Stop Panic Attacks: Hypnotherapy For Panic Attacks

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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

Debbie Williams, NLP Trainer and part of the JustBeWell.com network, has just released a combined NLP and hypnotherapy recording set – Stop Panic Attacks and you can get this on this website and also here Stop Panic Attacks, from the USA based online shop www.selfhelprecordings.com - the recordings carry a sixty day guarantee,

Stop Compulsive Lying: Hypnotherapy For Lying

Stop Lying: Hypnotherapy And NLP Can Really Help You

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One of the most damaging of all personal habits is that of compulsive lying, and through the years I have seen a large number of people who have, to use their own words ‘ruined their lives’ through persistent and often outrageous lying.

Everyone Lies

Well, OK, probably not everyone. Many people, however, will have told a so-called ‘white lie’ once in a while. I myself have occasionally been guilty of telling someone on the phone that my wife is ‘in the bath’, or out shopping, to avoid her having to speak to someone that, at the moment, she didn’t want to speak to. I am not perfect. Who is?

Two Types Of Compulsive Lying

The first ‘type’ of compulsive lying is that kind where someone exaggerates their ‘achievements’. So someone might, for example, make up stories of all of the glamorous places they have visited, people they have met, illnesses they have had, cars they have owned etc etc etc. Usually, of course, this is done from a desire to be accepted, or to be liked or admired and usually, of course, the person gets found out eventually and end up being much less liked and much less admired.

Compulsive Lying To Prevent Bad Feelings

In a ‘clinical’ setting, the most common sort of compulsive lying we get to deal with is that of the person who makes up a lie, often ‘on the spot’, to stop the other person thinking badly of them. Then they have to tell bigger and bigger lies to cover up the first lie and it all spirals out of control.

Compulsive Lying Is A Habit

A bad habit it can be, I’ll grant you. It is still a habit though, and habits can be changed. Hypnotherapy and NLP are brimming with techniques to help people to change habits, to get them out of the automated old responses. In this case, the mind can be trained to ‘automatically’ feel comfortable telling the truth.

Hypnotherapy Can Help People To Stop Lying

If you are one of those people who has suffered from the habit of compulsive lying, because it does usually involve suffering, or if you are the partner of someone who has lied to you time after time, then you need to realise that it is possible for you to change, and the treatments is often very quick and very effective. For further information on how we treat this issue go here Stop Compulsive Lying

Self Hypnosis To Help You To Stop Compulsive Lying

For whatever reason, some of you may not be able to visit a hypnotherapist or NLP trainer for help with this problem. If this is you then you may well find assistance by listening to a good self hypnosis recording. Debbie Williams has just released a new suite of hypnosis and NLP recordings to help and they are available here Stop Lying Self Hypnosis and here Help Stop Lying. They come with a full sixty day guarantee. They are very good, but if you do buy them please make sure you listen repeatedly for best effect..

Is Magic In Practice Really Magic

The short answer is yes, at least I think it is. I am talking about ‘Magic In Practice’, the new book by NLP Trainer Garner Thomson and Dr Khalid Khan.

For years now I have been seeing clients, have been reasonably successful and have had often, at the end of treatment, had to deal with questions like, ‘Is there a really good book that explains what NLP is? I would love to know more about it?’

And I have answered with words like ‘umm.’

There are a number of good books on NLP

Because there are a number of excellent books out there that illustrate certain aspects of NLP and how it is applied. I particularly like the ones by Richard Bandler. However, the majority of these are transcripts from seminars and so whilst they are wonderful in their way (and I frequently do recommend books like ‘Frogs Into Princes’ and ‘Using Your Brain For A Change’), no one book really ‘did the trick’.

When The Client Is A Doctor And Wants To Know More...

It was particularly frustrating when those clients had been doctors, surgeons, psychiatrists or psychologists. The best way to learn NLP in my opinion, is to do every training that Richard Bandler does over the next couple of years, and repeatedly watch all of his DVD’s and read all of his books. And, if you have the time and the money, also go and get trained by Robert Dilts, Joseph Riggio, John Grinder and Nick Kemp.

Not that many people have the time to do that (or the money, for that matter), and I don’t think many, if any of the medical professionals I have seen as clients actually did so.

My life is a lot easier now as I can simply recommend that these people get the book ‘Magic in Practice’ and read through it a few times, and then, if they are from a medical background, go on one of Garner Thompson’s trainings.

As Richard Bandler says in the introduction, ‘All I can say is: it’s about time...’

He continues, ‘I have for years been very good at modelling successful healers, but have fallen short of providing the science....these gentlemen have gone so much further, I say thank you – and recommend that any Neuro-Linguistic Programmer read this over and over and over’.

The Rainbow Machine

Another excellent work on NLP to emerge recently is Andy Austin’s 'The Rainbow Machine' which is crammed full of information and insights gleaned from years of practice as an NLP Trainer and hypnotherapist, and also from Andy’s previous life as a psychiatric nurse.

It’s a fresh, thought provoking and interesting book that is in turns fascinating, moving and hilarious, and is like a breath of fresh air. It’s a book, when I read it, that I wished I had written. But I didn’t write it, Andy did, and if you are into NLP in any way, shape or form, then simply buy it. It’s brilliant.