Anxiety
How can hypnotherapy help me with anxiety?
Anxiety is the feeling that you won’t be able to cope with what is going to happen. Sometimes we can feel fine consciously, but just have a sense of unease or disquiet. As no one knows what is actually going to happen in life, this is a misuse of your imagination. Worrying about the future will not help you have a better future, it will just mean that you will have a future that is filled with worry.
When we imagine negative things and events, we get all the physical feelings in our bodies that would happen if our imagined scenario came to pass, such as a racing heartbeat. Anxiety can feel overwhelming, it can affect your sleep, appetite and even trigger attacks of IBS. Sometimes we don’t realise that we are causing our own feelings, which only works to reinforce the unpleasant sensations. Because we feel out of control, this can eventually spiral up to a full blown panic attack. We all feel anxious to some degree when faced with the challenges and stress of everyday life, and in moderation it can be a good thing, motivating us to do well. However, if the anxiety is out of proportion to the event, or if you keep feeling anxious for no obvious reason, then it becomes a problem.
Sometimes, we can also get what is called ‘free floating’ anxiety, where there is no reason for the anxiety but our minds are just being excessively sensitive to the problems and challenges in life. Hypnotherapy can be used to identify the source of the anxiety and give you back control over your feelings. I can also teach you some tools that can be used to quickly break you out of the cycle of anxiety and restore our underlying, default state of calm positivity.
Being aware of our thinking is really important to stop anxiety and mindfulness meditation can be really useful. See my post on How to do Mindfulness Meditation.
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