All,
I've been busily revising for my up and coming hypnosis exam. Looking over a past paper I was given and the required areas of revision. The examine seems quite keen on having us know what a fear of X is called.
ie Acrophobia is a fear of heights. I thought I'd share with you how I remembered 20 phobias within about 3 mins and then a 2 extra review session
When you want to remember something your mind likes to place the information somewhere. It needs to be able to locate the information sometime in the future. Therefore when I think of phobias I think of my hypnosis classroom and a particular corner. Everytime I want to remember something about phobias I know this is the first place to think of.
The location is the 1st place, your initial reaction when you think of something. Some other 'locations' are: Doctor's surgery, Cave. The actually location and why you go there isn't important. You just need to think of that same place each time.
Then it is basically an equation acrophobia=fear of heights
Let us cut it down, all phobias end in the stem phobia..so we can drop that. The = is always going to be fear of X. So that can go too.
So now it becomes acro=heights.
When you think of the prefix acro what do you think of? What does it remind you of? It has to be the very first thing you think of. I think acrobat. This ties in great with heights. Think of an acrobat swinging through the air in your location. You need to add movement I think best so you remember it as quickly as possible. The more outrageous the image the better.
Another example is Pantophobia. This is a fear of everything.
Location same as above
Therefore Panto=Everything. The first time I read this I thought it said Planet.. So now everytime I am in my corner I see a Man holding a planet.
Easy,
Happy Travels
A
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