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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:49 pm Post subject: Living with Spiders

The Bristol Zoo is having a overcome your spider fear day.

To read the short story please check The Western Mercury website.

What do you think, is this a good idea or do you believe other ways are better?

Trudy
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Joined: 09 Mar 2008
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject:

Frankly, I see no point in getting over a fear of spiders unless it causes cardiac arrest.

I can understand getting over a fear of flying if, and only if, you must fly for business purposes, and I can understand modifying fears of animals that are usually harmless. But, since there are so many spiders in the world, they don't have to be an obvious of part daily life, and they really should stay outdoors, it seems time could be spent with other issues.!

Paddy Landau
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Location: Oxford, United Kingdom

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:07 pm Post subject:

Trudy wrote:

There is a huge point.

It's to do with the quality of your daily life. I used to have a mild fear of spiders, and when I eliminated that, it just made my daily summer life so much more pleasant.

I was also able, at last, to enjoy the rare fun of holding a tarantula on my hand and appreciating its unusual beauty.

I used to have a big fear of heights. It affected me every time I had to use an elevator, or go up a tall building. I couldn't appreciate the fun of looking out of a tower. Aeroplanes became my enemy.

Getting rid of that has allowed me to have great fun with heights, and to thoroughly enjoy planes.

Bear in mind that any phobia is an irrational fear. So, even a phobia of harmful animals will need changing.

A phobia of snakes is irrational. I used to live in an area with many snakes, and sometimes they'd come into the house. If I'd had a phobia, I would have run and screamed (as phobic people do). Instead, I could look at the snake and decide whether I could safely catch it and remove it myself (e.g. the harmless brown house snake), or get a professional in to do the deed (e.g. a dangerous mamba). By keeping my wits, I could keep the mamba trapped until the professional arrived.

Trudy wrote:

But, since there are so many spiders in the world, they don't have to be an obvious of part daily life, and they really should stay outdoors, it seems time could be spent with other issues.!

Well, I've tried telling many spiders (when I had that old fear) that they should go and stay outside, but they were terribly rude and didn't listen. They don't seem to want to accept that my house is my private property! Shocked

Paddy

mariata
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Joined: 26 Mar 2008
Posts: 23

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject:

Anyone who lives in an older home will be well acquainted with spiders. I have a slight fear of some spiders and wouldn't mind getting over it completely. I do have one little tiny spider that made his home in the corner of my downstairs bathroom. He minds his own business and I just leave him be.

brandon05
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Joined: 07 Feb 2008
Posts: 74

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:08 pm Post subject:

I would have to say that there are people that are deathly afraid of spider to the extent where they see one they think there are ten more around. I could see how it could effect your daily life.

TheGreyMouser
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Joined: 19 Jan 2008
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Location: Leicester

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:43 am Post subject:

I have an intense fear of spiders. The sight of one makes me recoil in fear - I have often run from the room or jumped onto a chair in a stereotypical sitcom way! My heart races and sometimes I feel physically sick, particularly if the spider is very large and/or it has appeared suddenly, which can be a very unpleasant shock. To be honest, I don't even like to look at a picture of a spider. I would not buy an old house, particularly one with a thatched roof, as I've been told that they tend to have a lot of spiders. I wouldn't visit Australia for the same reason!

As a trainee hypnotherapist, I do wonder how I would cope if a client came to me to be treated for their fear of spiders. I think I would have to refer them to someone else who wasn't phobic. Of course, I suppose I could go to a good hypnotherapist and get cured....

hypno-therapist
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Location: Witney UK

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:47 am Post subject:

TheGreyMouser wrote:

Of course, I suppose I could go to a good hypnotherapist and get cured....

Why not help yourself? Set it as a goal... Imagine what a learning experience it would be...

Plus if I had the same phobia I would come and see you if you had overcome it as you know what its all about, from beginning to end!

Now you can't get that knowledge out of a book Wink

Paddy Landau
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:58 am Post subject:

TheGreyMouser wrote:

As a trainee hypnotherapist, ... I suppose I could go to a good hypnotherapist and get cured....

Of course.

As one of my trainers said, "Don't do to someone else what you're not prepared to have done to yourself first!"

Learn the NLP Fast Phobia Cure. It works in most (but not all) cases. Have an NLP-trained person do it to you for your phobia. The concepts are easily carried over into a hypnotherapy setting, with some differences.

On the other hand, if you're training as a hypnotherapist, then I would expect a phobia cure to be part of your training. You should come out of your training without the phobia.

Paddy

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