Hypnosis for Health

Depression

Depression and depression related symptoms can be resolved permanently by hypnosis, hypnotherapy and cognitive training.

We have all experienced periods when we have felt miserable or sad and, when these periods do come along, most of us usually can deal with them by seeking counsel with family and friends. This, thankfully, means these periods don't last long and we can get on with the business of living again.

But, what if you have never been able to deal with your feelings properly and these feelings, like all the others you have 'bottled up' in your life, don't go away; you begin to feel so bad under all that accumulated stress and your feelings do begin to interfere with your everyday life?

Depression affects both the mind and body and can present a variety of symptoms such as;

 Feelings of worthlessness, inappropriate guilt, helplessness
 Feelings of hopelessness, pessimism
 Difficulty thinking, concentrating, remembering, or making decisions

 Loss of appetite and/or weight loss or, conversely, over-eating and weight gain
 Insomnia, sleep problems, early-morning awakening, or oversleeping
 Restlessness or irritability​
 Thoughts of death or suicide, or attempts at suicide
 Loss of interest in, or pleasure in, hobbies and activities that were once enjoyed, including sex
 Decreased energy, fatigue, feeling "slow" or sluggish
 Persistent physical symptoms that do not respond to treatment, such as headaches, digestive disorders, and chronic pain.
 Persistent sad, anxious, or "empty" moods

There could be hormonal and even environmental causes of depression, as well as emotional ones. The 'inner cause' is invariably down to the stress of deeply held, unresolved 'bottled up' emotions and feelings. Feelings which have been pushed down in an attempt to push them away because, unfortunately, that person was never shown how to, or allowed to, express and release upsetting feelings and emotions.

Anxiety or Stress

A panic attack is an intense feeling of anxiety or fear. People experiencing a panic attack may feel that they are 'losing it' or that they are on the verge of a heart attack. Although panic attacks can feel really disturbing at the time and you may feel as if you are having a heart attack, they are not dangerous. In fact, it is just an increased flow of adrenalin surging through your body. It is certainly much nicer to live life without one. One of the most distressing aspects of experiencing panic attacks is that they can seem completely unpredictable and therefore uncontrollable. There have been many studies carried out into the cause of panic disorders and, although the results are still inconclusive, one thing is definite; they are directly linked to prolonged feelings of worry and stress. The 'worry cup' fills up over time, you 'bottle it' all up until it overflows and then of course it may develop into a full blown panic attack.

You have to understand that these feelings of anxiety are already within you. The panic attack is only the 'ultimate' way in which these feelings are being expressed. Unlike other therapies and treatments which try to help you to cope, or learn to live with your symptoms, I can help you to get rid of the symptoms completely by getting to the source of worry or concern in your subconscious mind, bring it awareness level so that you can live a more harmonious life.

Studies have shown that hypnotherapy offers natural stress relief,

so with surprisingly few sessions of you can make remarkable progress. 

Hypnosis is a state of enhanced relaxation where your body and mind relax creating a shift in brainwave activity. 

This is quite the opposite of what happens when you are stressed or anxious, which is why the results of using

hypnotherapy for stress relief are often so dramatic.

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Hypnotherapy for stress relief and lifestyle coaching will enable you to effectively manage the demands

of daily life, lessening the impact of stressful situations and the anxiety that they can cause and even to 

turn those feelings around into a positive opportunity for achievement and personal development.

Anger Management

(RE: the following on Anger Management perfectly said by Hypnotherapy Directory)

When an individual becomes angry, their heart rate and blood pressure increases as chemicals such as adrenalin are pumped through their body. Releasing this tension (often verbally or physically) may accompany these physical changes. However some individuals may not release this tension and suppress their anger. This usually leads to a build up of emotions causing them to ‘explode’ when it all becomes too much.

The goal of anger management is to control both the emotional feelings and physiological arousal that anger creates. Recognising anger and learning to express it in the correct way can help individuals handle emergencies and solve problems easier. The key is to learn how to react calmly when something causes those feelings of anger, without lashing out, shouting or becoming violent.

Symptoms of anger

• aggressive behaviour

• hostility

• explosive outbursts

• social withdrawal due to anger

• verbal or physical abuse

• tense muscles

• clenched jaw.

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Causes of anger

Anger can be caused by both internal and external events and if it starts to interfere with an individual’s everyday life and relationships, help should be sought. Some of the most common causes of anger include frustration, hurt, threats, annoyance, harassment and disappointment. Other physical conditions found to initiate anger can be fatigue, hunger, hormonal conditions and sexual frustration. Each person is different and may react to certain conditions more than others.

Treatment for anger

Relaxation techniques such as deep breathing can sometimes help calm down angry feelings. If anger is affecting everyday life, counselling can often help to develop a range of techniques for changing the way an individual thinks and behaves.

Hypnotherapy can also help an individual to change the way they think or behave in situations that cause their anger to flare up. By accessing the subconscious mind, hypnotherapy can often help identify the root cause of the problem and help the individual to learn how to deal with it in a calmer, more relaxed way.

Phobias

​One of the most common reasons people choose to be hypnotized is for the purpose of overcoming a phobia. Common phobias include fear of flying, water, spiders or crowds; all of which can easily be settled using cognitive hypnotherapy techniques to help instill new beliefs and behavior patterns. Learning to feel calm instead of fearful and understanding that opposing emotions feel the same in the body and it is merely a trick of the mind to see the positive aspect. Excitement feels the same in the body as fear, therefore the feeling tone you may feel will flying can be reprogrammed to feel excited.

Sometimes, if a phobia is deeper and more disruptive as can be the case with severe oraphobia or social phobia, then it may be necessary to look at some of the issues surrounding the onset of the phobia and work to resolve the underlying feelings. Phobias are often rooted in childhood misunderstanding. A child doesn't necessarily have the logical tools and information to understand the meaning of a parent standing on a stool screaming at a small insect. They will almost certainly make a deep unconscious decision that the insect is dangerous.

Teaching relaxation and visualization techniques for systematic desensitizing. Learning new habits such as being more relaxed and calm. Although it may seem obvious, these habits exist on the same unconscious level as the original phobia and hypnosis will help to create them quickly. Coming to an internal understanding and acceptance of how the phobia may once have served a useful purpose but has now become an unnecessary behavior pattern. This issue can resolve itself under a conscious level of awareness. For evidence of this, look at the way children eventually learn to not be scared of monsters even though they never actually sit down and consciously make the decision. Hypnosis simply accelerates the internal ability we have to get over irrational fears.

Achluophobia: Fear of darkness
Agliophobia: Fear of pain
Androphobia: Fear of men
Arachnophobia: Fear of spiders
Atychiphobia: fear of failure
Aviophobia: Fear of flying
Brontophobia: Fear of thunder and lightening (storms)
Chiraptophobia: Fear of being touched
​Coulrophobia: Fear of clowns
Decidophobia: Fear of having to make decisions
Dentophobia: Fear of the dentist
Genophobia: Fear of sex
Heliophobia: Fear of the sun
Hemophobia: Fear of blood
Insectophobia: Fear of insects
Claustrophobia: Fear of confined spaces
​Panophobia: Fear of everything

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Post Traumatic Stress disorder can be helped in multipe ways through hypnotherapy. Again, this is a situation in which I would need a pro-active business interaction with your Primary Healthcare Provider prior to beginning hypnotherapy sessions. Reaching the core of a deeply rooted memory is a process that happens over multiple sessions, as it must be handled gently. We will work on your self care, feelings of trust of being safe in the moment, learning to live in the now, sometimes even going deeply to remember the event which causes your PTSD so that you can release the pain and fear of the moment. Once you have worked completely on letting it go, you will learn to see the moment merely as plain as a story of fiction of another's life.