Script for fear of bridges?

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Permalink Reply by Linda Roan on July 27, 2010 at 4:32pm

Hi Bill:

Ive had a few clients for fearing of driving in certain areas and I find you have to do an imaginery drive with them to get other things that may be associated with the fear, like wide roads, busy roads. I have regressed to source of fear but if it is "White Line Fever" (they fell asleep for a second and their mind/body remembers that) one session is not enough.

Well thats my experience. Perhaps other hypnotists have other experiences?

Linda Roan

Permalink Reply by Bryan Jones on October 6, 2010 at 7:49am

Hi Bill,

I've got a husband and wife who are both scared of heights & especially edges, such bridges. I've done two sessions with them so far. The first I used the Control Room of the Mind metaphor, which I found published by Thames Medical Lectures. Obviously I had to modify it to suit the clients and specifically because it talks about a balcolny, which would have had an adverse reaction. The second time I used the Magic Cinema version of the Fast Phobia Cure, but I used it in a moderate trance rather than straight NLP style, and "took them" for a drive along the Ocean Road and over a bridge.

It seems to have worked so far. It's certainly dropped the intensity of the experience significantly. They're going cliff walking this week, so I await an update.

HTH

BJ

Permalink Reply by Jana Shannon on October 13, 2010 at 6:39am

I have used desensitization scripts - bringing the fear/anxiety to it's maximum and then passing it

Permalink Reply by chris on October 24, 2010 at 10:53pm

Hi Bill

This is much commoner than you'd think. Generally i've used the fast phobia cure, although that does sometimes leaves a little residue, in which case i get them to amplify that feeling and tehn regress back of it to an earlier time they felt that way. Sometimes you need to check if the feeling is new or old till you get to the cause. From there get the adult them to tell the younger one what they need to hear to get them through it. One point, do check with teh younger one that they belive what the adult told them.

Additionally find a confident feeling and amplify and then anchor it. Use visualisation and future pacing to get them through recent events and future events, firing the anchor if need be, but ideally visualising these events with the new feelings of confidence etc, noticing how these new feelings change the event etc

Follow up with ego strengthening from Handbook of hypnotic suggestion.

Hope this helps

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