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audry h	A wonderful drug free "Cure"	Lead	[-]
Posts: 1 (10/21/08 13:08:18) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None Someone suggested I go to YOU TUBE and look at Beachyboy2 he showed a video on how he beat the fear of flying..I tried it and couldnt believe that it WORKED. I felt an inner calmness that I havent felt since I was at school! I did it for about two days thinking of all the little fears I have about this and that and now I am loking forward to a flight next month..Wow! Go there, I have tried everything before, but EVERYTHING!! Beachyboy2 is a saint in my eyes and so normal.. Audrey
Capt Tom Bunn MSW LCSW	Thought Field Therapy and other methods	#1	[-]
Posts: 2419 (10/21/08 13:48:09) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The therapy being taught here was first developed in the U.S. by a Dr. Roger J. Callahan. He and I were on a television program together way back in 1982. He originally called it the "Five Minute Phobia Cure" but later renamed it "Thought Field Therapy". I learned the method from him. It did indeed work for some phobias, but I was unable to get it to work for fear of flying. I believe the problem is that there are so many aspects to flying (boarding, taxi, takeoff, climb, cruise, turbulence, etc.), that each aspect of it needs to be treated separately (which is what we do in the SOAR Program by linking each and every distinctive moment of the flight -- not to tapping -- but to something more effective). After Dr. Callahan came up with his method, it was ripped off by others who gave it a different names such as Energy Therapy. There is something similar to Callahan's work -- but far more developed than his TFT -- by Francine Shapiro called EMDR. EMDR is helpful when treating trauma, provided the trauma is not from early childhood. Shapiro seems to have come up with EMDR independently. EMDR is not a five minute therapy, but is used by a licensed therapist over a number of sessions. EMDR, however, is not helpful for fear of flying. There is also the "Six Minute Phobia Cure" from NLP. I spent over a year attending an institute to learn NLP, but found it -- again -- did not help with fear of flying. I should say, however, that for mild fear of flying ANYTHING will work. The problem is, when a person is afraid of having a panic attack on a plane, none of these other methods have any effectiveness at all. If you have a mild problem with flying, almost anything will help. What is available free at www.fearofflying.com is far more than you can find free elsewhere, and is also more than you will get if you pay for help elsewhere. We offer so many things free because our focus on with people who have moderate to severe problems with flying who cannot be helped by another other means. Here is the free help we offer. http://fearofflying.com/free_help_start.shtml The SOAR Library at www.fearofflying.com/wordpress/ The Wednesday night chat (9 PM until 11 PM) at http://fearofflying.com/chat.shtml Free Group Phone Counseling 10 PM until 11 PM. Come on the chat for information SOAR Forum at http://fearofflying.com/message.htm
audry h		#2	[-]
Posts: 2 (10/22/08 10:43:00) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Rubbish! It did work and it worked on 48 out 50 people who were petrified of flying. I can understand why you dont endorse it is because this is FREE!!! try it folks believe me after 50 years of being petrified I flew and enjoyed it try it it works.. I am so angry that you can rubbish such a wonderful method...Audrey
OneAnt		#3	[-]
Posts: 704 (10/22/08 11:54:27) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Audrey- First of all, I think you're completely missing what Capt Tom is saying. As it turns out, plenty of my friends and family members have some level of fear of flying. Maybe some jitters during certain parts of the flight, maybe anxiety pre-flight, etc. But none of them have such an extreme fear that they avoid flying. Some people here have such an intense fear of flying that they'll actually book a family vacation, get to the airport, check-in, and freeze at the jetway right before getting on the plane. They'll go years, even decades, without seeing family members of friends because they won't even consider booking a ticket. Capt Tom didn't rubbish the method. In fact, he praised it. He just said that it doesn't have the same results for people with more intense fears. Second, why would you feel the need to come to a SOAR course forum to market a different product?
xetere		#4	[-]
Posts: 12 (11/04/08 20:50:57) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Second, why would you feel the need to come to a SOAR course forum to market a different product? Because this is spam, and Audrey H is maybe a real FOF-er maybe not, who knows? but whatever, this sounds exactly like pitches for Vi*gra or HerbalLife or some other stuff that get posted on boards. THe language is the same, the bold lettering, the attacking of the reasoned response the smear innuendo about rejecting just because of money. Frankly I think this should be deleted. if she wants to advertise, let her pay, but this isn't my board.
idagooch		#5	[-]
Posts: 5 (11/05/08 21:03:32) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	yeah, i have to admit it DOES sound kinda pitchy...the only thing i would counter that with, is any time someone spams these boards they usually don't reply to anyone's replies...
Capt Tom Bunn MSW LCSW		#6	[-]
Posts: 2432 (11/07/08 14:41:49) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	We rarely do any censorship of the board. Posts are removed if completely unacceptable or offensive, but if someone wants to recommend something else, I just explain my point of view. There really is no other program anywhere or any kind that comes close to what we do, and we have the research to prove it.

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