What Is Fear Fear is something that we have been taught to find distressing in the same way that happiness is something we have come to accept as a supportive positive state of mind. Both are instinctive and built in to part of us that just recognises being in that mental state. So when we start […]
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Mindfulness and anxiety are two things that live at the opposite ends of the spectrum of unease in your mind. At one end of the mental unease spectrum anxiety is driven by thoughts of catastrophe which are driven by so many triggers in your life. At the other end of the mental unease spectrum mindfulness […]
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Anxiety acceptance is often thought of as a paradox. The paradox being that acceptance of anxiety is a capitulation, it’s you giving in to the anxiety and panic and stopping the fight. How can giving in to anxiety work? Well the thing is that all the time that you fight anxiety and panic and all […]
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Are anxiety and perception linked in some way and how much are they connected? How much are you aware of your perceptions? You perceive the world through your perceptions that’s your processing of your senses and the way your mind finds a mental framework or context that allows you to see it in a certain […]
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This article is about hypnosis for pain control. I’m writing this article 7 days after a surgical procedure that required a general anaesthetic and I’ve not used many of my pain meds. That’s my choice. My advice would be that if you have a pain relief plan in place from a medical or surgical team […]
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Now I’ll be honest from the start here in this description about hypnosis for pain control and in particular about hypnosis for post operative pain control. If you have surgery you will be prescribed a post operative pain relief plan and supplied with the drugs to do that. And the surgical and post op team […]
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This post is about the efficacy of hypnosis for pre-surgery anxiety. It’s a common thing and it’s something that is often taken for granted. The logic being that it’s a serious thing so having serious thoughts about it is normal and feeling anxious about it must be normal too. I write this article 6 days […]
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“Is hypnosis real ?” Now that’s a questiong that I have been asked a few times. Potential clients on the phone want to know what it can do for them. To be honest there, asking that question of a person who does hypnotherapy for a living is a bit like putting Dracula in charge of […]
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Now there’s another interesting question: “How Does Anxiety Progress?” In a previous post I discussed an example of how does anxiety start that described anxiety as being a skill that you learnt. This article continues the example, it’s a mental model and not an exact description. So How does anxiety progress. Once you realise how […]
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How Does Anxiety Start Now here’s the big question: How does anxiety start? Well anxiety is like any skill that you have and it starts small and grows as big as you can make it. But it’s making me feel so bad, how can that be a skill. Let’s start at the beginning to misquote […]
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