| I was travelling a few years ago and was staying | | | | in his ear and you'll really notice something. |
| in a hostel. I got talking to a group of people | | | | All other fears are learned. Now I'm not saying |
| staying in the same room. I was talking to one | | | | that they are learned deliberately or consciously, |
| American person and somehow the conversation | | | | but they are learned and stay learned for years. |
| came onto fears. | | | | They are learned in an unconscious fashion - you |
| The conversation went on for a few moments, | | | | don't learn them while you sleep or are knocked |
| then she said the well known phrase: | | | | out, but you learn them without any conscious |
| You have nothing to fear but fear itself. | | | | effort. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt said that when he was | | | | NLP and Hypnosis deal with your unconscious |
| sworn into office and trying to deal with the Wall | | | | programming. They deal with the automatic |
| Street Crash in the late 20's. | | | | responses that occur without any thought and |
| Now I know the idea behind the saying is very | | | | can bring about real change. By understanding how |
| good, but if you think about it, not only does it | | | | your brain patterns and learns behaviours, NLP |
| kinda defeat the purpose of fear, but makes you | | | | and Hypnosis allow you to make conscious and |
| doubly afraid! Not only is it the fear you have to | | | | unconscious changes to external triggers in your |
| worry about but also the fear of that fear! | | | | environment. |
| I turned around to the American person in the | | | | A lot of people wonder why NLP is so effective |
| hostel and asked her if it was wrong to be afraid | | | | at removing fears that people have. It's simple. It |
| of a bus about to smash into you? While being | | | | uses what the brain uses. |
| cheeky, I was also pointing out the fact that fear | | | | NLP did not really develop this cure for phobias |
| serves a very important function to us. It keeps | | | | (nor any other technique for that matter). Dr. |
| us safe and away from danger. If you never | | | | Richard Bandler, while developing the field of |
| listened to it you, you'd probably be dead by now. | | | | Neuro Linguistic Programming, spent a lot of his |
| Fear only becomes a problem when it overcomes | | | | time modelling the internal processes from people |
| people and stops them leading normal lives. To | | | | who were outstanding in their chosen fields - |
| me, a fear of heights is perfectly fine if you are | | | | from insurance sales men to expert therapists. He |
| on a cliff edge, but at the top of a flight of stairs | | | | then turned his attention to people who had |
| may actually cause some social problems. | | | | gotten over fears without any form of therapy |
| Fear of spiders may be useful if you are trekking | | | | or counselling. He found 100 people through a |
| through the jungle and wont to avoid getting | | | | newspaper ad who had gotten over a fear on |
| poisoned, but flying around your room because of | | | | their own and investigated what they did |
| 1 tiny one may be a bit ridiculous. Unless it's the | | | | differently inside their minds - at the subjective |
| notorious Irish Daddy Long Legs - I think last year | | | | level. |
| it claimed the lives of at least 400 Irish people. | | | | From this study he was able to find the common |
| Fears are an excellent example of how the brain | | | | elements between them all and form an approach |
| learns things fast and not slow. It is proof that | | | | and technique to dealing with phobias - this |
| habits and thought patterns can be changed | | | | became known as the phobia cure and can |
| quickly and last a life time. Take someone who | | | | remove a fear in a matter of minutes as |
| has a fear of flying for example. It only takes | | | | opposed to months or even years. It is effective |
| them one bad experience on a flight to develop | | | | because it works with the way the brain learns - |
| the fear. They don't take years on planes to | | | | or changes - behaviours and thoughts. |
| figure out for sure that they are afraid - it | | | | Some fears are great, it keeps people alive and |
| happens in an instant. | | | | avoids disaster, but then again some fears can |
| The only 2 natural fear are the fear of falling and | | | | create disasters as well! If you know someone |
| the fear of loud noises. You can place a spider | | | | who's interested in finally getting rid of a |
| beside a baby and he'll be fine. Throw him from a | | | | overwhelming fear, send them here. |
| height and you'll see a response. Blast something | | | | |