{"id":294,"date":"2010-02-10T21:53:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T21:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindworkshypnosis.net\/hypnotizer\/?p=294"},"modified":"2017-04-03T10:21:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T17:21:04","slug":"fear-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindworkshypnosis.net\/hypnotizer\/2010\/02\/10\/fear-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear not"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"www.mindworkshypnosis.net<\/a>Hi, guys!<\/p>\n

Lately, I’ve been thinking about fear.\u00a0 And how unneccessary it is.\u00a0 To feel it.\u00a0 I had a spider phobia for a LONG time, long long long time.\u00a0 Decades.\u00a0 (I don’t really want to advertise how old I am, but I know precisely when and where I learned to be afraid of spiders–I was grade school age, probably around 7, at the bus stop on Mercer Island, off of 72nd street–while talking to a girl named Paige.)\u00a0 It was a one-shot learning.\u00a0 And, as I discovered a few years ago, \u00a0it can be unlearned just as quickly.<\/p>\n

I was telling a story to Paige.\u00a0 Not a nice story.\u00a0 It was about spiders.\u00a0 I was trying to scare HER.\u00a0 With words.\u00a0 And somehow, I scared myself so thoroughly and horrifically, that it STUCK.\u00a0 I suppose that’s justice!\u00a0 I was terrified of spiders for more than 30 years.\u00a0 Seeing a spider would set me OFF–body recoiling, heart pounding, adrenalin pumping, an involuntary gasp or scream or two, and so on.\u00a0 But not only that–I lived “on alert” for spiders.\u00a0 Anytime I would enter a room, any room, but primarily bathrooms, I’d scan, the floor, the walls, the crevices, looking for danger.\u00a0 Looking for spiders.\u00a0\u00a0 Any spider, regardless of size, would set off the same phobic response in me, even microscopic spiders.\u00a0 If I’d see a speck or dot across the room on the wall, I’d have to wonder and worry:\u00a0 “Is that a spider?”<\/p>\n

I had what my hubby came to call “bug radar.”\u00a0 If a spider was anywhere near, I’d know it.\u00a0 And, freak out!<\/p>\n

To lessen the tension of this horrific story about how I was tortured for decades with fear–let me tell a more pleasant spider anecdote!\u00a0 When I first started dating my future hubby, I had an apartment.\u00a0 He had an apartment.\u00a0 Neither of us had cars.\u00a0 One night, I was getting ready for bed, and found–horrors!!–a spider in my bathtub.\u00a0 What to do?\u00a0 I could not, no way, no how, just go to bed knowing a spider was around.\u00a0 Nor could I touch it, or go near it.\u00a0 I was distraught.\u00a0 I called Michael.\u00a0 That sweet man took a city bus across town (probably more than 1 bus) to come save me that night.\u00a0 When he did that, I knew it was LOVE!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Then and there I decided to keep him, forever, and I am.\u00a0 29 years and counting!!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So, anyway, everyone knew about my spider “thing” and some people laughed at me about it.\u00a0 Like my mother.\u00a0 We went camping and a spider was crawling up her leg at one point in one of those open-air-bathrooms in the woods.\u00a0 She laughed, thinking how I would scream.\u00a0 Yes, I would have.\u00a0 I didn’t see or know any way out of this FEAR.\u00a0 Yes, I knew it was unreasonable, spiders are tiny, I wasn’t, and yes, I could stomp the living daylights out of them, but that did not lessen the FEAR.\u00a0 The panic response in my body.\u00a0 The conscious mind wasn’t in charge of this thing.<\/p>\n

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Until 4 years ago.\u00a0 I learned NLP.\u00a0 And NLP can crush the daylights out of fear.\u00a0 Quicker than you can imagine.\u00a0 See, when you learn something, you’ve got a pattern running in you.\u00a0 Mine was spider:\u00a0 shriek!\u00a0 spider:\u00a0 recoil!\u00a0 spider:\u00a0 fear!\u00a0 All three of those things together.\u00a0 Well, NLP broke the pattern.\u00a0 In about 15 minutes, conversationally, I learned something new, a new pattern.\u00a0 A pattern called:\u00a0 spider:\u00a0 feel calm!\u00a0 spider:\u00a0 feel neutral!\u00a0 spider:\u00a0 feel clear-minded!\u00a0 And that new pattern has been running for 4 years in me.\u00a0 I’m not afraid anymore.<\/p>\n

Of course, I was super skeptical—how could something that’s been such a terror to me just vanish?\u00a0 Well, it did, and how I KNEW, how I came to believe was the next time I came face to face with a spider.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 No reaction in my body.\u00a0 I felt so amazingly free.\u00a0 Calm gives me the clarity to see if the spider is\u00a0actually a threat or not.\u00a0 Some spiders ARE dangerous.\u00a0 It’s miraculous, actually.\u00a0 That’s what NLP is and does:\u00a0 miracles on demand.<\/p>\n

Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™.\u00a0 Neuro meaning the neurology in your body, how you feel and function.\u00a0 Linguistic meaning communications, spoken, unspoken, language, etc.\u00a0 Programming to me means change.\u00a0 Changing how you feel in your body via communication.\u00a0 My spider fear was changed to my spider calm.\u00a0 Neutral.\u00a0 An absense of any negative feelings.\u00a0 How wonderful.<\/p>\n

NLP is miraculous on phobias.\u00a0 Every kind.\u00a0 It’s all just unconscious associations, stimulus response patterns which\u00a0 get learned\/installed.\u00a0 I can help you learn something better, and more resourceful.\u00a0 Because I’ve learned NLP.<\/p>\n

I’ve worked with a wide variety of fears and anxieties with my clients, from claustrophobia, to fear of flying, to fear of public speaking, to fear of records stores, to fear of deep water, to fear of the wind, fear of heights, fear of spiders, and so on… with GREAT success.\u00a0 NLP works!\u00a0 Hypnosis works.\u00a0 Together, they really, really work.<\/p>\n

I declare 2010 the “free from fear” year.\u00a0 I want to help people release fear.\u00a0 Sometimes fear makes sense and is appropriate, but when it isn’t–let me help!\u00a0 I’d love to.\u00a0 And I know it works.\u00a0 Every time I come face to face with a spider–a rare thing now–I know it.<\/p>\n

I saw a spider on the floor of my bathroom about a month ago, sitting by the edge of some pants that I had thrown on the floor (don’t tell anybody), and it didn’t bother me at all.\u00a0 Before, it would have been a FREAK OUT DELUXE that a spider might get into my clothes…here it was live and let live.\u00a0 I didn’t care enough about the spider to even DO anything about it.\u00a0 It was there for several days, sitting in the corner, and I noticed it calmly and ignored it. That’s freedom.<\/p>\n

If you’ve got an irrational fear, think about this: How would you rather feel?\u00a0 The tools I know can get you there, into that new feeling.\u00a0 Rapido!<\/p>\n

Warm Regards,
\nConnie<\/p>\n

\"Connie
Connie Brannan, CHt., Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi, guys! Lately, I’ve been thinking about fear.\u00a0 And how unneccessary it is.\u00a0 To feel it.\u00a0 I had a spider phobia for a LONG time, long long long time.\u00a0 Decades.\u00a0 (I don’t really want to advertise how old I am, but I know precisely when and where I learned to be afraid of spiders–I was […] <\/p>\n

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