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Overcomming Bathing Fears
Fear is a funny thing of life. The more you think of it, the more you feel it. You can get afraid, shit sacred of life. The 'unknown' around and within you will make your life miserable for absolutely no reason. We relate fear to everything that we feel is repulsive, or unknown, or things we are not good at doing or are uncomfortable with. A lot can be done to overcome such fears, while keeping the defense mechanism intact. One of such many fears is the fear of water and fear of bathing.
What is the cause of bathing phobia?
Like all fears and phobias, bathing phobia is created by the unconscious mind as a protective mechanism. In normal conditions, the unconscious or the subconscious mind is beyond ones control. At some point in your past, there was likely an event linking washing, bathing, or cleaning and emotional trauma. Whilst the original catalyst may have been a real-life scare of some kind, the condition can also be triggered by myriad, benign events like movies, TV, or perhaps seeing someone else experience trauma.
Problems of bathing phobia:
The phobia towards bathing will affect your life significantly. It can cause panic attacks and keep people apart from loved ones and business associates. Symptoms typically include shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea, and overall feelings of dread, although everyone experiences bathing phobia in their own way and may have different symptoms.
How does one overcome fear?
When you feel that you are scared to enter the bathroom, immediately consult the practitioner. Practitioners will teach you to regain control of your emotions and conquer your bathing phobia. By working with a professional you'll rapidly train your unconscious mind to connect different, positive feelings to the stimuli that triggers the phobia. And you will learn quickly now to stop the root cause of your Fear bathing: those awful thoughts, images, movies or sounds.
You can also use the 'NLP phobia cure' to overcome Bathing Phobia, by teaching your brain to automatically think about the phobia but without associating the situation.
Some tips & tricks to overcome fear:
- Use a bathtub that is comfortable for you. Select the right size tub.
- Please make sure of the temperature of the water in the tub. Avoid using very hot water. If you are unsure about the temperature, you can buy an inexpensive bath thermometer which can indicate the temperature.
- Be careful to use gentle, hypo-allergenic, tear-free products to clean your body, skin and hair. Select a product which is hypo-allergenic, tear-free, and relaxing.
- Try to engage yourself in any activity. You can listen to your favorite music while bathing.
- Never take sleeping pills before you go for a bath in a bath tub. And avoid bathing when you are drunk.
These tips help you to enter the bathtub more confidently.
Fear of material things can be overcome by first 'mentally' doing those things and then facing them in reality. Strong will power and sheer determination will help you in doing this. Courage comes from strong faith. Therefore take courage!