Using Exposure therapy to get rid of Your Fears

exposure therapy is based on two ideas, The first one is that irrational fears grow stronger as long you run away from the situation, While the second is that you can change your beliefs from thinking that you can't stand the situation to a belief that you could. Note that we are assuming here that the fear is irrational, that is you are afraid from something that can't hurt you like fear of darkness or fear of harmless animals. The following steps is what should be done to use exposure therapy:

exposure therapy detailed steps

Go to a place where your irrational ideas trigger your fears. For example, if you are afraid of darkness, go to a dark place, start to gradually advance into that place,try to advance there as much as you can,if you felt that you are too afraid to go on, You can even stop until you calm down a little then continue going forth.
Instead of trying to control your emotions, just experience your fear, let it flow normally, think of the worst that could happen while experiencing your fears
If you can stand till fears decline then you have done a great job. You started convincing your subconscious mind that there was nothing to be feared there.
In case you were too afraid to try, you can take a close friend with you. This will help you be more calm, but if it's fear of darkness it's preferred that you go alone.
Keep repeating this process through the days until your fears are conquered. In each time you repeat the process you may find your fears take less to diminish.

This method was found to be so effective, however, the only problem is that you may refuse to expose yourself to what you fear. It's worth to mention that there is another method that can be used which does not involve direct exposure to that extent, which is called desensitization. In desensitization, you will learn how to deal with the emotions you experience through gradual exposure to the situation by imagining it in your mind.

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