NLP Fast Phobia Cure

Fast Phobia Cure Technique NLP

Overcoming Fears - phobia cure with hypnosis

The NLP Fast Phobia Cure technique aims to stop all types of phobia. The Fast Phobia Cure is effective for most common phobias such as fear of public speaking, fear of birds, fear of driving, social anxiety, fear of spiders and so on. It is fast, simple and highly effective. There are many variants of the basic fast phobia technique, the method given here is the classic 'Magic Cinema' phobia cure.

The fast phobia cure overcomes irrational fears and phobias by using a version of the graduated exposure psychology technique. The standard phobia cure works by exposing the phobic person to a little bit of the fear, then a bit more, and a bit more and so on. The fast phobia cure technique adds image alteration and changes to the NLP submodalities such as sounds and colours.

The fast phobia cure is particularly effective with phobias that are triggered by a specific thing, such as a fear of needles or fear of dentist visits. The fast phobia cure also works for getting rid of bad memories or painful experiences from the past. The fast phobia cure is not effective for generalised anxiety or social phobias.

NLP Fast Phobia Cure Technique

Fast phobia therapy instructions to the client

Imagine you are in a cinema. You are the only one in the cinema.

In front of you is a blank screen.

Above and behind you there is a projection room. The projection room is where someone changes the movie and projects the image onto the screen.

You have got a controller which determines which movie is played from the projection box, at what speed, and you can freeze it, fast forward or reverse it. The contoller also controls the sound and the colour. With the controller you can control the size of the projected image, whether it is a small image or a large image. You are totally in control of what happens on the screen. You can stop it at any moment.

In this cinema you are safe. You can safely view any experience, any part of your life. Nothing can happen to you while you are sitting in this cinema.

Now, imagine yourself in a small old fashioned cinema. You are the only person there. You're sitting in a seat near the middle. On the screen is a big smiley face.

Next, imagine floating out of your body, and up into the projection room behind you. From there in the projection room, you can see the screen, and you can see yourself sitting down there in the seat in the middle of the cinema.

Now, look at the screen from the projection room. Imagine the you sitting in the seat below using the controller to choose an movie to put on the screen. The first image is a picture of the moment just before you get the phobia, or the trigger for the phobia, or the thing that causes the bad feeling you want to get rid of.

Press Play on the controller. That snapshot on the screen turns into a movie that begins to play slowly. Watch it play from the beginning, up to just beyond the end of that unpleasant experience.

If you feel frightened or distressed you can stop the movie instantly. Then go back to the beginning and try to play it a bit longer next time. Keep doing that until you can watch the whole movie all the way through.

When you get to the end, I want you to stop the movie, and then run the movie backwards. You will see everything happening in reverse - people will walk backwards, things will move backwards - run the movie back to the start.

Then run the movie forward, but do it really fast, taking only one or two seconds to do it. Then run it backwards. Then run it forward again, but this time as it gets towards the end, the whole screen shrinks in size until is as if you are watching a cartoon the size of a postage stamp.

Then run the movie slowly forwards again but this time add funny voices to the people, add circus music to the soundtrack, see clowns leaping around in the scenes, see the thing you are worried about becoming tiny or getting stamped on, or getting washed away down a drain. Then run the movie backwards and forwards as fast as you can.

Go back and think about what is was that was giving you the problem. You will find that your reaction to it is now different.

If you need to you can run the movie again and again, each time changing something about it until you feel comfortable.

Problems with the Fast Phobia Technique

Not everyone responds well to this technique for phobia removal. The Fast Phobia Cure needs the person to be highly visual. People who have trouble visualizing need to do visualization exercises first, or need a different phobia technique.

The phobia cure is often treated as a hypnosis technique for phobias but in fact it does not depend on hypnosis.