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Fear of Being Sick – Anxiety Hypnotherapy in Ely and Newmarket

by Dan Regan | Feb 26, 2025 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks, Phobias and Fears

Fear of Being Sick – Anxiety Hypnotherapy in Ely and Newmarket

Do you struggle with a fear of being sick?

When someone comes to see me about their fear of sick, they are often surprised when I tell them how common a thing it is that I help people with. As with many fears, you can get good at avoiding situations associated with sickness and vomiting. And you can become an expert in keeping it under wraps no matter how anxious you are feeling.

If you struggle with a fear of being sick (emetophobia), then you can worry that you, yourself, will be sick and you can feel anxious that someone around you will vomit. You may hate any reference to feeling sick or being unwell and avoid anyone who has been unwell until you can be sure that the danger period is over. When you hear about sickness bugs going around you may feel tense and on edge and avoid even more people and situations.

The likelihood is that you don’t like to drink much alcohol because of the risk of being sick, and you may worry about social events with alcohol in case someone else vomits. Certain forms of travel associated with potential sickness, such as flying and boats, may be no-go areas. I’ve known clients who tell me that even their pet cat or dog being sick is enough to trigger the panic.

You may avoid certain ‘higher-risk’ foods or those linked in your mind to sickness in some way. A feeling in your stomach may be enough to convince you that you are definitely going to be sick this time (just as you were certain last time, when it didn’t happen). And even watching an actor on screen being unwell may be too much for you to cope with. The more people there are somewhere, especially if someone burps, coughs or splutters while eating, the higher the risk. And fairground rides that cause that wavey feeling in your belly are probably a no-go for you right now too.

Being sick is a normal human function (at the right time) and usually someone with emetophobia hasn’t actually vomited on many occasions. However, the fear is so great that it can stop you doing things you’d like to do and it can rule your life at times.

Fear of Birds Review – Hypnotherapy For Fears and Phobias

by Dan Regan | Feb 25, 2025 | Phobias and Fears

Fear of Birds Review – Hypnotherapy For Fears and Phobias

In this article, I’m sharing a fear of birds review video from one of my recent hypnotherapy clients.

Fears and phobias can be funny things. You know that your phobia is irrational yet you still get the same old fear, anxiety and panic about whatever it is. I’ve helped people with the more common fears and phobias, like flying, driving, needles, blood and injections. And phobias can attach themselves to any other manner of things, such as spiders, balloons, certain sounds, sickness, clowns and almost anything else you can think of.

Whatever your feared thing, you dread encountering it and you probably do all you can to avoid it. And if you can’t avoid it, you get out of there as quickly as you can because the panic and fear are so great. Your heart races, you feel tense, your breathing rate increases, and all you can do is fixate on the thing that your brain perceives as a threat. The fear quickly takes over your thoughts and feelings.

Recently, I was working with someone who struggled with a fear of birds and who couldn’t go anywhere near them. Now, she is getting on with life free of her old fear. You can watch her video review below.

Two Types of Anxiety – Anxiety Help in Ely and Newmarket

by Dan Regan | Feb 24, 2025 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Two Types of Anxiety – Anxiety Help in Ely and Newmarket

When you break it down, you could say that there are two types of anxiety. And that’s not only about what you think and feel, or how you currently do those things in a way that makes you feel anxious.

I was chatting about this, the two types of anxiety, with a client earlier this week. Either your anxiety comes in high and you need to know how to quickly and effectively bring it down again. Or your anxiety starts small and starts to grow. In this case, you need to know how to cut it off at that point. Of course, overall you want less and less unnecessary moment of anxiety, yet all emotions are normal human reactions so you want to know how to manage your own thoughts and feelings effectively. What you do in either of these situations dictates how bad you feel and how long you feel bad for.

We can all have some moments where our feelings kick in seemingly instantly and sometimes at an intense level. It’s very similar to the startle response. You are going about your day and suddenly and unexpectedly a loud noise goes off right near you. You flinch, automatically take a big breath in and all your focus goes onto the source of the sound. Sometimes you may even feel your heart rate increase and a bit of adrenaline going through you. You the realise it was just a sound and that all is well and your feelings and responses settle down and return to normal.

With anxiety, sometimes an old association, trigger or habit can mean it suddenly feels like your anxiety has instantly rocketed. It feels like it is so fast, and perhaps unexpected, that you have no time to react. You are filled with uncomfortable anxious feelings. Of course, you can lessen this happening through hypnotherapy. Yet, when it happens you may find that the things you think, feel and do next just add to how anxious you feel and how long you suffer with it until it subsides. You need to know what you can do in that moment so that you aren’t just inadvertently adding to your own anxiety. This is when that sense of anxiety being unpredictable and capable of striking at any time can lead to worrying about becoming anxious. You find yourself fearing the fear.

In other moments, you feel a little anxious and then this starts to grow. You notice those first physical sensations, start focusing upon them and start thinking about how bad you feel. You worry about other people noticing. You worry about the anxiety getting worse. You worry about worst case scenarios. Those inner thoughts make you feel more fearful and your anxiety rises. This leads to a spiral of feeling even worse, thinking more and more catastrophically and an escalation of anxiety. In these cases, you need to be able to cut off the anxiety before it spirals out of control. You need to have the sense of capability and the confidence to know you can do this quickly and effectively.

Anxiety and Worst Case Scenarios

by Dan Regan | Feb 20, 2025 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Anxiety and Worst Case Scenarios

Anxiety and worst case scenarios go hand in hand. Or, if you prefer, imagined catastrophic scenario by imagined catastrophic scenario.

You start to think about some upcoming situation, person, time or place. Your feelings of anxiety, dread and fear begin to kick in and rise. And that anxiety and fear drives your imagination into all sorts of potential disastrous places. You find yourself thinking of all the things that could go wrong and then your imagination moves onto the ongoing fall out as a result of it. Whatever the particular scenario, it always ends in immense disaster for you.

The more you feel that anxiety and overthink and dwell upon the worst case scenarios, the worse you feel and the more other negative things you can find yourself contemplating. You wonder how you will handle, deal and cope with things when they go wrong, as it seems in your head that they inevitably must. You start to associate anxiety with the things you are thinking about until just a fleeting thought or passing mention of that thing can set you on edge.

It doesn’t matter what the upcoming thing actually is. It could be something coming up at work, a social situation, getting on a plane, making a speech, seeing that person again, or any number of things. And because anxiety can generalise, any other similar things get coloured by the same feelings of anxiety, fear and dread. Anxiety moves on from one thing to the next until soon you find yourself carried along on a wave of feeling worse and worse.

These movies in your mind can take over your thinking and fill you with dread. Even though you know things may not turn out the way you are imagining, you still feel anxious and think of all the worst case scenarios.

Anxiety Hypnosis Download Reviews

by Dan Regan | Feb 20, 2025 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks, Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Anxiety Hypnosis Download Reviews

As you’ll already know from reading these articles, one of my biggest passions in life is helping others to overcome their anxiety. Having struggled with anxiety in the past myself, I know how awful if feels when you are filled with dread and fear. It can be debilitating and it limits your life and what you feel able to go and do. It’s like a constant shadow lurking beside you, ready to strike and escalate at any given moment. No wonder people start to feel anxious about the possibility that they may feel anxious.

Yet it is very possible to learn how to calm that anxiety so that you feel more confident and happier in your life. Right now, all those worst case scenarios and catastrophic thoughts, and the bad feelings that go with them, may seem to have a life of their own. That pattern and habit of anxiety seems to do its own thing and you are just forced to endure it and suffer.

However, by learning how to take back control over your own thoughts and feelings, you can start to feel better in yourself. You aren’t looking to never feel anxious again because sometimes a reasonable and proportionate feeling of anxiety is needed in certain situations to help you to look after yourself. But you can certainly get rid of the unnecessary anxiety, that stuff that impacts upon you negatively when you know there is no real reason for it. Life would be good without that anxiety and it is certainly possible for you to accomplish that.

And one of the things that can help with overcoming anxiety are hypnosis downloads. All of my anxiety clients get a copy of my anxiety relief hypnosis download and many others have benefited too after grabbing a copy from my online shop. It becomes one of your most useful and proactive tools for managing your own thoughts and feelings.

Cambridgeshire Business Awards – Gold Winner!

by Dan Regan | Feb 18, 2025 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Cambridgeshire Business Awards – Gold Winner!

For various personal reasons I’ve not had the opportunity to post many articles since last Summer and so there is one big piece of good news that I’m a little late in sharing with you!

You may recall that I mentioned being a finalist at the 2024 Cambridgeshire Business Awards in a previous article. And I’m delighted to share that, at the grand final, I successfully became a gold award winner. I’m thrilled to have been recognised for delivering an effective service and helping so many people across Cambridgeshire (and beyond!).

Thank you so much for all of your support and all of your ongoing positive reviews (check them out here: What People Say).

This award is just the latest in a whole series of business awards for my hypnotherapy business.

Fear of Birds Hypnotherapy

by Dan Regan | Feb 17, 2025 | Phobias and Fears

Fear of Birds Hypnotherapy

Do you struggle with a fear of birds? If so, then of all of our feathered ‘friends’, pigeons are very likely to be your worst nightmare. Pigeons, especially those used to being around people, may come quite close in their search for food. And even with your ‘bird radar’ on constant alert, you can come across a pigeon around any corner and be filled with instant fear. Of course, your fear of birds will likely apply to them all, yet my clients always talk about those, seemingly everywhere, pigeons.

Pigeons will come up to you and near to you looking for food. They will happily hang around, often in big cooing gangs, in any public places. They think there is food and swoop down and will wander closely over to anyone who is, or may, be eating in the hope of some crumbs. You know they will be lurking around and just the thought of encountering birds may fill you with dread and anxiety. And when you encounter one (or more) your fear escalates to another level, You have to stay on constant alert when you are out and about because at any moment you may be forced to face your dreaded fear.

If you have a fear of birds then you already know they are everywhere. Someone without your fear may not even notice them or give them a thought. Yet for you, birds may be all you can think about and notice when you are out and about. Even TV adverts seem to be filled with birds, such as funky pigeons, these days. And if you’ve been struggling with the fear and anxiety then fear of birds hypnotherapy may be just what you need to help you feel better.

And if you are of a certain generation (like I am!) then you may very well remember the ‘Stop the Pigeon’ cartoon where Dastardly and Muttley, and assorted others associated with them, would try and do whatever they could to stop a carrier pigeon from reaching it’s destination. I can’t remember where the pigeon was going, or why it had to be stopped so that the message didn’t get through, but stopped it must be (amusing and unsuccessfully). I suppose these days it would be like having a cartoon of someone trying to stop an email or a Whatsapp reaching the recipient. That would not make a very entertaining kids cartoon.

The theme tune went along these lines:

Fear of Heights Hypnotherapy

by Dan Regan | Feb 17, 2025 | Phobias and Fears

Fear of Heights Hypnotherapy

Do you struggle with a fear of heights? Whether it is looking out from an upper level shopping centre or car park, enjoying the view from several floors up in a building or dreading a cliff top walk, your fear of heights can be limiting and stop you doing things you want to do.

You know, logically, that you are in a safe place and your feet may be firmly grounded on the floor, yet the fear and anxiety take over. You may feel like you are going to fall, imagine worst case scenarios or just feel anxious and so get out of there (or stay away from there) as quickly as you can. Either you experience dread and try to avoid getting up high, or you struggle and seek to escape from that situation as quickly as you possibly can. There is the anxiety and dread that you may need to be up high, the worry about feeling anxious and the panic and fear that strikes if you find yourself in a high up place.

Most of the time avoidance may work quite nicely as a strategy for avoiding the anxiety and fear. You decline invitations to go places or you find a way to get out of things. Those around you may be used to it and so plan things that won’t involve heights, and you may feel bad about stopping them doing things. Or perhaps you can push through some situations by moving quickly and looking down (while pretending you are somewhere else). At some point, however, avoidance becomes problematic. You know you are limiting others from doing things. You can worry about freaking out and embarrassing yourself in front of people who don’t know about your fear, and you may be frustrated that you can’t just enjoy things and do things you would kind of like to get on and do. Your fear controls your life.

With your fear of heights, your brain has, for whatever reason, labelled high up situations as dangers and threats. Despite what you know logically about being safe, your feelings and emotions take over. Whenever you encounter something high up, the same pattern repeats and repeats. You may imagine falling down or worry about having a panic attack. You steer away from anything that could lead to feeling so uncomfortable. And you start to anticipate your fear of heights and think of yourself as someone who can’t cope with these situations. It becomes a self perpetuating cycle of dread, anxiety, worry and fear.

Free Relaxation Hypnosis Download

by Dan Regan | Feb 17, 2025 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks, Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Free Relaxation Hypnosis Download

It’s been a manic start to the year for all sorts of reasons. And when things get busy, it is easy to start to feel overwhelmed. That in turn can lead to overthinking, trouble switching off, anxiety, stress and a sense of psychological loneliness.

If you have been struggling with anxiety, stress and overthinking then hypnotherapy can help you (just check out the reviews on this website!) and it is worth coming along to find out how you can take back control over your habitual thoughts and feelings and so feel better.

Yet I think everyone can benefit from taking the time to mentally and physically switch off and recharge. In these days of busyness and constant demands, as well as constant stimulus from screens, having some time to truly switch off is often seen as a luxury. Taking some time for yourself is seen as an addition to life, rather than a fundamental.

And so if you could use some help to mentally relax, recharge and reset then do head over and grab your copy of my free relaxation hypnosis download. It’s a gift from me to you and from you to your sense of well-being. I think you’l enjoy it (at least based upon what other people tell me). You can get it here right now:

Anxiety and Certainty – Hypnotherapy Ely and Newmarket

by Dan Regan | Jul 5, 2024 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Anxiety and Certainty – Hypnotherapy Ely and Newmarket

If you struggle with anxiety then you already know how you can quickly and easily get caught up in the whirlwind of anxious thoughts and feelings. Your head fills with all the possible worst case scenarios about what is going to happen in some future time, situation, circumstance or event. You catastrophise, dwell and overthink all the possible bad stuff that could be coming your way.

As if that constant stream of negative thinking wasn’t enough, you also struggle with the unpleasant and uncomfortable anxious feelings and sensations that take over how you feel. You feel agitated, restless and tense. Your heart may race and you can have trouble switching off. You may struggle to rest, eat, sleep and even function.

Whether your mind fixes on one worst case thing that could happen or your thinking jumps, races and cycles from one thing to the next faster than you can grasp it, the end result is that you feel anxious, worried and down.

Anxiety thrives on uncertainty and the unknown. You have no way of knowing how things will pan out and so your anxious imagination and focus can run wild with possibilities. Whether you picture scenarios in your mind or have a running conversation with yourself, there is dread, worry and a sense of impending doom. Of course, because your anxiety is about some future thing, it is impossible to get total certainty over what might happen and you just can’t be completely sure that everything will be ok.

Because you can’t know what will happen, your anxious thoughts and feelings flow into that space of uncertainty. You feel anxious and that drives your imagination to find a focus for your fear. You imagine the worst and that ramps up your anxious feelings. The worse you feel, the more you can find to worry about and dread. You may even find yourself going beyond that initial catastrophe and focusing upon all the ongoing future waves and ripples of disaster that you worry will follow on from it.

So how can you take back control over your anxious thoughts and feelings even in the face of that lack of certainty?

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