How To Stop Your Fear of Dogs

Posted by writer on October 16th, 2008 at 08:21pm

Being scared of dogs is quite common. The fear is quite often triggered when we’re younger. Maybe you were enjoying a game with a dog and suddenly there were bare teeth and loud barks. If that happens when you’re older, no problem, you can handle it. But when you’re younger, almost in an instant your mind is trained to think that dogs are not as nice as you thought they were.

Since we learn fast when we put our mind to it, this impression sticks with us. Whether we like the idea or not.

So is there anything you can do to get rid of your phobia of dogs? After all, most of them just want to make friends with you and regularly fetch a stick or ball for you.

You could try and rationalize that “dogs are my friends” but you and I both know that it’s highly unlikely you’ll believe that kind of talk. Above all as there’s almost certainly a voice in your head yelling (in true pantomime fashion) “oh no they aren’t!”

The next step is to get a little bit closer to dogs so you can see them but don’t stand any chance of actually meeting one face to face or have it jump up at you and smother you with muddy paw prints. Pictures work well for this stage. Unless your mind is working overtime, you know that the picture is actually some dollops of ink on paper or pixels on your computer monitor. So this is quite a safe transition stage for most people and you’ll likely notice your mind getting slightly less worried at the idea of encountering a dog in real life.

But all that is quite tedious and can take what seems like forever. Plus going the slow route won’t work if your children absolutely must have a dog and there’s no way you can talk them out of it?

A much speedier way to get over things like a fear of dogs|being afraid of dogs is to use hypnosis. Hypnosis works unobtrusively in the background. And no-one but you need ever know you’re using it as you can instantly download a hypnosis MP3 for dog phobia and listen to it until your fear melts away.

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