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Can Hypnotherapy help my anxiety & stress?

Anxiety and stress are complex psychological phenomena that many individuals experience throughout their lives. There are different types of anxiety disorders and each of them has been studied extensively to understand their mechanisms and also how we can treat them.

The good news is that anxiety is easily treated either with psychological therapies medicine, or a combination of both. Our brains are linked with anxiety for millennia and it is a driving force to improve our lives, but when anxiety overloads our system we are starting to experience different psychological and physiological symptoms.

Anxiety and stress usually go hand in hand, because stress in our daily lives if left unmanageable can lead to anxiety disorders. But stress is not the only cause of anxiety, for example, someone may start to experience anxiety after abuse or trauma. Emotional trauma manifests from the psyche and develops into different types of symptoms and anxiety is one of them. Often people who have experienced emotional abuse or trauma have different psychosomatic symptoms that keep manifesting throughout their lives.

An example of someone who has been dealing with emotional pain and has been manifested in psychosomatic pain can swift from back pain to migraines, poor sleep, weight gain, brain fog, cognitive decline, eating disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, anxiety, depression, or a combination of these.

But, how Hypnotherapy can help with anxiety or stress? the answer is not so simple, but I will try to explain and give you some answers:

Hypnotherapy works by blocking the conscious mind or the chattering mind and accessing the unconscious part of the brain with hypnosis. All your memories, beliefs, bodily functions, and ideas about the world or yourself are stored in the unconscious part of your brain. There is strong evidence that your unconscious mind starts developing when you are a fetus and stops by the age of 7 or 8 years old.

Luckily, this doesn’t mean that it cannot be changed. The good news is that you can use a lot of different tools to change parts of your unconscious mind and some of these tools have been used for hundreds of years by different people around the world. Meditation, affirmations, healing ceremonies, modern psychotherapy, and CBT all help to change how your unconscious mind works. In addition to these different types of therapies, Hypnotherapy has been praised for its efficacy and speed in treating such conditions. Hypnotherapy can go to the root cause of your stress and anxiety, heal the part that is responsible for the symptoms in a very short period, and help you achieve your true potential in life.

Hypnotherapy can also help you find helpful ways to cope with stress in your daily life, teach you breathing techniques that help your body release stress, and also understand yourself and get to know who you are at the deepest level of your being.

Now, you may wonder how to find a good hypnotherapist. I recommend you always choose someone who has been professionally trained, is a member of a registered body like GHR in the UK, and also has experience in working with stress and anxiety and one that you can trust. I offer a free consultation to discuss your issues and find out if we are a good match to work together because the pre-requirement for a successful therapy is rapport and trust with your therapist.

If you are feeling ready to embark on a healing journey, feeling your best version of yourself then I recommend you book a free consultation by clicking here or simply call 020 7101 3284 or 07586755862.

Here are some useful links to manage anxiety

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/explore-mental-health/publications/how-manage-and-reduce-stress

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/16-ways-relieve-stress-anxiety

https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/OH-195.20-Anxiety.pdf

https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/mental-health-issues/anxiety

References

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Lawrence, P., Murayama, K., & Creswell, C. (2019). Systematic review and meta-analysis: anxiety and depressive disorders in offspring of parents with anxiety disorders. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 58(1), 46-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2018.07.898

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Ghazali, D. A., Ragot, S., Brèque, C., Guéchi, Y., Boureau-Voultoury, A., Petitpas, F., … & Oriot, D. (2016). Randomized controlled trial of multidisciplinary team stress and performance in immersive simulation for management of infant in shock: study protocol. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13049-016-0229-0

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