Anxiety
Anxiety is a normal human emotion that everyone experiences at times. Many people feel anxious, or nervous, when faced with a problem at work, or before taking a test or making an important decision. Anxiety disorders, however, are different. They can cause such distress that it interferes with a person's ability to have a normal life. Over 30 million Americans have been diagnosed with clinical anxiety and panic disorder, and phobia (fear taken to extreme).
For people with anxiety disorders, worry and fear are constant, real, overwhelming, and can be devastating. It can contribute to high blood pressure, heart disease, digestive problems, muscles spasms, irritability, insomnia and negative state of mind.
General symptoms include:
Feelings of panic, fear and hopelessness
Uncontrollable, obsessive thoughts
Repeated thoughts and memories of traumatic events
Repeated behaviors, such as constant hand washing
Sleeping problems
Shortness of breath
Palpitations
Digestive problems
Numbness or tingling in the hands or feet, coldness, sweating
Nausea
Muscle tension
There are several recognized emotional disorders, including:
Panic disorder People with this condition have feelings of terror that strike suddenly and repeatedly with no warning. Symptoms of a panic attack include sweating, chest pain, irregular heartbeats and a feeling of choking, which may make the person feel like he or she is having a heart attack or dying.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder People with OCD are occupied by constant thought patterns that cause them to perform certain rituals or routines. The disturbing thoughts are called obsessions, and the rituals are called compulsions. An example is a person with an unreasonable fear of germs who constantly washes his or her hands or compulsively shops.
Post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD is a condition that can develop following a traumatic and/or terrifying event, such as the unexpected death of a loved one, or severe shock, violent crimes, rape, witnessing of war. People with PTSD often have lasting and frightening thoughts and memories of the event, causing them to stay in emotional distress.
Social anxiety disorder Social anxiety disorder involves overwhelming worry and self-consciousness about everyday social situations. The worry often centers on a fear of being judged by others, or behaving in a way that might cause embarrassment or lead to ridicule. It is often linked to poor self-esteem and childhood programming.
Other phobias A specific phobia is an intense fear of a specific object or situation, such as spiders, heights or flying, darkness. The level of fear usually is inappropriate to the situation and may cause withdrawal from normal daily activities. Click here for more information on phobias.
Other emotional distresses can be caused by a broken heart, love; continuous stresses at home and at work, inability to cope with life's challenges.
Hypnosis is extremely beneficial when it comes to emotionally rooted problems and health issues. It can be customized to a client's specific problem and needs.
Any trauma, negative experience, learned behaviors or fears have in inner root of establishment. Our past have an impact on our subconscious mind, creating a mental "block" and creating problems on a physical level.
In hypnosis we have an opportunity to gain an insight and let go of these old blocks of emotion, perhaps re-program and heal our past in a way that we have the memory without the painful emotion attached, just like having a scar reminding of the trauma but there is no more pain. Through numerous personalized hypnotic techniques we can learn to live in peace with our past, present and future.
When it comes to phobias, the approach is similar as in addressing habit behaviors.
We "install" a new program in our mind's computer, called the subconscious mind and establish some kind of anchoring of this newly learned behavior.
Any therapy is comprehensively discussed and customized to meet the client's specific needs. Concerns are approached on both levels of the mind: conscious and subconscious.
