Can Hypnotherapy Help with Anxiety and Panic Attacks?

This article explains how anxiety, stress, and panic attacks develop, and how hypnotherapy can help people respond to these experiences in calmer and more constructive ways.

In this article:

• How hypnotherapy helps anxiety
• Understanding panic attacks
• Why panic attacks feel like you’re dying
• How to calm a panic attack
• Worry and anxiety in modern life

Anxiety, stress, worry, and panic attacks are common experiences in modern life. Hypnotherapy can help people understand these feelings, reduce their intensity, and respond to them in calmer and more constructive ways. This article explains how hypnosis works with the subconscious mind to support emotional wellbeing.

One person’s stress is another person’s pleasure. Often said but still very true. Stress is part of everyday life and always has been. It is just that the way stress is experienced in modern society is different from what happened in the past.

Now we do not tend to burn off the excess adrenaline that courses through our veins when we get stressed and this is partly what leads to anxiety and even to panic attacks. In the past, as far back as the Stone Age and until quite recently in historical terms, we had real reason to secrete extra adrenaline to get away from the physical threats in our environment. Then we had to flee to save our lives. This is called the “flight or fight syndrome”. Of course “freezing” is another response to perceived threat such as the “rabbit in the headlight” response.

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