NLP analysis

1. Fast Phobia Cure
http://www.nlp-techniques.org/2013/01/fast-phobia-cure.html
http://nlp-mentor.com/phobia-treatment/
The Fast Phobia cure can be used for any real big fear, if the fear can be tested there and then - i.e. purely
imagining the situation brings observable manifestations of the fear - so much the better.
The technique contains a number of steps, for example, dissociation, playing an experience backwards, which
can be useful in many contexts.
Although a phobia can take years to cure by conventional methods, the NLP phobia treatment, which involves dissociation,
can cure phobias in one session.
A key characteristic holding a phobia together is that it is a very associated state. A traumatic incident sucks the person back
into the past. Post-traumatic stress disorder has the same structure.
A phobia is an externally triggered, consistent, uncontrollable panic response to an internal representation. You actually
respond to the picture you have created, not the thing. The thing triggers, it does not cause. This is a major point.
What makes a phobia different from a single painful experience? The fear has become connected with a set of signals or
cues. That is a snake or a hose can trigger the panic response for instance.
A phobic response is very different from intense fear. A phobic reaction is traumatic, debilitating, immobilizing and seems
completely out of a person’s control.
Phobias can vary enormously for example fear of spiders, elevators, closed or open spaces. We use the term very loosely for
concepts such as commitment phobia, but this use is more metaphoric.
Fast Phobia Cure - What's important
Remember if it's a really big fear you can continue to dissociate further, for example float above yourself from
the gallery and watch yourself from an air vent in the cinema, watching yourself, watching yourself watching
the movie.
Sometimes in order to get the logistics right I'll layout the room so a screen or monitor is the cinema screen, a
chair represents the front row and another chair represents a chair in the balcony.
Also remember to test thoroughly and to continue as many times as it needs to get an appropriate outcome.
You're teaching your client some very useful mental processes.
Fast Phobia Cure - The Technique
1. Have the subject find their greatest fear in life.
2. Have them walk into an imaginary movie theatre of their mind and sit down in the center of the front row.
3. Have them float up out of their body and gently settle in a comfortable seat in the balcony, so they can
watch themselves watching the screen.
4. Have them put the very beginning of their greatest fear on the screen in the form of a colored slide. Have
them run the movie of their greatest fear all the way to end, as they remain in the balcony watching sitting in

2. the front row watching themselves on the screen.
5. At the end of the movie, freeze the frame into a slide. Change the picture to black and white and then re-associate
fully into the picture on the screen (walk into the movie). Run the associated movie backwards at
triple speed or faster, with circus or cartoon music playing, and have them freeze - frame the image when
they get to the beginning of the movie.
6. Have them walk out of the still picture and sit back down in the centre of the front row of the theatre, then
have them white out the entire screen.
7. Repeat steps 3-6 as necessary. Test for the phobic response after each time through. All throughout the
process use plenty of presuppositions and Milton model language patterns to reinforce your change work.