Anxiety Control Center

Testimonials:

“Irritable Bowel Syndrome controlled my life for over 20 years. Panic attacks brought me to therapy. I learned skills that enabled me to do things I had never dared before. The panic is gone. The IBS is under control.” K.C.

“When I started therapy, I was completely drained of energy. I was truly amazed at how energized I felt after using a Positive Future Image.” M.H.

“When I first started learning these techniques, I was very doubtful they would work for me. I was delightfully amazed when I was able to use these skills to get rid of migraine headaches.” M.G.

“Your great insight is truly helping me understand how to communicate in a new and more effective way”. C.G

“I’m letting go of feeling like I was suppose to know everything about parenting and being more like myself.  I feel such a weight lifting off my shoulders”.  A.B.

“My anxiety now comes and goes, sometimes  a little bit more and at times so much less. That in itself feels like a miracle, it’s been 20 years and finally I feel like there is hope.  It is a journey and I remember your words when the anxiety shows it’s face”.  D.I.

“It helps to to know that I have feelings and needs as a parent . . .  I never recognized or understood that it was OK for me to have needs too.  I thought I was just supposed to keep giving and giving and meet my children’s needs all the time, even when it made me feel unappreciated.”  R.R

“I’m still adjusting to the knew skills, as I learn how to be an “active” listener and how to talk so others really hear what I feel.   I’m now communicating more of how I feel.  I definitely want to support others in who they are and how they feel and I too, just as I want to be supported in who I am and how I feel.”  M.K.

“Thanks for the recommendation of the book and for explaining it in a way that made it possible for me to follow.  You seem to understand what I’ve been experiencing with my panic and fear.  And as I practice the exercises they hit the places I need to release my fears.”  B.F.

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Today we continue to look at the questions about G-d, panic and feeling weak and picked on. We’ll begin with a number of helpful tips for changing the negative feelings, into more enhancing one.   Let me know  how these tips work for you, and any other solutions you are using in your life use to stop panic and fear.  I hope the following tips help.   Audrey Sussman PhD, director of the Anxiety Control Center.

The following is a summary (collage)  of the email questions I have received in the last few days.

“Hello Audrey, First I want to thank you for answering my other emails. I truly appreciate your taking your time to answer my questions.  I reached out and was hoping to get a response even though I’m not one of your students or private clients.

Here is what is going through my mind today.  I really don’t want to feel this out of control with panic and fear.   I can’t help wondering why G-d chose to prey on the weak by giving us anxiety attacks?  Nothing prepared me for the devastating results worry, anxiety and fear is having on my life.  It stops me from moving ahead and it feels unending.   I thought the feelings would disappear over time, but it continues and gets worse every year.   I want to stop these feelings and the anger & sadness it causes, but I don’t know where to start.  Are there any tips you can offer me?”

Audrey’s response:

I can see you are reaching out for help because you truly want things to change.  It is frustrating when you’ve tried so many things and still panic and worry continues to plague you.  There are a number of different things that can be done to stop the downward spiral of feelings.  Once you see even a small change it will give you hope.

Old “stories” and patterns of belief:

When you think that G-d is preying on you, it creates more upset, anger and a “it’s not fair feeling.”  This feeds the feelings of hopelessness.   It also increases the feeling of being out of control.   These negative thoughts are just one possible “story.”  One that increases negative thoughts and adds to the spiral of anxiety, and loss of hope.

New “stories” and patterns that work better:

Imagine for a moment, how different it would feel if your thought was that G-d is giving you strength to deal with panic, instead of preying on you.  Or perhaps, the thought that G-d had given you the strength to survive the panic and anxiety all theses years.  Even though the panic might still be scary,  changing your way of thinking from “being weak or being preyed on,” to the more positive one, stops the negative spiral.  Remember, we don’t know for sure what G-d purpose is, so since it is your mind – imagine something else that would serve you better.  Something that doesn’t add to the stress you already feel.   I myself truly believe that creativity is one of the “gifts” people with panic are born with.   It may be that at the moment your creativity is going in the wrong direction (that of scaring you), but it is still a gift you can learn to use in a positive helpful way.

I write this in an effort to help in some small way.  Continue reading tomorrow’s post with the 3 tips for changing thoughts for panic relief.

Continue reading the post this afternoon for more tips.
Let me know  how they work for you.  I’m always interested in any solutions people come up with in dealing with worry, anxiety or panic.  Audrey Sussman PhD, Director of the Anxiety Control Center

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I received the an email from a person who is suffering from panic and anxiety.  She read something on my blog that stimulated her to reach out for help.  I can see she truly has tried to stop the suffering that anxiety, worry and panic are causing in her life.

As you read her questions, it might stimulate your own thoughts about why you are suffering.  As you will see she is feeling that G-d is preying on her, making her feel weak by giving her panic and anxiety.  What I hope you will find as you read my response, is that there is another way to see panic and to think about the “why” we have it.

The tips I am giving are a place to start.  For this article we’ll be discussing techniques to stop the thoughts (cognitive part) that feed the panic cycle.  When you use these techniques you’ll find that it puts a different “spin” or way of looking at panic.  I realize that it is horrible to feel out of control with worry, panic, bowel problems or anger.   And also how hard it may have been, in the past, to change old patterns and beliefs, yet there are ways you can use to change fearful, or negative thoughts.  Ways to get back in control, and techniques that can be learned to stop “feeding” these issues.

Continue reading tomorrow for the questions and tips I offered.  Let me know  how they work for you, and any solutions you use that work for you.   Audrey Sussman PhD, director of the Anxiety Control Center

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Let’s look at why I so highly recommend using the techniques that are in the Anxiety Control Center’s Transformation System.

First:  It uses the best techniques from cognitive and behavioral therapies.  And it combines them with hypnotic and Neuro-linguistic programming techniques that I have found work best for anxiety and panic relief.

Second: Unless you get rid of the root of the problem, it can manifest again and again in different forms throughout your life.

Third:  Hypnosis is the quickest way I have found to discover and deal with the roots of the problem.

So what do this mean you you, if you are suffering with panic, fear or are  feeling blocked.  The reason we include hypnosis and the use of trance is:

1.  By going into a slightly altered, or trance state, you can uncover the root of  present day issues.
2. A hypnotic trance state can help you to gain control over the anxiety and fear that blocks you from living your life to the fullest.
3. In a trance state you can re-program the underlying causing underneath the issues.
4. Old negative programs can be re-structured so you can develop confidence, serenity and calm.
5. Even health issues can be looked at in a new way, in a hypnotic state.   We have seen seemingly miraculous changes using NLP combined with hypnotic techniques.  Even long standing issues such as migraine headaches, IBS respond really well to the Transformation System.
6. And the most important reason I use hypnotic techniques is that it doesn’t just treat symptoms, it treats underlying causes.

Click here to ask a question of our staff.  Sometimes we get so many similar questions that we do an online seminar where you can have assess to our experts in person.  So please send your questions.

Once again, if you are suffering from Anxiety and Fear.  If you have a procrastination problem, feeling overwhelmed, blocked, or feeling sad or depressed -  help is 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 ready to learn more about hypnotic techniques and learn some new methods to deal with anxiety,
fear and worry  click here.   For only $10 you can get the 90 minute MP3 podcast of containing stress relief tips.
It will be available until the end of November, when our new online coaching sessions will start.

Don’t delay one more second.  If you are suffering, click here now.

You have nothing to lose and a better life to gain.

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This a continuation of the post about hypnosis for anxiety, worry and fear.

Of course, the question remains, how do you know if hypnosis is right for you? And, what do I do if it isn’t?

The truth is that almost everyone can be hypnotized.  I tell my clients that if they can be curious, have an open mind and want to overcome the challenge or issue they are facing, there is hope, change can happen.  In our private sessions at the Anxiety Control Center, and in our online coaching workshops we give you the questions you need to find the techniques that will work best for you.

If you’re not comfortable with hypnosis, DON’T WORRY.  You can still overcome a challenge,  though it may take longer.  Sometimes, for some people, the long way around is what works.  Before starting therapy it is always good to ask us questions and talk about any concerns.  In this way we can evaluate you as an individual and help you to make educated choices.

Let’s look at why I so highly recommend using the techniques that are in the Anxiety Control Center’s Transformation System.  . . .  to be continued tomorrow.

If you are ready to learn more about hypnotic techniques and learn some new methods to deal with anxiety,
fear and worry  click here.   For only $10 you can get the 90 minute MP3 podcast of containing stress relief tips.
It will be available until the end of November, when our new online coaching sessions will start.

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Getting relief from depression

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A.Whenever you feel sad, grief stricken, overwhelmed, fearful or anxious.
Start by taking some type of action.

You want to change the “state of mind.”  This can be done in many different ways.

It is difficult to think of something to do to change your state of mind in the middle of a panic attack, or when you are in the grip of depression.  One of my clients asked for techniques she could refer to anytime she was feeling out of control with emotion.

The following is what we came up with.  It is a list of possible things she can choose from.  Having a list helps, so that in the moment of emotion she doesn’t have to think, she can just choose to take action on any one thing from her list.

You might find something on her list helpful,  start to add some of you own unique solutions.  This client already know many of the exercises from the Anxiety Control Center’s, Transformation System, so they are not described in detail here.   They are easy to learn and use.

The following is her list of action steps when emotions are raging:
1.  Walk outside, even if it is cold out.
2.  Read a book or magazine
3. Sing or play guitar
4. Use one of the NLP techniques to “shrink the image down to size”
5. Imagine being in a warm tub.
6. Hug her dog.
7. Use the “rubber-band snap” technique.
8. Use tapping exercise.
9. Go to the video guide  to help to change the “state of mind,
10. Using the “color” breathing exercise
11.  Use the “fact & stories” exercise.
12. Create 2 positives for every negative. (2 for 1 exercise)
13. Listen to the “Healing Walk” exercise I gave her.
14. Pay attention and focus inward, using the curiosity technique.
This last technique will help you to collect information that you might not be aware of on a conscious level.  Being curious is a vital step to using your mind in a different way.

Changing from self blame to self acceptance:
In getting relief from depression and other emotions that get in the way of living a full life, it is important to learn how to be kinder to yourself, as you are, even before the emotions totally lift.  Recovering from depression is a process, keep taking one small step and it will motivate you to the next step, until one day you will surprise yourself at what you have accomplished.

If you have you been suffering from depression, panic, anxiety or feeling hopeless, change is possible !  I have watched so many people use my Transformation System to get out from under the dark spell of depression.

Take action today listen to the 90 minute Mp3 and then sign up for the 4 session online coaching workshop.

Or contact Audrey for a private session in NY or  NJ.

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