Treating Anxiety - Chris Dawson - Hypnotherapist and Performance Coach

Chris Dawson Hypnotherapist and Performance Coach
Using Hypnotherapy, EFT and NLP

Anxiety

Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius

One of the most amazing things about human beings is our imagination. It is one of the most powerful tools that we possess. Without actually going to places or meeting people, we can imagine what they are like. We can imagine how things were, are or are going to be. We can look back and enjoy past pleasures, or dwell on past woes. We can look forward with excitement or with trepidation. Because we have our imaginations, things don’t have to be real to excite or to trouble us.

A little anxiety is a positive thing. It prepares us for action. An actor will feel some anxiety before a performance, as will an athlete before a race. It shows that the fight/flight process has been triggered, which in turn will ensure that the performer has the energy to carry out the task ahead. All it takes to stimulate the process is a thought, because what we think leads to feelings and what we feel leads to changes in physiology, which prepare us for action.

Thoughts have a tendency to grow. Through the power of the imagination, negative thoughts can expand until they end in catastrophe. Most of us can identify with the well-known observation, ‘I’ve experienced thousands of disasters in my life and most of them have never actually happened!’ Each time we do this, we put our body on red alert to no purpose. The system floods with adrenalin, breathing accelerates, pulse rate increases, blood pressure rises, blood sugars are raised and blood diverted to heart, lungs and muscles, the areas most needed to tackle the emergency – but there isn’t one! Into the bargain we may suffer a host of other symptoms, from butterflies in the stomach, to vomiting, diarrhoea and dizziness. We have triggered anxiety.

I guess you know how debilitating anxiety can become. Once the body has gone into emergency mode, it stays that way until it is given an opportunity to relax. A continuous state of anxiety keeps the system on alert. Symptoms increase and we feel increasingly physically and emotionally worn out and unable to cope.

It doesn’t have to be that way. Remember, tomorrow does not need to be the same as today.

Learning to relax is a good first step to controlling feelings of anxiety. I can help you to do this. At the same time I can help you to identify, address and diffuse the power of the underlying causes of your anxiety. I can also help you to adjust your perspective on life, so that you are able to focus on positive and optimistic outcomes and feel calm, confident and in control.

Having seen Chris on a number of occasions, I now feel more confident, not at all anxious and happy in myself as a person. I also find I can now do things I wouldn’t have had the confidence to do two months ago. Suzanne H.

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