Hypnotherapy for
Panic Attacks
If you’re suffering from panic attacks, then you’ll know how scary they can be. From an increased heart rate and dizziness, to hyperventilation, hot sweats and a churning stomach, panic attacks can leave you feeling disorientated and fearful about carrying out your everyday life. Some sufferers even describe the attacks as feeling paralysed or as if they’re having a heart attack.
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And it may be that you don’t even know the cause of your panic attack, which can heighten your anxiety levels further.
Fight or flight
One panic attack can often start a vicious cycle. After the first attack the sufferer begins to fear the next, and the next. The brain interprets any physical symptom of another attack starting, as danger.
This is all due to our fight or flight response. When we are under some sort of threat, we produce adrenalin to help us to deal with the fear. This can be fear of a wild animal or worry about paying your credit card bill - the brain reacts in the same way.
During this response, the nervous system causes our breathing to speed up so that we have enough oxygen to deal with the perceived threat. The heart rate then speeds up as a result, the sufferer notices this, more adrenalin is produced as a fear response to this, and they are stuck in a vicious cycle.
If you’re suffering from panic attacks, understanding the primitive brain and the fight or flight response can be the first step towards helping you move forward. Solution Focused Hypnotherapy for panic attacks can then help you to make changes to your subconscious brain to lessen and then stop the panic attacks completely.
Visualising a new path
The brain forms habits and if you practice different techniques and learn to embed them as coping mechanisms, then the brain will draw on these instead and new neural pathways will be formed in the brain. Picture it as standing on top of a snowy mountain and looking at two different routes. One route is the path you have taken many times before with footprints embedded in the snow. The other is fresh and untrodden snow. To embed footprints in the new path you must keep walking down it, again and again, until the footprints are sunken in. The more you do this, the more the snow will fall and cover the old pathway up.
How I can help
When we meet, we’ll discuss how this fight or flight response impacts the brain and how it’s affecting your response to certain situations. By understanding your brain, you’ll already be one step closer to breaking the cycle and regaining control. We’ll then agree small steps you can take to reduce your overall feelings of stress in your everyday life.
As I then guide you into a state of hypnosis, I’ll use the power of positive suggestion to create new neural pathways that redirect your feelings of anxiety and panic and lead you to a place of calm.
To find out how I can help you, contact me to arrange a free initial consultation or make a booking.