you a picture of a snake for s second or two. Your heart may skip a beat but you’ll probably be ok. The next time you go to see her she brings the book a bit nearer and shows it to you for 10 seconds. The time after that it’s on the couch and the next time she’s waving a plastic snake at you from behind her desk. Get the picture? She is slowly getting you used to the idea of snakes by lowering your sensitivity to them. This may work or it may not, but it will cost you a bucket load of cash.

Flooding – Your therapist decides that that the desensitization isn’t working too well and a change of tack is called for. Next time you enter her office she pulls a lever as you walk in and trap door opens up beneath you. You plummet 10 feet to the floor below, but land ok on a handily placed mattress. No harm done you think, until you notice there are 3,000 snakes taking a nap on said mattress.  You then realize that you can’t get out of the room and you either have to make friends with the snakes or have a massive heart attack. This may work with some people and it may cause severe trauma in others. If you’re thinking of trying this out I would advise non-poisonous snakes or a large insurance policy.

Relaxation techniques – It is what it is. You teach yourself some deep breathing and other assorted ways of staying relaxed and hope to hell you can remember what to do when snake drops on your head whilst on vacation in Australia.

Now let’s take a look at the NLP method. Be aware if you have a severe phobia you may feel some mild agitation doing this, but isn’t that worth it to get rid of it for good?

1. Imagine you’re in a cinema with a friend for company. You sit some way back and wait for the movie to start. You are very relaxed and looking forward to the show.
2. The movie starts to roll and you notice that it’s in black and white and that you can see yourself on the screen. The self you can see is the one you would have seen just prior to your original phobic response started. If you can’t remember what kicked all this off, don’t worry, just remember any severe episode, but be sure to start the movie before you would have known there was a problem.
3. Before the movie starts you can imagine floating out of your body back into the projection room. You can still see yourself looking chilled and waiting for the movie but now you’re in control of the equipment and safely behind a glass panel.
4. Run the grainy, jerky, black and white movie until well after the end of the phobic incident. When you get to the end and noticing that the you on the screen is ok, freeze the film.
5. Float back down into the you watching the movie and then run the movie very quickly backwards to the beginning in no more than 2 seconds.  Now watch the movie again and once more stop well past the event.
6. Float (a lot of floating I know, so I hope you’re a good floater) into the you on the screen and make the scenery 3D. Re-wind from the end to the beginning really quickly and make it almost comical. Now add color and repeat the process by running forward quickly and then backwards. You can even add a silly sound track and make things seem completely ridiculous in any way you see fit. Go backwards and forwards several times making sure you are completely at ease with it.
7. Try and recreate the phobic response and you’ll find you can’t, or at least nothing like as intensely. You can run this a number of times until your phobia has been downgraded to point where it is no longer really an issue.

You may be wondering how this works. Tony Robbins description (that he may or may not have borrowed from somebody else) is my favorite. It’s like scratching a record, when you do that enough times it will never be the same again. We are scratching the memory you have associated to whatever you stimulus is and once you do that enough times you cannot access it again.

If you have a genuine phobia (it doesn’t work so well on vague fears) I recommend you ask for help in doing this and probably that you get somebody that has an understanding of NLP. The process does need to be followed carefully to avoid making it worse, but it can have genuine life changing effects on people that are severely phobic.