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5 Simple Steps To Better Sleep

by Dan Regan | Dec 3, 2014 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

People will try all sorts of things to try and get to, and stay, asleep. I’ve met people who drink, smoke, eat, watch TV, listen to the radio, look on their phone and those who just lie there getting more and more frustrated about still being awake.

And without a good night’s sleep, everything gets much harder – we have less energy and feel less confident, our stress levels go up and we may eat to try and get hold of that missing energy and vitality.

So if you struggle to sleep then these 5 simple steps will set you up for starting to sleep better and better:

Quickly Lower Anxiety

by Dan Regan | Dec 3, 2014 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

When we feel anxious, we go ‘inside our heads’ – we become more and more aware of what we are thinking, feeling and experiencing, and less engaged in everything else.

Everything else becomes less noticeable and relevant as those anxious thoughts and feelings become stronger and take more control. You may be thinking about what you are saying, how you are coming across, how you look, what others are thinking and whether anyone else is noticing all your anxiety. You may feel your heart pounding, your body shaking and your mind racing.

To take back control you need to shift your attention and start to take notice of those things going on outside yourself.

Ending The What-Ifs

by Dan Regan | Dec 3, 2014 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Anxiety makes you focus on all the things you don’t want to happen – your mind runs away with all those worries about the ‘what ifs’. You then feel more anxiety and think even more about all those things that could go wrong for you:

What if I make an idiot of myself?

What if they don’t like me?

What if I make a mistake?

What if I have a panic attack, etc?

To beat the anxiety you need to start focusing on what you do want – how do you want to feel in that situation? Your brain is like a sat-nav – you need to tell it where you want to go.

Let Your Worry Float Away

by Dan Regan | Nov 20, 2014 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Are you worrying about things that may never happen? All those scenarios in your over-active mind can leave you in a heap of anxiety, worry and exhaustion.

So is it time to give your mind a break and let all that worry drift away?

Here’s how you can let all that worry and anxiety float away to leave you feeling calmer and more in control:

Get Freedom From Thinking

by Dan Regan | Nov 20, 2014 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Is your mind always on the go? Do you find it impossible to switch off and just unwind?

It’s very common for people to tell me they can’t switch off their minds – they may distract themselves and stay busy but as soon as they pause (e.g. in the car or when trying to sleep at night), their mind goes into overdrive.

Of course, we are always thinking, so it’s about learning to feel calmer and take control over those thoughts that gives us that freedom.

So here is a quick way to start getting freedom from thoughts:

The Anxiety Shredder

by Dan Regan | Nov 20, 2014 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

This is a brilliant idea from a client of mine who used it to end her anxiety.

She used to find that she would lie awake at night and her mind would fill with anxious thoughts – some related to things going on in her life now and many to do with things that could happen in the future. The end result was that she found herself wide awake at night, hot, sweaty, on edge and anxious.

The insomnia was really starting to take its toll and wear her down. So she took the discussions we had in our sessions and made it work for her so she could shred her anxiety and sleep like a baby.

Are you living life as a sprint?

by Dan Regan | Nov 20, 2014 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Are you living your life as a sprint?

Today I was talking to a client who has been having trouble managing stress. Every day had become a whirlwind of deadlines, timescales and fire-fighting. By the end of the day she was exhausted and too mentally tied in knots to tackle anything.

Her whole life was being consumed by stress – leaving no mental or physical energy for anything else. And the more stressed she became, the more tired she was yet the worse she slept. Soon, every small task became a massive mountain to struggle against.

How Matt ended his driving fear

by Dan Regan | Nov 12, 2014 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

in 1996, Matt suffered a panic attack while driving on a motorway in Wales.

After his panic attacks, Matt found himself unable to drive on motorways and dual carriageways because of the high level of panic and anxiety he experienced about driving on these types of road. To avoid motorways, Matt would plan journies using only back roads which took much more time and effort.

Matt came to see me when he was in a position where he really needed to be able to drive calmly on the motorway, just as he had before his panic attack.

in this video, Matt explains how he worked with me to end his driving fear so he could drive on motorways feeling calm and in control:

Turn Fear Into Action

by Dan Regan | Sep 23, 2014 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Fear and anxiety love inaction – they stop you doing things, fill your mind with all those what-ifs, and piece by piece they can shut you down and stop you doing the things you used to enjoy or that logically you know you should be able to manage.

To quench fear you need to take action.

Whether you take a large step or a small step, bit by bit you can smash through your fear and let it shrink in your life.

Quickly End Your Anxiety

by Dan Regan | Sep 23, 2014 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Here’s a quick way to shake off anxiety about an upcoming event – recently I helped a client about to start a new job and another giving a presentation using this technique.

Often we look forward to an event and our mind starts to try and fill in the gaps of what might happen with unhelpful scenarios (what if….I mess it up/I can’t do it/I make an idiot of myself etc).

And all these things that we make up in our minds can start raising anxiety levels. The closer the event gets, the more we think about it and the worse those scarios of things going wrong can get. All the while you are linking feeling anxious with the event so that when you get there you have already primed your mind to feel anxious and you may not perform at your confident best.