4u4life Hypnotherapy

It’s that time of year again when the chill is in the air in the evenings, the nights are drawing in and spiders start to try to find somewhere nice and warm to spend winter. Unfortunately this is quite often someones house.

You know the scenario sitting happily watching the box and relaxing for the evening when suddenly out of the corner of your eye something is zooming across the carpet. Why do they move quickly and why do they go across the centre of the room? They hide in the shadows why can’t they stay there?

People without spider phobia don’t understand what the fuss is about, but for the people with it, it can be a nightmare. I had a client once who couldn’t even say the word ‘spider’ as she would start uncontrollably crying.

Some things have become apparent over the years of using Hypnosis to treat spider phobia. This applies to most, though not all clients. Usually no spider phobics are scared of money spiders. Those are the little ones about 2-3mm across. Not that many are bothered by Tarantulas. It seems to be the ones that are about 40-80mm across from leg tip to leg tip, very specific. But then most phobias are very specific in the details they need to trigger the phobic response.

Hypnotherapy is really good at treating spider phobia and there has been research recently that suggests that the fear may be something that is transmitted genetically from our ancestors, this could possibly explain the specifics of it. It could also explain why when I have helped my clients overcome their fears some still have a strong memory of the fear but no longer have the response. With other phobias that have been learnt from a personal experience I find people almost forget they even had it.

Have a read about the genetic research, its quite fascinating to wonder what else we inherit.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10486479/Phobias-may-be-memories-passed-down-in-genes-from-ancestors.html