Anxiety Control Center

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.

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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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The following is a question I received from one of my clients.  It mirrors what so many people with anxiety feel that I decided to give a technique that I haven’t talked about in a while.  It is different type of solution and one that is worth using.  The people who have experimented with it find that after a couple of weeks they wouldn’t go without using this exercise.

The following question is what spurred my answer. Names and events are changed slightly to protect confidentiality. This client is grieving over the illness and death of his dad. He is also dealing with possible life changing issues in his relationship.

Hey Audrey. I’m having a bad morning. . . woke up thinking about my father, my heart pounding and tears in my throat. Have had a series of  dreams this week leaving me feeling uncomfortable when I wake up.

In addition to that, I spoke Amy on Fri about the baby stuff, and even though she said she has no plans of leaving  I still want us to want the same things, so I’m finding that I’m almost pressuring myself to want a child.  I guess I don’t know what to do with myself  all I want to do is talk to someone, but it’s early in the morning and everyone is asleep.  Let me know if you have any insight. Thanks.

Hello Peter:  It’s good you are writing out your thoughts in an email to me. I have an idea that you might find helpful.  When we get together for our session we’ll work on the sadness and fears, using the trance techniques I spoke about last session.

It might be of help at this time to begin to write “morning pages”.  These are pages you write in a journal every day.

In the book the Artist’s Way by Camerion, she describes this completely.  For now, just write 3 pages a day.
In these  3 pages you write what ever comes into your mind. She recommends doing it  just as you are waking up.
Three pages about anything and nothing.  You will be amazed at how helpful these pages can be.  You don’t try to make sense,or even keep things to a topic. You just write.  It’s just writing your thoughts, the insight will come on its own.

In this way you find within yourself the strength you need.  It comes with time, don’t try to write or edit, just write. These pages are just for you, not to show to another, no need to read them over, it’s the writing without any censoring that will lead you to gaining what you need.

Buy yourself a note book or journal that you will save just for the morning pages.  I know when you are upset it is difficult to see the way,
trust it is within yourself and I do believe the morning pages will be a great benefit.

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For many the thought of being hypnotized is something that causes fear.  What most are fearful of is of being controlled by the hypnotist. In this article you will learn more about what hypnosis can and can’t do.

Although hypnosis can help people to achieve almost magical results, hypnosis itself isn’t magical.  And no hypnotist no matter how well trained can make you do anything that is in conflict with your values.  If you would never want to do something in a conscious state, you will NOT do it in a hypnotic trance.  When you see a stage hypnotist having people act silly, these are people who enjoy being the center of attraction, and would even in a conscious state be willing to do the things the hypnotist suggests.  The reason why they seem to be able to do things they didn’t know how to do normally, is that they are more open to their own potential when in a hypnotic state.

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Go to www.actionendsprocrastination.com
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Audrey Sussman, PhD, LCSW, LMHC, NBCCH
is  the director of the Anxiety Control Center.
She is a hypnotherapist
with offices in Cherry Hill, NJ and NYC.
Specializing in the relief from panic, anxiety and stress
using the Transformation System
which combines Cognitive and Behavioral therapy,
with Neuro-Linguistic Programming and two types of Hypnosis.

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My dad just gave me a note that he had been carrying around with him for the past 2 years.  I had sent him the  note  when he was grieving the loss of his wife of 32 years. I am reprinting it her in hopes that it can help others who are grieving, as it helped my dad.  I have removed the very personal parts and just left the information I sent him about how to change feelings  by  creating pictures and  thoughts that create pleasant scenes rather than ones of pain and sadness.

USING THE MIND-BODY CONNECTION TO GAIN CONTROL OVER EMOTIONS

Dad read this, I hope it might help in some way, with you pain and loneliness you are feeling.  Dad, in this very sad time I realize how hard it is to believe you will ever feel happy again.  And grief is normal and expected when you lose someone you love.  But, as the months have passed  I listen to you, and as you describe the pictures you are remembering they are about feeling hopeless because of the pain and suffering you keep seeing your wonderful wife going through.   I see how these “pictures”  affects you as you relive those traumatic memories.   Yet, I also hear you talking  about many wonderful times you had together before her illness, but almost as soon as you have those thoughts the pictures of pain and sadness, overtake you again.   I am sending you some thoughts that come from the book I wrote called, Power of Thought.   I know what a positive person you have been your whole life.  Always finding the “silver lining” no matter how hard the situation, and I hope as you read the words they will remind you of how to do this again.  Perhaps you will use you wonderful creativity to add to my thoughts on this and use your thoughts and memories in a way that creates sweet joy, instead of horror and pain.

Dad here is the excerpt, I’m not editing it too much.  First I want to say that it’s important to know that  emotions are brought on by the thoughts and pictures we create.  A thought is an image that you project.   It has force and energy and carries vibrations that move throughout the mind and body.  A vibration, as I am using the word  is an energy wave or feeling that comes from the mind of the thinker.  Vibrations that come from thoughts have an impact on the mind and body.  Thoughts and the vibrations attached to them, function like a magnet that attracts similar thoughts. So when you have painful thoughts they attract more memories of pain and sadness. And,  you can change your thoughts to ones that create peaceful feelings, and they will attract other memories and feelings of peace and balance.

Even if the images that are created  are not on the conscious level, they still vibrate within your system.  The more emotion a thought holds, the more impact the “thought, picture or vibration” will have.

No matter what is going on in life, people can learn to be in command of the thoughts they create.  Even when there are stressors and events outside of your control, your thoughts can be developed in a way that has a positive impact, even changing  how you interpret  events.  Dad, I know that you have used this technique many times in the past, like the time you went to get the wig for your wife, after chemo, and you were so touched and happy about how caring the person who helped you was, you came back from that appointment feeling uplifted, even though the situation was still a difficult one. So you already understand that, no matter what events may have transpired  your mind can  create thoughts that enhance your well-being.  Your own mind, and the thoughts you create, can be the most powerful resource for you when you use it in this enhancing way.  So continue to guide your thoughts with positive energy, putting a positive spin on even a “negative” event.

I haven’t sent you the previous chapters which have an introduction on how old events influence a person’s present outlook, because I know how you have used your mind in a positive way through out my growing up years. So, I’m not sending you the discussion on creating the deep change, by clearing out old limiting beliefs and repressed emotions.

I am reminding you that without even doing deep change work, to release those old sad memories and trauma of the past few years, you can make changes using your thoughts to re-program  the way your mind works, creating thoughts and pictures that work better that those of pain and loss. This is powerful way to reduce sadness, loneliness and stress.  So remember pictures and thoughts that lead to reactions can be changed on a conscious level (as you know we did some unconscious work to get rid of your headaches, and we can do some more NLP work if you want to change the mental images that are troubling you, but for now start being curious about new images you create.  For every negative one, create two that work better.   I know it is a “push” to do this when you are sad, yet it really can make a powerful difference in your emotional state.   I’ll talk to you more about this later.    Just wanted to have it in writing so you can refer to these notes when you want.

Remmeber your body is a complex living system,  every part affects every other part, including your emotions and you healing.  Your thoughts create physical reactions, such as the clenching in your stomach after a particularly traumatic memory.  Even a quick thought can generate a physical reaction in the body.  For example, just thinking about a fun vacation you had, remember the boat trip in the blue lagoon in Italy, I can see you smiling as you talk about it.   That memory created a reaction or vibration in your body, as if it were happening in the present.   What you think has an impact on the “vibrations” that are sent throughout your body.  So, the way a you think can lead to positive vibrations, which lead to feelings of happiness, joy and contentment.    So I leave you with this to think about, I know you have already created a path of positive memories, so this is just a gentle reminder in how to use your mind in this time a recovery.  With all my love. Audrey

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STEPS FOR TRANSFORMING SADNESS TO HOPE

Audrey Sussman PhD, LCSW, NBCCH, Director Anxiety Control Center

Has the thought of summer ending triggered feelings of loss or sadness?  If so you are not alone.  At different times of the year the Anxiety Control Center gets inundated with phone calls from people suffering from melancholy, loneliness, sadness or anxiety.

Would you like instantly transform uncomfortable feelings to ones of excitement, hope, calm, security and balance?

It may surprise you to learn that the let down feelings are actually not due to the change of season.  It is actually caused by thoughts, pictures and memories that move quickly through the mind.  Some people are aware of these thoughts, and others are completely unaware, but just know that they feel “down” or depressed.

For example with the ending of summer, many people who feel let down have thoughts of a cold, dark, lonely winter approaching.  Others are sad because they haven’t done all they expected to during the summer.  These feelings then trigger other old memories of sadness or disappointment that adds to the negative feelings.

The good news is that there are many ways to quickly change feelings and gain a new perspective.  To begin the process of transforming negative feelings to positive ones it’s important to understand how these feelings come about in the first place.  There are two major ways that upset feelings are created: 1) Thinking about upsetting past issues or 2) Thinking about awful things that might happen in the future, and worrying about them as if they have already taken place.  When a person concentrates on all the possible negative scenarios that might come about, it is understandable that feelings of sadness, fear or insecurity arise.

The first easy method in taking back control of your feelings is to begin to recognize the thoughts underlying them, and then to change them to more enhancing, positive thoughts.  Do the following: 1. Think about an event that has been causing sadness, anger or another uncomfortable feeling.  2. Make a list of each negative thought that you have attached to this event.  3. Then write down two (possible) positive thoughts, for each negative one you have written down.

For example if you were thinking about a cold, dreary winter, you could make up a   more positive picture of an exciting winter activity, like skiing, sledding, or ice-skating, and then another thought of yourself doing something else you enjoy in the winter months, like sitting by a warm fire, or sipping a cup of hot cocoa.

By changing your focus to these new, more positive thoughts, you send a message to your subconscious mind that will begin to change feelings to more positive ones.  Since it is your mind you might as well use it in this positive way.

Of course, this is only the start, there are other techniques available to clear deeply held negative emotions, so that you can recover your zest for life.  Click here to email us directly to get articles, more information about upcoming workshops, e-courses and upcoming free online tele-seminars.

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