Hypnotherapy for Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety could be holding you back
There are many situations we can feel overwhelmed with anxiety whether it’s now and again or frequently.. hypnotherapy can help reduce this feeling.
What is Anxiety?
Do you feel overwhelmed and struggle to deal with life? Do you feel your heart racing and your tummy churning? Do you feel physical pains and symptoms, feel like there is something wrong but all of your investigations are normal? Do you struggle to sleep at night or wake up early?
If yes you could be suffering with anxiety. Anxiety is where part of our brain called the limbic system or the ‘primitive brain’ believes that something terrible is going to happen and so prepares the body the run away or stay and fight. This is known as fight or flight. This is useful when something dangerous is about to happen because it keeps us safe. It is not however useful when there is no danger and we are trying to get on with your life
What can help with anxiety?
Hypnotherapy helps move these irrational thoughts from the primitive mind to the sensible thinking part of the mind so it can process these thoughts and make them rational and so feel in control again.
Both Hypnotherapy and learning how to breathe in a way that activates an important nerve in the body called the vagus nerve to help you cope when you feel anxious.
How Does Hypnotherapy & Breathwork work?
Breathing in certain ways stimulates an import nerve called the vagus nerve. Using various techniques can help you feel calm in situations when you might feel unnecessarily anxious
Hypnotherapy works with talking therapy by allowing you to replace unhelpful thoughts and habits so they can be processed logically freeing up your mind to focus on whatever need or whatever you would like.
What Can Cause Anxiety and Panic Attacks?
Our brains cannot tell the difference between reality and imagination. This means the thoughts we have about the following can trick our brains into thinking we are in danger such as:
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· Exams
· Driving tests
· Accumulation of smaller stresses
· Phobias-flying spiders
· Employment worries
· Reliving past mistakes or regrettable moments
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· Fear of rejection
· Pending hospital appointments, MRI scans, injections
· Divorce
· Fear of travelling
· Fear of vomiting
· Meeting new people
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