Stop Panic Attacks: Hypnotherapy For Panic Attacks

Over the last dozen years or so I have seen countess people to get them to stop panic attacks, and as I look back in my mind it’s a question of which stories to share with you.

Panic Attacks And The Businessman

The first that comes to mind was a very high-powered businessman who ran scores of companies (literally) and was in charge of operations whose combined annual turnover was well into the billions. This man had had some kind of virus which had brought on (so the doctors had later told him) shortness of breath, sweating and so forth. When this man experienced those symptoms in a meeting he worried about them (powerfully, he always thought powerfully), thereby making the symptoms worse (shortness of breath, tight chest, dizziness) and within minutes he had collapsed with what everyone thought of at the time as a heart attack.

Panic Attacks Can Sometimes Seem Like Heart Attacks

So an arsenal of super-qualified medics put him through batteries of tests and let him know, to his relief, that he hadn’t had a heart attack, he had had a panic attack.

The Fear Didn’t Go Away

Unfortunately, the knowledge that it wasn’t a heart attack didn’t help him. ‘What if I have another panic attack’ was the thought, and the idea of having a panic attack, the fear of having one, went round and round in his mind. He was OK, he discovered, if he was in familiar situations with people he knew. He was not OK, he found, when he had to go to meetings with people he didn’t know.

Which was, in the main, his job.

That and going out onto the trading floor as the ‘corporate figurehead’ were things he had rapidly learned to dread.

Control And Program The Imagination To Stop Panic Attacks

Panic attacks almost always involve an overblown imagination, or thinking in a very big way, and as I said, he was a powerful thinker, so when he applied his large imagination to the idea of panicking, he was able to produce a substantial amount of adrenalin and fear.

So it was just a question of giving him a sense of perspective, literally getting him to shrink down and distance the thoughts of panic until they didn’t trouble him. It took me two or three hours to do this. Which is not as quick as Richard Bandler sorted a young lady who lived in constant panic for a good reason – she had been on the bus that had been blown to bits on 7/7. For a short article on this by Richard have a look at this - www.happinessmagazine.co.uk - you have to sign up for the first issue but it doesn’t cost anything.

For more information on how I work with people to get them to stop panic attacks go here – Hypnotherapy To Stop Panic Attacks

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