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Fear of Cancer – Definition

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Feelings related to a fear of cancer can be paralyzing. Hypnosis helps you reframe these concerns and self-advocate emotionally. We work with clients both in-office and worldwide. Use our online scheduler to setup your initial visit today.

Someone with a fear of cancer worries about their health, obsessively checking for symptoms or imagining the worst. This anxiety leads to frequent doctor visits, self-diagnosis, and emotional distress. Despite reassurance from medical professionals, the fear lingers, causing overwhelming concern about every ache or change in their body, often disrupting daily life.

Fear of cancer can also affect the healing ability for those currently with cancer. This can cause hesitation to seek treatment or creating an environment in the body where healing is more difficult.

Signs Cancer is Creating Fear

Here are 5 signs cancer is creating fear in your body and mind:

Constantly Checking for Symptoms: Frequently inspecting your body for signs like lumps, pain, or changes, even without any noticeable symptoms. This behavior reflects an obsessive worry about developing cancer.
• Excessive Health Anxiety: Constantly researching cancer symptoms online or asking friends/family about your health, often leading to more anxiety rather than reassurance.
• Avoiding Medical Visits Due to Fear: Despite feeling unwell, you may avoid seeing a doctor because you’re afraid of a cancer diagnosis, which can delay treatment and worsen anxiety.
• Overthinking Minor Symptoms: Small, harmless symptoms (like a headache or fatigue) trigger thoughts of serious illnesses, with the fear of cancer becoming a central focus of your thoughts.
• Hyperawareness of Health Issues: Becoming overly sensitive to your body, interpreting every change—no matter how small—as a potential sign of cancer, even when there’s no medical evidence to support it.

Hypnosis Helps You Change How You Perceive Cancer

A fear of cancer is deep rooted in personal safety. This is a primary function of our minds to help us survive our environment. Hypnosis can help you reframe these fears and feelings so they are healthier and so you can relax and feel safe. Meridian Peak Hypnosis practitioners work directly with your subconscious mind where emotions, actions and reactions reside in your mind. We give a ‘way out’ for feelings that do not serve you and most importantly: replace with new emotions that create better outcomes.

You can feel better and not fear cancer. Hypnosis is a tool that can help you achieve your goal.

Hypnosis is proven more effective than traditional counseling

In a study in American Health Magazine, hypnosis and hypnotherapy have a 93% success rate compared with lower results from other methods of therapy which require far more sessions.  Click here to learn more about hypnosis and its high success rate.

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Additional Information:

Wikipedia - Hypnotherapy
Wikipedia - Self Hypnosis
National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH)