Fears and phobias affect over 10% of all people. Fears and phobias are an irrational response to an object or situation which manifests itself in a desire to avoid the object or situation. Generally the fear or phobia is out of proportion to the object or situation. When a fear or phobia prevents you doing something you want (such as fly) or something you need to do (public speaking) there is a simple approach to help you release the fear or phobia. The Omega Method has a near 100% success rate in treating the original source of the fear, not the symptoms, to help you release the fear or phobia easily. Typically one session of sixty to ninety minutes is sufficient to end the fear or phobia once and for all. Extensive phobias might require two sessions.
Usually fears and phobias are an emotional response to some “thing”—an event in your past which then went on to trigger the fear or phobia. Fears and phobias are a learned response—much the same as you learned not to touch a hot pot on the stove for fear of being burned. Learning to use a pot holder is a healthy response to a fearful situation. When we learn an unhealthy response to a situation such as anxiety, panic, or avoidance, which is an unhealthy response that can be overcome or unlearned.
Both the event and the trigger are stored in your unconscious. You may not even be aware of the specific event. Someone who, as a child, was punished by being locked in a dark closet might end up with claustrophobia, the fear of being closed in. As an adult we consciously understand that we are in control of our surroundings, yet many people with claustrophobia cannot even be in a small space or an elevator—the learned fear and anxiety that was triggered as a child reasserts itself as an adult. The unconscious has never learned or been taught it can go back and reexamine or change a perception that was formed in the past. Many fears and phobias (but not all) stem from our childhood, although the conscious awareness of a fear can occur months or years after the original event. When we were children, our own unconscious was also a child and as such, its response to situations was less developed and sophisticated as it is when we are adults.
Perceptions and emotional responses we developed as children are sometimes still locked into our minds and cause unwanted behavior as adults. Until these perceptions and learnings, including a response to a fear or phobia are reexamined, the fear or phobia will continue. Using specialized methods we can help your unconscious identify the source of the fear unemotionally and reexamine it using all of the knowledge and wisdom you have gained. It is a wonderful case of “if I knew then what I know now, I would respond differently.” We can help you identify and resolve the fear or phobia, freeing you to live the life and do the things you want to do.
