Innate fears and phobias are a common occurrence that impinge on the expression of life. Innate fears are not congenital but are all acquired through muddled reasoning. Kalliope Barlis in this book, tinkers with the thought pathway. With her extensive experience in neurolinguistic programming, she harps on the mindfulness of people. This book is a practical guide to promptly rewire the brain and chuck out the aberrant thought pathways.

Phobias are a clogged rationale conduit. The hedge of reasons is a deterrent to any groundswell of morbidity. Kalliope in her trenchant note wards off stereotyped and clichéd views. ‘Irrational fears and irrational phobias’ are the key problems. The book moves in a bantering exchange of cursory questioning to analyze phobic situations or tendencies or thought processes that are deviant from their natural course. The author uses this tack during counseling clients. 

Aberrations may crop up from traumatic experiences or fateful incidents. How can such gashes upon memories be placated? Readers may feel the book is doling out straitjacket contraptions just to stifle thoughts or revel in some recreational activity. With forty years of experience, Kalliope moves in a naïve way lest her client sense Kalliope’s intent to influence her.

The handbook has no infographics or visuals that augment reading and comprehension in a more interactive manner than usual in handbooks. However, Kalliope includes a couple of lucid exercises, making it experiential. The client session provides Kalliope’s strategy in allaying fear-mongering agents and ideas purveying the client’s mind. How did the phobia spring up? The ‘change agent’ induces new neural pathways by spinning the feelings. ‘The happiest people I know have no illogical fears and live with purpose.' 

To bend the bent mind is a tacky affair. An analytical approach to stave off phobias holds the panacea. And Kalliope Barlis does it with aplomb. Morbid ideas bid adieu with neurolinguistic conditioning of rationale and normancy.

Print Length: 138 pages