Spiders: itsby bitsy creepy crawly things.
Sometimes poisonous but normally more scared of us than we are of them.
Of course, this rationalisation doesn't stop a lot of us being scared of spiders.
Here are five techniques to help overcome your fear of spiders: Hypnosis A great way of getting over fears and other things that are holding you back in your life.
Hypnosis works at the subconscious level - the same level that most of the things that happen on auto pilot in your body occur on.
After all, if you could rationalize your fear away you'd have done it already.
Treat yourself to a session with a local hypnotist or download a track that's been written to help you overcome your arachnophobia.
Read up on the critters Some people have managed to get over their worries about these eight legged creatures by studying and finding out more about them.
Once you start delving into the secrets that are held by spiders, you may become fascinated by how they weave their webs and how strong the resultant material is.
Face your fear Once you can convince your rational mind that spiders are common and that you're therefore likely to encounter them all over the place, the next step is to face your fear.
This could be as simple as having a staring match with one - chances are they'll sense a fly somewhere and disappear of their own accord.
Or you might really embrace the concept and pretend that you're a child again, letting the spider crawl all over you.
That last one normally freaks people - even those who aren't normally worried about spiders - so don't take it personally if you react badly to that idea.
But if you can develop a sense of childish wonder when you next meet a spider in a dark corner of a room you may find that they're not as bad as the horror movies first made out.
Make friends with spiders OK, you may not take one out to dinner.
But they actually do a good job of keeping flies, bugs and other pests out of the way.
The web they spin is purpose built to trap these equally unwanted creatures and their diet of flies helps to keep your own kind of mini pest control regime.
Remember horror movies aren't real Sure, you may well jump out of your skin at times when you're watching a horror movie.
But the director, actors and special events people wouldn't be doing their job properly if that wasn't the case.
But a lot of things we see in the movies aren't real - or at least aren't real in the dimension of time that we occupy - so there's no reason to think that the inch long spider that's facing up to you is really a man eating monster in disguise.
That's not the case in real life, so keep your movie viewing in a different compartment of your life from the part of your life that really is living things out.
Sometimes poisonous but normally more scared of us than we are of them.
Of course, this rationalisation doesn't stop a lot of us being scared of spiders.
Here are five techniques to help overcome your fear of spiders: Hypnosis A great way of getting over fears and other things that are holding you back in your life.
Hypnosis works at the subconscious level - the same level that most of the things that happen on auto pilot in your body occur on.
After all, if you could rationalize your fear away you'd have done it already.
Treat yourself to a session with a local hypnotist or download a track that's been written to help you overcome your arachnophobia.
Read up on the critters Some people have managed to get over their worries about these eight legged creatures by studying and finding out more about them.
Once you start delving into the secrets that are held by spiders, you may become fascinated by how they weave their webs and how strong the resultant material is.
Face your fear Once you can convince your rational mind that spiders are common and that you're therefore likely to encounter them all over the place, the next step is to face your fear.
This could be as simple as having a staring match with one - chances are they'll sense a fly somewhere and disappear of their own accord.
Or you might really embrace the concept and pretend that you're a child again, letting the spider crawl all over you.
That last one normally freaks people - even those who aren't normally worried about spiders - so don't take it personally if you react badly to that idea.
But if you can develop a sense of childish wonder when you next meet a spider in a dark corner of a room you may find that they're not as bad as the horror movies first made out.
Make friends with spiders OK, you may not take one out to dinner.
But they actually do a good job of keeping flies, bugs and other pests out of the way.
The web they spin is purpose built to trap these equally unwanted creatures and their diet of flies helps to keep your own kind of mini pest control regime.
Remember horror movies aren't real Sure, you may well jump out of your skin at times when you're watching a horror movie.
But the director, actors and special events people wouldn't be doing their job properly if that wasn't the case.
But a lot of things we see in the movies aren't real - or at least aren't real in the dimension of time that we occupy - so there's no reason to think that the inch long spider that's facing up to you is really a man eating monster in disguise.
That's not the case in real life, so keep your movie viewing in a different compartment of your life from the part of your life that really is living things out.
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