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Hypnotherapy for anxiety and panic attacks can transform the way you feel, react and behave. It breaks that loop you find yourself in and brings back the way you want to feel.
Hypnotherapy for anxiety and panic attacks can transform the way you feel, react and behave. It breaks that loop you find yourself in and brings back the way you want to feel.
For anxiety treatment using hypnosis call the Surrey Hypnosis Clinic
At a reasonable level, short bursts of anxiety can motivate us and enhance our performance. You can probably remember feelings of nervousness and tension in your body at some point in your life – your first date, a job interview.
If levels of anxiety become too intense or persistent they are debilitating, draining you of energy and making you exhausted. Unchecked, it can cause unwanted symptoms and emotional stress.
Anxiety typically involves:
- Emotions (eg: fear, nervousness)
- Physical sensations (eg: trembling, heart racing, stomach churning)
- Frightening thoughts (eg: I'm going to fail/make a fool of myself/loose control).
These can then affect our behaviour, leading us to put of or stop work, avoid other people, experience trouble sleeping or drinking too much. Feelings of aimless and hopelessness are also not uncommon.
How hypnosis can help your anxiety
The hypnotherapy sessions include:
- Changing the emotions, physical sensations and thoughts so that you see and feel the events differently - experiencing a different perspective of situation
- Acquiring new positive response behaviours - responding to situations in more appropriate and preferred ways.
- Training in relaxation techniques to reduce the physical symptoms of anxiety. It's impossible to be anxious when relaxed.
- Responding to situations in preferred calm confident relaxed ways rather than feeling anxious.
- Amplifying your strengths and abilities that co-exist alongside your difficulties.
Where anxiety is symptomatic of PTSD the main intervention technique would be EMDR. EMDR was originally designed for PTSD and used extensively on PTSD suffered by the veterans of the Vietnam War. Today, it continues to be successfully used for resolving PTSD.
Testimonials for Anxiety Hypnotherapy
"I first visited Eve after a prolonged period of great stress and illness which had left me feeling very anxious and extremely sad. I found it difficult to face the day and was a complete nervous wreck at work. I felt I could not cope, and experienced a sense of hopelessness. I am usually such a happy, bubbly person, usually out with the girls or planning my next adventure abroad - these new emotions were frightening."
"My GP suggested that I try hypnotherapy and a friend suggested that I try the Surrey Hypnosis Clinic, which was when I got in touch with Eve. At my first session with Eve I was unsure what to expect, but I was quickly put at ease as Eve explained how the therapy would work and we discussed what I hoped to get out of it. I was reassured that this therapy is not anything to worry about and I would not lose control of my mind or anything like that. Most importantly, Eve's work does not focus on how you have been feeling, but how you want to feel - so you can move forward to a better way of feeling and thinking."
"The hypnosis itself is very relaxing and a really positive experience. After my first session I came away feeling more positive about the future and more importantly, I felt hopeful. I had three sessions in total with Eve and learnt a number of techniques that enabled me to continue the therapy work at home. I can honestly say that these sessions made a positive difference to the way I felt, which not only helped me at the time, but have enabled me to learn and continue these life skills for the future."
"I just wanted to say a HUGE thank you for all you did for me. My wedding was fantiastic, a stressful lead up, but on the actual day I was a cool and calm cookie! Even the photographer said he had never seen a bride so calm and relaxed. I sailed through my vows, spoke clearly and actually quite loud - I didn't have a care in the world, no racing heart or panics - nothing, just felt happy and really enjoyed the whole day. It's all thanks to YOU - I truly believe you helped me. Thank you so much."
What is anxiety?
Anxiety is a state of mind that we all experience from time to time. Often being anxious usually is a fear of a future event or situation often based on past experiences. The experience can range from mild uneasiness and worry to severe panic. It is a normal response to stress or danger.
Persistent, intense or recurring anxiety not justified by real-life stresses can be a dead weight just hanging over you all the time. Present from the moment you wake, it’s exhausting. It can drain you physically and emotionally, meaning you wake up exhausted and you go about your work or social life in a permanently stressed and tired state.
What we mean by anxiety can vary a lot between individuals but tends to be made up of features of altered thoughts, emotions, behaviours and physical sensations. Each of these features can influence each other leading to a worsening of the anxiety. It becomes a vicious cycle.
Physical Sensations
Often anxious people are aware of their heart beating harder and faster. This is known as palpitations. Sweatiness and shaking can also occur. Sometimes people feel light-headed, dizzy and nausea as well as a range of other symptoms.
Thoughts
Very often worrying is a feature of anxiety particularly in generalised anxiety disorder (GAD). Here people often become concerned that the worrying will harm them. In panic attackspeople often believe that they may be at risk of fainting. Sometimes they interpret the palpitations as evidence of heart problems and again fret about the risk of ensuing harm or even death.
Behavioural Changes
With anxiety the person may be uneasy, jumpy and restless. They appear to be always on the lookout for possible danger in order to avoid such situations. In panic disorder the panic attacks may happen at any time. In some people, however, they happen only in certain situations such as when there are lots of people about. In this case a panic sufferer may simply avoid those situations and appear on the surface to have few problems in their lives. While in a panic attack, they may lie down, sit, or quickly remove themselves from the situation. Others use drugs or alcohol in the hope that this will help. Unfortunately, in the longer term they make anxiety worse.
Altered Emotions
In panic disorder the main emotion is fear. In less severe anxiety, people feel keyed up and irritable. Unfortunately, in generalised anxiety disorder when the symptoms last for much of an individual's day, people can feel desperate. Sometimes their mood can drop.
Often anxious people are aware of their heart beating harder and faster. This is known as palpitations. Sweatiness and shaking can also occur. Sometimes people feel light-headed, dizzy and nausea as well as a range of other symptoms.
Thoughts
Very often worrying is a feature of anxiety particularly in generalised anxiety disorder (GAD). Here people often become concerned that the worrying will harm them. In panic attackspeople often believe that they may be at risk of fainting. Sometimes they interpret the palpitations as evidence of heart problems and again fret about the risk of ensuing harm or even death.
Behavioural Changes
With anxiety the person may be uneasy, jumpy and restless. They appear to be always on the lookout for possible danger in order to avoid such situations. In panic disorder the panic attacks may happen at any time. In some people, however, they happen only in certain situations such as when there are lots of people about. In this case a panic sufferer may simply avoid those situations and appear on the surface to have few problems in their lives. While in a panic attack, they may lie down, sit, or quickly remove themselves from the situation. Others use drugs or alcohol in the hope that this will help. Unfortunately, in the longer term they make anxiety worse.
Altered Emotions
In panic disorder the main emotion is fear. In less severe anxiety, people feel keyed up and irritable. Unfortunately, in generalised anxiety disorder when the symptoms last for much of an individual's day, people can feel desperate. Sometimes their mood can drop.
What causes anxiety?
There is no one cause of anxiety disorder. In some cases it appears to run in families. Sometimes it also starts after a big life change such as a bereavement, childbirth, or losing a job. A smaller number of cases are associated with physical or other psychological illnesses. These include headaches, insomnia, high blood pressure, lack of concentration or motivation.
There is no one cause of anxiety disorder. In some cases it appears to run in families. Sometimes it also starts after a big life change such as a bereavement, childbirth, or losing a job. A smaller number of cases are associated with physical or other psychological illnesses. These include headaches, insomnia, high blood pressure, lack of concentration or motivation.
Being anxious can also be a feature of phobias, which are fears of different situations such as types of animals or of crowds.
Lastly, some prescribed medications can make people feel anxious as a side effect, including some anti-depressants.
What are the consequences of anxiety?
Sufferers begin to avoid those things or places that they associate with their symptoms. This can get worse until it forms a significant part of the person's life. Fear of having a panic attack can be very disabling. Eventually it can prevent people from going about normal work or social activities and can lead to agoraphobia. Less commonly the distress and disablement caused by anxiety may cause periods of depression or drug and alcohol problems. It is therefore better to get treatment for anxiety problems rather than letting them continue.
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Although anxiety is related to fear, it is not the same. Fear is a direct, focused response to a specific event or object, and the person is consciously aware of it. Most people will feel fear if a person threatens them with a knife. They also will recognise that they are afraid.
Although anxiety is related to fear, it is not the same. Fear is a direct, focused response to a specific event or object, and the person is consciously aware of it. Most people will feel fear if a person threatens them with a knife. They also will recognise that they are afraid.
Anxiety on the other hand is often unfocused, vague and hard to pin down to a specific cause. In this form it is called free-floating anxiety. Sometimes anxiety being experienced in the present may stem from an event or person that produced pain and fear in the past, but the individual is not consciously aware of the original source of the feeling.
It's aspect of remoteness makes it hard for people to compare their experiences of it. Whereas most people will be fearful in physically dangerous situations, and can agree that fear is an appropriate response in the presence of danger, anxiety is often triggered by objects or events that are unique and specific to an individual. An individual might be anxious because of a unique meaning or memory being stimulated by present circumstances, not because of some immediate danger. Another individual looking at the anxious person from the outside may be truly puzzled as to the reason for the person’s anxiety.
What are the symtoms?
Anxiety can be experienced in a number of different ways:
Psychological symptoms:
- Excess worry about life circumstances
- Feeling constantly on edge
- Difficulty in concentrating – Becoming forgetful
- Feelings of exhaustion and fatigue
- Feeling continuously panicky or tearful
Physical symptoms:
- Tension in muscles - Tension in the chest
- Over-breathing - Holding the breath - Shallow breathing
- Neck aches – Backaches
- Heart palpitations
- Shaking – Trembling – Dizziness
- Trouble sleeping
- Nausea
- Sweating – Cold clammy hands
- Irritability – Agitation
- Dread that something terrible is going to happen such as a blackout, seizure, heart attack
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