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Being scared of dogs is quite common. It often starts when we’re young. Possibly you were enjoying a game with a dog and out of the blue your dog got upset and started growling at you. If that had happened when you’re older, no problem, you’d brush it off. But when you’re younger, suddenly your mind starts to think that a dog isn’t really man’s best friend.

The problem is that – despite what you may remember from school – we actually learn quite fast, this idea gets stuck in our mind. Whether or not we can’t work out why when we think about it rationally.

So what can you do to cut down being frightened of dogs? Deep down, most of them just want to make friends with you and of course be stroked and made a fuss of.

You could tell yourself that “dogs are my friends” but you and I both know that you won’t actually believe yourself. Especially as there’s almost certainly a very loud voice in your head screaming (as they do in all the best pantomimes) “oh no they aren’t!”

The next step is to get a little bit closer to dogs so you can see them but there is zero chance that you’ll actually be nose to nose or have it jump up at you and smother you with muddy paw prints. Pictures work well for this stage. Unless you’re truly paranoid, you know that the picture is actually some dollops of ink on paper or a bunch of glowing pixels on your computer monitor. So this is quite a safe transition stage for most people and you’ll likely notice your mind getting slightly less panicky at the thought of coming face to face with a dog in real life.

But all that is quite tedious and we all like instant results nowadays. What do you do if your kids suddenly want a dog for a present and they won’t take no for an answer.

A much faster way to get over things like a phobia of dogs is to use hypnosis. Hypnosis works unobtrusively in the background. And no-one but you need ever know you’re using hypnosis as you can instantly download a hypnosis MP3 for fear of dogs and listen to it and just let your fear disappear.