Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy

By virtue of being human, each of us has experienced anxiety.

Indeed, anxiety is something that each of us is sure to have experienced, in one form or another, at some point in our lives.

As such, it’s nothing to be alarmed about. In truth, a degree of anxiety can even be beneficial. Occasional feelings of temporary, minor anxiety can push us on, giving us ‘the edge’. It can keep us on our toes, allowing us to perform to a greater degree of excellence than we ever could without it.

But habitual and chronic anxiety is completely different.

Anxiety of this type can be truly incapacitating and overwhelming. It can really handicap us, preventing us from functioning in a normal way in otherwise ordinary circumstances.

More than this, anxiety can seriously and adversely affect our health.

Chronic anxiety – anxiety experienced on a regular basis over an extended period of time – can have alarming consequences. It can weaken the immune system and lower the body’s natural resistance to infection, leaving us prey to all manner of illnesses.

Long periods of anxiety can elevate blood pressure, putting far too much strain on vital organs such as the heart. And anxiety can really increase the possibility of becoming a stroke victim. Digestive problems such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome, headaches and skin eruptions can all have their origin in anxiety.

If you are experiencing real anxiety then it really is best to visit your doctor or medical advisor, just to make certain that there are no underlying physical reasons for this. Physical reasons eliminated, you are faced with the decision of what course of action to take.

Most often, the medical response is to simply prescribe pharmaceuticals. Drugs like Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, or tranquilizers are recommended in order to cope with the symptoms.

But for some people, these powerful drugs can have some quite dire side effects.

Another popular approach is to undergo a course of CBT – cognitive behavioural therapy. This therapy is meant to help the sufferer cope with the symptoms of the anxiety. It aims to help the person to develop coping strategies in order to manage the symptoms of anxiety.

Yet it is important to understand that anxiety is simply a feeling generated at the subconscious level of the mind. It is based on the belief that something bad is going to happen.

Therefore it is the subconscious that can provide the true solution to the problem.

And this is exactly what good hypnotherapy does. In hypnosis, we can realign the subconscious mind with reality, allowing it to become calm and more relaxed, to rapidly stop the alert process that is incorrectly functioning and producing those anxious feelings.

No-one was born to feel anxious. With modern advanced hypnotherapy, you can let go of those terrible, anxious feelings, simply stopping them just as soon as they start.