Fear of vomiting

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Permalink Reply by Alicia Gremely on February 12, 2010 at 3:39pm

Can someone help me please?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on February 12, 2010 at 5:31pm

It's okay -- Alicia,

I've got your back... We can handle this... A nice blend of direct and indirect suggestions and a nice hypnotic ritual should do the trick --

A) A good follow up intake/pre-talk will easily help you set the stage for giving your client a reason to believe that you can help him over-come his fear quickly. You are being mentored by some of the best minds in "hypnosis" and they recommended a "neurolingustic hypnotic techniqe" that can quickly use your postive memories and imaginings to neutralize the emotional charge that feeds your fear of vomiting -- You want the client to enter their hypnotic ritual believing: "This is going to work!"

B) Use an induction of choice and guide the client into a peaceful, easy state with the suggestion that you are going to guide them through a hypnotic process that they will experience in the privacy of his mind and by the end of the process he will be delighted to discover that the hypnotic imagery reduced or elminated his fear...

C) I am sending you to a video of one of my techniques - You can easily modify it for this client and use it as your hypnotic ritutal or you can use a wide range of techniques -- The suggestion is if you go through (what ever process you decide on) - You will reduce or eliminate your fear...

Have fun - Enjoy the session:

The Ellner/Barsky "Do-it-Yourself" Emotional Detox, Click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7xp-hacrwo

Best,
Michael E.

PS - FYI: I have helped many people who developed serious fears of vomiting and every one of them had a recent experience that they could relate to their current fear. Example, most of my clients developed their problem after a nasty course of chemotherapy, others had a very rough morning after a night of heavy drinking and drugging or had one heck of a bout with sea-sickness, etc. I have never met a client who would buy into the idea that they developed their fear due to a trauma during infancy-

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Permalink Reply by John Cleesattel on February 12, 2010 at 5:43pm

Hi Alicia,
It sounds like you have done regression with him. I don't know how you go about doing regression, but it sounds like you didn't get to the ISE with it.

Be that as it may; all fears are a learned response so you have several options available to you:

Most popular techniques are of course; regression, and the fast phobia cure.

While no one I know of really "likes" to vomit, and will usually only vomit if there is no other choice, it should not create a fear. It sounds like vomiting might be the trigger and not the fear itself.

I would suggest finding out what he is actually scared of with vomiting (i.e. drowning in his vomit, not being able to breathe, embarrassment, fear of the stomach acid doing something, etc.) and that should provide you with a path to follow.

After you determine the real fear, I would use the fast phobia cure on him. It should desensitize the fear response associated with the threat of vomiting.

I hope this helps you
John

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Permalink Reply by Ricky Strode on February 12, 2010 at 6:01pm

Look up nested loop pattern or something of that sort. I don't think regression is usualy ever the problem, because we are trying to fix now not the past, but change history is useful is situations where the past and thinking about it causes unwanted feeling, but other than that it's almost usless to do regression as far as I can tell atleast. There are methods to doing that and that do work, but also it takes more work that way than the latter. The best way to plant suggestions is through stories, because it is really hard to reject suggestions. Then follow up by compounding the sugestions using metaphors and direct sugesstion in between. I have found that when used in that fashion it works even in light trances.

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Permalink Reply by Alicia Gremely on February 16, 2010 at 5:47pm

Thank you all soo much. I hope to see him soon. I have a plan worked out from what you have taught me.

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Permalink Reply by Melanie Parker on February 17, 2010 at 9:54am

Hi Alicia,

So are you saying that you found out his fear of vomiting traced back to the trauma during infancy, or did you just start working on a trauma during infancy? What I would do is regress to where the fear of vomiting began. So in hypnosis, say something like, "Now I'm going to count from 10 to 1, and as I do you are going to go back in time to the event that caused your fear of vomiting." Then explore that situation and help him see it from a new perspective and heal. There are a million different ways you could do this. If you did do that and what came up was the event during infancy, he may have another event even further back, maybe even in another life, that is the root cause. Or maybe there's more to clear up in the infancy event. What is he afraid of? If he vomits, what does he fear will happen? Maybe this will lead to a deeper fear or at least give you clues to the reason he has this issue.

Whatever you come up with, I think it would be a good idea at the end to add affirmations like, "Your body uses vomiting as a protective tool, as a natural process toward healing. You recognize and trust your body's natural processes." - etc. using statements he's used but reframing them to the positive.

I think how you're approaching it - looking for the root cause - sounds good. I'm not a fan of just doing straight hypnotic suggestions for most issues. I think there's a lot to be gained for the client to get to the root of an issue and learn to heal themselves, rather than just giving them suggestions.

That's my opinion!

Melanie
ParkerHypnosis.com
MyMagicalJourney.com

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Permalink Reply by Melanie Parker on February 17, 2010 at 9:58am

ricky strode said:

Look up nested loop pattern or something of that sort. I don't think regression is usualy ever the problem, because we are trying to fix now not the past, but change history is useful is situations where the past and thinking about it causes unwanted feeling, but other than that it's almost usless to do regression as far as I can tell atleast. There are methods to doing that and that do work, but also it takes more work that way than the latter. The best way to plant suggestions is through stories, because it is really hard to reject suggestions. Then follow up by compounding the sugestions using metaphors and direct sugesstion in between. I have found that when used in that fashion it works even in light trances.

The reason regression works is because time doesn't exist to the subconscious mind. There is no past, present, future. So if you have a client experiencing a fear, for example, that was because of an event in his/her childhood, you can go back to that event and reframe it/heal it. To the subconscious mind, that event is happening now. So when you heal it, you're not healing the past, you're healing now. That's why regression therapy, when done well, is extremely powerful.

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Permalink Reply by Ricky Strode on February 17, 2010 at 11:09am

I never said it didn't work I just said that it isn't usually necessary and you can get the same results or better without regression.

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Permalink Reply by stephen mckibben on February 17, 2010 at 1:42pm

Alicia it is emotophobia and i have found using the imagery of watching the incident on tv and floating out of yourself watching yourself while watching the tv with the incident happening, realising you can disassociate yourself from the phobic reaction, repeat thid 3 or 4 times get them to rewind fast forward the incident on the tv add frunny music and basically do a version of nlp rapid phobia cure finish by reinforcing there ability to take control of the situation.

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