| Anemophobia - aka ancraophobia - is an irrational fear | | | | afraid. |
| of the wind or of drafty, windy places | | | | This specific experience has then become twinned or |
| Regardless of the name used, this all too | | | | linked with all wind or gusts of air in what is known as |
| little-recognized fear can be really incapacitating for | | | | a generalized conditioned response. |
| those who suffer from it. | | | | All too often, the person experiencing this disorder |
| Often this phobia simply becomes worse as time | | | | knows very well that it is irrational, but this knowledge |
| passes and, left untreated, it can significantly impact on | | | | does very little to help. |
| the person's quality of life. | | | | The medical response is all too often to prescribe |
| Indeed, it can severely restrict so many of the normal | | | | anti-anxiety medication or to recommend a course of |
| activities that most people simply take for granted. | | | | cognitive behavioural therapy in an attempt to control |
| Not only can this phobia produce fear of the outdoors | | | | the symptoms. |
| and of open windows, where wind and drafts might | | | | This however, is a bit like suggesting that someone |
| usually be expected to occur, but it can also produce | | | | learn to live with an elephant in the living room. How |
| really intense feelings of anxiety in apparently unrelated | | | | much better it would be to simply evict the elephant! |
| situations such as when passing a functioning hand | | | | Because this fear emanates from the subconscious |
| dryer in a public toilet or when seated in an airplane | | | | mind, it is there that we must look for its solution. |
| with the overhead air vents blowing. | | | | And this is where advanced transformational |
| Though each person experiencing anemophobia does | | | | hypnotherapy can be of such tremendous help. |
| so in their own way, generally speaking the symptoms | | | | Through the medium of correctly applied modern |
| of this phobia are similar to those of other anxiety | | | | advanced hypnotherapy, we can reach down into the |
| disorders. | | | | subconscious and uncover the beliefs that are |
| These symptoms may include increased or irregular | | | | producing and sustaining this fear. |
| heartbeat, rapid breathing and shortness of breath, | | | | Once accomplished, those beliefs can be corrected |
| sweating or chills, dry mouth, queasy, nauseous | | | | and replaced with realistic ones, so that the person is |
| sensations and almost overwhelming feelings of dread. | | | | freed to resume their life in a normal manner - free of |
| In people with severe anemophobia, anxiety can so | | | | the anxiety with which they have lived for so long. |
| easily turn into panic, thereby producing what is | | | | There really is no need to continue suffering from this |
| commonly referred to as a 'full blown panic attack'. | | | | terrible fear. |
| But nobody was born with this fear. For it to be | | | | If you - or someone near to you - is experiencing the |
| activated, it first has to be acquired. | | | | terrible discomfort and anxiety of anemophobia, |
| In truth, fear of the wind can almost always be traced | | | | ancraophobia, fear of the wind or fear of drafts, do |
| back to a negative experience in the person's past - | | | | not give up hope. Help is available. |
| which may or may not be recalled by the conscious | | | | Seek out an experienced and fully qualified advanced |
| mind - and which has been 'imprinted' on the | | | | transformational hypnotherapist who has experience in |
| subconscious mind. | | | | successfully treating this issue and free yourself from |
| Most often, the anemophobic person has found | | | | the anxiety and fear of anemophobia once and for all. |
| themselves in a specific situation where the wind or a | | | | You'll be really glad you did! |
| draft has been blowing and in which they felt intensely | | | | |