Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Hypnosis for All Levels of Anxiety

By Cas Willow


Agitation is outlined by science textbooks as a physical and mental state, which is distinguished by physical, emotional and behavioral manifestations. Normally a certain stimulus, called the stressor causes an agitation reaction from a person , and it's regularly associated with various feeling like fear, nervousness, worry, agitation and uneasiness. Stress can be classified in two parts, depending on the effect it must certain individuals; it can either promote a positive response from people making them perform better or it can make a incredible negative impact and make people completely lose their composure and end up being in a state of anxiety. Since, nervousness involves the mental condition an individual is into; hypnotherapy is a positive means in relieving symptoms and identifying root Problems in stress attacks.

According to a nursing theoretician, Hildegard Peplau, there are 4 levels of anxiety: mild, moderate, grim and panic levels. Mild uneasiness is usually distinguished by a positive awareness of an honest to goodness event or a problem; moderate nervousness on the other hand is a perceived going down that could be real or not, exactly like in taking an examination and not knowing what will be the result; serious anxiousness nonetheless is a state whereby a person experiences severe dread where there is absence of attention and focus, this is going to be accompanied by physical symptoms like sweating, headache and chest pain; and with panic level, people lose total control and focus and may infrequently cause danger to themselves or to others.

Individuals may experience all these levels all though their lifetime and be in a position to cope up in an appropriate way. But , for some individuals who've issues in coping and have a heightened reaction to stressors whether real or perceived, they should search out the services of a hypnotherapist to work with them and discover the triggers of anxiety and stresses and discover the alternative ways to avoid them or handle them.

Anxiety affects individuals from all age groups and varies in manifestations dependent on a person's coping mechanisms. And with hypnotherapy, an individual will know if their uneasiness is already a disorder and what class their symptoms will be divided into, the four categories are: generalized nervousness disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder.

Hypnotherapy will be conducted, first to trace the sources of triggers for a panic episode, so what the hypnotherapist will do is to take a thorough history to work through with the client on the probable circumstances of the foreboding. This is a vital section of the hypnotherapy as it will decide the strategies to be utilized in hypnosis for anxiety.

In cases when the client can't consciously identify the trigger factors, the hypnotherapist will now conduct the hypnosis for anxiety to work through with the client. The objective of this process is to allow the client to have an altered state of mind so the comatose mind can direct them to certain events, places or people that are related to the anxiety episode. By identifying the trigger factor for anxiety, both the hypnotherapist and the client can work out a plan on the way to deal if not avoid such trigger occurrences.

The next step for the hypnotherapist to conduct is to provide a positive sensitizing event, where the bad memories will be faced by the client or it will be replaced by new and positive thoughts so that a closure of prior negative events will take place. Once this is accomplished the hypnotherapist will work with the client in determining what self-hypnosis for anxiety tricks or techniques may be employed to consciously redirect the client's mental condition in cases of panic attacks.




About the Author:



No comments: