Not if the phobia can be traced to early childhood.

Originally posted by NewlyAwakened
Not if the phobia can be traced to early childhood.

Yes, some phobias can be traced to events in childhood. But not all.....those are the ones I'm talking about.

Originally posted by smyleegrl
I have an extreme phobia of house fires. I don't mind fire in general, we go camping and I love to watch the flames dance. But I do have a fear of house fires, so much so that at times I can act irrationally. I've had this fear all my life, even though I've never been in a fire, nor do I know anyone who has been in a fire. (Strangely enough, my husband, son, and I had just moved into a new house....about three months later, our old house burned to the ground).

What say you, ATS.

I lost everything I ever owned to a house fire on July 1, 2007.

It's a completely rational fear.
When people talk about having nothing, that's it, I had a hotel room, which I went to high school from for months.
A couple shirts, a couple pairs of pants and a computer.
Now i'm back where I was sort of just missing all the priceless things I once had.

You never think in the moment just how valuable the most meaningless things are to you until you're watching your house burn.

While it's not something I fear, it's something i'd like to avoid forever.

What I do fear is NEEDLES. People laugh at me for it, but they don't understand.
I don't fear much of anything else but that. I had more surgeries then you can imagine when I was a kid.
And one thing that I never forgot was the pain, I don't know why I associate it with the needles though, but there you go.

As for past life? Well, i've had a few clues left in dreams as to what my potentials were.
Ancient Egypt or World War 2 have the strongest feelings for me. But no fears that I know of from those.

I'm currently reading The Big Book of Reincarnation : Examining the Evidence That We Have All Lived Before by Roy Stemman. It's goes into the many cases in which past life experience seems to be linked to unexplained phobias.... and more importantly, how often past life regression therapy tends to work wonders at eliminating them!

For me (being a pragmatic person) whether reincarnation is true or not, or whether the memories one accesses are true or products of imagination, is irrelevant if it has a beneficial effect!

In many cases, just bringing up and talking about the past life experience one time made the phobias disappear completely ever after!