If you or someone you love is suffering from
debilitating fears, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Hypnotherapy can
help change your life so you feel confident to tackle whatever may arise in
your day to day life.
Whether you’re afraid to drive, scared of heights or
terrified of flying Irina Benoit, certified hypnotherapist at Lasting Change
Hypnosis can help you overcome those fears and phobias.
“I call them life stoppers. “Your life shrinks because you
avoid what you’re scared of,” explains Benoit adding that these debilitating
fears often cause people to miss out on the simple pleasures of life, because they’re scared of
confront their fears. Take the dentist for example. If someone is scared to
visit the dentist, they may ignore a tooth ache, which if left untreated may
become a serious health issue.
So where do these fears and phobias come from? Whether
someone experienced a frightful event as a child or they were recently involved
in an automobile accident, these fears become deeply rooted in the subconscious
mind. These deep seeded fears and
phobias can be incredibly disruptive to someone’s day to day life, but there is
hope to change them. Benoit uses
hypnotherapy to change the unwanted behaviours and reactions triggered by the
fear. Once a client is hypnotized in a deeply relaxed state, Benoit gives them
suggestions to contradict their fearful behavior.
“While relaxed, we’re educating your mind how to take a new
approach to an old response,” explains Benoit.
During a hypnosis session, Benoit helps a client use visualization
techniques to imagine how they would like to react when confronted with their
fear. For someone who is scared to fly, she has the client visualize themselves
sitting on a plane comfortably during a flight.
“Hypnosis will help you change your behaviours because hypnosis works
with the subconscious mind. You’ll be able to let go of those negative feelings
and fearful thoughts of an object or situation and replace it with a positive,
healthy response,” says Benoit.
According to Benoit, a third of all the clients at Lasting
Change Hypnosis are being treated to help overcome debilitating fears and
phobias. With her help, Benoit’s clients
are learning to let go of fears and phobias with hypnosis.
For more information on how hypnosis may help you let go of
your fears and phobias, visit
www.lastingchangehypnosis.ca.
