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It was a Thursday afternoon; I was out of my office on the train heading to Cambridge. Normally I have clients come to my practice but today I was traveling. You see Dan, has been agoraphobic for the past couple of years, Dan can comfortably walk to the end of his road, but that’s about it, if he passes that barrier he experiences full blown panic attacks which result in sheer terror, he races home and then is still shaken up for hours to follow.

On the phone I spoke with his father. They were both skeptical, but had tried everything. Somewhere inside the both of them they knew there had to be a solution, after all Dan wasn’t born this way.

Approximately an hour into the session, Dan felt a strong shift as if something had changed, “I am going to make this work, now I know exactly how to free myself of it” Dan said.

Approximately an hour and a half later the session was drawing to an end, Dan felt a strong feeling inside as if something had changed, “I am going to make this work, now I know exactly how to free myself of it” Dan said.

Dan had traveled to see his girlfriend 200 miles away. Yes you read it right.

Two Years Later

Dan is in my office in London and we are heading out to lunch. He wants to learn how I did what I did so he can help others. If you asked Dan a couple of years ago if this was possible he would have said no.

Dan arrived to meet me in my office heading so we could go for lunch. He wanted to learn how I did what I did so he can help others by shadowing my methods. If you had asked Dan a couple of years ago If he would be free. He would have said this was impossible.

Like Dan there are thousands of people suffering from agoraphobia and panic attacks. Almost every case I have ever worked with has two common ingredients: (i) The phobia was set of by a accumulation of anxiety ridden events and (ii) the person is afraid that there was something physically wrong with them.

Below I have listed for you the symptoms, next I will give you some easy methods of alleviating it using a method that Time Magazine called “An all purpose technology”.

Physical symptoms:

Heart palpitations, Chest discomfort, Shortness of Breath, Spells of dizziness, Choking and closed throat, Hot and cold flushes, Feelings of unreality and disorientation, Panic attacks, Light headiness.

Psychological symptoms:

The fear of panicking, Not being in control, The fear of dying, Fear of embarrassing yourself in front of others, Fear of going insane, Fear of losing control, Fear of passing out.

If you are experiencing the symptoms mentioned above both physical and psychological you probably feel alone, but whom do you turn to? Doctors don’t seem to understand and have failed you; friends and family are baffled by what you are going through. Although there are tens of thousands of people worldwide experiencing the same things, it can seem like theres no one to turn to.

The truth is, there is someone to turn to. There is someone who can help you. You dont have to suffer any more. Stop giving up control of your life to agoraphobia. You dont have to live in fear. You can beat this agoraphobia once and for all. Now you can gain control of your life and your health without drugs, achieve your lifes dreams without panic attacks holding you back, and overcome these physical symptoms. The methods I have used and you will learn, work. You see these techniques where first discovered by Dr. John Grinder and Richard Bandler. Grinder and Bandler were both at the University of California in Santa Cruz in the early 1970s. Working together, the pair developed NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) the worlds most powerful mind technology. These methods where also further enhanced and made famous by the World’s most famous hypnotist Paul McKenna who is regularly watched on television by more than 200 million people in 42 countries. McKenna has proven conclusively people can become overcome phobias and panic attacks.

Further to that Nobel Prizewinner, Professor Gerald Edelman spent thirty years discovering exactly how the brain functions. His conclusions show that the ten billion or more brain and nerve cells we all have arrange themselves into groups in order to form “maps” that react to our experience. A panic attack and agoraphobia are good examples of how the brain works. A particular trigger (a certain distance away from home, spiders, crowded places) creates a particularly strong response (sweaty palms, fast breathing, panic etc). The brain learns this and thereafter, every time the person is presented with the same stimulus, their body has exactly the same response even though they dont want it. The astonishing thing is, people with phobias and panic attacks always remember to have that response.

What this means is the brain acts as the most advanced computer in the world. Like computers which work through programs such as word processing or and emailing, we too have internal programs running in our brain in just the same way, sometimes with computers a virus spreads and takes over, generalized anxiety is just the same, it starts as a small fear then spreads. For us, once we learn something like driving a car, it becomes a set of programs in our brain and the next time we need to drive, it fires off. For instance when you are driving now you are not so conscious about the whole processes of driving, as you were when you first started learning it, it has now become automatic. Even the small things we take for granted such as making a cup of coffee, tying a shoe lace. All these activities we don’t have to think about them consciously, they are programs running in our subconscious mind.

Fortunately for us, we have these programs running in the background of our minds. Life would be chaos if every time you approached a door we had to work out how to open that door. Can you see how everyone’s lives would be utterly chaotic if for a small task like opening a door we had to think about the process every time? Thats why the brain works automatically.

NLP has discovered, how programs are installed in our brains and secondly how using simple methods they can assist a person to eliminate the bad limiting program and put in it’s place a more beneficial one. Now what the experts have found is that if you are suffering from agoraphobia or any other issue, in order to overcome it, you will need to replace the old programs with new more beneficial programs.

I have been successfully doing this for years, helping people overcome simple phobias all the way to chronic cases of panic attacks and agoraphobia, all of which I’ve helped using these powerful methods and techniques. For more engrained fears I recommend NLPs fast phobia cure, this coupled with TFT and Hypnosis will allow you to overcome agoraphobia even if you’ve been trapped with it for years.

To begin to get some relief follow the steps I have outlined below:

1) Make a solid decision that you will get over this fear, stop restricting yourself and make progress with small increments no matter how uncomfortable initially.

2) Stop making negative images in your mind, and stop talking negatively to yourself, words have a profound effect on the way you feel, someone can say they hate you and someone can say they love you, each effect how you feel Immediately, so say to yourself I am well I can do this, always state the positive.

3) Replace fearful images with pleasant scenes in your mind, imagine your life going well and you are gently expanding how far you can travel. If you can create panic by focusing on the worst possible thing then you can reverse the process as well, this feels awkward at first, but will set you on the road to recovery.

4) Watch a comedy (endorphins produced during laughter collapse fear) and during the points of laughter imagine feeling calm in the situations that used to trigger you, Imagine going out freely everyday this helps rewire the response in the brain and the reaction to fear.

5) Breath in through the mouth inflate the belly out through the mouth and pull the belly button towards the spine (this suppresses the stress hormone in the brain).

6) If the fear is unbearable find an expert in this area. A recommended practitioner of Hypnosis, NLP and TFT combined.

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Dominic Knight is Europes leading Mind Strategist a Master Trainer in Hypnosis and NLP based in World Renowned Harley Street. His website at http://www.dominicknight.co.uk offers simple yet powerful techniques for overcoming your limitations in record speed. Dominic delivers a Guaranteed one on one sessions. To book a session with Dominic please visit http://www.dominicknight.co.uk