Stop fear of spiders with hypnotherapy
Are you terrified of spiders?
Do you run away screaming or freeze on the spot?
Does just a thought of seeing a spider cause your hands to get sweaty and your heart pounding? Rest assured you are not alone, many people are afraid of spiders.
A client recently recalled pottering around in the garden and when she spotted a large spider she freaked out. She said she was so terrified, she ran for her life. Screaming for her husband to come and rescue her.
It was a Huntsman spider. They are very large, menacing looking, but are harmless. Her fear of spiders is overwhelming. She doesn’t care if she is told a spider is harmless.
To her every spider is potential danger and causes panic and anxiety..
Her very vivid imagination creates horrible scenarios in her mind. She imagines a spider creeping out from a dark spot and landing in her hair. She recalls that as a child she got entangled in a large spider web and was petrified the spider would get her. The memory of the spider web entangled through her hair, how it was sticking to her fingers, still haunts her.
What causes fear of spiders?
Fear of spiders, in most instances, starts in childhood. It may be the result of a frightening or traumatic experience as a youngster. However, it could come from exposure and overreaction from observing family phobia or behaviour around spiders. Regardless of the original cause, the fear is imprinted as “fight or flight” reaction in the sympathetic nervous system. It is initially intended to be a protective mechanism, to keep you safe, and is hard wired into the subconscious mind.
What is Arachnophobia?
When the fear of spiders goes beyond a healthy reaction, it becomes a phobia. This phobia is the result of an intense fear of spiders and is frequently known as arachnophobia.
Arachnophobia is described as an anxiety disorder that is crippling and traumatic. It is found to be much more traumatic than just an irrational fear of spiders. It is said to be the most common phobia in the general population, in most parts of the world.
Prevention and treatments to deal with fear of spiders
There are a variety of helpful suggestions offered by experts on the topic surrounding treatment and prevention of overwhelming panic of spiders and especially arachnophobia.
Some sources suggest early childhood education at home or at school could help reduce and even prevent arachnophobia and general anxiety around spiders. Teaching children safe way to deal with spiders can prevent phobias from developing in many instances.
Other helpful suggestion is to regularly have the house and garden sprayed for pests and spiders.
Fears and phobias can be successfully treated with various therapies. The most effective approaches to overcome anxiety and phobia of spiders is hypnotherapy, counselling, exposure therapy and CBT.
The intention is to replace fearful and traumatic thoughts with more calm, rational thoughts, behaviours and responses.
How hypnotherapy helps you to overcome your fear of spiders?
Freeing yourself from arachnophobia or overwhelming fear of spiders is possible. Many people have liberated themselves from anxiety and fear of spiders with the help of several sessions of hypnotherapy.
A trained hypnotherapist can safely guide you into a calm, relaxed state, where your subconscious mind and your nervous system can reframe the traumatic original cause of your fear. In hypnosis your mind is more open to positive suggestions to readily reduce and overcome the excessive fear of spiders. You can access resources and find ways to keep you safe, protected and calm.
With hypnotherapy many people have liberated themselves from fear of spiders in a safe way.