Anxiety Assassin - Deal with it the Natural Way - Norman Hinks NLP & Hypnotherapy

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How to deal with anxiety?

Anxiety is a term to describe how we feel when we are under stress, worried, tense or afraid about situtions and events that are, or we think may be about to happen.

The good news is people like you are able to stop anxiety by learning how they process things internally, and making changes to them. Hypnotherapy, NLP & CBT are all powerful tools to make these changes.

Remember, Its common to feel anxious during life, especially when a big life changing event, its not good to stay in that state of mind. It makes us aware we need to pay attention to something.

What is Anxiety?

Anxiety is a part of our Freeze, Flight, Fight process and as such is a natural human response when we perceive a threat to our wellbeing. It can be experienced through our thoughts, feelings and 5 senses. It becomes a problem when we cannot let it go for whatever reason.

The good news is many people are able to stop anxiety by learning how they process things internally, and making changes to them. Hypnotherapy, NLP & CBT are all powerful tools to make these changes.

Remember, Its common to feel anxious during life, especially when a big life changing event, its not good to stay in that state of mind. It makes us aware we need to pay attention to something.

Anxiety can become a mental health problem, if it affects the way you live your life, causing other issues...

If you're experiencing any physical symptoms it's best to talk to your GP initially, so they can check out what may be causing them.

It can become a challenge if:

you have feelings of anxiety that are very strong or long lasting
your fears or worries are out of proportion to the situation
you avoid situations that might cause you to feel anxious
your worries feel very distressing or are hard to control
you regularly experience symptoms of anxiety, which could include panic attacks

Common Effects of Anxiety on your body

This list in not exhaustive, and can include:

a churning feeling in your stomach
feeling light-headed or dizzy
pins and needles
feeling restless or unable to sit still
headaches, backache or other aches and pains
faster breathing
a fast, thumping or irregular heartbeat

sweating or hot flushes
insomnia and other sleep problems
nightly teeth grinding
feeling sick
having to use the toilet more or less often
changes in your sex drive
panic attacks

Effects of anxiety on your mind

feeling tense or nervous
inablity to relax or wind down
having a sense of dread, fearing the worst
feeling like the world is passing you by
feeling like you can't stop worrying,
worrying about anxiety itself,
worrying about if or when a panic attack might come on
wanting lots of reassurance from those around you,
worrying that others are angry or upset with you

worrying that you're losing touch with reality
being moody and depressed
constantly thinking about bad experiences and past events
overthinking a situation repeatedly
feelings of dissociation caused by you feeling disconnected from your mind or body
feelings of dissociation where you feel disconnected from the world around you
worrying a situations and/or events that might or might not happen

Causes of Anxiety

There is no clear cut cause of anxiety, in NLP we consider it can be a result of poor or unsupportive mental strategies resulting in a feeling of anxiety. The good news is these can be changed quite quickly in the majority of cases.

As eveyone is unique, the actual cause is unique also, generally speaking the following are considered some of the possible causes: