Hypnotherapy can Help you with Anxiety/ Stress/ Panic Attacks.

If you’re feeling stressed, you probably notice you feel sick. Your mouth goes dry, your heart races, you start to sweat. Hypnotherapy can help you with stress, anxiety and panic attacks and take back control. First let’s look at what’s going on in your body to make you feel like this.

What happens when you suffer from stress and anxiety?

When you feel stressed or anxious, this causes Adrenalin to be produced. This sends your blood to the larger muscles, in your arms and legs, making you ready for flight or fight. This means the blood is diverted away from your digestion. Which is why you feel sick, have a dry mouth and feel sweaty often while also feeling cold. You also feel your heart racing, to keep those large muscles supplied with oxygen and energy.

This response is great, if we are an Olympian about to compete, or when we are facing real danger. This is not helpful when it interferes with normal life. So, what can we do to control these feelings when they aren’t helpful?

What can you do to control stress, anxiety and panic attacks?

Adrenalin is broken down in the body in less than three minutes. So, the whole effects of it can be over that quickly. First we need to STOP the adrenalin being produced. As daft as it sounds, you can do this by controlling your breathing. You will notice that when you’re feeling stressed/anxious/panic your breathing rate increases. 

Slow breathing is so powerful.

Now STOP and take a long and really slow deep breath in. Fill all of your lungs and even inflate your stomach, take at least four counts to do this. Then breathe out just as slowly, push all the old stale air out and repeat. Do this at least five times and notice how you’re feeling? Has your heart rate slowed, are you feeling less stressed/anxious/panicked?

Just three minutes.

You’ve stopped the production of adrenalin and the adrenalin in your blood stream is being broken down. Now you have to keep this slow deep breathing going for up to three minutes. This will allow all the adrenalin to be broken down and you’ll feel better. No one even needs to know you’re doing it.

Practice is key.

I’m not saying this will be easy. You’ve spent years learning the stress/anxiety/panic response. Now you need to learn and practice the calm and relax response, it’s a skill. Every opportunity you have, STOP and breathe slowly, and deliberately. Learn how to do it at the drop of a hat, until it becomes second nature when you’re feeling stress/anxiety/panic. 

As you become good at this, imagine situations where you’ve felt stressed/anxious/panic and recognise how it makes you feel now. If necessary you can practice this technique to make yourself feel calmer. Take every opportunity you can to practice.

When to Seek Extra Support?

If you’re looking for some support in making positive changes in your life, book your free consultation below. Take the first step towards feeling lighter, calmer, and more in control again. Feel free to message me to find out more.

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