| Fear getting cancer? You're not alone. The fear of | | | | friend. Without being consciously aware of what |
| cancer is one of the most prominent long-term | | | | they're doing, those who are afraid can reject |
| anxieties plaguing modern man. A UK non-profit | | | | family members or friends at exactly those |
| survey has recently demonstrated that more | | | | moments when they most need help and support. |
| than 15% of UK citizens consider the fear of | | | | No Need To Fear Getting Cancer |
| cancer to be their greatest fear. In many | | | | Fortunately, there is good news for phobia |
| individuals, this fear can result in such debilitating | | | | sufferers: the fear of getting cancer is a |
| panic that it interferes with normal life. Hasn't | | | | psychological, rather than a physiological, |
| cancer caused enough pain already, to those who | | | | phenomenon. This may seem obvious. What is |
| have it and their grieving friends and relatives? It | | | | not obvious is that the 20th and 21st centuries |
| is a real tragedy that, in addition to the | | | | have brought about some powerful tools to |
| devastating effects of the disease itself, cancer | | | | resolve psychological problems. Although there's |
| must cause this second-order anxiety among | | | | no real cure for cancer yet, there techniques that |
| people who don't even have it. | | | | can bring about a cure for cancer phobia in many |
| Cancer Anxiety Can Hurt Your Life | | | | people. |
| Many of those who live their lives dreading this | | | | Eradicate Your Terror With NLP |
| terrible disease are embarrassed about their | | | | Most of these techniques involve a set of |
| fearful state. These victims of phobia worry that | | | | practices known as NLP, or neuro-linguistic |
| their anxieties are not "legitimate," even though | | | | programming. Developed in the 1970's, this |
| they cause them significant pain. After all, what's | | | | powerful system combines computer |
| to be afraid of? Doesn't their "imaginary" suffering | | | | programming, linguistics, and medical science. NLP |
| do disservice to actual victims of the disease? | | | | techniques are related to hypnotherapy, in that |
| However, cancer phobia is a serious problem in its | | | | both seek to teach people new behavior patterns |
| own right. This kind of terror can seriously | | | | by influencing the unconscious, rather than the |
| interfere with a sufferer's medical health. Those | | | | conscious, mind. This is the most reliable way to |
| who fear cancer routinely refuse to see medical | | | | eradicate irrational phobias, as these--as the very |
| health professionals or clinics, out of irrational | | | | phrase, "irrational phobias," implies--are always |
| dread of "catching" the disease--or because they | | | | grounded in the unconscious. |
| dread the prospect of being diagnosed! This, | | | | With the help of NLP and hypnotherapy, trained |
| ironically, can prevent doctors from diagnosing | | | | mental health professionals can stop sufferers' |
| malignant tumors in time to cure the patient, if | | | | fears of cancer in their at their root: the |
| they do get the disease. | | | | unconscious mind. NLP and hypnotherapy |
| Terror Destroys Compassion | | | | techniques will let you experience the emotions |
| Perhaps most harrowing of all, anxiety about the | | | | that ordinarily lead to terror in a controlled |
| disease can destroy our compassion for its actual | | | | environment--and then teach your mind to |
| sufferers. Someone who is obsessed with the | | | | respond differently to those emotions. NLP and |
| idea of harboring a cancerous tumor in their body | | | | hypnotherapy can't cure cancer; but they can |
| will avoid visiting a suffering victim of | | | | make sure you never have to irrationally fear |
| cancer--even if that victim is a family member or | | | | getting cancer again. |