I am continuing to suspend in-person hypnotherapy sessions with me in my office. However, phone, and Zoom consultations ARE and WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE!
“Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.” – Naguib Mahfouz
Many
of us fear the Great Unknown: a new experience, a new environment, a new member
of our social circle. Will this unknown entity hurt or kill us? Or will
exposure to this X-factor make us more confident, stronger or self-resilient? No
matter what frightens us, the emotion of fear is actually a great physical,
emotional and psychological defense, because it is already known to the subconscious mind. We may not be afraid of the same
things, but the experience of fear—especially, fear for personal survival—is a
great equalizer in every species on the planet.
I
have certainly felt trepidation and even fear in various situations. I will not
deny that when I first arrived in London to do my junior-year abroad, and then
moved back to England in 1990 to do my post-graduate degree, I certainly felt
some fear. I was on my own in a foreign country, thousands of miles away from
my family, friends and familiar surroundings. But I wanted these experiences
badly enough that I over-rode my fears of the unknown and struck out on my own
in a foreign land. England became my “spiritual home,” and I made some very
dear friends. I learned how to take care of myself, to think for myself and to
be able to pick myself up after a disappointment and carry on, stronger than
ever.
As my father
likes to say, “Everything you do becomes a part of you.” Once I started my
hypnotherapy training at the Hypnosis
Motivation Institute in 2004, the basis of the subconscious mind’s strategies
to guide our behavior to essentially protect us and ensure our survival became
very clear to me. According to HMI founder John
Kappas, Ph.D.’s Theory
of Mind, everything that is unknown to the subconscious mind is
immediately, inherently something to be feared. The conscious mind—replete with
our reasoning, decision-making, logic and will-power faculties—cannot easily
over-ride this instinct until the subconscious mind accepts the stimulus as a known.
In addition to
hypnosis, repeated exposure to an unknown or threatening stimulus can
desensitize us to its negative (unfamiliar) aspects so that it eventually
becomes a known in the SCM. Once you
have had previous exposure to the original event, person or object, this
experience can help you to create and activate a strategy that will enable you
to meet and hopefully resolve a challenge or neutralize a perceived threat.
That is why I
decided to clip the muzzles and bridle paths of each of my former trainer’s
four stallions.
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Sara R. Fogan, C.Ht. is a
certified hypnotherapist based in Southern California. She graduated with
honors from the Hypnosis Motivation
Institute in 2005. Sara has been voted the Best
Hypnotherapist in Santa Clarita, California, four years in a row (2019-2022).
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