Anxiety and Hypnotherapy
- By Fiona Shaw
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- 30 Oct, 2018
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Everyone is anxious from time to time, it’s a normal response that allows us to exercise caution when necessary. But it’s amazing how many of us suffer from levels of anxiety that are too great for us to manage easily, day to day.
Anxiety can be a problem for anyone, even those who seem to be outgoing, successful, extrovert and often, it’s the people who appear as the strongest and most confident who can suffer from crippling anxiety. These levels of extreme anxiety are also something that can appear, at any time, to anyone and can manifest in a variety of ways, often extremely frightening for the person affected.
This month, in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Keira
Knightly spoke about her experience of panic attacks and how she used
Hypnotherapy to be able to attend the BAFTAs and stand on the red carpet. (Article Link)
If you’ve ever had a panic attack, you’ll know how terrifying they can be and how easily even the fear of having a panic attack can take over your life.
Strictly Come Dancing professional, Karen Clifton, also
spoke to Hello magazine in September about her experiences of anxiety and her
hypnotherapy treatment following her separation from fellow dancer Kevin
Clifton. (Article Link)
There are people in and out of the public eye, all around us, all experiencing the same problems yet feeling alone and like they’re the only one. Thankfully we are now at a point in time where people are beginning to talk about their own experiences, both to raise awareness across society and in they hope they help other people with the same issues.
So, how can Hypnotherapy help?
In a number of ways actually.
Using hypnotherapy, we can build self-confidence, create inner strength and increase your self-belief. Step by step we can lessen the worry you feel and take the emphasis away from the anxiety, while exploring triggers and reducing the impact they can have.
Hypnotherapy can allow you to accept who you are and everything that goes along with that, and the great news is that it doesn’t matter how long you’ve struggled with anxiety, you CAN change!
Hopefully you’ve found it a really positive experience and are looking forward to the future smoke free.
For many though, this is the start of a sometimes lengthy process, with lots of ups and downs.
Maybe you just can’t get rid of that craving no matter how hard you try or maybe that’s no longer a problem but you find yourself wondering what to do with your hands now they’re not occupied with a cigarette? If you used smoking to help you relax or cope with stressful situations you might find yourself feeling more anxious than normal or just generally feeling less able to cope.
These learnt behaviours can be a real bugbear, especially when you’re trying so hard to do such a great thing for your health, so consider giving hypnotherapy a try. Many people think hypnotherapy just makes the act of smoking an unpleasant one but actually we can do so much more.
Using hypnosis we can make smoking something you don't enjoy but we can also stop those behaviours in their tracks so you no longer need them or rely on them. We can teach you techniques to handle difficult situations, keep you calm and use coping mechanisms that don't require cigarettes. Also, if you want to use other methods of support, like patches, at the same time then there's no reason why not.
It’s also never too late, so don’t be disheartened if Stoptober came and went without you. Ask yourself if you want to quit smoking and if you can answer an honest ‘yes’, then you can do it! If you’re not sure, then maybe now just isn’t the right time for you, so ask again in a month or two.
Sounds simple?
That’s because it can be, it’s worked for many people before so why not give it a try and see if it works for you?
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It's a small action that can turn into something incredible.
Check out www.dkms.org.uk for all the details, you can register there and they'll send you a little swab kit you can do yourself at home.
Once you're done, give yourself a big pat on the back, you could be on the way to changing the life of someone who needs your help along with the lives of all their friends and family.
One small thing guaranteed to boost your mood!
A lot of people are curious about this and it’s a recurring question both in and out of the therapy room.
Regression, or looking back into your own past, is often used during hypnotherapy sessions as it helps us explore the route of a problem and create deep and lasting changes from this initial starting point. This is such a powerful and useful technique, I feel there would be a huge part of the hypnotherapy toolkit missing if we didn’t use it and for the majority of clients, the benefits are huge.
Sometimes it can be a daunting prospect if you’re anxious about something from your past, but this is discussed at length beforehand and we wouldn’t use any form of regression unless you were comfortable with it.
Now, that’s about this life and things that have happened in our current lifetime, so why would we be interested in a ‘past life’?
Well ... for exactly the same reasons.
Occasionally, a client can struggle to reach the initial cause of a problem or sometimes they can identify the root but it doesn’t appear to sit well along their current timeline. Wherever it’s found, we can deal with it in the same way and again the benefits can be enormous.
Of course, some clients are just curious and want to participate in a session specifically exploring a past life to find out who they were or might have been previously and for those people that's absolutely fine.
So, I suppose my point is ... why are we concerned if a past life is real or not?
It is and will continue to be a fascinating and widely debated topic but my own opinion is this ...
... Whatever your thoughts on past lives and past life regression are, if it helps some people, which it most definitely does, does it actually matter?
