Hi. Has anyone tried Erickson Hypnosis Theraypy for Anxiety? How does that work?

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My mom brought in her cult leader who talked to me for an hour using meaningless sentences and kept ask questions in between so that I forced to analyze whether any metaphorical meanings existed. Later that night I had a panic attack for the first time in my life. I felt like I was going to get a nervous breakdown. I also had a burning sensation in the back of my head. When I recovered, I did some research and I read that the cult leader might have been hypnotizing me through confusion. My question is, can hypnosis induce anxiety?

Here’s a quick background: I have severe, almost debilitating anxiety. In my current job now, I am on the phone constantly doing sales. I will sit there, terrified to call people because I’m afraid they are going to laugh at me, or that the people around me are listening to what I say and judging me. It’s a horrible way to live life and it affects every aspect of what I do.

Anyways, my therapist is trying out hypnosis on me to see if it helps with my severe anxiety. We’ve had two sessions so far and although during the actual hypnosis, it doesn’t feel like anything is happening, I’ve noticed a marked decrease in anxiety and fear. However, I don’t know if that’s a result of the hypnosis or if it’s just me being more comfortable at my job. I know this question seems a little scattered but I guess I’m just wondering if anyone else has undergone hypnosis for a psychological disorder and what your experience was like. Did it work for you? How did it feel? Let me know. Thanks!!!

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Hypnosis Therapy Anxiety

Most of us experience certain periods in our lives when things are not going right for us that make us feel “blue”. Normally, these feelings will come to pass and we will be our old selves again and get on with our lives, but unfortunately some people are not able to overcome these feelings and may feel depressed for a much longer period. It is estimated that about 20% of us suffer from various kinds of depression at any given time, it usually manifests itself in this percentage in the developed countries and among the younger generation.

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Many intelligent young students get school grades that simply don’t appear to indicate their intelligence. These children finish their schoolwork, work hard in class, but still get lousy test scores. Parents usually misinterpret poor performance on tests as failure to study and prepare, but this usually is not the case. Usually, anxiety over tests is a significant reason for low grades. Students who experience fears related to testing usually study at home until they know the information to be tested backwards and forwards. However, upon entering and begin to take the test, their thoughts freeze. They cannot recall the data that, only a moment before, was clear in their minds. They have performance anxiety, and can concentrate only the potential for failure. Hypnosis to improve memory and recall is useful in teaching parents aid their children to conquer test anxiety. Typical procedures, such as self-hypnosis memory improvement, can be very useful for older children who are not excessively analytical or complex thinkers. Such strategies, which can help students to improve memory and recall and decrease their anxiety about testing, are easily accessed. Those children who are inquisitive and intelligent, however, sometimes struggle with using traditional types of hypnosis to improve memory and recall. This is because they question concepts and attempt to comprehend approaches such as self-hypnosis memory improvement. These clients will typically benefit much more from complex approaches such as Ericksonian hypnotherapy or even Neuro-Linguistic Programming(NLP) for test anxiety. Neuro-Linguistic Programming for test anxiety employs several simple behaviors to encourage the mind to accomplish a complex task. One particularly successful NLP method learned by students is a technique called anchoring. With anchoring, people are instructed to recall a time when they felt a sense of achievement and positive self-image. As they mentally re-enact those emotions, they learn to touch two fingers together while remembering those emotions. This generates an anchor, or trigger for the emotions. After the clients have successfully installed an anchor for self-esteem, they are instructed to visualize themselves during a test. As they create this mental picture, they learn to trigger this positive self-image anchor through touching their two fingers together once more. The subconscious then relates the thoughts of positive self-image and accomplishment to the action of taking a test. The final outcome is that individuals feel significantly more positive about their capability to successfully test, and this gives them a positive expectation of a successful outcome. It also makes them feel relaxed during the actual test, so they are able to easily recall information. Through this process, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and memory recall techniques help young people to improve their focus during challenging circumstances like testing. Neuro-Linguistic Programming for test anxiety assists the child to become calmer and concentrate on recalling the data they have learned. This allows them to recall the information that they studied so completely. An alternative approach to using Neuro-Linguistic Programming for test anxiety is to teach the “Flash” method. Students receive instruction on using this strategy to reduce anxiety and stress. With help, they learn to instruct their thoughts to instantly exchange stress-producing thoughts for relaxing ones. Quickly, persons who employ Neuro-Linguistic Programming for test anxiety realize that they find it very difficult to focus on stressful thoughts because their thoughts automatically flash them away for relaxing ideas instead! A combination of NLP and memory improvement approaches can be very useful in calming test-related fears, in addition to maximizing mental recall. Employing Neuro-Linguistic Programming for test anxiety, in addition to mental recall, encourages young people to maximize their capability to recall and soak up additional information. This can be critically important in this age of “information overload.” In today’s world, people’s lives are bombarded routinely with data from TV, radio, the Internet, family, acquaintances, magazines and newspapers. Children who sit in school are at greater risk for developing this difficulty. Tools like Neuro-Linguistic Programming for test anxiety are also used to help them to remain calm and manage this flood of data. NLP and memory improving strategies assist them to center on critical data, and to recall it and not the overflow of useless data that goes with it. Students who prove successful in using Neuro-Linguistic Programming for test anxiety will also find these techniques to be useful for relieving stress and improving concentration in a number of parts of life. For instance, NLP and memory strategies can aid persons to recall names or significant dates or occasions. Usually, older youths who have tried Neuro-Linguistic Programming for test anxiety report that these valuable techniques significantly strengthen the quality of their work and social lives as well. Parents who are concerned regarding their children’s difficulties with exam scores and overall educational outcome should research the effectiveness of Neuro-Linguistic Programming for test anxiety. These approaches are very useful for most intelligent young kids who suffer from this issue. In addition, caring parents can employ NLP and memory improvement techniques to encourage their children become better prepared to begin their careers. Summary: Neuro-Linguistic Programming for test anxiety allows children to focus better and improve test scores. NLP and memory recall techniques are also beneficial in a variety of other aspects of life, such as work and friendship situations. One approach is to look for a nearby trained NLP expert who can help your child learn Neuro-Linguistic Programming for test anxiety. Another method, however, that is considerably less costly and equally as effective to invest in one of the excellent NLP and hypnosis programs available on CD.

Have you ever been frozen at an exam not knowing where to start? You have many thoughts running through your head regarding the possibility of failure and how difficult it will be for you if you fail. You will not be able to stand it at all. With rational emotive behavior therapy and hypnosis cds calm confidence can replace this uncomfortable combination of thoughts and feelings.

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Anxiety is a learned response, and as such it can be “un-learned”. The symptoms of anxiety are indeed very physical, but the causes are generally psychological. They are the result of the wiring in the circuitry of your mind and somehow, in some way, some wires have become crossed. It’s actually very easy for this to happen and so it is unsurprising that so many people these days suffer from anxiety disorders, be it social anxiety, panic attacks or stress in general.

The human mind is an amazing work of art. It is like the most complex painting and sometimes what one sees on the surface is very different from what you may see as you take a closer look. If you were to look at an oil painting by Charles Becker you might very well see a silver chalice, filled with juicy fruit that are so clear to you that you want to reach out and touch them. You may also see a reflection of the fruit in that silver goblet. All of this is seen very clearly…and yet there is no such thing as silver paint. This is an illusion which is created by the artist, and the effect is very real, very true.

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