Use Hypnotherapy to Release the Hold of a Social Phobia

Social phobia is one of the most common anxiety disorders in which a person is scared of being in a social situation. An individual with social phobia experiences devastating anxiety that impacts all aspects of their life.  

People with social phobia are extremely self-conscious and concerned about what others may say or think about them. They are usually afraid of speaking up, out of fear that they will be judged or criticized. People with social anxiety tend to look down on themselves or suffer from low self-esteem. They are worried about being seen by others and find socializing to be very terrifying.

A person with social anxieties may seem “shy,” but in the case of a phobia, this is taken to extremes. For example, if you suffer from social phobia, you may be reluctant to make a crucial call because you’re nervous about talking on the telephone. You dial the number, but you’re so anxious that you “lock up” or forget why you called. Although it happens to everyone once in awhile, for someone with social phobia it may happen every single time, until they find it difficult to make any calls.

Perhaps it is the evening before an important meeting at work and you find yourself worried sick. You dread the thought of being in front of your boss and all your colleagues watching as you present a project or new idea. You can’t stop yourself from feeling extremely embarrassed and self-conscious. Even after the meeting ends, you can’t stop overanalyzing everything you said and did. You are afraid that you embarrassed yourself in front of your colleagues by stuttering or saying the wrong thing.

Or maybe you want to go to parties and make new friends, but you avoid socializing because you’re nervous about meeting someone new. You find crowded parties intimidating and the thought of meeting someone new frightens you. You worry about what you will say, or that you will get laughed at. You might stay at home a lot because you’re too worried about going out. These are only some of the ways social phobias can influence us.

Social phobias are overblown fears that can prevent you from achieving your career goals or fully enjoying life. But even people who realize their fears are irrational may not know how to rid themselves of their fears. People with social phobia would like to be more social and feel confident around others, but are too scared to do so. Despite their conscious desires and efforts, they cannot completely control their fears because all phobias are seated in the unconscious mind. Ericksonian hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques are the most successful phobia treatments because they work at this unconscious level.

It is often difficult for those afflicted with social anxiety to get cured because they are reluctant to visit a counselor or discuss their fear. This is why hypnosis therapy programs work well for them. The programs foster a tranquil and confidence-boosting mind frame in a privacy, without being overwhelming or intimidating.

The first part of a proper phobia program is stress relief. Hypnosis therapy is a powerful tool for eliminating your stress and anxiety. Once you are de-stressed, hypnosis techniques will form positive thoughts in your unconscious and end your fears. NLP techniques will relieve your fears by specifically targeting the thought process that causes a phobia.

In conventional hypnotherapy, specifically worded post-hypnotic suggestions are used to treat one unique phobia. Unfortunately, people have a tendency to ignore being directly told what to think or do, so conventional hypnotherapy doesn’t work very well. A deeply rooted phobia calls for a combination of NLP and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy.

Ericksonian hypnosis therapy techniques work better than conventional hypnotherapy because they use suggestions that aren’t apparent to your conscious mind, instead of direct suggestions. These suggestions are placed in discussion, in different stories and metaphors, to convince your unconscious to adopt a different line of thinking. For this reason, Ericksonian hypnosis therapy is far more sophisticated than conventional hypnotic therapy and much harder for the unconscious to reject.

A program that utilizes Ericksonian hypnosis therapy and NLP techniques can treat any phobia, in any individual. This is because multiple techniques are used together to maximize their effectiveness. People are often in awe of the seemingly miraculous changes they get through hypnotherapy. Ericksonian hypnotherapy and NLP are ideal tools to help you build confidence and overcome social anxiety so you can fully enjoy your life.

About the Author

Alan B. Densky, CH has invented many hypnosis techniques for overcoming shyness and social phobia. He also offers hypnosis CD’s for any phobia. His site offers a complete list of hypnosis CD’s. Visit for Free hypnotherapy videos, downloads, and newsletters.

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