Overcoming Fears, Phobias, Panic Attacks and Stress

Hypnosis has long been a treatment of choice by psychologists for stress, post-traumatic stress disorders, generalized fear and phobias. Through hypnosis you can learn to relax and manage stress, eliminate the hold fear has on you and get your life back to normal.

Dentists have been referring clients to hypnosis clinics for decades to help their patients lessen their fear of dentistry.

What is a phobia?

To get an idea how hypnosis can help with phobias, let's look at how a phobia is created to begin with. 

Say a child develops a fear of spiders because her big brother tosses a big spider at her as a joke.  In the moments where the spider is hurtling towards her face and she thinks it's real time seems to slow down.  She imagines and anticipates the upleasant about to get her and her limbic system floods her body with the hormones that cause sheer terror within her.  She is, in effect "entranced" in that moment and from then on she automatically responds with fear at the thought or sight of spiders.

A phobia is usually the result of  a one-time learning that happens in an altered state..  Just like hypnosis.

Your brain is made in such a way that you can learn very quickly if you are in an altered state of consciousness.  That means you can also unlearn just as quickly.  Phobias are routinely permanently overcome  in 1-3 sessions.

Notice by the way what role the pictures our little girl created in her fear.  Big scary pictures in her mind created big fearful emotions.

People have similar reactions every day to a lesser degree that we call stress.  You might worry about you daughter getting home from school on time... or a report getting to the boss on schedule... or what someone is saying behind your back... or what your husband meant... or about getting hit while in bad traffic... or any of thousands of scary little imaginings that flash through your mind throughout the day.  Most of them are completely subconscious - that is... you aren't aware you are even having them.

But with every little scary thought comes a little trickle of adrenaline into your system.  Each little drop by itself would be no big deal, but the problem is that most people's bodies are like a bath tub with the drain plugged.  Even a little drip if you let it go long enough will eventually cause the tub to overflow.

And that's what happens when people suffer from chronic stress or anxiety attacks.  Thousands of scary and errant thoughts along with lifestyle choices such as a poor diet and lack of exercise cause that emotional tub to overflow.

Hypnosis helps for several reasons:

It can help you gain control of errant thoughts that cause stress. 

It can help you make lifestyle changes that effect your body chemistry. 

It can help you learn to put deep relaxation under your conscious control - effectively allowing you to "drain the tub." 

Studies have shown hypnosis helpful in relieving numerous conditions that arose from stress by relieving the underlying condition.  Examples include, skin conditions, lupus, chronic pain and high blood pressure.

If you or someone you love is suffering from panic attacks, chronic stress or a phobia please contact us now and find out how we can help you make a quick and permanent improvement.

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