Hypnotherapy in Paignton to relieve Stress, Anxiety and Phobias

Do You Feel Stressed and Anxious?

Do You Suffer with Anxiety or Panic Attacks?

Does your life seem out of control?

Do You lack confidence in yourself or your abilities?

Does everything get you wound up - angry - frustrated?

 Does nothing you do ever seem to go right?

Do you suffer from irrational fears or phobias? 

Would you like your life to be so transformed that  you wake up every morning so positive and full of energy that you look forward to your day.

 At Mindcalm I do just that – calm peoples’ minds and lives for them to live the life they want. 

By the use of Solution Focused Brief Hypnotherapy I can focus on the solutions that you need to help you take back control of YOUR life. 
 

It is important to understand that hypnotherapy is not a 'magic pill'. It requires that the client be committed to change and prepared to make the effort to make that change a reality.
There is of course, a considerable variation in the difficulty of the various problems and there is no general rule which makes it possible to say how much improvement can be achieved in how much time. I may well be able to give you a fair assessment of how much improvement you can expect and how many sessions may be needed by the end of the first session but if the problem is more complex then we will jointly review progress from time to time.

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Anxiety and Panic Attacks  

Many people suffer from some form of anxiety or panic response. Under excessive pressure we all respond in one of three ways, anxiety, anger, or depression or a combination of these. These states are ancient animal responses that evolved to help us survive, and they override our ability to think sensibly. This is because in certain circumstances, it is better to trust our instincts. For example, it is necessary to become anxious and hyper alert, and able to act instantly without conscious thought when there is a possible danger present. It is appropriate to get angry if you or your family are being attacked and you have to retaliate. It is also helpful to depress the system in order to be able to endure periods of forced inactivity. For example, when periods of extreme weather conditions kept people trapped in their cave for weeks on end, or when illness or food shortages etc required them to conserve their energy.

Threats in The Modern World

 Many patients described the worst aspect of the phobic or panic response as the actual physical manifestation of the anxiety such as nausea, sweating or increase in heart rate. They then begin to fear the onset of the physical response in relation to the fearful stimuli. Although most recognise that the fearful stimuli such as lifts or aeroplanes for example, are relatively innocuous and are as a result of the conditioned response. From observation, it can become quite apparent that life events are often precursors to attack such as change of job, moving house, bereavement, etc, again, all leading to the high anxiety and vigilance of individual.  

In the modern world, we are subjected just as many threats as ancient man, job insecurity, the constant requirement for money for food, housing, fuel, old age etc. Even the fact that we are not in charge of providing our own food, building our own house, gathering our own fuel, creates its own stress. In fact, we are dependent on many other people for our basic needs, who don't always make the decisions for our well-being we perceive as wise and who also need paying. We also live in very concentrated populations often surrounded by strangers, and far from the people who could provide the love and support we need. These and other conditions create a climate of stress, and our subconscious mind reacts to protect us.

 If, for one reason or another, we are unable to change our circumstances, or cannot develop flexible enough responses to our circumstances, we can develop chronic anger problems, long lasting depression, or one of a whole range of disabling anxiety disorders. Our subconscious or emotional mind keeps us in these powerful negative trance states, which among other things suppress the immune system. Then, because mind and body are intimately bound together, we can be assailed by a host of physical symptoms ranging from paralysis and pain to skin problems and sexual difficulties.

The Subconscious Mind (Emotional Mind) 

These harmful states are maintained, because our emotional mind is much older in evolutionary terms than our thinking mind. Our conscious mind changes with the times and we learn new skills and adapt to new ideas and precepts, generally easily and quickly. Our subconscious mind, however, is not so flexible. It is largely outside our conscious control and necessarily so -our conscious mind could not possibly cope with performing the million plus tasks simultaneously that our subconscious mind carries out routinely - breathing, rate of breathing, heartbeat, rate of heartbeat, cell division, blood clotting etc. These autonomic tasks have remained essentially the same since we evolved, and are a function of all living things. Consciously we can only do seven, plus or minus two, tasks at the same time, no more.  

Trance is useful and essential. In a trance state, we can hand things over to the subconscious mind when we want to perform an automatic function, leaving us room to think about other things. For instance, once driving the car becomes largely automatic, or subconscious, we can concentrate on the unexpected and changing situations that occur. So the automatic part of us is in a trance state, and very useful it is when we need an emergency stop! However, if it becomes necessary to alter one of those automatic actions -- imagine the brake and accelerator was switched -- we know how difficult it is to change.  

The subconscious mind is designed to react to our emotions. When we imagine a threat we react to the thought, emotionally, and our subconscious immediately comes to our rescue, and switches on one, or a mixture of, three responses -- anxiety, anger, or depression. So it's no good telling someone who is afraid to go out that there is no danger – their thinking mind already knows that. But somehow going out has become associated with danger in their subconscious, and even the thought creates the fear that creates the state of anxiety.  

It is this fear that lets the subconscious know when we need protecting, and it acts immediately and powerfully. These reactions, being instinctive are not meant to be debated over -- while you are doing that the bear will have caught and killed you -- no, your subconscious produces a trance state, and you act accordingly. So the subconscious does not like to be interfered with, and is resistant to conscious change, but luckily, not irrevocably.

Effects of Childhood  

When patients are questioned about how long they have had their anxiety, it has been frequently reported that it may be something they've always had, with parental fear and anxiety commonly mentioned. For example, if the patient is presented with the fear of spiders, it would not be unusual for them to detail their father or mother's dislike of the spiders observed as a small child.  

Children react to the world, emotionally, not intellectually, until about five years of age. Therefore their perceived patterns of danger are very much taken notice of by the subconscious. Being an unthinking, uncritical mind, the subconscious does not evaluate the actual danger, or otherwise, of these patterns of behaviour -- losing our temper, crying easily, feeling helpless, -- and leads to a whole range of irrational responses, often based on precedence laid down in our childhood. These symptoms are relieved when a negative trance is broken. This can happen by chance in the normal run of life, if our overall stress level drops enough, or when the therapist intervenes effectively.

Solution Focused Therapy

 Through the process of hypnotherapy and psychotherapy, the general level of heightened vigilance and anxiety is reduced as a starting point to enable the patient to unlearn the conditioned response.  

The patient is also introduced to different techniques to evaluate the fearful stimuli and physical responses experienced. This enables them to take control of the process, so it does not escalate to the heights of a panic attack, also enabling them to unlearn the fear response.  

We know that we produce stress to deal with events in our life, and it can be useful, but if we have too much then it's easy to see how and why the subconscious mind steps in. However, stress is in the eye of the beholder, and the extent to which situations are stressful are determined by how the individual understands, interprets, sees, and feels about the situation. So, how we think, really does have an impact on how we feel.

 By using solution focused therapy and hypnosis, you can begin to understand that you can unlearn your anxiety and fear responses and of course learn a new pattern of thinking and behaving .

Bring an End to Your Unwanted Stress and Anxiety by Taking Action Now!  

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