Overcome Phobia

Beat the gravest fear out of your body, feel good and positive. That should be the motto of a person having phobia. Phobia is actually an extended form of anxiety, a sense of deep fear to which our body reacts instinctively. This fear could be present in a person because of some tragic incident, inheritance or a grown anxiety with age. A person can have phobia of height, spiders, needles, etc just anything. A phobia that disturbs a person’s behavior and jeopardize with his health needs to be treated by psychologist. Most of the phobia’s can be cured with self consciousness and effort. Want to be a confident, phobia free person? Here are few strategic ways to boost your effort.

Steps

 * 1)  Identify your fear and get ready to face it.
 * 2)   Before you plan on anything it’s really significant to be prepared to face the end result.
 * 3) 	Be firm and positive towards your goal. Achieving a target looks impossible only until we have reached it.
 * 4) 	Plan a gradual approach towards your problem. Your phobia is not a new fear or a one time fear. It has been growing with you and could take some time to have a good effect on you.
 * 5) 	Deal with smaller portions of your phobia first. You cannot put your self at risk with facing the problem all together. It would be wise to face the fear in smaller portions. Like, if you have phobia from height you shouldn’t directly initiate testing with 5th floor. Start with 1st floor and see for how long you can take it.
 * 6) 	Put your thoughts to a red light stop when fear begin to grow on your mind Divert your thoughts to other interesting things. Make yourself busy by chatting with a friend or playing a game on mobile .This technique works and make you less conscious of your fear.
 * 7) 	Make it a habit to face your phobia on regular basis. In other words do not try to avoid your fear and make yourself habitual to face it every day.
 * 8) 	Think of all possible extensions of your fears when you set up to mug it. This would give you a preview of what to be prepared for.
 * 9) 	Celebrate your success on each step and don’t get discouraged by failures.
 * 10) 	Once you get used to sustain even in low intensity, your courage will develop with time to face your fear completely.

Warnings

 * These measures do not stand-in for medical help, it may do you good in mild problems. Please consult a physician for severe attacks of phobia. Much pressure of anxiety and stress can have hazardous effects on nervous system and blood pressure. If not treated in time, your phobia can lead to substantial problems, social embarrassment and lack of confidence to face situations.

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 * How to Stop Obsessing over Disturbing Thoughts
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Sources and Citations

 * About Depression Treatment
 * Overcoming a phobia with hypnotherapy