Anxiety is something that you suffer at some point of your life. Here are Self Hypnosis Techniques for you to try and face life stress free.
Anxiety and anxiety-related conditions are the most common psychological afflictions of man and account for a major percentage of initial complaints to psychiatrists as well as to general practitioners. Although it is estimated that some 5% of the population may suffer from acute or chronic anxiety, with women outnumbering men two to one (Cohen and White, 1950), the numbers are probably significantly higher.
As a symptom, anxiety is a final common pathway for many conditions, physical as well as psychological. As syndromes, anxiety disorders are under intensive study to define more precisely their etiologies and clinical outcomes. Recent studies, showing disturbances of lactate metabolism in certain anxious individuals, point to the possibility that some anxiety states, like some depressive states, have strong biological and genetic determinants.
Hypnosis finds its most common clinical utilization in the treatment of anxiety and its related states, not only because of anxiety's prevalence, but because hypnosis has such a clear role as a potent anti-anxiety agent. In this chapter, we will examine hypnotic behavioral approaches to anxiety, while hypnopsychotherapeutic approaches will be discussed in Chapter 14.
EVALUATION OF ANXIETY
The first task of the hypnotherapist is to evaluate the anxiety condition. At the end of the initial interview, several questions must be asked. Is the anxiety organically determined? Is there a medical, physiological, or otherwise somatic basis for its existence? The list of medical conditions which, as a by-product, contain anxiety is long: hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias, anemia, hypoglycemia, withdrawal from sedative hypnotics (including alcohol), and caffeinism, cocaine, and psychostimulant abuse, among others. Anxiety is also sometimes confused with medical conditions which, in their presentation, share its expressions. Coronary artery disease, with chest pain, respiratory distress, and cardiac symptoms can mimic anxiety states; so can hyperthyroidism, pheochromocytomas and Meniere's disease. The treatment, while not obviating adjunctive psychotherapeutic or hypnotherapeutic intervention, will of course be mainly aimed at treating the primary medical condition.
Is the anxiety an aggravating component of a chronic medical syndrome? Most psychosomatic conditions are intimately connected to anxiety and stress. Flare-ups of such diseases as peptic ulcer, ulcerative colitis, or hypertension produce anxiety. Conversely, difficulties with psychosocial adjustment bring exacerbations in these conditions. Anxiety control is important to ease the interactive play of psyche and soma.
Is the anxiety a part of another psychiatric syndrome? Anxiety weaves into most psychiatric syndromes.
Major depression is rarely seen without it, and so is mania. Schizophrenia, especially in the decompensation phase, as the individual experiences ego fragmentation, can be marked by fright--as can organic brain syndromes with their cognitive disruptions. Treatment of anxiety in these conditions is centered on correcting the global psychiatric syndrome.
Ref: http://www.triroc.com/sunnen/topics/hypn&anxiety.htm
The Technique
• Find a comfortable place to sit for awhile. It doesn’t necessarily need to be completely quiet. In fact, a little sound will be helpful.
• Fix your eyes, comfortably, on an area in front of you. This technique seems to work best when the eyes and especially the head are kept relatively stable and comfortably focused toward the front. There is no need to fix your eyes on a particular spot, however, just keep it still.
• Out loud, acknowledge five things you notice in your field of vision. Follow this by acknowledging, out loud, five sounds in your immediate auditory awareness. Follow these two sequences with five sensations you notice, out loud, in your physical, bodily awareness.
• Once you have finished the above sequence, start over, but this time acknowledge four sights, sounds and feelings. Follow this by sequences of of three (sights, sounds, and feelings), two (sights, sounds, and feelings), and finally, one sight sound and feeling.
• If you arrive at a desirable state before the end feel free to stop and hang out. If you are still not where you would like to be start over and repeat the sequences.
Ref: http://www.solutionmind.com/tools/54321_technique.html
Try Self Hypnosis Technique to achieve your desirable state.
You may also like: Self Confidence Hypnosis
Anxiety and anxiety-related conditions are the most common psychological afflictions of man and account for a major percentage of initial complaints to psychiatrists as well as to general practitioners. Although it is estimated that some 5% of the population may suffer from acute or chronic anxiety, with women outnumbering men two to one (Cohen and White, 1950), the numbers are probably significantly higher.
As a symptom, anxiety is a final common pathway for many conditions, physical as well as psychological. As syndromes, anxiety disorders are under intensive study to define more precisely their etiologies and clinical outcomes. Recent studies, showing disturbances of lactate metabolism in certain anxious individuals, point to the possibility that some anxiety states, like some depressive states, have strong biological and genetic determinants.
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EVALUATION OF ANXIETY
The first task of the hypnotherapist is to evaluate the anxiety condition. At the end of the initial interview, several questions must be asked. Is the anxiety organically determined? Is there a medical, physiological, or otherwise somatic basis for its existence? The list of medical conditions which, as a by-product, contain anxiety is long: hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias, anemia, hypoglycemia, withdrawal from sedative hypnotics (including alcohol), and caffeinism, cocaine, and psychostimulant abuse, among others. Anxiety is also sometimes confused with medical conditions which, in their presentation, share its expressions. Coronary artery disease, with chest pain, respiratory distress, and cardiac symptoms can mimic anxiety states; so can hyperthyroidism, pheochromocytomas and Meniere's disease. The treatment, while not obviating adjunctive psychotherapeutic or hypnotherapeutic intervention, will of course be mainly aimed at treating the primary medical condition.
Is the anxiety an aggravating component of a chronic medical syndrome? Most psychosomatic conditions are intimately connected to anxiety and stress. Flare-ups of such diseases as peptic ulcer, ulcerative colitis, or hypertension produce anxiety. Conversely, difficulties with psychosocial adjustment bring exacerbations in these conditions. Anxiety control is important to ease the interactive play of psyche and soma.
Is the anxiety a part of another psychiatric syndrome? Anxiety weaves into most psychiatric syndromes.
Major depression is rarely seen without it, and so is mania. Schizophrenia, especially in the decompensation phase, as the individual experiences ego fragmentation, can be marked by fright--as can organic brain syndromes with their cognitive disruptions. Treatment of anxiety in these conditions is centered on correcting the global psychiatric syndrome.
Ref: http://www.triroc.com/sunnen/topics/hypn&anxiety.htm
The Technique
• Find a comfortable place to sit for awhile. It doesn’t necessarily need to be completely quiet. In fact, a little sound will be helpful.
• Fix your eyes, comfortably, on an area in front of you. This technique seems to work best when the eyes and especially the head are kept relatively stable and comfortably focused toward the front. There is no need to fix your eyes on a particular spot, however, just keep it still.
• Out loud, acknowledge five things you notice in your field of vision. Follow this by acknowledging, out loud, five sounds in your immediate auditory awareness. Follow these two sequences with five sensations you notice, out loud, in your physical, bodily awareness.
• Once you have finished the above sequence, start over, but this time acknowledge four sights, sounds and feelings. Follow this by sequences of of three (sights, sounds, and feelings), two (sights, sounds, and feelings), and finally, one sight sound and feeling.
• If you arrive at a desirable state before the end feel free to stop and hang out. If you are still not where you would like to be start over and repeat the sequences.
Ref: http://www.solutionmind.com/tools/54321_technique.html
Try Self Hypnosis Technique to achieve your desirable state.
You may also like: Self Confidence Hypnosis
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