Panic and anxiety are an over-arousal of the autonomic nervous system. That’s the bit of you, which controls the heart rate, your digestion, how much you sweat, the need to urinate, and your rate of breathing. All of which, with the possible exception of breathing, are outside of normal conscious control. Those things will be familiar to anyone who has experienced an anxiety or a panic attack. You start to breath hard, you sweat, your thinking is highly focussed and often irrational, all the while your bladder and bowels feel like they have a life of their own and are about to take flight.
Anxiety suffers often speak about the anxiety happening to them, the panic literally attacks them. Often the anxiety or panic attack sufferer seeks a release from the symptom and ignores the behaviour that is the anxiety. The key to changing these conditions is to learn to easily control your imagination, rather than the other way around, effective solutions lie in resolving the emotional states and beliefs that drive the anxiety and panic attacks.
Anxiety and panic are state driven conditions; people have to do something in order to become anxious. The resolution is to change the pattern in which they produce the anxiety; it is not about understanding what it is which is the root cause, it is about thinking differently, feeling differently and responding differently.
Give me a call and if I can help you I will.
Richard Stone - Modern Hypnotherapy
0208 647 7441 richard.stone@modernhypnotherapy.co.uk
