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  • Anxiety Attacks, Panic Disorders And Phobias - What Are They And How Are They Treated?
    By: Kate Campbell | - There is quite a range of problems that are referred to as anxiety disorders. People who suffer from panic disorder have extreme anxiety during their panic attacks, and these attacks happen on a regular basis, weekly or sometimes even daily. Social anxiety disorder happens in a particular situation, when you are in a social situation such as at a party, at work or at school.

    If you are afraid in a certain situation or of a certain thing it is known as a phobia. Some of the more we ...

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  • Scary Panic Attacks While Flying
    By: Nathan Tyler | - Panic attacks are not uncommon on airplanes. Over 35% of people are nervous flyers and may experience symptoms of anxiety during flight. Sweaty palms, an accelerated heart rate, nausea; these symptoms might affect a nervous flyer. The worst part for many flyers is usually the take off and landing part of the flight.

    Passengers who are nervous about flying are much more prone to panic attacks. There are many reasons for this but they are usually linked to a particular fear or phobia. ...

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  • How To Overcome Fear Of Flying
    By: Roseanna Leaton | - A fear of flying is in this day and age extremely restricting. So many people these days enjoy a lifestyle which involves flying almost as frequently as we used to take taxis. Many jobs are dependent upon flying on a regular basis, be it a short internal flight or one which involves sitting on an airplane for up to twenty hours.

    A fear of flying can take many forms; one individual may be quite comfortable on a small plane but petrified on a jumbo, whilst the opposite may be true f ...

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  • In Search Of A Phobia Cure
    By: Roseanna Leaton | - Is it my imagination or are more people suffering from phobias in the modern day? Perhaps this is the case, perhaps not; certainly there are more people who are willing to talk about having a phobia or suffering from anxiety. Phobias no longer have a stigma associated with them, and rightly so.

    It is inevitable that when you live in an environment where you travel more or move in different circles more frequently that anxieties and phobias are more likely to arise. Our grandparen ...

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  • Would You Like To Beat Your Fear Of Public Speaking?
    By: Lisa Dyke | - Having knocking knees and butterflies is a common symptom for those individuals that have a fear of public speaking. You will have butterflies flying around in your stomach, a quivering voice, sweaty palms, racing heart, the whole nine yards.

    Within this article, we would like to share some tricks with you to help you overcome fear of public speaking. These tips and tricks will help to reduce the anxiety and stress you have during presentations.

    The methods we are ...

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  • A Fear Of Flying
    By: Patrick Omari | - A series of plane disappearances and crashes such as the recent air France Flight 447 and the Hudson River Crash, in January, have raised new concerns about airplane safety and leave little hope for Aerophobics in search of a cure. However, despite the fact that aviation has undeniably experienced accidents and fatalities, recent news suggests that flying is still "safer than ever". It is not merely an old wives tale that flying is one of the safest ways to travel but statistics show that, despi ...
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  • Are You Suffering From Confinement Phobia? Tips To Reduce Your Anxiety!
    By: Bertil Hjert | - Answer true or false:

    I get anxious in most situations where I have to stop and wait, for example, stoplights, standing in line at the grocery store.
    I avoid or am afraid of traveling on public transportation, trains, buses, commercial jets.
    Its uncomfortable for me to be in a closed-in place or in a crowd of people.
    I often feel trapped by something in my life situation, such as my job, marriage, family responsibilities, he ...

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  • Social Phobia In Real Life!
    By: Bertil Hjert | - Social anxiety disorder affects millions of Americans and leaves men and women, young and old alike with performance anxiety related to a great deal of different situations and interactions. The seemingly innocuous, normal, everyday interactions can drive a social anxiety sufferer to distraction or panic.

    These feelings of self conscious anxiety can strike anywhere and at anytime.

    For example, when waiting in line, a man was convinced that everyone was looking at ...

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  • Aerophobia - Cure Fear Of Flying With Hypnosis
    By: Alan Densky | - If you have ever been afraid of flying on an airplane, you are not alone. The fear of flying, known as Aerophobia, is one of the most common phobias that people can experience. This fear can be a debilitating, overwhelming feeling. It may even prevent you from getting around; traveling the world, or visiting the ones you love. Overcoming such a phobia used to take years of therapy, but now there are hypnotherapy and NLP techniques to treat phobias for faster, life-changing results.


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  • Anxiety Panic Attacks Caused By Malfunction In The Inner Ear - Motion And Visual Related Phobias!
    By: Bertil Hjert | - MOTION-RALATED PHOBIAS

    The inner-ear processes all motion-related information. If it is impaired, you may be hypersensitive to horizontal motion, vertical motion, clockwise motion, counterclockwise motion, or any combination of the above.

    Depending on what types of motion you are sensitive to, and your degree of sensitivity to each, the movement of a boat, plane, car, elevator, escalator, or even a rocking chair can provoke any or all of the following symptoms:

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  • Classification System Of Phobias - Insight Into The Phobic Puzzle And The Missing Link!
    By: Bertil Hjert | - To gain real insight into the phobic puzzle, we must first discard our traditional classification system, with its confusing Greek and Latin nomenclature. What we need is a simple, scientifically determined system one that classifies phobias according to their underlying mechanisms, not their obvious triggers.

    If we can do this, we will no longer have hundreds of labels that lead us to a never-ending series of dead ends. Instead, we will have a system that classifies all phobias a ...

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  • 7 Major Types Of Anxiety Disorders And The Available Treatments!
    By: Bertil Hjert | - The last two decades of the twentieth century saw an explosion of knowledge about different types of problems with anxiety and how to treat them. Seven major types of anxiety disorders were described:

    A. Panic Disorder: Sudden episodes of acute, intense anxiety that appear to come out of the blue.

    B. Agoraphobia: A fear of panic attacks in situations that are perceived to be far from safety or a safe place such as home, or from which escape might be difficult, such ...

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  • Specific Phobias The Mystery And Confusion Of The Phobia Classification System!
    By: Bertil Hjert | - Claustrophobia. Agoraphobia. Triskaidekaphobia. All of these names have one thing in common: they add mystery and confusion to what is already one of the most poorly understood aspects of human behavior.

    Phobias have always been classified according to their obvious triggers; the objects or situations that provoke the fear. These triggers are customarily dressed in exotic Greek and Latin labels, giving each phobia a more scientific air.

    Unfortunately, the traditiona ...

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  • Social Phobia - How To Effectively Use Exposure Therapy To Combat Your Phobias!
    By: Bertil Hjert | - Exposure therapy is a great method for phobia sufferers to deal with the anxiety related to their fear. For people experiencing this type of problem, their worries can lead to panic attacks, avoidance and other problems. Eliminating the feelings related to their phobia is a great way to deal with the dread and this can be accomplished through desensitization or exposure therapy.

    This type of treatment, simply involves exposing yourself in gradual steps to that which you fear. It ...

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  • Treatments For The Fear Of Vomiting - Help For Emetophobia
    By: Michelle Banner | - It is a little known fact that there are very successful treatments for fear of vomiting, and many sufferers are simply not aware of this and go through many years of torment.

    The fear of vomiting receives very little attention when compared to other phobic conditions, and this is despite it being the fifth most common phobia. The condition can dominate a sufferer's life and prevent them from carrying out many everyday activities. Some women will even avoid getting pregnant, despi ...

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  • How Can Airline Passengers Lessen Or Even Eliminate The Fear Of Flying When They Travel On Vacation?
    By: DorothyYamich | - The fear of flying is called Aviophobia, and millions of air travelers and potential flyers worldwide suffer from it, to a greater or lesser extent. Even though air travel is about thirty times safer than traveling by car, you rarely hear about people that have a fear of driving. Maybe the television, radio, internet and print media contributes to this fear when they graphically cover commercial airline crashes and the subsequent large numbers of air passengers that are injured or perish. < ...
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  • How To Overcome The Fear Of Flying
    By: Lavana James | - The fear of flying is a highly complex issue and affects significant numbers of people but there are ways and means of dealing with the inordinate and unrealistic fear of flying.

    It is either the onset of a dedicated phobia, also known as aerophobia or aviatophobia, or it is a combination of one or more specific phobias that manifest in the air. If you consider the constraints to an individual's freedom whilst flying, then it is easy to understand how these pathological anxie ...

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  • Easily Triumph Over An Unfounded Fear Of Spiders - Arachnophobia
    By: Alan B. Densky, CH | - It's typical for all people to have some fears, but suffering from a phobia is a more significant problem. A phobia is an irrational fear that is seemingly beyond one's control. Phobias are defined as a kind of anxiety disorder, and often trigger nervousness and panic attacks in a person. When a person has a serious phobia, they grow so desperate to stay away from their fear that it interferes with their daily activities and their ability to function in life.

    Some of the most com ...

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  • Do You Suffer From Phobia?
    By: Ponnac Unanka | - A lot of individual, suffer from one kind of phobia or the other. Just as the saying that one mans poison is another mans meat, what may be phobia for me may not be for you. Is it only kids that have phobias? No. Adults equally suffer from phobia. But childhood phobias occur most commonly between the ages of 5 and 9, and tend to be short term as the child ascends.

    By definition, phobia is an intense, uncontrollable, irrational and persistent fear of something that poses little or ...

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  • Don't Put 13 Entries On Your List Of Phobias
    By: Adam Hefner | - The list of phobias suffered by humans is as varied as we are as people. Many, like fear of snakes (ophidiophobia) are well grounded and serve us good purpose. Others like chorophobia (fear of dancing) serve less purpose, that is unless the fear serves to prevent you from embarrassing yourself.

    It has been written that phobias have existed since the dawn of man. The more esoteric of them, such as consecotaleophobia (fear of chopsticks) are more current. Although many snicker, ...

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  • A Reasonable Fear Of Flying
    By: Arin Trinity | - The world spans thousands of miles. Big, indeed, with roads to traverse, oceans to cross, and airspace to cruise. People go places all the time, and depending on who you are, these places vary in distance. Walking can get the job done, but cars are even better; but sometimes cars don't quite cut it. Boats help, but only over water. Usually the answer to any form of long distance travel is to fly. Problem is, airplanes offer less control to the traveller when compared to a car, and mechanically t ...
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  • Fear Of Flying (aviophobia)
    By: Blueboy | - Social Phobia is an irrational anxiety brought forth by exposure to certain social situations, leading to avoidance behaviour.

    Specific Phobia is a persistent and irrational fear in response to some specific stimulus, which commonly results in avoidance of/withdrawal from that stimulus. It could be triggered by an insect or animal (zoophobia), by a situation like being trapped in an enclosed space (claustrophobia) or it could be a fear of disease (pathophobia).

    The ...

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  • My Phobia For Travelling By Air
    By: Blueboy | - Personally, I like to be in control of whatever I do. I stay away from any danger and have never been one for things like roller-coasters. I do not need that particular thrill to rock my boat. Some people call me a wimp, which is probably correct. The thought of travelling by air therefore did not exactly excite me, I have to admit it scared the living daylights out of me. When I drive a car I have an element of control, if the aircraft crashes for whatever reason, my life could be over. I am no ...
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  • How To Cure Any Phobia Without Prescription Drugs Or Therapy
    By: Al Gammate | - A phobia is an intense fear that causes you to avoid the feared thing or endure it with unbearable mental pain. Additionally, a phobia is an irrational fear, in that most people either don't fear the same thing that you do or fear it to a much lesser degree. Some examples of common phobias are the fear of public speaking, dating the opposite sex, heights, spiders, closed spaces, crossing bridges or tunnels, going to the dentist, swimming in the ocean, flying in planes, and being in a crowd of pe ...
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  • Freedom From Fear
    By: Steve Tallamy | - Fear, Phobia, Dread, Panic, call it what you will, everyone of us has known what it is like to have been afraid of a situation we have found ourselves having to confront at one time or another.

    It may be a fear of flying, heights, public speaking or a myriad of other things that can ruin our lives, and that of our family and friends as well.

    But what is it that makes us have these feelings? Why are we scared of some scenarios but not others? Why is not everyone af ...

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  • Phobias - What They Are And How To Eliminate Them Using Nlp
    By: Alan B. Densky, CH | - DEFINITION AND SYMPTOMS OF PHOBIAS:
    A phobia can be defined as an unfounded fear or dread. When a person has a panic attack, they get terrified feelings; their respiration and heart rates increase; they may feel choked up like their heart is in their throat; the palms of their hands often get sweaty; they may hear a sound of ringing in their ears; and they quite often find that they are unable to participate in an activity. These feelings push the individual to avoid the situations and pl ...

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  • Is Hypnotherapy The Answer To Phobias
    By: Steve Burns | - Phobias are intense and irrational fears that create strong fear and panic in a person. They interfere with a person's ability to socialize, work and in severe cases, live normally.

    Most people experience anxiety or fear about certain events in their lives. For example, it is stressful for the majority of people to attend a job interview or to be assessed for performance at work. Phobias, however, are irrational fears that can prevent people from living normal lives.


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  • Phobias Their Causes And How You Can Overcome Them With Hypnotherapy
    By: Alan B. Densky | - DEFINITION AND SYMPTOMS OF PHOBIAS:
    A phobia can be defined as an illogical fear or dread. When a person experiences a panic attack, they get panicky feelings; their breathing and heart rates increase; they may experience feeling choked up like their heart is in their throat; their palms often get sweaty; they may experience a ringing in their ears; and they often find that they are unable to take part in an activity. These feelings motivate the individual to try to avoid the situations a ...

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  • Have A Phobia? Hypnosis & Nlp To The Rescue
    By: Alan B. Densky, CH | - DEFINITION AND SYMPTOMS OF PHOBIAS:
    A phobia can be defined as an unfounded fear or dread. When a person experiences a panic attack, they get frightened feelings; their breathing and heart rates increase; they may experience feeling choked up like their heart is in their throat; their palms may get sweaty; they may experience the sound of ringing in their ears; and they may find that they are unable to take part in an activity. These feelings push the individual to avoid the situations an ...

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  • Using Hypnosis To Cure Phobias
    By: Carl Walker | - The big question is "Can hypnosis cure phobias?".

    When the hypnotist you are asking answers with a resounding "yes", the next thought is usually along the lines of "yeah, right".

    But you'd be amazed at the high success rate that hypnosis has with phobias.

    Top athletes regularly use hypnosis in all areas of their career. One of these areas that they may not be quite as public about is a fear of flying. After all, how can something as common place as fl ...

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  • Get Around Easier, Overcome Your Fear Of Flying
    By: Mark Goodworthy | - Imagine this weird situation: you're cruising in a top of the line jumbo jet then all of a sudden, you freak out and scare the heck out of the people in the jet. You're going crazy and you're sweating like a pig because you want to go off the plane, not later but now. But the problem here is that you're a thousand feet above ground and you can't do anything about it. This is one peculiarly detailed example of an irrational fear of flying.

    There are a lot of things that affect our ...

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  • Leave Your Fear Of Flying Behind And Go On Holiday
    By: Richard MacKenzie | - The fear of flying is a phobia that can have a significant impact on a person's life. Fear of flying can cause a person to have great apprehension in regards to boarding an airplane. Even though that person might know that the airplane is one of the safest modes of travel known to man, they still can't get past preconceived notions about flying. Flying is a strange idea for people. Men weren't meant to leave the ground, so it is natural to have some fear of flying. When that fear causes you to c ...
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  • Hypnosis And Fear Of Flying
    By: Richard MacKenzie | - Sometimes people suffer from a level of anxiety so high when up in the air, that they simply cannot function. When anxiety over flying gets to that point, it becomes fear of flying. Especially for people in business, commercial air flight has become a part of the landscape. Business men and women are being asked to travel all over the shrinking world to close jobs and work on business deals. If you cannot fly because of a high level of anxiety, then you are at a marked disadvantage in this busin ...
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  • Cure Your Fear Of Flying With Hypnosis
    By: Richard MacKenzie | - Fear of flying is a phobia that keeps people from getting onto airplanes and heading where they need to be. It is something that can afflict a person for many years and usually there is no rhyme or reason to why it impacts a certain person. It is simply a mental block that keeps people from rationally thinking about flying in an airplane. This can be a particularly devastating problem for people who are in business, as flying across the world has become a very important part of the business lan ...
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  • Fear Of Flying? Then Tame The Gremlin
    By: Paul Tizzard | - Gremlin Management.

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    In the area that we work in, Gremlin Management is a great technique that you can use with helping yourself to overcome a fear or limitation you are imposing upon yourself. Also, once you have learned it, you can use it with other individuals one on one or with groups on mass.

    This ca ...

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  • When We Crash, Do My Clothes Fall Off?
    By: Paul Tizzard | - This newsletter I thought we might look at some of the questions our fear of flying customers ask. Also, we would like to demonstrate how skilled our customers are at imagining disastor!

    As always, none of our newsletters are poking fun at you. One of the founders of this programme used to have a fear of flying so we know what we are talking about...

    One particular skill we have noticed that people with a fear of flying are able to do is to imagine their death in ...

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  • Fear Of Flying Questions
    By: Paul Tizzard | - Practical Tips For Fear Of Flying

    Anyone with a fear of flying will dread going to airports. There are some practical things that you can do to help prepare yourself for this.

    These are just a few tips to get you going. At the end of the article are some other ideas to help your fear of flying.

    1. Get everything ready well before hand. Do not leave anything to the last minute. Check passport dates are in date. Let your airline Special Assistance ...

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  • How To Overcome Fear Of Flying - Pre Flight Tips
    By: Paul Tizzard | - People with a fear of flying often fear the build up to taking a flight. Once off the flight, fearful flyers then dread the flight home for the fourteen days that they are away!

    The main piece of advice we would give people with a fear of flying is preparation.

    Maybe this sounds obvious?

    The goal of travelling for anyone is to be as prepared as you can be. There was a saying in the military when I served which was that you are only as uncomfortable ...

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  • Conquer That Flying Fear
    By: MITCHELL HAMPSON | - Do you have a fear of flying, I know I do, I believe the correct term for it is aviaphobia, but it's something I guess we just have to deal with as I travel a lot and live on an island, the UK that is, I cannot go anywhere if I don't decide to fly. The way to go is to try and develop some form of coping mechanism once in place it does make it a lot easier to fly. I must admit I cannot understand how those large passenger planes can fly anyway, let's face it they are massive and almost defy natur ...
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  • Conquering One's Fears
    By: Joan Winthorp | - Fear is a barrier towards living one's life to the fullest. All people fear something. Some people fear death, getting married, closed areas, being alone, spiders, cats, dogs, etc. It is normal to fear; however, there are certain phobias or fears which could really be hindrances in living one's life normally, and these should be treated.

    Fear of tigers, for example, is a fear that is not necessarily going to affect one's daily life, not unless he lives in the jungle where tigers a ...

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  • Erase The Phobias In Your Life Through Hypnotherapy
    By: Terry Doherty | - Do you fear darkness to such an extent that even a 20 second experience in the dark can leave you breathless and terrorized? Have you not stepped out into a street for the last 2 years because you were too scared of the crowds? Does the sight of a spider make you scream in horror? If any of these examples relate to you, then you might be suffering from a phobia even without knowing it.

    There are all kinds of phobias in the world. Phobia of injections, phobia of flying; phobia of p ...

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