| The fear of heights, or acrophobia, is one of the issues | | | | Most often, the person suffering from acrophobia has |
| that we regularly treat here in our UK hypnotherapy | | | | had a scary experience in their past which has installed |
| centers | | | | a negative conditioned response to height. Sometimes |
| Though often incorrectly referred to as 'vertigo', true | | | | though, acrophobia can be caused more or less by |
| acrophobia is an extreme and irrational fear of being in | | | | proxy; the child learning the fear through empathetically |
| high places. For the acrophobic individual, however, | | | | mimicking an adult during the child's formative years. |
| perception is all - a high place may simply be nothing | | | | Whatever its cause, acrophobia is a fear that |
| more than a couple of rungs on a ladder, for instance. | | | | emanates from the part of the mind that we call the |
| (Vertigo is the feeling that the head is spinning or | | | | subconscious. |
| swimming which occurs when the head is not actually | | | | This, of course, is the home and repository of all our |
| spinning. It can be set off by any movement - standing | | | | beliefs and the driver of all of our feelings. It is from |
| up or sitting down too quickly, or simply as a result of | | | | here that our feelings and emotions flow and so it is to |
| the person's visual perspective.) | | | | the subconscious that we must turn for any really |
| True acrophobia can indeed be dangerous, since the | | | | effective treatment of acrophobia. |
| feelings of anxiety that it produces can so easily be | | | | And this is where advanced transformational |
| transformed into feelings of genuine panic when the | | | | hypnotherapy is of such benefit. |
| sufferer is high up. And a person who is in the throes | | | | Through the medium of correctly applied advanced |
| of panic can be in no position to get him or herself | | | | hypnosis, the experienced therapist can help the |
| down safely. | | | | acrophobic individual to connect with the subconscious |
| The actual symptoms of acrophobia are very similar | | | | and guide it in order to disclose the experiences and |
| to other anxiety disorders. Often symptoms such as | | | | the beliefs that drive and maintain the anxiety and fear. |
| rapid breathing, shortness of breath, rapid heart rate, | | | | This accomplished, those beliefs or 'programmes' can |
| dry mouth and feelings of nausea are experienced by | | | | be corrected and realigned, freeing the individual from |
| the acrophobic individual. | | | | needless fear and anxiety. |
| Often, the person suffering from acrophobia adopts an | | | | If you or someone you care about is experiencing the |
| avoidance strategy that can really restrict his or her | | | | awful, restrictive condition that is acrophobia, do not |
| daily activities as well as determining and adversely | | | | despair, help is available. |
| affecting such things as holiday location, visiting friends | | | | In the hands of an experienced and fully qualified |
| and relatives, and even impacting on their work life. | | | | advanced transformational hypnotherapist, acrophobia |
| Though it may be quite natural to have a healthy | | | | can be conquered in a fairly brief period of time - often |
| respect and a degree of apprehension regarding | | | | in as little as two or three sessions. |
| heights as part of the instinctive survival mechanism | | | | With the correct therapy, the individual can return to |
| with which we are all born, the term phobia is assigned | | | | the freedom of a life lived free from the anxiety and |
| to those who experience extreme fear in this regard. | | | | fear that has governed it for so long. |