Treating Panic Attacks With Hypnosis
Panic attacks can disrupt your life. You can be in the middle of a routine daily behavior and a panic attack can kick in. First, you have trouble breathing. Your heart starts beating faster. You think you might be having a heart attack. There is a sense of impending doom. You are not sure what is wrong but you begin to think something is very wrong. Then you focus on the feelings and as you think about them they increase. Now, you can’t breath, your chest hurts the sense of impending doom increases. Then the cycle just increases and it is a cycle that just continues to spiral. This describes a severe panic attack.
When you do hypnosis, state your goals
Many people have a vague idea of what they would like to accompllish in the next hour, in the next week, month, year or the rest of their lives. Too many of us don’t take the time to firm out these ideas. In fact, we tend to go through our lives, just waiting for things to happen so that we can react to them. We fail to make rhings happen for us instead of just reacting. That is called being proactive.
Smoking Cessation and Hypnosis
A few years ago {July, 2001) Scientific American magazine ran an article that stated that hypnosis was the most effective method of stopping smoking. Since that time there have been several medications come on the market that appear to have some beneficial effects with helping people stop smoking. Now, I know that I only see the people who have been unsuccessful with these medications but I have never seen anyone who has stopped smoking by taking a pill.
What Can You Do With Hypnosis?
One of the most memorable answers to the question “What can you do with hypnosis?” is “What the mind can conceive, hypnosis can achieve”. Naturally, there are some things that people probably will not achieve. I don’t think any of us are going to be able to fly without some type of aid although I have had reports of people levitating while hypnotized I have never seen this myself so I consider it anecdotal and questionable. The book Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy says that unaided flying is easy. You just throw yourself into the air and try not to hit the ground. I don’t think we will be able to do that. But I do believe that any reasonable goal can be achieved with hypnosis and some goals that many people do not consider reasonable.
