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How does hypnotherapy help anxiety?
Anxiety can cripple lives.
It can suffocate our clients’ personal and professional growth, shut down their ability to start relationships and take away their freedom to choose their own destiny.
The worst part? Without successful treatment, anxiety can then become a ravenous vacuum – sucking your confidence and talents and leaving them vulnerable to the “quick fixes” that only serve to sustain their fear.
But to effectively treat anxiety, we have to first understand how it overwhelms a person’s ability to calm themselves. We have to look at the specific way ambiguity triggers anxiety and how what’s happening in the brain interacts with the physiological effects of panic to sustain a client’s anxiety.
How Helpful is Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy can help you to overcome the challenges you face. Often, anxiety can be the physical and emotional manifestation of trauma earlier in life.
It could be something that consciously you may not have even realised influenced your emotions. Hypnotherapy peels back the subconscious layers to help you find the answers you need. Confronting and dealing with the root cause of the problem effectively allows themind to heal itself to a point where you are mentally capable of moving on.
We teach ourselves ways of coping so that we avoid the cause of our anxiety. These coping mechanisms are only a temporary solution and hypnotherapy can help you to explore the emotions that are below the surface and the root cause of our anxiety.
Hypnotherapy effectively re-sets your anxiety level to a ‘healthy’ level. It clears your subconscious of the negative or unhealthy thoughts that drive your anxiety state, re- instating calm and relaxation giving you tools to overcome whatever is stopping you from enjoying life to the full.
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as anxiety hypnosis may be more or less effective for different people and will depend on the person’s commitment to the process. However, hypnotherapy works for most people, most of the time, and for most issues, including anxiety. If you want to overcome or treat anxiety, it’s a great option to try and works alongside other types of therapy you might be having, such as talking therapy, relaxation exercises or counselling.
It can help to:
- Reduce physical symptoms of anxiety
- Reduce negative thinking
- Help you understand and manage your anxiety better
- Help you to feel more resilient and resourceful
- Teach your body and nervous system how to relax and your mind to be present.
- Help you to address the root of your anxiety and process old traumas
- Get you thinking about yourself in more positive and loving ways
- Help you to create positive change in your habits and routines.
Some of the more common forms of anxiety include:
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder involves persistent and excessive worry that interferes with daily activities. This ongoing worry and tension may be accompanied by physical symptoms, such as restlessness, feeling on edge or easily fatigued, difficulty concentrating, muscle tension or problems sleeping. Often the worries focus on everyday things such as job responsibilities, family health or minor matters such as chores, car repairs, or appointments.
Panic Disorder
The core symptom of panic disorder is recurrent panic attacks, an overwhelming combination of physical and psychological distress. During an attack, several of these symptoms occur in combination:
- Palpitations, pounding heart or rapid heart rate
- Sweating
- Trembling or shaking
- Feeling of shortness of breath or smothering sensations
- Chest pain
- Feeling dizzy, light-headed or faint
- Feeling of choking
- Numbness or tingling
- Chills or hot flashes
- Nausea or abdominal pains
- Feeling detached
- Fear of losing control
- Fear of dying
Because the symptoms can be quite severe, some people who experience a panic attack may believe they are having a heart attack or some other life-threatening illness. They may go to a hospital emergency department. Panic attacks may be expected, such as a response to a feared object, or unexpected, apparently occurring for no reason. The mean age for onset of panic disorder is 20-24. Panic attacks may occur with other mental disorders such as depression or PTSD.
Phobias, Specific Phobia
A specific phobia is excessive and persistent fear of a specific object, situation or activity that is generally not harmful. Patients know their fear is excessive, but they can’t overcome it. These fears cause such distress that some people go to extreme lengths to avoid what they fear. Examples are public speaking, fear of flying or fear of spiders.
Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is the fear of being in situations where escape may be difficult or embarrassing, or help might not be available in the event of panic symptoms. The fear is out of proportion to the actual situation and lasts generally six months or more and causes problems in functioning. A person with agoraphobia experiences this fear in two or more of the following situations:
- Using public transportation
- Being in open spaces
- Being in enclosed places
- Standing in line or being in a crowd
- Being outside the home alone
The individual actively avoids the situation, requires a companion or endures with intense fear or anxiety. Untreated agoraphobia can become so serious that a person may be unable to leave the house. A person can only be diagnosed with agoraphobia if the fear is intensely upsetting, or if it significantly interferes with normal daily activities.
Social Anxiety
A person with social anxiety disorder has significant anxiety and discomfort about being embarrassed, humiliated, rejected or looked down on in social interactions. People with this disorder will try to avoid the situation or endure it with great anxiety. Common examples are extreme fear of public speaking, meeting new people or eating/drinking in public. The fear or anxiety causes problems with daily functioning and lasts at least six months.
Separation Anxiety
A person with separation anxiety disorder is excessively fearful or anxious about separation from those with whom he or she is attached. The feeling is beyond what is appropriate for the person’s age, persists (at least four weeks in children and six months in adults) and causes problems functioning. A person with separation anxiety disorder may be persistently worried about losing the person closest to him or her, may be reluctant or refuse to go out or sleep away from home or without that person, or may experience nightmares about separation. Physical symptoms of distress often develop in childhood, but symptoms can carry though adulthood.