Anxiety has taken on epidemic proportions and supports the thriving pharmaceutical industry. It has become a central theme in the work of many mental health care professionals. Chronic anxiety is more than a mental health issue, it is also potential killer.
Anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety – are all variations on a theme.
Anxiety occurs as a natural response to an unfamiliar or potentially dangerous situation. As human beings we are wired to experience some degree of tension in extreme situations. Anxiety disorders come about when that natural response becomes habitual and chronic. Hypnosis will help you learn new patterns of response, easily and quickly.
In fact, relaxation is one of the first things that people think of when they think of hypnosis, and in the presence of relaxation (as opposed to temporary sedation) anxiety fades away.
Using skills to develop mindfulness, focus in everyday situations so that you can recognize cues that would otherwise cause stress, and learn to trigger your own hypnotic response, is even more valuable.
Hypnosis is not intended to be a substitute for drugs prescribed for anxiety by a physician. With the collaboration of their physician I have helped many clients in my Los Angeles hypnotherapy practice to reduce and then to eliminate completely medications they had been using for anxiety disorders of different kinds.
