Panic Attacks

Many people visit me with very severe panic attack problems. It can vary in degree, from simply worrying about visiting a certain place or being able to perform certain tasks in certain situations such as speaking in front of a group of people, to being totally unable to take part in the feared situation at all and avoiding it altogether.

This can be very embarrassing and very debilitating. Sometimes they have been in that situation and felt hot or panicky for apparently no or little reason. This has caused worry about being there or doing that again, the worry getting more and more severe the more it is thought about, until eventually a person may actually suffer a panic attack at the thought of it.

When you have never suffered a panic attack, it is quite difficult to imagine how someone could become so worked up. I personally have suffered panic attacks on occasion in the distant past and it is a terrible experience to go through.

You can almost feel as if you are dying, and you feel that everyone else is looking at you, as if they can feel the dreadful feelings of fear and anxiety which are flooding through. It is linked in with the Anxiety defence mechanism of fight or flight, which served humans well in the past, but it becomes blown out of proportion and out of control. It is like an involuntary release of adrenalin at an inappropriate time.

I am fortunate that the attacks I suffered before I trained in hypnotherapy in 1986-7 were all isolated episodes and didn't cause me to take it on board, as can happen with many people. The first time it happened, I was about 12 and was on a visit to the old Liverpool Cathedral, up in the gallery. For no apparent reason, I suddenly became very frightened. I am not afraid of heights as such, but it was very enclosed and I suddenly felt very hot. It was a long way down and seemed very constricting. A teacher held me round my middle and helped me down in the lift,

I had odd panic attacks for some time, before becoming a hypnotherapist over 18 years ago. Using the available techniques I found I was able to learn to control them and let go of unnecessary worry. I cannot remember the last time I had one, but think it was due to being late for something important.

I now find great pleasure in helping other people to learn to cope with first and eventually eradicating panic attacks from their lives in a great many numbers of cases.

Sometimes we had to look back in the past, in a variety of ways in order to deal with these things, this is possible using hypnotherapy. We can create a different perspective of how things happened, feel and release the blocked off feelings and forgive.

For more information or advise about panic attacks, please email me on les@activehealing.co.uk

Grief

Sometimes, more often that you might dream, anxiety problems stem from not having grieved properly for a loved one. When a person dies, we regret not having told them that we Love them as often as we could have done. Maybe we did not get the chance to say goodbye, or we have unfinished business such as anger or guilt which we never get the chance to resolve. Loved ones' expectations of us may have been unreasonable and we end up expecting perfection in ourselves, which is not living in reality.

Many problems can be traced back to not having grieved properly. If you still have tears when someone has been dead for many years, the process is not complete and bereavement counselling can be very beneficial.

Often the person was the one who had to "COPE" when the loved one passed to Spirit. Everyone around was falling apart and they felt they had to be strong for everyone else. Maybe you were very young and not offered the opportunity to grieve, as people like to protect children from death (it doesn't work and is not healthy...).

Everyone grieves differently of course, but some people just bottle the pain, anger and loss up, and pretend it is not there. It is normal to feel angry when someone dies, it is part of the process.

It does not always go away on it's own, although time does heal, so I always check out if people have lost loved ones and still carry the huge pain, sometimes 30 years after. Some people have never come to Accept their loss.

In hypnosis, it is possible to imagine being with the person, just before they pass to Spirit. We then imagine a dialogue speaking as if to the person, getting everything off your chest as much as possible. It is good to tell them that you love them and say goodbye after telling them exactly what you thought of them, even if you were angry or guilty.

As a Clairvoyant medium, I can usually feel the loved one to be actually with us, but you don't need to believe that, for it to make you feel better - remember they wouldn't want you to be hurting so much, for so long. Most people find a great relief after this process and feel a weight lifting off their shoulders. Please know it is possible to come to terms with loss, even when it is so blocked off.

For more information or advise on grieving, please email me on les@activehealing.co.uk 

Check out the pages on Hypnotherapy and Metaphysical counselling for other info, and fees pages for costs of therapy. Also Power of Thought to help you understand how it works. Thanks.

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