What Is Fear? Fear Is Self-Hypnosis.

In this series of articles, I'm exploring how negative emotions actually have their roots in positive intentions.

Fear feels like a powerful negative emotion, but it's about safety. It's a message from you to you that says something is dangerous – to get away from it or protect yourself. Once you know something is dangerous you don't have any further need of the message. You can choose to face it or avoid it. If you become the message though – you freeze, panic and lose the ability to make a decision and the fear can stay with you.

The trouble is, the feeling that you experience does not necessarily have anything to do with the trigger itself. On a stage, a volunteer might be hypnotised to think that a mop is a guitar and so they rock around the stage with it. If you experience an irrational fear then your mind is hypnotised to believe something is dangerous when it's not.

There are many phobias of completely harmless things. If someone has always experienced a fear reaction around buttons for example, buttons are dangerous. This is their reality.

I help a lot of people conquer their fear of flying, but their fear is not of the flight. Of 300 people on a plane there may be only 5 or 6 feeling fear. If the fear had anything to do with the flight itself surely everyone should be feeling the fear – they are on the same plane with the same flight crew. The fear has nothing to do with the flight – it has to do with how those 5 or 6 people are thinking about the flight.

There is no danger.

If you experience an unnecessary fear then you are experiencing self-hypnosis. I help people 'wake up' from this all the time by using hypnosis to help them see through the illusion of their own thinking.

If you need to be un-hypnotised from an unnecessary fear or some other detrimental emotional trance, then I would be very happy to hear from you.