Hypnotherapy opens up your path to recovery from anxiety or depression by getting in touch with your subconscious mind.
It does this via a number of techniques and below, we will take a look at three of them:
Discovering Your Inner Strength
Often when you suffer from depression or anxiety, your view of yourself is distorted.
You think about and talk to yourself in a way you would never allow yourself towards a friend or loved one. This negative self-sabotage becomes a pattern and a vicious circle.
Everyone has untapped resources of strength within themselves. Including you!
By getting in touch with your subconscious mind, you can discover what your strengths are and begin to realise that you can overcome your problems, you will succeed and that you are worthy of that most important of assets in overcoming depression and anxiety; self-love.
Parts Therapy
Everyone has inner conflicts. When you are suffering from depression or anxiety, these inner conflicts can become even louder.
Have you ever found that you feel like one part of you wants and feels you deserve to be happy whilst another part of you says you’re only deserving of misery? I certainly did when I suffered with depression and anxiety.
In me, it felt like parts of my own brain were in conflict. One part wanted happiness, another craved misery and yet another wanted to swim in that misery.
By unlocking your subconscious, you can give all these parts an equal voice, find out exactly what each part of you wants and why it feels the way it does.
Then, instead of all these different parts of you feeling like they are in conflict, you can get them to work together, to hear each other out and to help each other to achieve the best version of you! Free from depression or anxiety!
Reframing
Is a current situation making your struggle with depression or anxiety worse? Did something which happened in the past cause your depression or anxiety? You’re an intelligent person.
You know that in every situation, there are different narratives, different ways of looking at a situation. By taking a step back and accessing your subconscious mind you can look at these different narratives in a feeling of calm and relaxation.
You can look for opportunities, chinks of light in the darkness, the silver lining on a situation.
Seemingly negative scenarios can play out very differently when you take the time to reanalyse them and look for the positives, however small they may be. Remember, the strongest oak trees grow out of the smallest acorns.
We will look at other ways hypnotherapy opens up paths of recovery from anxiety or depression for you in the future.
For now, I’m going to leave you with some sites which detail medical research which demonstrates the effectiveness of hypnotherapy in working with anxiety and depression to help people live their best lives.
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