Fear of Heights Hypnotherapy

Do you struggle with a fear of heights? Whether it is looking out from an upper level shopping centre or car park, enjoying the view from several floors up in a building or dreading a cliff top walk, your fear of heights can be limiting and stop you doing things you want to do.

You know, logically, that you are in a safe place and your feet may be firmly grounded on the floor, yet the fear and anxiety take over. You may feel like you are going to fall, imagine worst case scenarios or just feel anxious and so get out of there (or stay away from there) as quickly as you can. Either you experience dread and try to avoid getting up high, or you struggle and seek to escape from that situation as quickly as you possibly can. There is the anxiety and dread that you may need to be up high, the worry about feeling anxious and the panic and fear that strikes if you find yourself in a high up place.

Most of the time avoidance may work quite nicely as a strategy for avoiding the anxiety and fear. You decline invitations to go places or you find a way to get out of things. Those around you may be used to it and so plan things that won’t involve heights, and you may feel bad about stopping them doing things. Or perhaps you can push through some situations by moving quickly and looking down (while pretending you are somewhere else). At some point, however, avoidance becomes problematic. You know you are limiting others from doing things. You can worry about freaking out and embarrassing yourself in front of people who don’t know about your fear, and you may be frustrated that you can’t just enjoy things and do things you would kind of like to get on and do. Your fear controls your life.

With your fear of heights, your brain has, for whatever reason, labelled high up situations as dangers and threats. Despite what you know logically about being safe, your feelings and emotions take over. Whenever you encounter something high up, the same pattern repeats and repeats. You may imagine falling down or worry about having a panic attack. You steer away from anything that could lead to feeling so uncomfortable. And you start to anticipate your fear of heights and think of yourself as someone who can’t cope with these situations. It becomes a self perpetuating cycle of dread, anxiety, worry and fear.

We know that your fear is your brain over protecting you and that a habit of anxious thoughts, feelings and behaviours maintains that fearful pattern. And that is why fear of heights hypnotherapy can work so effectively. You can gain freedom from your fear, start doing (and enjoying) the things you want to do and you can start to relax about any high up situations that may come your way in the future.

Fear of Heights – What People Say

Living in the Fens, as I do, you may think that it is too flat for anyone to struggle with a fear of heights. However, for some people things like bridges, being in a glass lift, looking out the window from a few floors up or being up a level or two at a shopping centre can be enough to trigger the anxiety and panic. And when you go away then who knows what situations you may encounter.

I’ve helped people in hypnotherapy sessions whose legs turn to jelly if they encounter a high up situation. Some feel anxious just thinking about the possibility of having to go high up. There have been people who run, as if for their lives, back down to a lower place and others who have described coming to a standstill and just sitting on the floor with eyes closed tightly when in a panic.

Whilst day to day a fear of heights may not be too problematic (after all, you’ll have orchestrated your daily routines to avoid it), it will always be a lingering inconvenience lurking at the back of your mind. You know at some point a situation with heights, or an expansive view, may occur. You may worry about going to new places, like on holiday or the coast, in case there are heights involved. You may be a bit embarrassed in case you need to tell others about it and you stop them doing things or just ruin the experience. It stops you doing things you would otherwise want to do, like visiting places, enjoying a beautiful view or going for a nice walk along hills or a cliff side path. More frustratingly you know, logically, that you are safe doing these things but you just can’t do it.

Whenever there is, or might be, a high up situation, it is on your mind and leads to those anxious thoughts and feelings.

If you are currently struggling with a fear of heights then you may be interested to learn what some of my other clients have said after their sessions. Like you, they used to struggle with being in high up places and situations. When it became too limiting they took action and each of them can now calmly relax about the possibility of being high up and when they encounter those kind of situations that in the past created anxiety and fear.

This is what Sylvia had to say:

“For most of my life I have had a great fear of heights. I want to visit Darjeeling, India. It is high in the Himalayas. Dan has helped me face my problem to enable me to go. I already feel more confident about going to the mountains and high buildings. I have also gained confidence in difficult driving situations.
I am truly grateful to Dan and recommend him to anyone with anxiety problems.”

And you may like to take a look at Renate’s video hypnotherapy feedback:

As with the others, Sharon was also able to overcome her fear of heights with hypnotherapy:

“Dan has really helped me with my fear of heights. I would highly recommend him.”

All very awesome stuff, I’m sure you’ll agree. And all this positive evidence supports how, if you want to overcome your fear of heights, then hypnotherapy can help you. It isn’t the heights themselves that are the problem (or we’d all be scared), it’s your thoughts, feelings, emotions, expectations and beliefs about heights and your capability to cope with them. Because these are all things that go on inside if your head, you can learn how to change how you think and feel in a way that allows you to get on with things with a sense of freedom.

Overcoming Fear

If you are fed up of having a fear of heights that limits you and holds you back then you, too, can overcome it just like the people above. Fear of heights hypnotherapy can help you to feel more calm, confident and in control in your thoughts, feelings, actions and reactions. Both before you go places, and whilst high up, you can relax and get on with things you want to do.

And if you would like to learn more then do get in touch and ask to book a free initial consultation. We’ll talk through how things are now, how hypnotherapy can help you and what we’ll do together to make your fear a thing of the past.

To your health and happiness, 

Dan Regan

Award Winning Anxiety Hypnotherapist in Ely & Newmarket

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