Do you feel like you are not performing at 100% because you always feel anxious? Are your to-do lists gathering dust in your phone or journal? Do you think you cannot keep up with the fast-moving world around you because you just cannot stop looking over your shoulder? If you face this every day, you must be in a lot of pain.

We are here to help you get rid of it. What if there is a natural, side effect-less treatment method that calms your mind and leaves you time to concentrate on your long pending list? There is, and it is called hypnotherapy for anxiety.

• Why did you become so anxious in the first place?
• How will hypnotherapy make you less anxious?
• Can it help you get back on track with your life?
• How will the sessions go?
• Will your mind be totally in control of your hypnotherapist, like in the movies?

This blog post answers all these questions and more.

Some Facts About Anxiety

Anxiety is not that uncommon, actually. We all feel anxious and extra cautious sometimes. The thing is, it is a natural emotion. However, it becomes a disorder when you stay anxious all the time.

Example

You might face it during a stressful meeting at work, making the first move in your relationships, sitting an exam, or even visiting a new restaurant. You might be so overwhelmed and afraid that you may totally skip these events.

That, of course, will have harmful consequences. You might lose credibility, reputation, respect, promotions, or grades.

Neuroscience Says That…

Neuroscience explains that anxiety is your brain’s response to perceived threats (which you think will happen but won’t). Your amygdala becomes hyperactive and sends continuous signals that something is not right.

As a result, it triggers the sympathetic nervous system that makes you fight or flee. Your body becomes ready to run or hit.

Why Is it Dangerous?

The thing is, this happens constantly in anxiety. Your brain is always on high alert, your body is always in action mode… and you cannot focus on anything else going around you. This includes your work, relationships, and your own self.

Your body shows that mental strain through:

• Heart palpitations
• Sweaty palms
• A sudden urge to run as fast as your legs can carry you

Or you may freeze completely. You feel as if your mind “stopped working, closed up.”

How Can Anxiety Present Itself?

You won’t find anxiety alone. It often comes with a myriad of triggers and added mental health conditions. This can make the symptoms more overwhelming. Likewise, treatment has to be more focused on the root cause so that you can manage your well-being.

Depression

Depression and anxiety mostly happen together. Millions of the global community suffers from this combination.

You brain remains hypervigilant if you are always anxious. So, it can become exhausted and even burned out. As a result, you get feelings of utter hopelessness and despair.

This continuous worry can deplete your emotional coping capacity. Everyday activities may feel like impossible tasks. You can get stuck in a vicious cycle where:

• You get depressed because of anxious thoughts
• Depression increases anxiety
• You feel sad and overwhelmed which makes you more depressed.

Fear and Phobias

Anxiety can develop strong but irrational fears. They can downgrade your daily functioning and quality of life severely. You may have fears about specific situations or activities like:

• Social interactions/ being seen by many people
• Fear of flying
• Leaving your home

These situations maybe totally normal. However, an already anxious brain can trigger the same fight-or-flight mechanism as life-threatening situations.

The anticipatory anxiety (you keep thinking about possible fearful things that can happen) can eventually become severe. So much that you may start organising your entire life around avoiding triggers. This can make you more isolated.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

PTSD develops because of anxiety related to traumatic events. This trauma forces your nervous system into reacting as if it is in survival mode. The danger may have passed months or even years ago but you keep having anxious symptoms. Anxiety in PTSD may present as:

• Intrusive memories
• Nightmares
• Hypervigilance

You may feel constantly under threat.

Your brain’s alarm system can become hypersensitive. It might see everyday sounds or situations as possible dangers according to the past trauma.

As a result, you may develop:

• Emotional numbing
• Relationship difficulties
• A sense of insecurity

Panic Disorder

You get repeated and unexpected panic attacks that make you more anxious and afraid about another panic attack. The symptoms can be so severe that you may mistake them for heart attacks or seizures etc.

You may also develop agoraphobia (fear of places) because these attacks are so unpredictable. You may start avoiding places or situations where you panicked before. Also, you may keep looking for possible escape routes “in case of some danger.”

As a result, you may:

• Experience poor work performance
• Have difficulty in socialising
• Stop doing activities you liked before

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

OCD-related anxiety brings intrusive thoughts (obsessions) that make you do repetitive behaviours (compulsions). You might know that your actions are irrational. Nonetheless, you do them because nothing else reduces your anxiety.

It gives you a moment’s relief, though. Compulsive actions only strengthen the OCD cycle. Your obsessive thoughts may become more demanding. They often focus on:

• Contamination
• Harm
• Symmetry
• Moral concerns

So. compulsions may present as:

• Excessive cleaning
• Checking things repeatedly
• Counting
• Reviewing situations again and again mentally

These compulsive actions consume most of your time and energy. Your daily routine maybe completely overwhelmed. Also, your productivity and well-being can suffer greatly.

Common Symptoms of Anxiety

Physical

You can feel:

• Racing heart
• Tight and tingly muscles
• Shortness of breath (closed-up feeling)
• A knot in your chest

Emotional

You can feel:

• Continuous worry about one thing or another
• Fear of things that aren’t likely to happen anytime soon
• Doomsday feeling

Behavioural

You can feel:

• Like you shouldn’t go out at all
• You shouldn’t do anything
• You cannot think straight

How Does it Affect Your Daily Life?

You may become a cripple, more or less, if you are always anxious. It can have disastrous effects on your life in general:

• You might not speak up at office meetings
• Your grades may slip because you are always so distracted
• You cannot submit work or assignments on time
• You are always tired
• You may cancel plans at the last minute because you just can’t get out of the bed

It is scary and chaotic.

Burning Question – Why Do You Get Anxious?

There are several reasons:

• Workplace stress
• Financial issues
• Relationship problems
• Poor body image
• Trauma
• Loneliness due to any reason

These are conscious, superficial reasons. Your subconscious thoughts are the deep reason.

You worry about anything and everything because you may have:

• Childhood insecurities
• Dysfunctional family
• Internalised a horrible event
• Suppressed your emotions whenever you were treated unfairly

The good thing? You can look for a treatment now that you know your behaviour is a treatable problem.

One more good thing? Hypnotherapy for anxiety can help.

What is Hypnotherapy for Anxiety?

Anxiety hypnotherapy is a specialised therapeutic approach that uses hypnosis to help you manage and alleviate your anxiety. By guiding you into a deeply relaxed, trance-like state, a hypnotherapist accesses the subconscious mind to uncover the root causes of anxiety and reframe negative thought patterns.

This process allows you to manage your anxious responses. You can develop better coping mechanisms.

Hypnotherapy for anxiety can work because it addresses your hidden issues rather than just the symptoms. As a result, you get a holistic solution for long-term relief.

How Does Anxiety Hypnotherapy Work?

By using the methods:

• Clinical Hypnotherapy
• Havening
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

…in a detailed treatment plan. You can manage anxiety in many ways this way. This can help you build long-term well-being.

Clinical Hypnotherapy

Clinical hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation, intense concentration, and focused attention to achieve heightened awareness.

In this state, a person can explore thoughts, feelings, and memories that may be hidden from their conscious mind.

Neuroscience says hypnotherapy engages the brain’s limbic system and pre-frontal cortex. They are responsible for emotions and decision-making, respectively.

Hypnotherapy for anxiety can help rewire your thoughts and emotional responses that way. As a result, your anxiety is reduced.

Example

For instance, a professional struggling with public speaking might use hypnotherapy to uncover and address the root causes of their anxiety, such as past negative experiences or self-limiting beliefs.

Havening

Havening Techniques are designed to help you process and release traumatic memories. This method is about touch patterns. You can learn to rub your arms or face while focusing on distressing events.

This process calms the amygdala, the brain’s fear centre, effectively diminishing the power of the traumatic memory and reducing anxiety.

Example

For example, someone who experienced a car accident might use Havening to reduce the emotional impact of the memory, leading to less anxiety in similar situations. Neuroscientifically, Havening is believed to create delta waves in the brain, which help de-link the emotional response from the traumatic memory.

Related Read: How to Heal and Thrive After Being Traumatised

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with Hypnotherapy

Another well-established method, known as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), offers structured techniques for managing anxiety.

This combined therapy makes sure that you deal with both surface-level and deeper symptoms.

Practically, the combination of CBT and Hypnotherapy can quicken your recovery process.

Example

For instance, a person dealing with anxiety might start with hypnotherapy for anxiety sessions to explore and resolve underlying emotional conflicts. They may gain insights that can help them during CBT sessions.

Benefits of Hypnotherapy for Anxiety

You should go for hypnotherapy for anxiety management because of it:

Reduces Anxiety Effectively:

Researches show that hypnotherapy can be effective in reducing anxiety. People who try this method experience significant reductions in anxiety levels, often after just a few sessions.

Is a Holistic Approach:

Hypnotherapy is it is wholesome. It helps you manage both the mental and physical symptoms. This builds your well-being with time. As a result, you can improve your mind-body connection to live a better life.

You Get Long-Term Results:

Unlike some treatments that provide temporary relief, hypnotherapy offers the potential for long-term results.

Hypnotherapy helps individuals develop healthier thought patterns and coping mechanisms by reprogramming the subconscious mind. It can help maintain improvement and personal empowerment.

What to Expect in an Anxiety Hypnotherapy Session?

Initial Consultation

It is the first step in hypnotherapy for anxiety. The hypnotherapist will discuss your concerns, medical history, and goals for therapy in this meeting. It will help them design a special treatment plan which would be best for you.

Session Structure

A hypnotherapy session has many stages:

• Induction
• Deepening
• Therapeutic intervention
• Emergence

The induction stage helps you relax and enter a trance-like state… almost similar to sleep but not sleep. The deepening stage makes your mind more ready to accept suggestions.

Your therapist gives you positive suggestions and visualisation in the therapeutic intervention stage. Finally, the emergence stage gently brings you back to full awareness.

How to Find a Qualified Hypnotherapist

You must check their credentials and training when looking for a hypnotherapist.

A good enough hypnotherapist should have formal training from a recognised institution.

Also, they must be certified by a reputable professional institution.

Questions to Ask

You should ask these questions your hypnotherapist before starting therapy, i.e.:

• What is your training and certification?
• How many years of experience do you have?
• Can you provide references or testimonials from past clients?
• What is your approach to treating anxiety?

You can find hypnotherapists by asking your healthcare providers. You can also Google them or check with therapy centres to find good hypnotherapists.

Why MIHH Should be Your First Choice?

Fair question. You should trust us at Make It Happen Hypnotherapy because we are:

• Highly experienced. We have treated 700+ people through hypnotherapy. Our hypnotherapist, Sandy, has practised successfully in Australia, New Zealand, Hongkong, and the USA.
• Extremely ethical. We take client confidentiality very seriously. Whatever you tell us at MIHH, stays at MIHH.
• Thoroughly empathetic. You won’t be ridiculed or judged here. Sandy will listen to anything and everything you tell her about your anxiety.
• All about keeping you in the loop. You will be involved in planning your hypnotherapy for anxiety. You can give Sandy pointers about specific problems you must address in sessions. She will answer all your questions and doubts before your first hypnotherapy session.

Also, hypnotherapy helps you recover faster than other therapies. Who doesn’t want natural remedies for constant worrying without notable side effects?

Read Lisa’s Success Story

Lisa, a 35-year-old office employee, had social anxiety for many years. Finally, she grew tired of being pushed back because of her poor communication skills.

That was when she visited us to try hypnotherapy for anxiety.

How it Helped Her

She noticed a remarkable reduction in her anxiety levels after a few sessions of hypnotherapy. She also regained her confidence to speak publicly without feeling small and fearful.

Hypnotherapy helped her get rid of the root causes of anxiety and become more resilient.

It made her a better version of herself.

In a Nutshell

Hypnotherapy for anxiety can help you manage your career, relationships, and personal life. Otherwise, this disorder can overwhelm your life. It pushes you back into a vicious cycle of worry, loneliness, and poor life skills.

So, are you ready to start hypnotherapy soon? Book a FREE consultation with our hypnotherapist now!

Frequently Asked Questions

How Long Does Hypnotherapy Take to Work for Anxiety?

You can learn to manage anxiety fully within a few months. However, you may start notice positive changes in your thoughts and behaviours within 4 – 6 sessions. Your treatment duration also depends upon the intensity of your anxiety and your willingness to get better.

Can Hypnosis Stop Fear?

Yes, it can. Hypnosis helps you release your neative emotions about hurtful situations. Once your subconscious becomes more positive, you can think more rationally. So, your fear reduces too.

Can Hypnosis Stop Panic Attacks?

Yes, it can. Solution-based hypnotherapy helps you change your POV about triggering events. SO, you can think of a solution to handle the situations instead of getting overwhelmed by emotions. As a result, your panic attacks can stop.