How does relaxation training help phobias?

How does relaxation training help phobias?

Larina Kase (President, Performance And Success Coaching) gives expert video advice on: How does relaxation training help phobias?; How does behavorial activation help with phobia?; How does thought restructuring help with phobias? and more...

Relaxation training can be helpful for phobias because when you have anxiety, your body's all worked up—it's all tense, and relaxation teaches you how to relax your body on cue. Also, sometimes people use systematic desensitization, and basically that's a fancy term for meaning you get yourself relaxed, and then you confront the thing that you're afraid of. So if you get yourself relaxed, and then you look at a spider, or you go up on a tall building, and then you feel better.