| Necrophobia, a recurring and obsessive fear of | | | | and arriving at the other side, the patient is able |
| death, is one of the most common of all fears or | | | | to face the fear, discover it is not as powerful as |
| phobias. Living with this type of phobia can cripple | | | | it seemed, and realize it can be subdued and |
| relationships, destroy careers, and turn every | | | | eventually eliminated altogether. |
| moment of living into nothing short of torture. | | | | By placing the patient into a state of hypnosis, |
| Fortunately, there are a number of ways to deal | | | | the hypnotherapist is able to work with the |
| with the obsessive fear of death, including the use | | | | subconscious mind and initiate a new thought |
| of hypnosis under the care of a properly trained | | | | process. NLP, or, Neuro-Linguistic Programming can |
| hypnotherapist. | | | | be used to eliminate fears and phobias. The |
| Hypnosis is used to minimize the terror associated | | | | hypnotherapist can work with the sub-conscious |
| with many different types of fears and phobias. | | | | to recognize the warning signs that the phobia is |
| One of the general techniques involve guiding the | | | | about to kick in, and move to effectively quell the |
| patient into a state of hypnosis where it is | | | | fear before it has a chance to cause distress to |
| possible to visualize situations that tend to set off | | | | the conscious mind. This means that the patient |
| the almost unbearable fear and bringing up the | | | | does not feel the sudden urge to flee known as |
| emotions surrounding that fear. With the help of | | | | the fight or flight syndrome, or feel that death is |
| the hypnotherapist, the client can begin the | | | | imminent and there is nothing that can be done. |
| process of defusing the emotions of that fear, | | | | As with any fear or phobia treatments, some |
| effectively taking away the power of the | | | | people will respond to hypnosis faster than others. |
| situation to create such exaggerated states of | | | | Most hypnotherapists feel that more than one |
| distress. While it is not unusual for the fear to | | | | session is necessary to remove a deeply rooted |
| gradually dissipate over the course of several | | | | fear. However, most people notice a significant |
| sessions, many people report that they are able | | | | difference in the anxiety and fear that is triggered |
| to face similar situations in real life instances, and | | | | by the phobia within one session. With additional |
| experience no discomfort at all. | | | | sessions, especially when accompanied with NLP |
| During this process of visualization and defusing, | | | | or EFT, hypnosis can be used to free the |
| the hypnotherapist serves as the voice of calm | | | | individual from fears such as the fear of death |
| and reason. Slowly, the patient is led through the | | | | and make it possible to begin enjoying life to the |
| traumatic event, much as if walking through a fog | | | | fullest once again. |
| on a stretch of road. By walking through the fog | | | | |