We are born with only two fears. Fear of falling and fear of loud sounds. Every other fear we were taught growing up.
This means that a phobia is something we learned from somewhere or someone. Tense feelings of any kind are the result of our perceptions. Our perceptions are the result of our life experiences and the meaning we place on them. So if you have arachnophobia, the fear you feel is a result of your perceptions of spiders. Your perceptions of spiders are the result of all your life experiences with them and the meaning you bring to those experiences. Any treatments for anxiety related to the phobia must include changing perceptions.
To eliminate the anxiety of a specific phobia, you must work with the unconscious mind to get rid of any negative feelings that have been linked to any previous experiences with the triggering object. When you ask what a phobia means, it is simply the result of the subconscious mind associating extreme levels of fear with the phobic subject. To describe a phobia as a disorder of any kind is to conclude that there is something wrong with the mental processes of the person concerned.
For me there are no broken people. When I work with people I see as producing incredible results, they work perfectly in every way. Our brain works just like a computer. We can only achieve results according to the program we have. Our program is the accumulation of our life experiences and the meanings we put on them.
A phobia is just a result that a person produces. They had the requisite life experiences and applied the necessary meaning to those experiences to allow them to achieve that outcome. Although we cannot go back and change life experiences, we can change the meaning we have applied to those experiences. This creates an automatic change in perception allowing us to change outcomes and get relief from anxiety attacks.
To change the meaning we have attached to a particular life experience, we must free ourselves from the negative feelings that have been stored with it. When a particular memory is triggered, the brain sends the signal to the relevant body organs so that you can feel the emotions associated with that memory. In the case of traumatic memory, whenever this stimulus/response process is involved, it effectively re-creates and adds evidence to the original trauma. Unless you do something to interrupt this trigger/response mechanism, you are destined to keep repeating the past.
If you’ve developed a fear of spiders in 100 different life experiences, your brain has 100 different clues to say that spiders are something to be afraid of. Unless you provide overwhelming evidence to the mind that the opposite is true, you will not let go of fear and eliminate anxiety. The only hard evidence the mind will accept is to be in a situation with a spider where it feels no fear in the body. Looks like catch 22.
Quantum theory has given us a new view of what phobias mean. It has allowed the creation of new treatment modalities that lead to seemingly miraculous results. I recently worked with a girl who developed earthquake phobia. Every time a large truck drove by her house, and shook it in any way, it would give her a panic attack. 6 months ago she had experienced an actual earthquake and that was the source of her phobia. Using one of my new healing methods, I was able to clear it in less than 5 minutes. How quickly you can get rid of a phobia is directly related to how long you have been exposed to it and how much internal evidence you have to support it. To date I have never encountered a phobia that took more than half an hour to clear up.
What phobia means now is different from what it meant a few years ago. It is no longer a life sentence. Anxiety treatments have taken a huge leap due to our greater understanding of quantum theory. It is now a simple task to eliminate anxiety and relieve anxiety attacks.