How Hypnosis Helps With Anxiety

During one of our recent livestreams, a viewer named "pug boi" left these two comments:

"dis is so cool that the anxiety goes down"

"how long does the anxiety stay low for after one session."

I didn't see the comments during the stream, but afterwards when I saw them, I realized that they were amazing comments and deserved a good response.

The main reason Sammie and I practice hypnosis regularly is that it helps her with very high levels of anxiety.

Being hypnotized for 30-40 minutes allows her mind to break out of a cycle of negative thought loops that cause her to feel very anxious.

Sammie is very intelligent and prone to overthinking things.  When she has an anxiety trigger, her subconscious mind will start to ruminate on it and it won't stop, sometimes for days or weeks at a time.

Everyone's subconscious mind is very powerful, controlling over 90-95% of our actions.

When it enters into a state of focusing on negative ideas, thoughts, or feelings, it always reflects in that person's actions, often subconsciously (that is, without their conscious awareness).

Often it manifests in poor decisions (especially diet and lifestyle), bad mood, sleep disruptions, and in Sammie's case, a feeling of anxiety and worry.

I watch Sammie very carefully every day.  

I see all the subconscious queues she lets off when she enters into a negative thought loop cycle.

She is often more irritable, self sabotaging, her sleep is disrupted, or she does things that she knows she shouldn't but does anyway (especially with respect to her health and diet).

The interesting thing is, she is often not consciously aware of why she is acting or feeling the way she is.  

During our hypnosis sessions, I always start by asking her to rate her anxiety and describe the main thing causing her to "thought loop."

Because she and I are in a loving relationship, built on trust and respect, she is comfortable sharing with me her thoughts, even in the context of a livestream (and later our public YouTube videos).

Speaking out those things is one of the first steps in breaking a negative thought cycle.

Our culture today revolves so heavily on self-deception, where everyone is so terrified of showing the imperfections of their lives, that they repress and conceal the real sources of their daily struggles.

This is a tremendous source of anxiety.

A feeling that there is something wrong with us because we have no way to express our frustrations.

That feeling, left unaddressed, creates destructive beliefs that negatively influence our identity and sense of self worth .

If that is left unaddressed, that creates havoc on our psyche.  In Sammie's case, before we started practicing hypnosis, it lead her to experience severe, manic depression.

Hypnosis is one technique we use to prevent Sammie from sliding back into a pattern of negative thought loops.

For her specifically, there are 2 benefits to hypnosis to help with her anxiety.

The first is that being hypnotized allows her to "reboot" her brain, the same way a computer that is running slow will often see it's performance improved if it is rebooted.

One of the greatest sources of anxiety for people today is the unwillingness and inability to "reboot" their mind.  

Their waking and sleep habits are not conducive to allowing their subconscious mind to "turn off" the negative thoughts.  

They go through their day in an elevated state of worry and frustration.  

They escape through a myriad of distractions and addictions that don't get to the root of the issue.  

Then they exhaust themselves to the point that at the end of the day they just "crash" into a dreamless coma-like sleep, instead of having a restorative, dream filled sleep.

In neuroscience terms, they operate during the day in a stress state that produces high amounts of beta-gamma brainwaves.  This depletes their reserves of conscious will power to the point they they collapse into a delta brainwave filled sleep at night.  Sleep that does not fully restore their mental functions for the next day.

This is why so many people rely on stimulants like coffee and alcohol.  

They are never fully rested and either need the extra "pick me up" to get them going or a little night cap to get them to unwind and relax.

I saw this cycle emerge in Sammie when she had severe depression and recognized that under hypnosis, a person can be guided into states of consciousness where they produce more alpha and thata frequency brainwaves.  

Those are the states of relaxed focus and enhanced imagination and creativity.

Those sessions of imagination and creativity are important because they enable a person to envision a positive scenario that contradicts negative narratives that their subconscious mind can't stop hyper-focusing on when they are experiencing high levels of anxiety.

That all said, to answer "Pug boi's" question, Sammie's anxiety levels stay low enough for her to get a deep, restorative night's sleep, full of very vivid, sometimes lucid dreams.  

It doesn't permanently cure her anxiety, because she always has anxiety triggers.

However, sometimes getting a good night's sleep is all she needs to help cope with those triggers gracefully.

In future articles, I will outline other techniques we use in addition to hypnosis to help Sammie manage her anxiety.

In particular, the second benefit of our hypnosis sessions, the boost to her self esteem in knowing so many people enjoy watching her hypnosis sessions.  I use a powerful subconscious programming technique I will discuss in a future post.

If you're interested in seeing Sammie hypnotized while I used a Muse Brainwave sensing EEG headband to read her brainwaves, please check out the "Sammie Doll Transformation" hypnosis sessions on our private website.  

Click here to watch those sessions on the private website. 

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