Pixdeluxe | E+ | Getty Photographs”A phobia is an irrational response to a benign substance,” Christopher Paul Jones, a London-based phobia specialist with a clinic on London’s Harley Avenue, informed CNBC Make It in an interview.”As human beings, we’re primitively hardwired that after we expertise hazard, our amygdala fires off, after which we do considered one of a number of issues. Mostly battle, flight, or freeze. So, both get offended and punch the factor, or we run from the factor, or we disguise from the factor,” he stated. The amygdala is part of the mind that processes feelings like worry or motivation.This set off is helpful after we had been preventing saber-toothed tigers or if we had been in precise hazard, Jones stated. Nonetheless, a phobia is when that response is to one thing that is not harmful.Jones’ clinic has handled quite a lot of phobias from a worry of water, heights, germs, needles, and even the worry of failure.He defined that phobias develop by means of a conditioned response like that of Pavlov’s canine experiment. That well-known experiment was carried out by Russian neurologist Ivan Pavlov who would ring a bell each time he fed his canine. The canine finally began to salivate after they heard the bell ring as a result of they related it with meals.”Human beings do the identical factor,” Jones defined. “Mostly with a phobia, sooner or later in your previous, your mind has linked hazard to one thing that has occurred … then at any time when you concentrate on that factor once more sooner or later, it fires off that previous response.”Jones’ just lately printed e book “Face Your Fears” guides readers by means of workout routines to assist them overcome their fears. He shared his three high tricks to overcome any worry with CNBC Make It.A quite simple approach to problem your phobia is to consider the thing of your worry in a different way, Jones stated.He calls it the “Harry Potter” impact referring to a scene within the “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and techniques” film the place college students face their worry and use magic to rework it into one thing comedic.”So, while you consider that spider, usually individuals make it very huge and shut up. In case you think about it small, black and white … or think about it on curler skates, smoking somewhat cigar, dancing with somewhat hand … you are going to really feel very totally different,” Jones stated.He advised utilizing the identical approach in your inside dialogue.”In case you’re going ‘Oh my god, I’ll get scared’ or ‘That is going to make me leap’ or ‘What if I embarrass myself?’ In case you think about that inside dialogue prefer it was Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck, with a squeaky voice it should take all the facility out of it,” he stated.Within the second, this may change the way you understand the worry as a result of it’s going to seem “sillier and fewer life like,” Jones stated.  One of many easiest methods to consolation your self when encountering the supply of your phobia is giving your self a hug, Jones stated.”In case you mainly cross your arms and go up and down your shoulders, such as you’re hugging your self, it releases the identical chemical substances as when you had been hugging another person or if another person was hugging you,” he defined.”This releases oxytocin and varied different chemical substances and what occurs is, when you’re doing something that is enjoyable or self-soothing whereas attempting to image the factor you are afraid of, the mind struggles to carry two feelings directly, and in order that emotion of worry will get lowered.”Jones referred again to Pavlov’s canine experiment and stated that simply because the mind might be conditioned to worry one thing, it may also be reconditioned to undo that worry.”In case you go to instances while you felt actually joyful, calm or could not cease laughing and also you simply visualize these in your thoughts, and whereas visualizing these moments, you do one thing distinctive on the very peak of the emotion like squeezing your fist, excited about joyful instances, squeezing your fist, excited about joyful instances, squeezing your fist, you create a man-made Pavlovian response conditioning,” Jones defined.He stated that when you then squeeze your wrist when going through a specific worry, it’s going to take you again to these joyful recollections and take out the emotional depth of the worry.”These are some very fast issues, you are able to do to only disrupt that previous sample,” he added.”If you concentrate on Reddit or YouTube, the place individuals take like a horror film and recut it right into a humorous movie as a result of they modify the music and the pacing, we will do this with our inside photographs, inside dialogue, and our inside emotions,” he added.