Barbara Lynn Allen, MS, MBA, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, and longtime OPEN EXCHANGE lister, is a brilliant, talented, and deeply caring healer with a unique set of helping and healing tools. She combines many healing modalities, including the powerful new energy therapies to effect rapid change even in difficult cases. (See her listing in Hypnotherapy.)

HELP IS ON THE WAY
Marianne was a smart, educated woman with a good job and a history of success in many areas of her life. But she was terrified to drive on a freeway or wide, hilly streets. She had other fears as well. "I'm deathly afraid to fly," she said in our first session. "I need to go to Europe to visit my family and I can't bring myself to get on a plane. What can I do? " she wailed, tears of frustration in her eyes.
Having been afraid to fly for a number of years now, her fear was becoming a crisis. Her driving phobia was also highly inconvenient, restricting where she could go, and making her life smaller and smaller.

BREAKTHROUGHS IN HEALING
Marianne was eager to change and very wiling to utilize the new and remarkably easy methods I offered her, even though she had not encountered these methods before. She just wanted results. Her work with me went easily, quickly and smoothly because of her willingness to benefit from these new ways of healing.
Her problems were complicated (maybe like yours), but her open and cooperative attitude made it possible for us to work well together and to remove all of her fears and phobias in a very short time.

DRIVING MADE EASY
I helped her to resolve her driving issue by going back to the root causes and tracing the circumstances surrounding the onset of her fears.

"My husband abandoned me. I felt alone and I was afraid. I had never really been by myself in my life before," she said with more tears in her eyes. A short-term relationship with a man who was a reckless driver added to her sense of anxiety. All of a sudden, she became afraid to drive on certain types of streets, especially up inclines or down steep grades.

I explained to Marianne how stressful circumstances, like her divorce, could make upsetting events, like her boyfriends' reckless driving, feel even more disturbing and could even create deeper traumatic feelings that might set a new phobia in place.
After a few sessions, using powerful, but gentle, innovative methods that I've developed over the years; methods that combine proven hypnotic techniques with energy clearing work, Marianne began driving wherever she wanted to go. "I can now get to work much faster, by driving on the same highway I used to be afraid of," she said, with a surprised but happy look on her face. Perhaps, even more importantly, she finally felt emotional relief from the painful issues surrounding the breakup of her marriage. She seemed much happier each time she came in. She began to look forward to each new session, as she experienced more freedom from old fears and the ability to finally live her life in the present. At each session we kept checking the old issues to see if they would return, but they never did, to Marianne's great relief; which was no surprise at all to me.

FLYING AND NOT DYING
Next we worked on her flying phobia. With only a few weeks left until her flight was to leave she was eager to tackle this most difficult and perplexing of fears.

The complexities of her flying phobia were even subtler than her driving phobia and not at all obvious at first.

"If I die in a plane crash, my mother will be all alone with no one to turn to," she said with deep anguish in her voice. "Let's find out more about that," I suggested. Using deep and gentle trance work, I guided her to find the answers for herself. "If my mother is inconsolable it will be my fault. I can't take a chance of flying. I don't feel safe flying. What if I die in a plane crash, just like my cousin. What would my mother do then? It would be my fault. Maybe I should never have left, because then she wouldn't have had to miss me all this time." Anguish and guilt were in her voice.

Marianne didn't understand why she felt so afraid or why she was so helpless to control her fears. (Perhaps you, my reader, feel the same way about something in your life.)

Because hypnosis creates a state of heightened awareness, Marianne was able to trace her seemingly irrational feelings back to a terrible event involving the death of her cousin in a plane crash many years ago, and her mothers' inconsolable grief at her cousin's loss. "My mother never got over my cousins death, and if I die her suffering will be even worse." Then she began to remember how difficult it had been to leave her family and go off to America to start a life of her own. She remembered how guilty she had felt about leaving her mother. The memories were all there, but time and life had pushed them back into her unconscious. She "sort of forgot" and needed help to put all the pieces together.

With my experienced guidance, something that seemed like a mystery with no solution began to unfold rapdly. Together we uncovered the root causes of her fears and began to quickly clear them away.

NO MORE GUILT
Marianne's guilt about leaving her mother laid the foundation for her fear of flying! Her cousin's sudden death in a plane crash set the phobic response in place.

"I never would have figured this out on my own," she said.

"Now that we know the causes and how they are related to your current fears, we can release all the negative feelings, the guilt and finally all of your fears," I responded. If Marianne died like her cousin, she believed it would be the final act of abandonment of her mother.

The subconscious mind can work in funny and surprising ways to create problems and also to create solutions. The subconscious mind's attempts to protect us from further suffering can sometimes result in other kinds of unhappiness. We can even find ourselves in terrible dilemmas that can require highly skilled assistance to discover, clarify, work through and clear.

Our own minds can paradoxically hold us in a vise of false beliefs and limiting ideas that can bring our growth and fulfillment to a halt. Sometimes for many years.

By using powerful, new energy clearing methods, which act deeply yet gently on mind, body and spirit simultaneously, we cleared all of Marianne's painful, negative feelings about the events from her past. As her negative emotions released, we then dissolved the false beliefs that had been holding her prisoner in a web of inaction and fear.

FREE TO BE
As we removed negative and false beliefs and replaced them with more realistic beliefs about the here and now, Marianne's life took on a whole new quality. She was finally living fully in the present rather then in the past or the unknown future.

A few weeks after our last session, I got a postcard from her from Europe. She was overjoyed to report that she felt fine on the fifteen-hour flight to her family. And best of all, she was actually looking forward to enjoying the flight back.

No matter how long you've had your problem: fear, phobia, habit, addiction, or low self-esteem, there is available to you now effective, lasting, short term solutions for your long term problems.

All you need is a commitment to yourself to make a change, and the willingness to experience the new and exciting healing methods that you may never have previously encountered.

You may have no idea why you have a certain problem. Hypnosis can help you find the reasons. Energy work can clear and resolve the underlying issues that are holding your problems in place, and holding you back in your life. You, too, can experience the freedom to live your life, your way, just like Marianne.