End fear of flying with hypnosis

Fear of flying

Many people use hypnosis to get rid of panic attacks caused by the fear of flying. The results are usually successful.

What type of fear of flying do you have?

The most common type is where the person has flown before, sometimes many times, and then with each succeeding flight they get more and more nervous until they are no longer able to fly at all, or have to go through agonies and panic attacks before each flight.

Another type of Fear of Flying applies to people who have never flown and are terrified at the very idea of it. These people often have a fear of heights, or some other phobia.

A third type of Fear of Flying is where the traveler is OK all the way up to the point where they shut the doors ready for takeoff and then they panic. This fear is actually claustrophobia, a fear of being trapped in a confined space, not the actual flying.

Fear of flying is an anxiety disorder caused by the person's mind going over and over all the ways things can go wrong. All types of are fixed by treating the underlying issues. It generally needs only one session to end the problem.

 

Ending Fear of Flying

Treatment consists of replacing the mental model of disaster with a mental model of enjoyment. Fear of flying is not actually a phobia. A phobia is an immediate fear reaction triggered by the presence of the cause of the phobia: very few people faint or have to run and hide when they see an aircraft.

Fear of flying is caused when the person goes over and over in their mind every possible way that the flight can go wrong and creates a mental model of disaster. It is the mental model that they are afraid of, not the flying.

 

Hypnosis for Fear of Flying

The immediate cause is visualization of something going disastrously and even fatally wrong. Our imaginations need to be kept under control sometimes, so the treatment uses the person's vivid imagination to create the solution. Instead of imagining disaster at every step, you is taught to imagine success and pleasure at every step.

Air travel consists of a predictable set of events which make up the flying experience. It starts with booking the ticket, then getting ready on the day, then going to the airport, then boarding, take off and finally landing. The nervous flier has created disaster scenarios for most of these stages, so the treatment consists of replacing the disaster movie with a comedy movie. Or at least with a movie that is bright, positive and rewarding.

This is done with Cognitive Modeling. you are taught how to manipulate your own mental images to produce a positive outcome. These positive outcomes lead to positive feelings. Associating positive feelings with mental images of each step of the journey destroys the fears.

At Wellington Hypnosis you are hypnotized and taken through each stage of the journey. In each stage you are talked through a typical experience, and given the opportunity to rehearse a successful outcome. The positive aspects of flying are described and you are encouraged to visualize your own successes for each stage. As this is done you will experience greater and greater confidence and will completely change your mental image of flying, until you are enthused and excited by the idea of getting on a plane.

 

The therapy consists of reframing the journey from something to be feared into something to be enjoyed, something to look forward to.

 

By the end of the session you will be eager to get to the airport and get on that plane.

Once the pattern has been altered and the fear is overcome, it is gone forever.