Anxiety & Panic Attacks
We don't always need to find hidden causes for anxiety, sometimes the simplest approach is the best. Often anxiety and panic attacks can be dealt with very comfortably and with surprisingly powerful results. If we need to explore other feelings behind the anxiety hypnosis can be used as a very elegant tool to do so.	People are often surprised at how comfortably and effectively they can be rid of anxiety attacks.

Extended information about hypnosis for anxiety and panic attacks.

Anxiety is often experienced as an emotional and physical discomfort. Phyiscal traits such as shortness of breath, increased heart rate, sweating are common during attacks of anxiety. The severity of the anxiety can be mild or extreme and may include strong emotional components such as an impending sense of doom or an extreme sense of fear of loss of control.

Most people who come to see me about anxiety attacks report that their anxiety is of one of two types:

• The anxiety occurs at certain identifiable moments or in response to certain triggers. For example when ever they walk into a room filled with people or whenever they think about a certain person or thing they will have an attack of anxiety.
  
  
• The anxiety is of a general nature in that the person always feels a bit ill at ease and at times the feeling either gets worse or decreases a little. There also seems to be no precise triggers that make it worse or ease it.

For the first type of anxiety we have a very specific symptom and therefore the hypnotherapy work can be directed specifically in that direction right away. Results in these cases are often very straight forward as the anxiety is more of a learned response that has become habitual than a symptom of something more complex. This is an area in which hypnosis is very effective and clients are often pleasantly surprised by the rapidity and ease with which results can be achieved.

In relation to the second type of anxiety, where there is no known trigger and the feeling is more general and persistent then we often use hypnotherapy to investigate what it is that might be behind the feelings. Often there is some unmet need, irrational fear or unrecognised pressure in the person's life. Hypnosis can be very effective in helping to identify, recognise and manage these influences with the result that the anxiety then dissapates as a natural conclusion.

Although this approach is a little more complex than that previously described it is still usually a comparitively efficient way to deal with anxiety itself.