I recently flew back from Spain, having endured a restless ten hours in the airport with little sleep waiting for my delayed flight to depart at 4 am.

I did hear of a lady that spent the whole flight back to Manchester with her head in her hands suffering from anxiety all of the way back home. It must have been an awful experience for her, and how brave she was to get on the plane in the first place.

It is a shame however that she didn’t see a hypnotherapist before she flew. In my experience hypnotherapy is very effective for people with any phobias, but particularly flying.

I have helped people from all over Cheshire and South Manchester with this issue and two or three sessions of hypnotherapy normally gets the person quite happily on the plane and enjoying a new found sense of freedom.

In the majority of cases, a traumatic experience on a flight or something associated with the experience of flying can start the fear, which seems to get worse as time goes by. Until you do something about it that is, and in my experience hypnotherapy for flying is extremely successful.

It is also not always about flying itself; sufferers also express problems with motorway driving, bridges, heights and enclosed places. A feeling of being out of control when flying is also relayed by a number of my hypnosis clients.

The subconscious is at play here, doing what it thinks is best for you. You have been frightened before so it will create an anxiety about returning to this ‘dangerous place’.

Very useful in our caveman days, to stop you going back to the place where you were attacked by the sabre-tooth, but not useful today.

So, has anyone talked to your subconscious and explained that it is a really safe way to travel, and you can remain calm and in control when you are on a plane? If the answer is no and you live in South Manchester or Cheshire then maybe it’s a good time to give me a call. Cure the phobia of flying with hypnotherapy.