What frightens you the most? When we are children, we fear the dark or potential monsters under the bed or in closets. We may outgrow these vague fears by the time we reach adulthood, but that does not necessarily mean we outgrow fear itself. Our monsters look less like furry objects and more like the crowd sitting in front of us in a work presentation. Instead of fearing the dark, we fear embarrassment and humiliation. While fear for some can be merely uncomfortable, for others it can be disabling or even paralyzing. With hypnosis for fear and anxiety, you can overcome your fears and take back your power.

What Causes Fear and Phobias?

Fear is primal, and it may well be universal. It helps those that are vulnerable stay safe and protected from potential predators. Fear only becomes a problem when it deploys unnecessarily. In other words, it is problematic when we become afraid of non-threatening things and situations rather than genuine threats.

Being afraid of a sudden, unexpected noise when you are alone in your house at night is a reasonable response. Being afraid of a small spider that scurries away from you outside is not. Learning to manage your fear through hypnosis for fear and anxiety can help you feel more comfortable and confident as you move through your day.

Your body goes through several physiological changes when you experience fear, which gives you the strength to escape or overpower the potential threat. Your breathing increases, your blood vessels prepare to flood essential organs with oxygen and nutrients, muscles constrict, and blood sugar levels spike to keep your energy levels high. All of this comes from the amygdala, the part of the brain that helps process fear and other emotions, and it often happens before the conscious part of your brain is even aware that there is a threat.

That part of your brain is the prefrontal cortex, which helps assess the threat and make decisions. Once the prefrontal cortex determines that the threat is not real or is exaggerated, the hippocampus, which stores memories and regulates emotions, steps in and helps calm down the more primal parts of the brain.

Sometimes, though, we can develop irrational fears and phobias, and we can have a hard time overcoming them. Self-hypnosis audio for phobias can help.

Dealing with Fears and Phobias

For some of us, our fears are serious enough to interfere with our ability to function in our day-to-day life. These fears are considered phobias and are classified as anxiety disorders. If you have a phobia, you may struggle with an extreme fear that triggers anxiety, sweating, or a racing heart. You might feel nausea, chest pain, or a pins-and-needles sensation when you are in the presence of your feared object or situation.

If you have a phobia, you are not alone. Millions of people worldwide have phobias, including social phobias, agoraphobia, acrophobia, and entomophobia. Some people are afraid of failure or success, which may be loosely related to social phobias.

While phobias can be difficult to manage, they are not incurable. Treatments are available, including hypnosis for fears and phobias. UpNow’s fear of success hypnosis can offer relief from the symptoms of phobias and can even free you from your fears.

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The Consequences of Irrational Fears

If you have a social phobia, you may feel anxious, nervous, or worried before meeting someone new or when you have an important work or school presentation. You might feel uncomfortable or unable to function properly. You may also have lingering physical symptoms, such as:

  • Sweating
  • Fast breathing or trembling
  • Rapid heartbeat
  • Sweating or chills
  • Tightness in your throat or chest
  • Dry mouth
  • Butterflies in your stomach
  • Nausea
  • Dizziness, confusion, and foggy thinking
  • A headache

These symptoms will subside over time, but they can be distressing enough to make you want to avoid experiencing them again.

In other words, your fear can begin to limit your life or work performance. It can keep you from trying new things or lock you in unhealthy patterns of behavior.

If you are ready to break free from an unhelpful or fearful mindset, then self-hypnosis for social phobias is a great way to do it. With our self-hypnosis app for the fear of failure, you can gently guide your thinking. You can use self-hypnosis for social phobias to reframe past experiences, change the way you see fearsome triggers, and find new ways of looking at old patterns. UpNow’s fear of success hypnosis can give you a new vantage point and a healthier mindset.

Are Your Fears Holding You Back?

Part of the fight-or-flight reflex that is less commonly discussed is the “freeze” reaction. Many prey animals freeze when they are afraid. They simply stop all motion and stand perfectly still to avoid detection.

Humans do it too. Fear can leave you paralyzed and unable to move or make decisions. You might feel especially conflicted if the decision seems unclear or there is a strong chance of failure or success with each choice. Researchers call this a cost-benefit conflict, and stress, such as that brought on by fear, can make it harder for you to make decisions.

In fact, the more stress you experience, the more likely you are to make riskier choices. Using animal models, MIT researchers found that chronic stress made it difficult for mice to balance risks and rewards and make reasonable choices.

Our self-hypnosis audio for phobias can help you counteract the fears and stress in your life and make calm, rational decisions based on what is right for you. You no longer have to fear success or failure. You can simply move towards the best decision for you at this point in your life. With self-hypnosis for social phobias, you can turn off the fearful noise, quiet the phobia, and calm your anxiety. You can make healthier, more positive decisions and enjoy the fruits of your labor. Our self-hypnosis app for the fear of failure makes the process simple and easy.

Taking Control of Your Life with Hypnosis for Fears and Phobias

Hypnosis for fear and anxiety works on a subconscious level. When you use fear of success hypnosis, you relax both your mind and your body. Your conscious mind takes a step back, and your subconscious mind is more accepting of new ideas and suggestions.

With UpNow’s self-hypnosis audio for phobias, you can examine your automatic thoughts and deeply held beliefs more closely. You can explore why you fear what you fear and make calm, rational decisions about whether those fears are based in fact or fiction. Our self-hypnosis app for the fear of failure is a powerful tool that can help you:

  • Explore your emotions and emotional responses
  • Identify and isolate fearful triggers
  • Reframe past experiences
  • Develop healthier coping mechanisms
  • Release your fears and phobias
  • Enjoy public speaking

Self-hypnosis for social phobias offers powerful relief from stress and can combat anxiety. It can help you feel more confident and positive as you work through your moods, emotions, and fears. You can begin to approach new tasks and life stages with a new frame of mind and a new point of view. With hypnosis for fear and anxiety on your side, the possibilities are virtually endless.

Managing Fear with UpNow’s Fear of Success Hypnosis

Fear is a natural response to potentially dangerous circumstances, but our brains and bodies sometimes “misfire,” seeing something as a threat when it is not. Social situations, failures, embarrassment, and similar situations can bring us temporary discomfort, but they will not hurt us. Allow your brain to reprocess the old triggers and remove the negative emotional charge associated with it thanks to hypnotic techniques. A self-hypnosis audio for phobias can help us see these fears from a more realistic perspective, giving us an opportunity to learn and grow from experiences. Visit UpNow.com today to learn more about using hypnosis for fears and phobias or to download our self-hypnosis app for the fear of failure.

FAQs

Hypnotherapy can help you deal with a phobia. Many people have relied on hypnotherapy to help them let go of irrational fears, from the fear of public speaking to the fear of heights or needles.

Hypnosis has been used for decades to reduce phobias, including the fear of needles, the fear of flying, the fear of public speaking and many other fears. A 2002 paper in the Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Michael Gow, Dentist, wrote: “What is significant is the dental history of the patient and the longstanding effect of this on her dental phobias and how quickly hypnosis was able to remove this problem.”

Fear is a normal evolutionary response that triggers real changes in the body: more cortisol is secreted, the blood flow is diverted toward bigger muscles, your heart rate accelerated. Your body is getting ready to flee, fight or freeze. There are many ways to deal with fear. First, breathe. Regain calmness by taking deep breaths. Second, identify the fear. Observe your thoughts, feelings, and body sensations. Third, engage in creative visualizations with a self-guided hypnotherapy session. It is a valid option in addition to exposure and cognitive behavioral therapy.

There are a variety of self-hypnosis techniques to overcome fears and phobias. By helping you reframe the beliefs that sets off the fear, you can with constant practice find relief from these fears. As you reshape the negative thoughts into empowering thoughts with hypnotherapy, you can enjoy a happier life.

You can enjoy the benefits of self-guided hypnotherapy sessions to overcome the fear of heights. You just need to find a quite and comfortable place for less than half an hour and listen to our self-hypnosis audio.

Hypnosis has been used in conjunction with traditional exposure therapy or cognitive behavioral therapy. By helping you reframe the negative thoughts around the cause of the fear, hypnotherapy can help you lead a happier life.

Hypnosis can help alleviate social anxiety, the same way it can help with generalized anxiety disorder. Social anxiety is very often a learned behavior. It develops after a negative experience such as teasing, humiliation or bullying. These experiences do not have to determine your life, less so what you think about yourself. Download the UpNow self-hypnosis app and boost your self-esteem.

Hypnosis can help with a variety of anxiety disorders: from performance anxiety during an exam or a competition, to generalized anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Everyone of us is different and may require a different number of sessions. Our hypnosis sessions are designed to fit into your life seamlessly because consistency is key to the success of the sessions. We recommend you listen to the audios for at least 28 days and use them as necessary for maintenance if needed. Some people do experience significant changes very rapidly while others need a bit more time.

Claustrophobia can disrupt your daily life. Modern life is full of confined places, from lifts, to planes, trains, or tunnels. Even an MRI imaging machine can trigger stress responses in those suffering from the fear of confined spaces. Hypnotherapy is a state of focused attention and heightened suggestibility when you can reframe those negative thoughts.

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