David Holmes Hypnotherapy
Are Panic Attacks and Anxiety Ruining Your Life?
Panic attacks can get in the way of living life to the full. They can leave you feeling utterly helpless and out of control. Often with a nagging worry that we may suffer a panic attack without warning, whilst shopping, driving or at home.
There is a simple solution.
Many people have found that hypnotherapy can help you to regain control and give you the freedom to get on with your life... without the constant worry that you might embarrass yourself or suffer an attack at any moment.
Symptoms can include:
- Shortness of breath, a feeling as if you can't get enough air.
- Hot flushes or sudden chills.
- Shaking.
- Pain in chest, nausea, upset stomach.
- Feel you are going mad or about to die.
- Terror, panic or fear, paranoia.
- A floating feeling, dissociated from events.
- Constantly worried that you may have a panic attack without warning.
- A constant background feeling of dread or doom.
- Annoyed and frustrated with yourself that you are unable to over come these fears.
- Anxious about anxiety, afraid of feeling afraid.
- Regularly checking or scanning your body for warning signs of anxiety.
- Limiting the the distance you feel able to travel or the type of place you feel able to cope with.
How can hypnotherapy help?
Most of our fears and worries are stored at an unconscious level in the emotional part of our mind. So no amount of logical thinking or 'giving yourself a good talking to' seems to work. In many cases consciously trying to control anxiety ends up making matters worse. The reason is because when we focus on those thoughts and feelings, we tend to amplify them and make them worse. Whenever we try to think our way out of anxiety it has a tendency to lead us into creating more anxiety producing thoughts which increases the physical symptoms, and the 'vicious circle begins'.
Hypnotherapy works by accessing the unconscious part of your mind where all your habits, behaviours and attitudes are stored. Everything that you have learned is stored at this unconscious level. Imagine how tiring it would be if we had to re-learn how to put our trousers on every morning or how to work a door each time we go through it. Whenever we learn something it is stored away so that we can do it unconsciously, without thinking. That's how you are able to get dressed and think about something else at the same time.
You weren't born feeling anxious, you learned to feel it. You had to learn how to produce those feeling yourself. Hypnotherapy works by accessing this unconscious part of your mind and giving it a different set of responses.
You already know how to feel relaxed, happy and comfortable. Hypnosis works by transferring those feelings to other areas of your life. Often one or two sessions can significantly decrease your anxiety.
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