Hypnosis

What have you got to lose,go for it and good luck.

I didn't find hypnosis helped me with my phobias, but EFT did!(Emotional Freedom Technique) which involves tapping on acupuncture points.

find a respectable hypnotherapist with good reviews.
i think it can be v helpful, worth a try anyhow.
i saw something about a man in the midlands, sorry don't know name; he had good results with people who were about to have gastric reduction surgery. he took them through the process, as if they were having/had had the surgery.
it was all hypnotherapy. but they ate much less afterwards, felt as if their stomach was smaller.

I listen to Paul McKenna on utube. You could just listen to some of them and see how you get on with them. I find I fall asleep after a few minutes so they obviously have an effect on me but some people might find that they just lie there thinking what a waste of time.

I think hypnosis can work if you are the kind of person who will surrender yourself to the will of another. I am not! I don't believe it would work for me because I am certain I would never relinquish control of my mind. For instance, I would never drink to the point of being unable to remember what I'd done. That would totally freak me out. So I have never considered myself a suitable subject for hypnosis.

I've spent (literally) thousands on hypnosis, trying to overcome my fear of flying. The thing that was the nearest to working was aversion therapy and that only helped a little.

A Paul McKenna track, many years ago, helped a little. But in person hypnosis was useless.

timetogo What have you got to lose ……money !!!
I tried it once and unfortunately could not be hypnotised it just didn’t happen although I was very open to it and really wanted it to work but absolutely nothing happened the hypnotist had no success in putting me in any other state than firmly in the present listening to someone in high heels walking past the window wondering when I was going to go into a different state, but totally in the present. He tried on two occasions then gave up and I gave up too
It was nt the hypnotists fault he was a professional doctor who also practised hypnosis
But like chestnut said I think I ve got my feet too firmly on the ground and not someone who can ‘float’ or believe in fairies, angels, unicorns or lepricorns

About 30+years ago I had hypnotherapy once for my dental phobia. I did not think it had worked, I was wide awake the entire time but I was also aware I really could not care less what was going on around me.

Under normal circumstances, my BP would have been sky high and I would have been jumping every time my mouth was touched. It was the dentist who did the hypnotherapy.

I was hypnotised OK. No problem. It's so relaxing. Unfortunately, it did bugger all for my fear of flying.

Why not book swimming lessons? Either adult classes or individual ones.