Fear of the wind or of drafts is known as anemophobia, though it is also sometimes called ancraophobia.
Regardless of the name that we use, this little-recognized fear can be truly incapacitating for those who suffer from it.
Often anemophobia becomes worse as time goes by and, if left untreated, it can significantly impact on the individual's quality of life.
Indeed, it can severely inhibit and restrict so many of the day-to-day activities that others simply take for granted.
Not only can this phobia produce fear of the outdoors and of open windows, where wind and drafts might usually be expected to occur, but it can also produce really intense feelings of anxiety in apparently unrelated situations such as when passing a functioning hand dryer in a public toilet or when seated in an airplane with the overhead air vents blowing.
Though each person experiencing anemophobia does so in their own way, generally speaking the symptoms of this phobia are similar to those of other anxiety disorders.
These symptoms may include rapid breathing and shortness of breath, dry mouth, increased heartbeat, feelings of nausea and dread.
In severe cases of wind fear, anxiety can easily escalate into panic, thereby producing what is commonly referred to as a 'panic attack'.
Yet no one was born with this fear. In order for it to be activated it has first to be acquired.
In fact, anemophobia is almost always caused by a negative experience in the individual's past, which may or may not be recalled by the conscious mind, but which has been 'imprinted' on the subconscious mind.
Most often the person experiencing this phobia has found themself in a situation where the wind or draft has been blowing and where they felt real fear.
The specific experience has somehow become linked will all wind or drafts, in what is called a generalized conditioned response.
All too often, the person experiencing this disorder knows very well that it is irrational, but this knowledge does very little to help.
The medical approach is often to prescribe anti-anxiety medication or to refer the patient for cognitive behavioral therapy in an attempt to manage symptoms.
This however, is a bit like suggesting that someone learn to live with an elephant in the living room. How much better it would be to simply evict the elephant!
Because this fear springs from the individual's subconscious, it is there that we must look for its remedy.
And this is where advanced transformational hypnotherapy can be of such tremendous help.
Through the medium of correctly applied modern advanced hypnotherapy, we can reach down into the subconscious and uncover the beliefs that are producing and sustaining this fear.
Once accomplished, those beliefs can be corrected and replaced with realistic ones, so that the person is freed to resume their life in a normal manner - free of the terrible anxiety with which they have struggled for so long.
There really is no need to continue suffering from this terrible fear.
If you - or someone near to you - is experiencing the terrible discomfort and anxiety of anemophobia, ancraophobia, fear of the wind or fear of drafts, do not give up hope. Help is available.
Seek out an experienced and fully qualified advanced transformational hypnotherapist who has experience in successfully treating this issue and free yourself from the anxiety and fear of anemophobia once and for all.
You'll be really glad you did!
Author Resource:
A leading British hypno-psychotherapist, with practices in London and Birmingham, UK, Peter Field is a Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Health. Peter's FREE self hypnosis download is now available and his therapy website has many more informative and useful articles plus hypnotherapy help with fear of the wind - anemophobia .
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