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Easing Stress and Anxiety

Stress or anxiety can be a common complaint in today’s’ society and most people encounter it at some point. A certain amount can be dealt with naturally, as long as it stays within our “safe limits”. When it becomes too much for us to cope with it can affect our quality of life. Excessive or prolonged stress can lead to illness, physical and emotional exhaustion, increased anxiety or even panic attacks. When we come under excessive pressure from home, work or social factors, we tend to respond with anxiety, anger or depression or a combination of these three.

How can we help?
Hypnotherapy gives us the ability to cope in different situations in a calm and effective way. You will be able to control your anxiety levels and have a calmer, more confident approach to all situations. It’s success can be aided by the use or self-hypnosis and or a relaxation CD, recreating the calm state experienced during the hypnotherapy session. Around 12 million adults see their GP’s with mental health problems each year – most of these suffer from anxiety and depression much of this is stress related.

Lifting Depression

Depression is perhaps the most common psychological disorder today – a significant factor in the breakup of relationships, career problems and lack of motivation. Often, when it occurs, the individual will turn in on themselves and refuse to engage with others. Severity can range from being almost totally dysfunctional to having some of the symptoms associated with the illness…
  • Depressed mood and sometimes fearfulness
  • Loss of energy and or appetite
  • Loss of pleasure or interest in usual activities
  • Difficulties in thinking, concentration, etc.
  • Sleep disturbance
  • Weight loss/ weight gain

Hypnotherapy can be the answer
Some of the above symptoms can be treated specifically – insomnia, eating disorders and lack of concentration are examples. Often depression is exacerbated or even caused by substance abuse – alcohol, drugs or cigarette smoking.

With appropriate hypnotherapy, depression is one of the most treatable disorders. It has a dramatically lower rate of relapse than with anti-depressants alone and is now considered the most effective treatment, even in severe cases, enabling the client to focus on solving problems and engaging fully in life again.

Fears and Phobias

The origin of a phobia can be associated with a traumatic or unpleasant event earlier on in life, although can also be triggered during a time of high anxiety. The subconscious, noting high anxiety, steps in with panic behavior which can then begin to associate with an object, place or event. Fears and phobias can be extremely debilitating and restricting in many areas of life. Using hypnotherapy, phobias can be resolved within three to five sessions.

The process enables the person to disassociate from the fear/phobia, using specific techniques that enable the emotion to be taken out of the experience. More realistic patterns of thought are then developed helping the individual’s subconscious become indifferent to the particular object of fear so that they will be less affected in the future.

Self Confidence

If you lack either confidence or motivation the likely cause is a degree of underlying stress, anxiety or depression. When we lack confidence in our abilities we often have a negative view of the future or are introspective about the past.

With solution-focused hypnotherapy anxiety can be reduced, unwanted behavior patterns eliminated and subconscious processes developed to be more optimistic and motivated to succeed. This is part of the successful treatment of problems areas such as public speaking, interview and exams.

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