I was once told that you are born with two fears, the fear of loud noises and the fear of falling. 
I have also been told that you are born with no fears and that all fears are learned so therefore can be unlearned.   I will let you come to your own conclusion.

The point I want to make is that I firmly believe that all fears and phobias can be overcome very easily.  Rodney is living proof of just how easy it is to rid fears and phobias from your life once and for all.

For as long as he can remember Rodney has always had a fear of needles.  We have been married for 23 years and the first time I witnessed his obsession with needles was when he had a motorbike accident back in 1994.  I remember arriving at the hospital and trying to comfort him, he was literally shaking uncontrollably and I put that down to the accident.  What I didn’t realise at the time was that this is how his body dealt with his fear of needles.   As a result of this accident I started to notice what happened to him whenever he was to have a blood test or have an injection and trust me the picture was not pretty.

The next time I was privy to this uncontrollably shaking was when he was hospitalised for kidney stones.  After that incident I decided that I would do whatever I could to get him over what I believed at the time to be a debilitating illness.

I knew I had to take it slowly so we started by walking past a Red Cross Blood Bank, eventually he was ready to walk inside.  After many months of walking inside and just watching what was happening he was ready to sit in the chair.  The only problem with this was that you had to book an appointment to donate blood, and that was something that we could never predict, some days Rodney would walk in the door and some days he wouldn’t. 

Thankfully, it was about this time when we started our coaching journey.  When we studied Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), and we were practicing with fears and phobias, I assumed that Rodney would have taken the opportunity to rid himself of this phobia. 

About a year later Rodney was hospitalised and I just happened to have overheard a conversation about how bad his fear of needles was and how long it took to get his uncontrollable shaking under control.  It was then that I realised just how badly people held onto their fears because it is safer to have the fear rather than face them. 

Anyway, to cut a long story short, I told him I was going to do a phobia bust on him, so it took me about 15 minutes to do the process and of course I couldn’t measure the result until he had to either give blood or have an injection.  It was about three months later that he had to have a blood test and as he extended his arm the nurse whom had been privy to his past behaviours was dumbfounded by his eagerness, she was waiting for another nurse to join her so they could hold him down to get the blood.  But he sat in the chair with arm extended and watched them take the blood without a second thought.  He didn’t shake; he didn’t even get into a hot and cold sweat.

That joyous moment was a moment of truth and realisation that for a matter of a 15 minute procedure a new positive behavioural pattern was born.  One that has a far better impact on his life.

I have said this before, fears and phobias are easily eliminated you just have to be willing to let go of the negative belief that is holding you back.  The results are well worth it.

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