Anxiety Control Center

I hope you enjoyed Tish’s posts the last three days.  She’ll be back with more soon.  I’m Audrey Sussman and today I’ll start with the 1st in a  4 part post.  I’ll be talking about the use of pain to break negative habits.

I actually do NOT use or recommend the use of pain.  In over 25 years of practice I have found there are much healthier ways to change negative habits.  But since there are people “out there” that are recommending using the pain/pleasure principle to change habits,  I felt it was important to talk about how to use it safely, if you do decide to use this type of technique.

What stimulated my thinking about this was . . .  to be continued tomorrow.

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Dr. Audrey talks about Hypnosis.

Excerpt from teleseminar, questions people are asking . . . .

This is the top question I get from new clients, “Can I be hypnotized?”  Many times this question is followed with the statement  “I’m a very logical, scientific kind of person, and I’m strong willed, so  even though I want it use hypnosis, I don’t think it will work for me.”

The truth is that almost everyone can be hypnotized. Of course, the question remains how do you know if hypnosis is right for you?

Actually in over 25 years of practice I have found that the people with either high intelligence or creativity are the best hypnotic “subjects.”  And if you are both intelligent and creative you will delight yourself at how quickly you can make self-hypnosis work for you.   One of the reasons people who come to our seminars find it so easy to use the Transformation System techniques is that we know how to ask the questions that quickly help you to tap into you own powerful unconscious.  And there are many of techniques that can be utilized, that’s what we do, in both our seminars and with private consulations we help you to find just the right technique that will work best for you.    When you come to our telesminar, your job is simply to be curious, have an open mind and want to overcome what ever challenge you are dealing with.  We have the techniques and skills that you can put to use right away in your daily life.

If you are not yet comfortable with the thought of using hypnosis, there are other techniques that can be learned  to change negative thinking and fears.    You can overcome challenges using these other techniques though it might take you a bit more time to get the results.  But it is important to start on the path of learning to use the power of your own mind today, otherwise nothing will change.

So no matter if you are a person who wants to access the resources of your unconscious today, or someone who is more tentative and wants skills without using hypnotic techniques, take the first step and ask us a question so we can evaluate you as an individual and help you to make educated choices. Click here to ask a question of our staff.  At times we get so many similar questions that we do an online seminar where you can have assess to our experts “in person” in an online teleseminar.  So please have courage and send your questions about hypnosis, fear, procrastination anxiety, panic or any other topic related to feeling stuck.

Once again, if you are suffering from Anxiety and Fear.  If you have a weight problem, procrastinate, have panic, a phobia or even if you feel sad, there is help available.  Hypnosis is just one of many ways that you can find the answers to living a fuller and more complete life. If you are suffering, don’t delay one more second.   Send your questions or call for a free consultation at 856-751-9446.

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Continuation for yesterdays post on creating the state of mind your desire.

I welcome your feedback and questions, and will write more on specific issues you send in.  To contact me with your questions click here.

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The formula for Life Changing Mantras

Quite simply, mantras are the things we tell ourselves. For example, on the golf course if you felt annoyed because of a badly played hole, it wouldn’t be a problem if you were able to start fresh on the next hole.  But when one negative thought leads to the next, it can destroy your focus for the rest of the game, and even follow you after you leave the course. In this case you have a negative mantra that is playing havoc with your state of mind.  There are 7 steps you can put into play to stop this disabling habit of negative mantras.

When people think of mantras they usually think about those used in eastern religions for positive spiritual change.  And although you might not have such a fancy name for it, the chances are that you probably use positive mantras yourself, everyday.    A mantra could be what you say to yourself to get psyched up for a big meeting,  a golf tournament or going out to a social event.  Or what you tell yourself in order to stay positive when life is getting you down. When mantras are positive and constructive, they can help us enjoy our lives and achieve our goals.  But the negative things we tell ourselves can also act as mantras, leading us in an undesired direction.

Negatives mantras “playing in the back of your mind” can cause. . .   more to come tomorrow.

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Continued from yesterday’s post:

If you haven’t read yesterday’s post you can find it under “Can Pain be used to stop negative thoughts? part 1″

Continued. . .  Here is what happened.  First he did a great job explaining how pain and pleasure can be used to break a habit.  So of course I was very interested in what he was going to suggest, since learning is one of my values and I wanted to see if  I would get something new I could bring back to teach my clients.

To break the habit of negative self-defeating thoughts, he asked his helpers to give out “the snakes.”  Well, as you can imagine, he got our attention with that.   I’m not sure how many people realized it, but that was step one of the process: creating curiosity and confusion.

I thought to myself, what an interesting way to put people into a state of curiosity.  Curiosity and confusion are a great state to be in for learning something new.  I’m sure a number of us were thinking “is he really going to give snakes out” as we saw his helpers moving around the room with bags of what seemed to be black squiggly things.

It turned out he was giving out rubber bands, nice thick ones for each member of the audience.  So I figured his next step was going to be teaching the “rubber band snap,” which is a powerful behavioral technique, to stop negative thinking.  I was impressed at his clever way of getting into this technique.   It was a great way to create a state of rapt attention.

But, here is what he told over 1000 people to do with the rubber band.  Please if you are reading this, do not use this method.  He said to put the rubber band on the wrist and pull it out, and he demonstrated stretching it to its limit, as far as it would go, and then once it was really stretched out he said to let it go, so it would snap painfully on the wrist.  He continued saying, “if you want to have change you need to feel pain,” and he told us he wanted to see welts and even blood.   After the snap he had people kiss the damaged wrist, (that was the “pleasure part” of this technique).  Then everyone practiced using this pain/pleasure technique whenever a  negative thought came to mind. We all had written down some of our negative thoughts so there was lots to practice with.

Now remember he had been leading this seminar for a day an a half and people trusted him when he said, if you really want to change negative thinking you need to really feel the pain.

And, you will probably find this hard to believe.  But the people in the audience did as he said.  People had big red welts on their wrists.  Later that day I found a woman crying in the ladies room with her hand under the cold water.  Her wrist was so swollen it was frightening. I was horrified to see the damage done to her wrist in her hope to stop negative thinking.  Now I must say, these people really wanted to change a negative habit.  I brought her some ice, nothing more I could do at that point.

I will finish Part 3 and post it shortly.  For now you can get:
Two powerful (non-painful)
stress relief tips we use at the Anxiety Control Center
as part of the Transformation System.
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Feeling Stuck? Secrets to Moving Through Fear, Anxiety and Procrastination

Hello, and welcome. I’m Dr. Audrey Sussman and I would like to invite you to  a Free TeleSeminar l will be giving on January 19, 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

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