Hypnosis For Fear of Water: How can Hypnotherapy Help?
Throughout my career as a hypnotherapist, I’ve helped many people overcome the fear of water. Some had significantly traumatizing experiences from their past that caused this fear while others had unexplained fear of water. Whether from past lives or this lifetime, fear of water can get in the way of many things.
Some people fear swimming because of this fear, while some people feel uncomfortable even when taking showers. Water is a natural element. Through the centuries, it’s been associated with healing, life, and flow. So how can something so natural trigger an alarming response for some people?
No matter how negative your reaction to water is, you don’t have to be stuck with it. Hypnotherapy can help uncover the root cause and overcome this fear once in for all.
What causes fear of water?
Unfortunately, there is no set cause for the fear of water but typically it’s a learned association due to a negative past event. This can be an experience such as observing someone drowning, feeling panic in the water, or being thrown in the water unexpectedly. Mysteriously, fear of water can also remain from your past lives. For example, dying due to drowning in a past life can lead to the fear of water.
During your hypnotherapy session, you will discuss with your hypnotherapist more about the cause or any insights about what may be causing it.
Can hypnosis help with fear of water?
With hypnosis, we can target the subconscious issues related to the fear of water such as any events of trauma, habitual responses, and subconscious triggers. Since we know that fear of water can be caused by a negative past event, hypnotherapy can be very promising as the subconscious mind holds suppressed memories and emotions.
Rescripting memories with hypnosis
One of the techniques we can use is rescripting. During hypnosis, we can regress to a negatively suppressed event and work on changing the end result more adaptively or we can work on resolving the event subconsciously. So when the event is remembered, it doesn’t trigger negative emotions within.
Desensitizing to triggers with hypnosis
Another technique can be working with the triggers directly. Whether it is touching the water, the anticipation of swimming or even taking a shower; we can work on desensitizing to triggers and help respond to the triggers in a calm and relaxed manner.
Exploring Past Life Regression Therapy
Past life regression therapy can also be a helpful technique for some people. Especially if there are no memorized negative events or known causes, the answers may be in the past lives. Sometimes even unrelated issues in past lives can cause unexplained fears in the present lifetime. During hypnosis, we regress to the past life that will give us the necessary answers.
You can read more about the past life regression therapy and how it can help you overcome many issues in my previous blog post, by clicking here.
Fear of water and fear of swimming can be interlinked. Hypnotherapy can help with overcoming both of these fears.
Can hypnosis help with the fear of swimming?
Fear of swimming and fear of water can be related in some cases. Regardless, fear of swimming can be helped with hypnotherapy as well. It’s important to understand the underlying cause of this fear to address and retrain the mind to perceive swimming from a different perspective.
Additionally, working on the overall confidence of the person can be helpful in not giving in to the fear. Just like with any other performance, what we believe we can do will determine the result. Especially positive visualization under hypnosis can help ease the subconscious mind.
Final words
Water is an essential element for all life. Moreover, swimming is a profound skill that will come in handy when we least expect it. If you are struggling with the fear of water or the fear of swimming, hypnotherapy can help you flow to the other side of the fear, where you can enjoy this rejuvenating power!