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Depression, Anxiety, and NLP

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Depression, Anxiety, and NLP

Who’s in charge of your life? Who’s driving the bus? These are the basic questions that NLP asks you, to challenge the idea that you are powerless to change.

Depression and anxiety disorders are related to your idea that someone or something else is in charge, and your  symptoms  are perpetuated and aggravated by the belief that you are helpless to change.

But you know that if you could, and when you do change, you will cease being a victim of the condition you experience, and become instead the one who’s driving that bus, and choosing your journey.

Although much is said about the chemical causes  for depression, that diagnosis doesn’t really address the issue. Everything is chemical to some extent. Love is chemical too. Anger is chemical, curiosity, fear, and any emotional state you care to mention has some chemical component. You can also ask, “What else is it aside from mere chemistry?”

Anger, addictions of various kinds, emotions of all sorts can be managed, and transformed. You can learn to change their negative effects easily when you know how. The same is true of depression and anxiety. It’s just a question of learning the skills.

Depression and Anxiety lead to many things:

  • family conflict
  • alienation
  • learning disabilities necessary
  • low self-esteem
  • low energy
  • absenteeism
  • ill health
  • chronic debilitating mental illness
    … the list goes on

Twenty-seven  million people in the US take medication for depression. Perhaps you’re one of them. Perhaps you would like to avoid becoming one of them.

Here’s a resource I discovered. It doesn’t mention NLP – but it’s got some good info.

http://www.teachhealth.com/

Published on November 4, 2010

Anxiety and Stress

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I live in Los Angeles. I used to experience anxiety of one sort or another much of the time. It felt like a part of who I was. As I look back it seems strange. Most of my anxiety was about things that never happened, worst case scenarios, projections of my own insecurity and paranoia. I owe this change in my mindset to hypnosis, and all that I learned about the power of my imagination in a series of hypnotherapy sessions I did with Caitriona last year.  M.E.E.

Anxiety is a misuse of your time. It’s something that comes about through choices you made about where you should focus your attention.

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The Dark Clouds of Anxiety

This might be hard to accept when you’re in the middle of an anxiety attack, or when you’ve been officially diagnosed with anxiety disorder, or when your anxiety is complicated by depression.

Even so, anxiety comes about because of how you have learned to focus your attention, and how you choose to give certain meaning and weight to particular experience. This may indeed sound harsh if you have been trying in vain to find an effective treatment for anxiety, or have been given the run around by health-care professionals who are better at prescribing medications for anxiety than at helping you find lasting solutions.

But what you once learned you can unlearn. For example, although you may have learned long ago to process similar experiences in the same old ways, with the same old emotions — in this case stress and anxiety, how would it be if you learned new associations; so that when the pressure was on, instead of anxiety, you felt calm, focused, determined, and excited?

It is possible to learn to do this; and it’s easier than you think

The best solutions are often the simplest. Rather than complicated diagnoses and a lifetime of being condemned to live under a cloud called anxiety. This doesn’t mean you don’t have to a little bit of work to do.

But that work involves simply applying the mind-skills and mindset you will learn through hypnosis and NLP. Much of that learning is through the power of your unconscious mind. So it’s about as hard as learning to ride a bicycle. After a day or two you may wobble from time to time. Within a week you’ll be amazed, delighted, and thrilled that what once seemed almost impossible has become a natural skill.

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Published on November 28, 2009

Stress, anxiety, anger, and depression

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Ribbonwood

Stress, anxiety, and depression are the order of the day for many. I always make a point of checking my own state of mind. Denial is not an option (it never was) nor is  anxiety, despair, anger, or fear. These are not places to live. They are emergency emotions.  If you spend any significant time in any of them I have to ask you to consider how you manage to do so? I mean, doesn’t it take an awful lot of energy!?

The fact is, such emotions don’t leave you in a state to be very creative or resourceful!

Of course, people do live in negative states, especially with all the current talk about the economy, not to mention the environment … as though we’ve collectively woken up to the fact we have a global environmental emergency on our hands. H-E-L-L-O … where have we been for the last several decades?

And people do live in negative emotional states like anxiety and helplessness because they’ve learned to do so.

Are they real? Of course. It’s always real. But whose reality does it represent? Where did you learn to be in that state and who or what has been reinforcing the idea that it’s a useful thing to be stresses out, bummed out, freaked out?

My point … and the reason I’m even writing this is that you have a whole lot more options than you may have imagined and it begins with your own ability to manage you own internal states, to change the words and pictures in you own mind. Because you can do that you know. It’s a whole lot easier than you think too!

http://www.manzanitavillage.org/retreats/nlp/

Published on March 17, 2009