People who suffer from anxiety feel like they are stuck in an endless nightmare from which they can’t extract themselves.
I know, I have been there. I had anxiety and panic attacks for years before I knew what they were. Once I realized that I wasn’t dying and it was anxiety, I searched for the clues to ending it once and for all. That search led me to hypnosis. Today, I enjoy nothing more than showing people how to overcome anxiety and rid themselves of the panic attacks so they can get back to living a healthy, balanced life.
Anxiety and panic seem odd to people who have never experienced this. The best way I can describe it is: TERRIFYING!!!
I’m not kidding. It’s like having a heart attack when you are in a panic, but sometimes the worst was the anxiety because you feel like a panic attack is looming and you want to climb in the bed and hide.
Because I am outspoken on the topic, people who don’t understand what having anxiety and panic attacks are like ask me about them. I get them to Imagine they knew they were going to have a heart attack today. Not now, but in a little bit! As they imagine that, they begin to understand the living hell that panic and anxiety bring to your life.
So what causes panic and anxiety? In a word, stress. It’s the constant build up of stress without an outlet that creates anxiety which then turns into a full blown panic attack. This is why people who have never had one don’t understand panic attacks. They know we are doing it ourselves, so why don’t we just stop? Well, the thing is, people who are having panic attacks don’t know what they are. They think they are dying from some horrible disease. Once they realize it’s a panic attack brought on by anxiety and stress, the patterns, the habits, have been ingrained.
It becomes similar to Pavlov’s dogs. Ring the bell, feed the dogs, they salivate. Eventually, ring the bell, they salivate. When you go through a panic attack or have anxiety, you are building a response in your body unknowingly. After 7 years, when I figured out that it was anxiety that I had and not cancer or angina, I thought that since I knew what it was, I was over it – right? Wrong!
Even though I knew what it was, I still responded in the same way. All anxiety suffers do this. Until they remove the source of the anxiety – the stress.
Hypnosis gives you ways to remove and release the stress. This in turn removes and releases the anxiety, and the panic attacks disappear. This isn’t just exercises and techniques to stop panic attacks, release stress and rid yourself of anxiety. Although I do include these in my methodology for overcoming anxiety with my clients, I also go to the heart of the issue and help you release the underlying subconscious responses that create the anxiety to begin with.
To use a boating analogy, I don’t just take the wind out of the sails of anxiety in your life, I also help you take the sails down, tow the boat to harbor and dry dock it.
Anxiety can control your life if you allow it. You have to realize you are doing it to yourself and take charge of the situation. This means doing what is right by you first! If cooking dinner for the kids, washing the clothes, taking sally to ballet, picking up the dry cleaning, working 9 hours for a tyrannical boss on a project with a looming deadline is sending you into a state of panic, you need to stop, unwind and release that stress. You need to be able to do it unconsciously and quickly. I can give that ability to you through hypnosis – I’m living proof that it works.
