Hypnosis to Manage Social Anxiety
Social anxiety disorder is a very common form of anxiety.
This could affect anyone at any time, and causes problems with everyday circumstances, from shopping to talking to people on the telephone.
It is not out of the ordinary for social anxiety to cause problems at work and in our relationships and the problems can be both different and often quote subtle. A lot of people with social anxiety difficulties may experience a number of difficult circumstances such as talking to people, eating or drinking in public, and out shopping to name just a few.
A common behaviour us that they may also naturally shy away from circumstances in which they fear they will be criticised or found inadequate. People with social anxiety often have a lot of insecurities and are likely to suffer low self-worth.
Without treatment, someone with social anxiety problems may even go on to develop anxiety attacks which can include nausea, chest pains, trembling and shortness of breath. The stress of continuing social phobia can even lead to mental health factors such as depression, and can lead people to self-medicate with alcohol or other substances to escape from the feelings of anxiety and panic, and in some cases to give them the “confidence” to be able to perform in public.
It isn’t unusual for a person with severe social anxiety to lose or quit their job, experience marriage breakdown or even stop socialising and even day to day living can become difficult. It can be a very devastating disorder if left to build without check; however the positive news is that hypnotherapeutic processes are very effective at treating social anxiety at all stages of the disorder.
Hypnotherapy treatments (normally regression or parts therapy) can establish whether or not there is a hidden issue, perhaps an experience from the past that has progressed into feelings of fear, insecurity and anxiousness. The hypnotic approach will quite simply aim to transform the perspective of any past experiences and to empower a person to render these thoughts and anxieties less powerful (or non-existent) in their every day lives.
By changing the way the subconscious mind perceives past ordeals along with the behaviour patterns; hypnosis will help the person to learn more constructive internal thoughts and increases self-confidence and control. Hypnosis to manage social anxiety works!
Hypnotherapy specialist techniques could help turn back the spiral of social phobia and help the person resume a normal life – quite often after only a few sessions. The benefit of hypnotherapy is that it works jointly with the parts of the mind liable for maintaining the issue, so irrespective of how big a challenge it was before, it can begin to improve.
Everything in their life improves including relationships, socialising and work interactions since they genuinely feel more self-assured in all of them.
Doug Buckingham discovered the simple power of hypnosis when it offered him the only sustainable solution to stop smoking forever.
He now has a busy practice in Loughton, Essex (Central Line Underground), and is a hypnotherapist, regression therapist and life between lives practitioner. He works with all kinds of issues including social anxiety, stopping smoking, weight control, confidence, sleeps issues, phobias, public speaking, sports performance, and many more…
He is a Trainer in all of these modalities for Cara – the Centre of Transformation Learning & Empowerment
Doug is passionate about the role of these therapies in our everyday lives, and the purpose and empowerment that they can people to find for themselves.
