NLP Fast Phobia Cure

By: Adam Sargant

The following is a script based on the NLP Fast Phobia Cure. It includes some hypnotic language patterns and is designed to be used after a light induction, with some anchors set up in advance that can be fired at the point indicated. If you are not familiar with the NLP concept of eliciting and anchoring resourceful states, I suggest you find out more about it, as it complements this approach immensely.

OK, I want to imagine yourself seated in the middle of a cinema. Be there… see the screen from your own eyes and notice the colour of the seats, the size of the auditorium. Be aware of the sensation of the seat comfortably supporting you.

Up on the screen, see a black and white snapshot of yourself in a situation just before an experience in which you would have had this phobic response.

Now, I would like you to imagine that you float out of your body and back, toward the back of the cinema, so that you can see your self in front of you in the middle of the cinema looking at the screen. And again, float out of your body, floating back, further back into the projection booth, so you can see yourself sat at the back of the cinema looking at yourself sat in the middle of the cinema looking at the black and white snapshot of yourself on the screen.

Now, I want you to turn that snapshot into a black and white movie running all the way through that experience in which you used to have a phobic response. Let it run all the way to the end… and freeze it as a still image, before stepping into the screen and into your body in that image. Now allow the film to run backwards this time in colour. Run the film backwards quickly now, so all the people are moving backwards, all the sounds are played backwards, but with you IN the movie. All the way back to the beginning now. Good.

Now run the movie forwards, but with you in it, checking how you feel dealing with that situation in which you used to experience the phobic response (at this point, it is useful to fire some pre-set up resourceful anchors). That’s it. Good.

Now, if you feel it would be of benefit, we can run the movie backwards again in just a minute. But this time, allow yourself to hear to funniest, most ludicrous background music you can imagine… something from a circus act, maybe. OK, now, run that film backwards as before but with music. All the way back to the beginning. Excellent. And relax.

This article was written by Adam Sargant, copyright 2005 and is to be found on the Hypnosis Audio CDs site.