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There are also a number of other fears that can be associated with a fear of being sick:
This is a condition that appears to affect more women than men and if you are someone who suffers with emetephobia, you will know only too well that the symptoms can seriously affect and limit your ability to enjoy life to the full as this condition can have a very disabling effect on the sufferer. Many sufferers will avoid all places where there is a possibility of themselves, or others, being sick: for example pubs, restaurants, clubbing, eating in front of others. Due to the link between eating and potentially being sick, many sufferers are a little obsessive about what, where and with who they will eat. Many view being sick as 'horrible’, ‘dirty’, ‘yucky' etc, and so it is quite common for emetophobics to also have fears of other situations where they might feel the same way: going to the toilet, urinating in front of others (e.g. at a public urinal - shy bladder), or even just being a little bit sweaty.
An added bonus is that hypnosis is wonderfully relaxing and reduces stress levels. We have substantial experience of helping people to rid themselves of emetephobia and related symptoms using pure hypnoanalysis and find that symptoms usually disappear within 8 sessions (though sometimes it can take up to 12 sessions to completely resolve issues) Pure Hypnoanalysis Pure Hypnoanalysis is a highly developed form of hypnoanalysis (sometimes called hypno-analysis or analytical hypnotherapy) Hypnoanalysis, in its various forms, is practised all over the world, though only IAPH Members are trained to practice the amazing 'Pure' version. To understand why Pure Hypnoanalysis is SO effective, please read the transcript below. This form of hypnotherapy can TOTALLY RESOLVE the CAUSE of unconscious anxieties - leaving the sufferer free of their symptoms for life! Pure Hypnoanalysis usually takes 8-12 weekly sessions, lasting about an hour each. Below is the transcript of a lecture given by Rob Kelly FIAPH in 2004 , on how/why Pure Hypnoanalysis works (Rob is the guy who developed this therapy - from normal hypnoanalysis) Pure (adjective): unmodified, untainted, simple, unaffected, true, clean. Hypnoanalysis (noun): "a therapeutic technique in which a client is relaxed into hypnosis, and using free-association, sets out to release and resolve bottled-up emotions, conflicts and anxieties " If you were to try and think of a ‘yard-stick’ to somehow measure the severity or intensity of one symptom against another, you could use the experience of ‘getting over the death of a loved-one’. Most schools of psychology (and your own experience) will tell you that it takes ‘the average person’(1) a couple of years to get over the death of a loved one. (Now, this is such a difficult and varied experience to generalise for the purpose of this explanation, but such a common experience, that most people will either have had some direct or indirect experience of it). When I say a couple of years to get over the death of a loved-one, I mean the initial effects of the death of a loved one – those (necessary) experiences that create what is known as ‘grieving’. A grieving process is very similar for most people: you miss your loved-one, you think about your loved-one, you dream about your loved-one, you cry about your loved-one, you talk about your loved-one, lots of places/people/feelings remind you of your loved-one….. all of these experiences bring the thought of your loved-one into your mind (or consciousness, to be specific) and you feel some sort of emotion. You may feel sad, you may feel guilty, you may feel pain, or loss, or anger, or shame, or happy, or any other type of emotion… the bottom line is the same though: the thought of your (recently-passed) loved-one comes into your mind, and you feel emotional. The thought comes into your mind, and you feel the emotion... Immediately after the loss, you cannot even think about your loved-one without breaking down and sobbing……. A couple of years later, you can talk about them freely without being affected at all… you are no longer thing about the ‘negative stuff’, and you are able once again to think about the pleasant, happy memories: you are resolved! I call this the ‘Natural Therapeutic Process’ Time doesn't heal - the release of emotion does..... The same analogy can be used for ANY emotional or psychological ‘trauma’: car crashes, disease, a relationship break-up, rape, assault, war, abuse ….. and less obvious trauma as well: divorce, sibling rivalry, school anxieties, fighting, childhood insecurities, acne, blushing, ‘growing pains’.. This is a perfectly NATURAL process, which people have been using since they were living in caves! It is a superb process/technique, because each person will go through the process at their own natural rate - depending on many factors, including: the size of the ‘trauma’, how stressed they are, how supported they are, whether they have a loving spouse at home, whether they have good ‘coping mechanisms’, what personality type they have…. People resolve things at their own pace. (Have you ever noticed how some of your friends get over things very quickly, yet some are still conflicted many years later?) So, the average person can (effectively) resolve a major emotional trauma (the death of a loved-one – our ‘yard stick’) in two years. Two years later, they are getting on with their lives… Why then, are some people afraid of; spiders, dogs, flying, darkness, being alone, being judged, wetting themselves etc all their lives? If they could get over the death of a loved one in two years, how come they still have their fear of spiders twenty years later? The same question can be asked in relation to symptoms: Why is it that diets don’t work? Why is it that most ex-smokers put on weight? Why is it that most depressed people stay depressed, compulsives stay compulsive, nailbiters stay nailbiting, obsessives stay as obsessive, shy people stay shy????? How come all these emotionally-driven symptoms remain, to a greater or lesser extent, year-in, year-out? (3) See Alans’ video testimonial – his chronic IBS and Social Phobia were caused by bottled up emotions. Alternatively, you could talk to any one of the 250,000 people every year, who have their anxieties resolved by releasing their bottled-up emotional conflicts, after seeing an IAPH therapists. So… the most ‘natural’ form of therapy, is one that utilises this natural therapeutic process that everybody has within themselves – this is EXACTLY what ‘Pure Hypnoanalysis’ does: it allows the person to quickly and easily resolve the bottled up emotions that were causing the symptoms, and the symptoms completely disappear, for good. Does that sound too good to be true? Does that sound unbelievable? Ask yourself this: look back to when you were a teenager, and to when your first relationship ended – the first time you were ‘dumped’ by a boyfriend or girlfriend…Remember how devastated you felt? Remember how depressed/angry/sad/lonely you felt? You may even have gone ‘the whole hog’ and written some poetry about it! (as did I) You probably felt that life just wasn’t worth living, and that life was never going to be the same again… You don’t feel like that now though, do you? Looking back on that incident 20 years ago, you don’t feel the same about it now, do you? You don’t STILL feel sad/depressed/angry/alone about the break up. Even if you really sit back and think about it, try and remember it all, in all its glory, you CAN NOT and WILL NOT feel those horrible feelings now – because you are over it. You have dealt with it, you have grieved for it, you have resolved it, and it will NEVER bother you again. Something that was traumatic, emotional, frightening, sad, painful etc doesn’t bother you AT ALL anymore, because you have resolved it. Much like the analogy above of the grieving process in respect of the death of a loved one, you have resolved the bulk of the emotion, and are able to get on with your life. What would have happened though, if, for some reason, you couldn’t or weren’t able to grieve about your teenage relationship ending? Let’s say it was SO emotional, that you simply couldn’t face up to it, and you bottled it all up…. (this is called ‘repression’ – a repression occurs when the emotion is so strong that the persons psyche completely ‘hides it’ from their consciousness: it is not ‘forgotten’ like the way we sometimes forget things, it is totally hidden from consciousness – repressed) All those emotions would still be with you now, buried in the back of your mind, causing you untold grief and anxiety.. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could create a safe, caring, trusting, confidential relationship with a therapist, and slowly release those bottled up emotions? Sounds great? But how do we know where to find those emotions? That is the 6,000,000 dollar question! Resolving emotional conflicts.... So, every person that has a psychological or emotional symptom has some bottled up emotions that are causing those symptoms. To naturally and completely get rid of those symptoms we must allow those ‘repressed’ emotions to come to the surface so we can resolve them… So the only truly effective therapy is one that allows those ‘bottled-up/repressed’ emotions – how many therapies actually do that?(5) The answer to that question (as far as we can tell) is: just one – ‘Pure Hypnoanalysis’ To understand why the above is the case, we must look at what other types of therapy actually do… A closer look at other therapies, and how they work... If the sufferer went for psychotherapy, they would probably receive a more in-depth version of the counselling above. Without getting to the bottled-up CAUSE of the phobia though, the sufferer can only obtain a limited resolution. If the sufferer went for some CBT, they would probably feel more control of their life, and find life easier… but the phobia would still be there, affecting their life If the sufferer went for normal hypnotherapy (sometimes called ‘clinical’ or ‘suggestion’) they would have one or two sessions and feel quite a lot better, BUT the emotion would find another way out, and the symptoms would soon likely return with a vengeance! If the sufferer went for normal ‘hypnoanalysis’(6) (not the IAPH ‘Pure Hypnoanalysis’ version) they would probably get a lot better, but probably wouldn’t get to the CAUSE of the problem, and hence wouldn’t get the full, amazing resolution. If, however, the sufferer went for a course of ‘Pure Hypnoanalysis’, they would very likely bring to the surface ALL the repressed/bottled-up emotions that were causing the phobia, freeing them from the symptoms completely and permanently. Please don’t think I am saying that these other forms of therapy aren’t successful, because they are. They are all able to help people to change their lives – when they are used in the correct setting, for the right sort of problem. You wouldn’t go to a ‘grief counsellor’ for help with a phobia… you wouldn’t go to an NLP practitioner if you were contemplating suicide… you wouldn’t go for four years of psychotherapy if you were simply frightened of flying! If your problems or symptoms in life are caused by bottled-up/repressed emotions, then there is no better therapy to help resolve them, than ‘Pure’ Hypnoanalysis. So how does ‘Pure’ Hypnoanalysis work? What happens in a typical session? Other types of hypnotherapy (and other therapies) attempt to use the technique of 'free association' but (as far as we know) do not use it in its 'purest' form as taught within the IAPH. This is because UNLIKE many other therapies, ‘Pure’ Hypnoanalysis DOES NOT RELY on insight or intellect - in other words it doesn't rely on what the therapist (or the client) deems is important / significant. Our research suggests that many therapies fail to utilise this natural therapeutic process because the therapist has either tried to a) short cut it (e.g. pin point regression techniques) b) determine what they THINK is causing the clients symptoms c) intervene too much in the therapy process and inellectualise / interpret what's happening. All of these things simply slow down or halt the natural process of simply allowing the emotions to surface in a very caring, non-judgemental atmosphere(9) The lack of understanding of (what I have referred to as) the natural therapeutic process, is, in my opinion, the single biggest reason why there are so many different types of therapy available today: everyone is attempting to ‘control the symptom’, rather than ‘resolve the real underlying cause’. Why would anyone chose to go through their life,
IAPH data and feedback shows that there is a no faster, more effective or liberating therapy available today. You can achieve more in eight hours of Pure Hypnoanalysis, than four years of traditional psychotherapy. The rapid nature of the therapy (just 8-12 sessions) means that anyone, from any background, can now have access to this amazing life-changing intervention. |
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