Do you sometimes wonder what is anxiety? The often debilitating state of being known as anxiety has its basis in a very natural function. Linked to the “fight or flight” response mechanism of the survival instinct.
Anxiety appears as a feeling of apprehension or fear and often brings on such physiological responses as rapid heart beat, chest pains, shortness of breath and nausea. In this state the blood circulation is rerouted to increase flow to the muscles and secondary systems like the immune and digestive systems are slowed.
The dangers that lie in anxiety in part are that they can easily lead to the creation of phobias. Negative reinforcement in childhood can cause a person to have an underdeveloped sense of self motivation and will lead to feelings of fear and discomfort when faced with the need to confront tough life situations.
The inability to take charge of one’s life will further escalate the problem by creating an ever-increasing feeling of worthlessness and impotence. This course can develop into severe depression if not treated.
Sometimes this overwhelming anxiety can be brought on by the psychological prospects of the unknown. Existential anxiety can be brought on by one’s contemplating their own mortality or questioning their worth in life. This form of anxiety is often traced to an obsessive-compulsive disorder of the mind.
Fear of failure in one’s tasks is referred to as “test anxiety”. With the fear of failure and ridicule, those with an underdeveloped sense of self worth can succumb to the negative associations and create physiological symptoms that will further reduce the ability to perform and maintain a
spiraling effect on the victim. This “test anxiety” can often follow a person beyond school and show up in later life in the work place by lowered performance and the inability to function socially.
How can hypnotherapy help you overcome anxiety?
My approach to treating anxiety has 2 components: uncovering the root cause and treating the symptoms. Certain techniques are used for uncovering and reframing the root cause for the anxiety.
By using different techniques to explore and re-frame your past experiences, you can change the negative ideas that fuel the anxiety.
The second component in my approach is addressing the symptoms. These are addressed by teaching YOU, cognitive, behavioral and relaxation coping skills. YOU learn self-hypnosis and related skills to control anxious thoughts and worries. You also learn instant relaxation skills to help you cope with tension and anxiety episodes wherever they occur.
Hypnosis is an important component to your healing. When you learn and practice self-hypnosis, you can mentally practice and rehearse effective cognitive, behavioral and relaxation skills so that they become conscious and subconscious habits.
Hypnotherapy is a natural, drug free therapy which helps you to release yourself from limiting beliefs, habits and patterns of thought, enabling you to enjoy more confidence, increased self esteem and the freedom to be who you want to be.
There is a whole new road ahead. You can embrace the future that you want to live. It is possible to live a more peaceful and abundant life; free from self criticism, doubt and fear.
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Thank you for sharing, Moira! I believe in hypnotherapy and/or hypnosis can help one overcome anxiety. I love what you wrote: “It is possible to live a more peaceful and abundant life; free from self criticism, doubt and fear.” True!
Thanks Alexandra! I appreciate your comments.
Thanks for the great ideas!
Thanks for reading my post MarVeena!
Great information, Moira. I have learned some new things today about anxiety that I didn’t realize before. Hypnotherapy definitely sounds to me like an excellent method for overcoming anxiety issues.
Thanks Marie Leslie – yes hypnotherapy is definitely a powerful tool for anxiety release!
Thank you. I really do think that reframing some past experiences can help us going forward to reduce some produced anxiety from them! Anxiety is everywhere I look – so thanks for being there to help that!
Thanks Leslie! I agree – anxiety is in many people and many places… hypnosis and visualization go a long way to helping release the issue.
Reframing past experiences is essential to healing from past hurts and I think hypnotherapy is an wonderful way to tap into those unconscious thoughts and memories in a non-threatening way. Thank you Moira.
Thanks Carolyn – I appreciate your comments – and it’s very true that hypnotherapy provides a non-threatening place from which trauma can be viewed and released.
oh, I have had some serious troubles woth stress and had to learn to deal with it before it ruined my health and mind! self Hypnosis was one thing I used to help me break free! Love this post Moria.
Thanks Elizabeth – I’m so glad to hear that you’ve used hypnosis to overcome stress! It’s such a powerful tool.
I have the anxiety of worrying about the point of life. It is debabilitating. I am working on breathing techniques to help center myself and bring myself back to the present. Thanks for the post.
Good for you for using breathing techniques to bring yourself back into the present moment Sebastian… have you tried using EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) at all?
No what is it?
Hi Sebastian – I wrote an article on it a wee while ago – you can see that here https://wellnesswithmoira.com/what-is-eft-tapping/ and then you can also check out the short video I recorded to explain using it… http://youtu.be/EMb75v0nRuM
Once you’ve check the article and the video – let me know if you have any further questions
Hypnotherapy can be such a powerful tool, Moira, congratulations for having it in your tool chest!
Thanks Sharon – I agree, hypnotherapy IS an amazingly powerful tool and what I love to witness is the speed in which people start feeling better and more in control!
Good points on anxiety and how to cure them. It’s true with what you wrote that everyone must embrace the future that one wants to live. Everyone deserves the right to live a peaceful and abundant life. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Lorii! I agree that everyone DOES have the right to live a peaceful and abundant life 🙂
Great post Moira! I can completely relate to your description of test anxiety. Fear of failure is such a huge stumbling block for so many, and it’s great that you have hypnosis tools to help with that.
Thanks Helena – I agree that fear of failure is a really big stumbling block for many… fortunately, with the use of hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis techniques, people often find that the fear is much bigger than the reality 🙂
Excellent post, Moira. Fear of failure can be a enormous stumbling block for so many.
Thanks Robin – yes fear of failure is often the thing that stops a person from fully realizing how amazing they really are!
Personally experienced the aid of self hypnosis with great results! Thanks Moira 🙂
Thank YOU Anita – I am so impressed to see what you have been able to achieve… you go girl!
Anxiety is such a crippling feeling. In my own recovery work around the fight-or-flight responses I’d developed as a result of chronically coping with secondhand drinking, I worked with an excellent therapist who taught me, as you do with your clients, how to develop healthy “cognitive, behavioral and relaxation
coping skills.” I’ve been using, honing and adding new ones for several years, now, and it’s made all the difference. Great work you do!
Thanks Lisa! You do excellent work in helping people become aware and engage in healthy lifestyles. I believe that we are all works in progress and there can never be too many tools or approaches to dealing with improving our life experience!