I despise my heartbeat, so I was curious...

For all of those who have been writing about "heart beat phobia", I might be able to lend some information that will be of interest to you. First, ask yourself, am I a very creative person? Second, ask yourself if you are a very sensitive person? Third, ask yourself if your imagination has produced consistently in the past phobias. These three ingredients are evidence of something I like to call a potentially vulnerable individual to hypochondriac tendancies or imaginary illness or anticipation of illness. Ultimately, we need to recognize that our personality may be vulnerable given the misuse of what could be an incredible tool, our powerful imagination, our sensitivity to things, and creativity. When we are aware that our imagination is a source of creating or crafting thoughts, we can take more control of our imagination. Ask yourself if what I am imagining is useful to me or not useful? Logically, having such fears of a heart beat are not use ful in any way. Therefore, logic would say you should not imagine such things. They say hypochondria can be cured using information (i.e. eliminate ignorance on the subject and get factual information). Number two, recognize that it is a problem internal to you and therefore within your ability to solve. Finally, I believe that the fear stems from a dissociation of you to your body. If you have no relationship to your body, then perhaps you need one in order to respect all of your body, organs, and other. In other words, learn to have a loving relationship with your body, rather than a fear based one. This is a useful attitude, as opposed to a non-useful one. Amazingly enough, the fear likely is resultant of a subconcious fear that our body may let us down or not be reliable. Ultimately, ask yourself this: would your body have a tendancy to be more reliable if you loved it, nurtured it, encouraged it, respected it, did not take it for granted, and appreciated it OR if you feared it, hated it, despised it, did not embrace it, did not help it, nourish it, etc. I will say that when you learn to accept and love yourself and your body, you are in turn being encouraging and useful to all processes. This is a positive attidue towards living, one that can uproot your fear based tenandancies and replace them with a love based inclination to your entire being.