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Vomiting Phobia Fix
Congratulations: you’ve downloaded the hypnosis you will listen to every day (or more!) for the next two weeks (or more!). The next step is to power up that hypnosis by making your personalised visualisations.
You are going to create two Mind Movies to play in your imagination when you listen to your download.
A Mind Movie is a visualisation in the form of imagined moving images – like a movie – which you create to watch inside your mind when you listen to your download.
Phobia Delete Mind Movie
Rational Response Mind Movie
Phobia Delete Mind Movie
Follow the steps below to create your Phobia Delete Mind Movie.
This shows moving images representing the experience which sparked your phobia of vomiting or, if you can’t remember this, the worst episode connected to your phobia.
Step 1: Identify
Identify the experience which sparked your vomiting phobia.
If you can’t remember this, identify the worst experience you’ve had relating to the phobia.
Step 2: Relax
Find somewhere comfortable to relax.
Close your eyes.
Take five deep breaths (inhale through your nose for four or five counts, exhale through your mouth at a slower pace).
Then breathe deeply in a way that is comfortable for you, taking breaths from low down in your abdomen. Place your hand on your stomach to check that it is moving up and down as you breathe.
Step 3: Create
Create a Mind Movie of imagined moving images representing the experience.
Have the Mind Movie start just before the event happened when everything was fine, then move on to show the experience happening, and then finish when everything is fine again.
Step 4: Detail
The images should be in black and white and grainy in quality (this will make it less distressing to imagine).
Your Mind Movie should be about 30 seconds.
Step 5: Control
Imagine you have a control board in front of you which allows you to play with your Mind Movie.
Practice pausing it, fast forwarding it, and rewinding it while you watch it.
Vomiting Phobia Examples
Example:
Arya had a phobia of people being sick around her after her mother had vomited next to her when she was a child. She was worried that she would be unable to deal with her son falling ill.
She made a black and white Mind Movie of the incident of her mother vomiting which started when everything was fine (her mother was reading to her), moved through to her saying she felt unwell and vomiting next to her chair and ended when all was fine (her mother cleaned everything up and felt better).
Example:
Isaac had a phobia of vomiting after he had been sick on himself at school.
He made a black and white Mind Movie which started when everything was fine (sitting in his lesson), moved through to his being sick on himself and ended when all was fine again (his teacher helped him out of the classroom to the sickbay).
Rational Response Mind Movie
This consists of moving images representing a rational response to your vomiting phobia.
We are going to use the brain’s “conditioning” function to show your brain how to respond calmly and rationally when you think about vomiting or encounter it.
What is Conditioning?
Our lives contain experiences which, if repeated, trigger an automatic response in our behaviour. In the most famous example, Pavlov, the Russian scientist, rang a bell every time he fed his dogs. After a while, just hearing the bell would trigger his dogs to salivate. An otherwise neutral stimulus like a bell ringing took on a positive meaning for the dogs.
Other examples of classic conditioning might be: standing up when the school bell is rung; or feeling tearful at the sight of a needle because of past painful injections; or a song from the happy moments in the past putting you in a good mood. Put simply, two stimuli are linked together to produce a learned response.
