The experience of being worked up in a constant state of stress or anxiety can be extremely alarming and frightening. Despite the fact that the sufferer is usually fully aware of the root cause(s) of the upset intellectually, they cannot seem to calm themselves even if the anxiety seems irrational. As with phobias, anxiety is generally an irrational fear or belief which the sufferer has obtained through their thoughts and beliefs. Painful memories, thoughts or feelings can all be repressed or pushed under the surface, and often resurface as a general feeling of anxiety or stress.
Hypnotherapy is an excellent tool for bringing relief to this kind of suffering - calming the mind and helping to control the thoughts or feelings that caused the problem in the first place. If necessary and appropriate, hypnosis can be used to investigate further the root causes, events, thoughts, beliefs or emotions of anxiety. Then such repressed material can be peacefully released and resolved, preventing potential further problems of both mind and body.
Often all that is necessary is to come to terms and acceptance with whatever catalyst is causing the stress, upset, hurt or panic. Hypnotherapy can be used to enable the sufferer to calm down and relax, and allow their nerves to become strong.
Hypnotherapy is an excellent means of helping the mind cope with any future stress automatically, whatever situation may arise. Your current thoughts, beliefs and fears can be overwritten with stronger beliefs to allow you mind to only cope automatically, but also much more easily and with far more confidence.
The mind is conditioned through our experiences, our perceptions of our experiences (i.e. what we think about an event during or after it happening) and also how we think about something before it happens. For example, if you were to imagine an up-coming exam, public speaking event, social function, interview or presentation going horribly wrong then you are actually telling your mind that those events are negative, and pairing anxious thoughts and fears to those events. You are effectively rehearsing the idea of being anxious! The more often you do this, the more you are training your subconscious mind to make yourself anxious. When those events actually take place, the mind is so well trained to produce the anxiety that it does so automatically, regardless of what actually transpires. So, even if the there is nothing during the test, presentation, interview or social function to make you anxious, you will feel anxious anyway!
Thankfully, hypnosis can efficiently, effectively and easily sooth and reverse this situation. By directly and quickly accessing the subconscious mind, we can substitute the negative anxious responses with positive ones, such as feelings of calmness, relaxation, well-being and confidence. These positive responses then become automatic instead.