Overcome Phobia

Phobia-what is it?

The literal interpretation of the word phobia, a Greek word, is feeling nervous and fearful. Using the medical jargon, phobia could be defined as a persistent, irrational, and abnormal aversion or fear of certain situations, objects, events, people and so on. There exist different levels of phobia, which almost every human being might have encountered at some point of his/her lifetime. However, when the intensity of phobia increases so as to interfere in the daily routines of a person, it alleviates into an anxiety disorder. There are umpteen possible reasons for a person to be inclined to phobias; however few general causes can be-

1. The person is traumatized by a certain event in his/her life.

2. Externalization of repressed feelings.

Overcoming Phobia

A phobia that causes irregularities to the health of a person or affects the behavioral patterns of a person need to be addressed by a qualified psychologist, however, for the other mild ones, a self-conscious and confident effort to get rid of the phobia, can cure it gradually. Few steps in that direction, are listed below-

Being positive and being optimistic is one of the driving factors in any change. So, be positive in your outlook. Be optimistic. Have a goal, a vision, visualize the change you desire.

Identify the phobia, the cause that invokes the phobia and if possible the reason that triggered the phobia (yes, phobias are irrational and usually has no reasoning behind it, but the presence of a reason for that irrationality to be developed in self, can be figured out through self-analysis).

List the causes that invoke phobia from the weakest to the strongest.

Learn few relaxing and self-control techniques. Develop a self-control mechanism, through exercise or meditation (that implies increasing your concentration power and self-awareness, not closing your eyes to go for a deep sleep!). Identify and understand the changes that occur in your mind and body when the object or person or situation leading to the phobia is encountered by you.

In a relaxed state of mind, visualize the weakest link from the list done earlier and try to face it without fear. Repeat it over and again, until subconsciously you can master it. Jump on to the higher links. Celebrate your riddance of fears and appreciate your improvement.

There are several other treatments to overcome phobias. Hypnotherapy, psychiatric techniques, psychological treatments are very helpful and perhaps the presence of a motivator in the form of a doctor can increase the effectiveness of the same techniques as that of self-treatment, by leaps and bounds. A supporting friend or a family member can prove to be a boon in such cases in order to help you in overcoming phobias. At the end of the day, it’s up to you, your mind to master your fear. Henry Ford’s words (although said in a different context) can be recalled here “if you think you can, you’re right! And if you think you can’t, you’re still right!

Universal Energy For a Successful Life

We all are filled with universal energy. This energy is the essence of our existence, our consciousness, our soul. The universal energy moves through the physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies and sometimes with the flow of life it can become imbalanced, stagnant, or blocked. We experience it many times and it is called "disease", disease which is lack of ease. It is the inability of one's universal energy to flow freely.

Scientific research has proved beyond doubt that huge amounts of energy exist at different levels. Even a piece of rock contains energy within it. Ancient scholars were keen observers of nature. They keenly observed the mysteries of human body and developed holistic forms of complete health maintenance system. By disconnecting us from the latest technical marvels gives us the opportunity to get back to nature and realize the existence of Universal Energy. The ancient and modern sages agree that Universal Energy exists in abundance in open spaces. We can feel it at the mountains, lakes, beach, fields, forests, and in the desert.

One has to be in harmony with the nature for cultivating Universal Energy. By coming out in the open, taking a walk and being mindful of nature, will make you feel at ease with yourself. Life energy technique has provided help to people around the world to live happier and healthier lives. This technique was used for providing them with a unique and effective tool that has empowered people to take excellent care of their own health.

This method gives us a sense of peace, inner strength, while the practical application of the principles that we learn helps us to cope with our daily life, improving and restoring our health, developing our inherent self-healing power and learning how to bring more harmony and balance to both body and mind.

Reiki is loaded with universal life energy. This 2,500-year old practice is the art and science of being able to channel this universal life force energy to promote mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Reiki is the provider of holistic medicine, possessing considerable healing power. It is a technique for complete healing, stress reduction and relaxation. By using Reiki it is possible to have access to the unlimited supply of universal life force energy for improving health and enhancing the quality of life.

Many people, who work mainly in the outdoors, have an attunement to nature. Nature is generously endowed with its own form of energy, and each life form within nature has its own energy. It is important to understand that the power of the mind can change a lot of things in our prime material plane. We all have a stockpile of thoughts that are stored in our memory. These can be either negative or positive at certain moments. Having negative thoughts and always being negative will only produce an accumulation of negative energies that will not only bring you bad luck but will also feed the negative energies. Abandon all your negative thinking. Think positive.

The Power and Energy of Meditation

We often hear people propagating the benefits of meditation. People are enriching their lives with meditation, healing with meditation, reducing stress with meditation, and literally transforming their lives in numerous ways with it. Meditation has the tremendous power to affect our lives.

Meditation affects different areas of our lives because it involves interaction with a Universal power or energy that transcends everything. This energy strengthens our mind. It is inseparable from us and we are surrounded by this energy. We always have the privilege to extract positive higher energy for experiencing a positive change in our life.

We all have the power for improving our life. Anyone can tap into this abundant source and when that job is accomplished; our fear for the uncertainties of the future disappears and develops a positive attitude.

Meditation provides guidance to the mind to move into a fresh direction. It often involves thinking about something contemplatively and preparing a plan for achieving our objectives.

Meditation works because through meditation we are able to put our thinking minds temporarily on hold and access into something that is powerful and infinite. By suspending our thinking and rational minds, we can slip into a state of higher consciousness. We are then able to free ourselves from our stress, receive spiritual guidance, and experience the supreme bliss that comes from the feeling being connected with all things.

Meditation is not an easy task to perform properly. Many people cannot stop their mind from thinking about mundane things. Yet, they get inspired to practice it regularly. There are ways for making meditation easier. We shall have to find out first what form of meditation appeals to us. There are different types of meditation and not all forms will work for everyone. Some are more difficult to practice. Others are more accessible and do not require a lot of study. One can enjoy different types of meditation and, depending on the time frame and mood one is in, a selection can be made for a suitable form of meditation. People are not energetically the same everyday. If you are finding it difficult to find time to meditate, mix it up a little.

Meditation helps you to raise your consciousness to higher levels. That enables you to make optimum use of your personal resources, allowing you access to cosmic consciousness. Your negative energy finds an escape route through meditation and replenishes it with new vibrant positive energy and thought patterns. It then provides more clarity and direction, leaving you more vibrant, more energetic and more innovative. You get inspired to improve relationships, satisfaction of completing tasks, self-motivation, self-esteem and self-confidence.

The power and energy of meditation releases repressed emotional issues, clears stress, anxiety, fear, hatred, and blocked energies. This unique and very powerful process connects your breath flow to the universal source of energy, which provides the new vibrant flow of energy into your system. When the flow of energy increases it opens up the feeling of compassion. We are then able to experience a deeper level of love.

Overcoming Your Fear

Fear is a manifestation of our personal unconscious. It arises from our conception and through our socialization. Fear is a state of mind that threatens us constantly with uncertain anxieties and reminds us about who we are and what we require, and then, to overcome fear, sends a signal from the body to the mind. This is an action, a communication between the body and mind that things are about to happen. Fear warns us about any looming danger and gives us an opportunity to prepare us for overcoming it by taking necessary action.

There are several steps for overcoming fear. Let us first identify the first step. Fear of the unknown haunts most of us. We do not know what would happen next. Everybody has to go through various vicissitudes in life. Pessimistic thoughts and the fear of failure cause tremendous turmoil. There is absolutely no reason to anticipate problems all the time. Good things also happen in life. Critically analyze the cause of your fear and prepare yourself to combat it. Banish negative thinking.

We should be able to combat fear successfully by planning our future pragmatically. The next step for overcoming fear is to train us to develop a positive attitude. If the cause of our fear was the uncertainty of securing a good job, we should prepare us to improve the quality of our professional abilities and explore possibilities for better career opportunities. Motivation is necessary for achieving success. We should think positively about the way our life would improve when we get a better job.

Success is always surrounded by uncertainties. The third step is the preparation for encountering failures and rejections. The world would not collapse if that happens. We should critically analyze the causes of failures and make better efforts for improving our performance next time. We shall have to endure a few failures until we succeed. The story of Robert Bruce of Scotland should inspire us.

We often tend to exaggerate the causes of past failures because of our entrapment with previous experience of failure to achieve. What is needed at this fourth step for overcoming fear is to take the past failures as good learning points and focus only on the present. It would enhance the chances of our succeeding because it would enable us to concentrate all our energies for achieving our objective on this occasion and not letting our energies and thoughts being wasted by worrying about past failures and future uncertainties.

Finally, we shall have to prepare us for sustaining our winning streak of overcoming fear. It is useful to create a support system comprised of like-minded people for constructive interaction, exchange of ideas and benefit from each other's experience. We should be able to motivate us to achieve more and fulfill our objectives. Our success depends on our ability to remove all hurdles before they confront us. Our confidence in our ability to persuade people to achieve professional success, personal contentment, maintaining a positive attitude would help us all to overcome our fears. It is easier sometimes to work with someone else like a trusted friend or a professional and ask for help when needed.

Procrastination and Fear

Today, as per the psychology, around 20% of people consider themselves chronic procrastinators. There are many books, articles and programs available to help you to overcome procrastination and fear but as all of us know daily planners and to-do lists do not work out. A better way has to be there to end the procrastination habit. Experts say that the main cause of procrastination is "FEAR", fear of incapability, fear of failing, fear of success, fear of disappointment, fear of critics and many more.

The important step to end procrastination starts with ending negative thought pattern and creating fresh new thought patterns. This means you need to silent the voices inside you head that make you feel stressful and depressed. You need to recognize fear inside you and need to transform that fear into motivational energy. Just give yourself chance to make mistakes, it doesn't matter. Learn to clear your mind, achieve concentration and focus as much as you can. Try to view your task as small manageable parts rather than one large and impossible task. The negative thought patterns are deeply ingrained into most of the people and procrastination is a deep-seated habit.

These days, Hypnosis has become a proven and widely recognized method which is helpful in changing habits and ending procrastination. It helps people in changing their behavior and thought pattern. One of the famous articles "Psychology Today" stated that procrastinators learn to change their behavior with the help of highly structured cognitive behavioral therapy. During this process, you enter a highly relaxed and focused stage. During this stage, your conscious and subconscious mind is able to communicate in an effective way. With the help of a psychologist, you can control the way you want to respond to your surroundings to some extent.

Other than Hypnosis, there are several ways which can help you to reduce procrastination to a great extent and I have explained them as follows:

First of all, when are going through procrastination, the major cause for this is Self-Downing. This happens due to minimizing your own skills and abilities to succeed. You start disbelieving yourself, even when you are successful. To overcome this you need to practice accepting compliments about your work performance by saying 'Thanks You'. Always remember to praise yourself for the work completed.

Secondly, you can link tasks you don't like to your goals. It helps to mentally tie these tasks to one of your main goals. For example, keeping a tidy and clean home allows you to have clarity of mind and thoughts which is something you highly value. By having clarity of mind you will be able to work on your goals and you will have less anxiety.

Thirdly, when you think of a task as a burden that you have to finish will automatically ensure that you put it off. If you are not able to think of steps to complete a task, you create a feeling of overwhelm. So, just replace "How will I finish this work?" with "What steps can I take to complete my work?" Instead of finishing everything completely, you should focus on what you can do right now.

Another kind of thinking that leads to procrastination is perfection. Once you make this thinking that you have to do the work perfectly, the first step will likely to prevent you from ever starting the work and it further leads to stress. To overcome this situation, all you need to do is realize that an imperfect task completed today is better than the perfect task delayed forever.

Now that you understand how procrastination works, and how you can greatly reduce its influence in your life, you'll experience more freedom and greater personal self-satisfaction. All of us have the potential to improve the quality of our life and overcome procrastination. Just remember few things which I discussed in this article, I am sure that it will help you in many ways.