Fast-Phobia Cure- Need Positive Anchor

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Baboch on March 4, 2011 at 9:53am

sounds like a good idea to me. i'm thinking about making him put everything after the start of the phobia aside for the session, and link the good feelings to a certain trigger that you can use during the session like clapping your fingers. then make him come back to his current situation, and make his mind do anything to make him able to feel those good feelings again without the bad ones (use whatever way you find useful). after he thinks he is done, re-trigger the feelings, if it goes all right, anchor them to the horse, and run through the scenario in his mind with everything going all right.

 

I just came up with this technique on the fly, so if you have any ideas about how to make it better better please share them here.

 

Chris

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Permalink Reply by Michael Jackson Burney on March 4, 2011 at 10:00am

Thanks for the good thoughts Chris!  Michael

Christopher Baboch said:

sounds like a good idea to me. i'm thinking about making him put everything after the start of the phobia aside for the session, and link the good feelings to a certain trigger that you can use during the session like clapping your fingers. then make him come back to his current situation, and make his mind do anything to make him able to feel those good feelings again without the bad ones (use whatever way you find useful). after he thinks he is done, re-trigger the feelings, if it goes all right, anchor them to the horse, and run through the scenario in his mind with everything going all right.

 

I just came up with this technique on the fly, so if you have any ideas about how to make it better better please share them here.

 

Chris

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Permalink Reply by Bridget McKenna on March 4, 2011 at 10:50am

I'd be a bit vague about the exact details, but use "a time before that problem, when everything's all right" (which contains a bit of time confusion and dissociation for good measure) and let your client's unconscious choose the exact best moment. Ditto with the ending "OK" scene. Your mileage may vary, but that has worked well for me.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Jackson Burney on March 4, 2011 at 11:07am

Thanks Bridget!

Bridget McKenna said:

I'd be a bit vague about the exact details, but use "a time before that problem, when everything's all right" (which contains a bit of time confusion and dissociation for good measure) and let your client's unconscious choose the exact best moment. Ditto with the ending "OK" scene. Your mileage may vary, but that has worked well for me.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on March 4, 2011 at 12:07pm

Mike-

 

You can use any memory or imaginings to produce your CONFIDENCE-related anchor and include positive memories or projections about being self-assured and happy to be riding a horse..

 

Michael E.

Still no word on my requests for an email for Maurice -- You may just have to call him the old fashioned way...

 

 

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Permalink Reply by John Cleesattel on March 4, 2011 at 2:28pm

Michael,

If using the fast phobia cure, that anchor is not necessary. But installed separately it should be beneficial.

 

I personally would find out what the client's fear really is, and perhaps how she came by it. Depending on the answers, perhaps even recommend the blowout technique.

 

Remember; you have to deal with both fears. The fear while experiencing the event, and the fear of experiencing the fear.

 

I hope this helps you

John

 

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Permalink Reply by Ricky Strode on March 4, 2011 at 9:35pm

Its not just when they were on the horse, but future pacing as well. If you take 5 situations from the past and three that could possibly happen in the future, then it will generalize to the rest of those related experiences. I would start by creating a stacked anchor or a chain of anchors. I would not even associate the anchors to anything other than what I want to use to fire it off, then I would stack it against itself, which is nothing more than chaining a stacked anchor so that it amplifies itself at several different parts of a sequence. I think the fast phobia cure would be more work than anything, because they usually work by creating dissassociation and then some sort of reassociation. You could make a modified version of it that would easily work very well for things such as fear, anxiety and so on. For anxiety, I usually do disassociation, but not in the sense of the way the fast phobia cure does. I use responses that occur naturally to create this disassociation and then fire off what to feel instead and then have them run through enough scenarios to generalize the new beahivor in the future. There are many ways one could do something to help with something like this, but I think I would design it so that it creates the effect that they specifically want.

 

PS: Fears, anxiety and phobias all work a little differently. Phobias are almost instant, anxiety and fear build up to a point that is sort of like a phobia, but usually not as severe. That is the major reason I would not use the fast phobia cure. However, it does work well to redirect ones thoughts quickly, but in the same amount of time using it, you could do something that would be much more effective.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Jackson Burney on March 5, 2011 at 5:18am

Great points everyone.  First session with client went well last night.  Now, I will wait for feedback to see how best to assist her next.  Appreciate you all!  Michael

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