If you are struggling with an anxiety disorder, you are likely aware of the intense feelings that anxiety brings and its emotional impact on your life. Anxiety can increase over time when left untreated, making everyday tasks difficult and potentially holding you back from living a fulfilling life. However, you don’t need to live with anxiety any longer. The good news is that an Adelaide hypnotherapist can help you overcome anxiety and enable you to live a happier life. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how hypnotherapy can help you overcome severe anxiety.

What is anxiety?

Anxiety is more than just feeling worried or stressed, it’s a persistent condition. While anxious and stressed feelings are common responses to pressure and usually pass once the difficult situation has ended, anxiety involves feelings that may not have a clear cause and do not go away on their own. For those struggling with anxiety, these feelings can be challenging to manage. Anxiety could make it difficult for a person to manage daily tasks. There are different types of anxiety conditions. Once a hypnotherapist identifies the type of anxiety, they will start treating it. Anxiety hypnosis in Adelaide can help you overcome anxiety-inducing thoughts. Below are the most common signs of anxiety:

• Difficult to calm down

• Feeling anxious or worried most of the time

• Uncontrollable anxious feelings

• Feeling tired easily

• Muscle tension

• Sleep disturbances

• Difficulty focusing

Hypnosis for anxiety techniques

The hypnotherapist and client work together to address the causes of anxiety, observing any related emotional and physical symptoms. Using this information, the client will work with a hypnotherapist to create hypnotic suggestions and a plan that will best support anxiety relief.

• Relaxation

A hypnotherapist helps a person relax their muscles and enter a hypnotic trance state. This helps the person release tension and stress through mindfulness, focused awareness, and soothing suggestions. As a result, anxiety symptoms are often significantly reduced, allowing therapeutic work to begin.

• Reframing

This technique uses imagination and guided imagery. In this hypnotic state, a person considers situations that trigger anxiety and brings new perspectives, resources, and attitudes to those situations, enabling healthier responses.

• Self-management

Opting for hypnotherapy for anxiety in Adelaide could help you manage anxiety. Apart from these techniques, the hypnotherapist will suggest several self-management techniques, such as deep breathing exercises, instructions for self-hypnosis, and self-guided relaxation meditations.

• Anchoring to relieve anxiety

Anchoring is a technique that helps a person create positive triggers for better outcomes. During hypnosis, the person is guided into a relaxed, safe, and comfortable state. The hypnotherapist then instructs them to link these calm feelings to an anchor.

Is hypnotherapy effective for anxiety?

Hypnotherapy has been proven effective for calming anxiety. According to research, hypnosis is found to be more effective in treating anxiety than other methods alone. People often notice positive results after attending a few hypnosis sessions. Anxiety can be caused by past experiences, such as injuries, accidents, or abuse. Hypnotherapists can help you find a psychological resolution for the underlying causes of anxiety. Hypnotherapy can increase one’s awareness of emotional responses to anxiety-inducing thoughts, often enabling greater control over reactions and allowing for the development of healthier coping mechanisms. Many people experience anxiety because of fear of public speaking. Hypnotherapy can also help you overcome the fear of public speaking Adelaide.

Conclusion

If you or a loved one is struggling with anxiety, hypnotherapy is worth trying to overcome it. You can schedule an appointment with our hypnotherapist for a consultation. After assessing your condition, we’ll recommend the number of hypnosis sessions you may need to attend to get rid of anxiety disorder.