Not surprisingly, many people have a deep-seated fear of moths. Something about the way these creatures’ soft, uneven wings flap so slowly as they spin through the air can seem like a nightmare to many people. The way moth bodies are soft and easily crushed into a kind of paste can make many people panic. The moth flies slowly and makes a highly visible silhouette when it lands. Also, the moths fly in seemingly arbitrary circles and don’t seem to make any attempt to avoid humans. Something in that dark form triggers a primordial reaction in many individuals: fear of the living non-sensitivity of nature. Often times, people with a general phobia of insects have a specific terror of moths, those obscure and poorly understood cousins ​​of butterflies.

Typical cures for moth phobia

What should you do if your dislike reaches the level of an obsession, where you not only run out of the room when you see a moth, but you constantly feel haunted by imaginary moths, or you can no longer live at home during the summer due to Darkness? , slow, winged creatures always fly from outside? Most people whose suffering reaches this point enter traditional therapy to try to cure their phobia.

Traditional therapy involves delving into your past in the company of a trained psychologist. Over the course of long conversations (perhaps with the help of hypnosis), you will try to find the first incidents that have shaped your brain in such a way that it goes into “panic mode” every time you see a moth. Maybe you were chasing one of these creatures and a bee stung you unexpectedly. Or maybe you were thoughtful, sensitive, and imaginative as a child and started having nightmares about moths because these creatures are inherently terrifying.

Why Traditional Therapy May Not Work

These methods of curing your phobia may not work, simply because there may not be any clearly defined traumatic incident that caused it. It is true that a very skilled therapist can dissuade you from your phobia even if there is no obvious cause. However, this process can be time consuming and is far from guaranteed.

A more effective shortcut to overcome the fear of moths

Fortunately, there is a shortcut to overcoming phobias, one that has been discovered by studying the techniques of some of the most effective therapists in the world. That shortcut is through a system called NLP, which stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP works quickly because it avoids the need to discover the roots of your phobia in the past. Instead, focus on your present.

How NLP helps

NLP works so well because most phobias are conditioned responses. Pavlov’s dogs always had the same instinctive reaction when they heard the sound of a bell. Similarly, the person suffering from phobia always has the same instinctive reaction when he sees the triggers of his anxiety. Panic thoughts follow a clear and unchanging pattern.

What NLP does is teach your unconscious mind new thought patterns. With the help of NLP, you will learn to isolate and recognize the irrational reaction in yourself. Then, using a combination of NLP and hypnotherapy techniques, you will learn to retrain your mind to form new associations. So, for example, instead of associating moths with panic, you will learn to associate them with calm and joy. In this way, you will be able to easily cure your fear of moths.