Anxiety
Anxiety can be paralyzing. It can keep us from making friends, putting ourselves in social situations, or moving forward in our careers. Even more than that, it is extremely uncomfortable, interfering with our everyday lives and sometimes even our health.
Anxiety can be experienced both physically and mentally, and a person’s reactions to our anxiety often exacerbate the symptoms. It is experienced physically, such as with racing heart, shallow breath, and other anxious bodily reactions. It is experienced cognitively through thoughts that something terrible might happen, or worry of what others might think. A person’s reactions to anxiety may lead them to develop a drinking problem or to overindulge in food. Perhaps it interferes with a person’s career or relationships, or results in low self-esteem. Focused Psychology and Hypnotherapy utilises hypnotic techniques to address troubling symptoms associated with anxiety and panic. In reaching a relaxed and reflective state, clients are able to decrease the intensity of their anxious feelings while gaining insight into the root causes of their behavior. By tapping into our inner resources and creative problem skills, we are able to challenge irrational beliefs and catastrophic thinking patterns so often associated with anxiety. Through the use of guided imagery and indirect suggestion, clients are able to accept and cope with their fears.
Hypnosis in addition to therapy can be extremely beneficial as it can address several aspects of anxiety. First, it can address the bodily reactions through hypnotic relaxation and visualisation techniques. It can help obsessive thoughts by helping a person focus on positive thoughts and negative self-talk. Lastly, it can help treat difficulties that develop in response to our anxiety, such as lifestyle habits or problems that interfere with everyday functioning. In order to address the complexities of anxiety, the therapists employ mindfulness, psychoanalysis and psychology to address the underlying anxiety, while using hypnosis for the specific difficulties that arise as a result of anxiety. Research has shown that hypnosis is particularly beneficial in treating anxiety as well as issues that people develop in response to their anxiety, such as alleviating fears such as public speaking, flying, and test taking as well as phobias to needles, animals, or other anxiety-provoking stimuli. Generally, people become fearful of the stimuli, as well as their own reaction to it. Our method works by altering the way one views the fear, as well as calming a person’s reactions to that fear.
Hypnosis can be particularly helpful in treating:
- Insomnia
- Fears and phobias
- Habits and addictions
- Obsessive and compulsive behaviors
- Difficulties with eating habits
- Problems in relationships