Anxiety

Anxiety is what you feel when you are worried, tense or afraid, often about events and situations which are about to happen or scenarios you imagine happening in the future. Anxiety can affect your thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and can continue even when the cause of anxiety is not clear to you. In fact, at least one in 7 people in the UK are suffering from anxiety at any given time. A little stress can sometimes be a good thing and can motivate you, but it’s when the feelings of stress and anxiety begin to occur more regularly that it's become a problem.

There are different forms of anxiety and one of the most common is Generalised Anxiety Disorder. A long-term condition causing you to feel anxious and worried about almost any situation rather than anything specific. You may not recall when you last felt relaxed. As soon as one anxious thought is dealt with, it is replaced by another, caught in a trap of negative thinking. Because anxiety can have such a wide-reaching impact it is perhaps unsurprising that the symptoms of anxiety can be so varied.

Symptoms of anxiety and GAD include: 

  • difficulties sleeping

  • loss of concentration or forgetfulness

  • fast or irregular heartbeat

  • irritability, impatience or feeling overwhelmed

  • restlessness

  • muscular or inner tension

  • overthinking or catastrophising

  • headaches or dizziness

  • chest pain or tightness

  • faster breathing

  • nausea

  • weakened immune system

  • hormonal imbalance

  • irrational dread or fear of losing control

Talking therapies are immensely effective in reducing anxiety and giving you the tools to cope in stressful situations, avoiding anxiety overwhelm in the future. As a talking therapy, solution focused hypnotherapy is one of the most powerful and effective available.

At The Wellness Hut we use a combination of techniques and deep level suggestions, to replace feelings of anxiety with ones of calmness, confidence and a sense of being in control. In this way, we will help you to change your unwanted behaviours so that you are acting in a more rational way when faced with anxiety triggers, and can cope with these more effectively.