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Health Anxiety – is ‘cyberchondria’ making you sick with anxiety?

by Dan Regan | Sep 11, 2017 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Health Anxiety – is ‘cyberchondria’ making you sick with anxiety?

Many of you may know that these days I like to exercise (a far cry from how I was during my school days!). I’ve been a member of my local running club for over a decade and, more recently, I’ve been converted to the ‘joy’ of bootcamps at their toughest. To my mind one of the greatest buzzes these days comes from a hard bootcamp where I feel like I’ve given all I can that day.

Yet way back in 2007, I can remember the moments of despair of thinking I may never be able to run again (I’ve since run a load of marathons!). A few months earlier I’d run my fastest ever marathon and I’d been setting new personal bests across the board. I was on a high. I was getting faster! Then around that time, my knee started to hurt. I mean it really hurt. If I tried to run a few steps it was excruciating. Sometimes just walking was enough to have me in pain and sometimes even bending my knees to pick up my then baby daughter was enough to bring it on. In summary, it hurt lots and it wasn’t going away.

I did what any runner would do and tried to push myself through it (bad idea!). I tried putting ice on it. I took over the counter painkillers. I tried resting it for a few days and going again. I tried anything else I could think of to get back running.

And then I hit on the great idea of researching my symptoms on Google.

Department of Awesome & That Lump In The Throat Feeling

by Dan Regan | Aug 24, 2017 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Department of Awesome & That Lump In The Throat Feeling:

I hope that anyone who has ever worked with me knows that I invest a huge amount of time, energy, and resolve into doing all that I can to support them in achieving their goals. Why? Because when someone you help is able to go on and acheive their goals, and often more, it brings massive levels of fulfillment and pleasure to me. And why not, because I work with some wonderful people.

So many of my clients are graduates of the Department of Awesome because they have had the conviction and motivation to take action and seek help to change something in their lives that was causing misery or pain. They took action, committed to engaging in a positive mindset in and out of sessions and, as a result, are now getting on with life.

You may have already read some of their comments and watched their videos on my What People Say page.

And over the last few days I’ve had more reasons to smile, and several times, I’ve had that lump in the thoat kind of feeling.

Diffusing Anxiety Fuelled Worst Case Scenarios

by Dan Regan | Aug 24, 2017 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Diffusing anxiety-fuelled worst case scenarios:

I don’t know about you but I’ve always had a tendancy to imagine scenarios in my head about what might happen in the future if I do this thing or make this decison and so forth. These days, now that I understand more about scenarios and how to control them, these scenarios tend to be more of a neutral contemplation or even about good stuff happening.

But when I used to struggle with severe anxiety, these scenarios would be like major feature film worst case scenario type disasters happening; like not being able to answer a question in a meeting and looking an idiot, or of standing up to present and going blank, or somehow messing up in what I said or did when out socially.

Whenever I work with clients with anxiety, this capability to imagine all sorts of future worst case scenarios and disastrous “what if?” thoughts tend to appear.

Our imagination is a wonderful thing, especially if you pause and consider that everything ever designed, built or made, from your computer to your chair, and every work of fiction you’ve ever read or TV show you’ve watched, started off as something in someone’s imagination. How awesome is that?!

Yet feelings of anxiety will always colour your imaginings with shades of things going wrong or badly in some way, leading to feelings of more anxiety, leading to more of those anxiety fuelled thoughts. So how can you dilute them to such a point that the anxiety has to subside?

How To Have a ‘Happy Day!’

by Dan Regan | Aug 23, 2017 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

How To Have a Happy Day!

Now I don’t know about you but one thing I regularly notice on my daily walk to work to my office in Ely, is just how bloody miserable people seem to look! When someone comes in my direction I might move onto the road so they can continue on their way unimpeded, and as I look at them and smile they glare back as if I’ve stolen their last Rolo! (Remember the old advert about ‘do you love someone enough to give them your last rolo’?) Or they stare at the floor and continue on their way as if I wasn’t there and it didn’t happen.

(Or they may be so engrossed in looking down at their phone that maybe to their brain it didn’t happen!)

But heck, these small interactions aren’t going to colour my day, and I don’t know what’s going on in their world that makes them feel so grey and weary.

Of course not everyone does this; many others acknowledge me with a ‘good morning’ or ‘thank you’ along with a wonderful beaming smile and expression of gratitide. I like these people! I really do!

But if you’re one of those people who wakes up glum, looking forward to nothing but a day of glum, going through the same old thoughts, feelings and experiences like you’re on a hamster wheel, then you might want to do something about it, mightn’t you?

How To Deal With Anxiety – Hypnotherapy Review

by Dan Regan | Aug 16, 2017 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

How To Deal With Anxiety – Hypnotherapy Review

When you struggle with anxiety, it can make even the simplest of tasks turn into a battle. Things other people seem to just do can become anxiety-fulled struggles to avoid or endure – things like talking to others, answering the phone or open the door.

Recently I read an article where a therapist described how anxiety is your friend and should be welcomed. And certainly where anxiety is at a reasonable or appropriate level to what is going on then it can be helpful – it can help us avoid threats and harm and give us a clear ‘warning signal’ that we might need to review our plans or what we are doing.

Yet when someone has an anxiety disorder, the last thing they consider their anxiety to be is helpful. When anxiety levels are too high, everything can seem like a threat and all those thoughts lead to more anxiety which leads to even more thoughts. Once we take away the emotion, the thoughts are no different to hundreds of other random thoughts that pop in and out of heads all day long, yet which don’t stop us going about our day.

And having been there with anxiety myself, I know what a relief it is to reset anxiety, feel back in control and start enjoing life again.

Are you living on autopilot?

by Dan Regan | Aug 14, 2017 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Are you living on autopilot?

I’m just back from a wonderful family holiday away up on the East Yorkshire coast. I had loads of good times exploring new places, playing on the beach and just spending quality time with my kids (who never cease to challenge and amuse me in roughly equal measure!). I even found time to watch my first ever live game of rugby league (a corker of a game with the home team, Hull KR coming our on top! ‘When the red, red robin goes bob-bob-bobbing-along….’) and I’m still trying to figure out how my 6 and 9 year olds keep comprehensively beating me at the card game ‘Uno’.

One of the things I cherish most about time with my kids on holdiday is how we can all just relax and go with the flow a bit. It means if we want to explore caves then we can (like in the photo below), or we can sit and try and spot the seal popping his head above the water, or it may be spending some time looking for crabs or throwing rocks into the sea.

New Hypnosis Audios Available Very Soon!

by Dan Regan | Aug 14, 2017 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

New Hypnosis Audios available very soon!

I’m often getting asked when I will be adding to the hypnosis tracks I have available in my online hypnosis shop, particualarly by those who have listened to and benefited from my current offerings and now want some additional and fresh content to listen to.

So I’m delighted to confirm that I will have two new products available later this month.

The feedback from those who have trialled them has been awesome so I can’t wait to share them with you and many others.

Life Changing Hypnotherapy – Gaining Self Confidence

by Dan Regan | Jul 31, 2017 | Confidence and Self Esteem

Life Changing Hypnotherapy – Gaining Self Confidence

Do you ever struggle to interact with other people? I remember how, when I struggled with low self confidence and social anxiety, even the most straightforward of interactions would be an anxiety fuelled process full of potential minefields.

There were times when even standing in a queue in a corner shop would cause my anxiety levels to rise and I would be frantically rehearsing what I would say to the cashier over and over in my mind so I wouldn’t mess it up and make an idiot of myself. And yes I did all those other things that socially anxious people do like avoiding people in the street, worrying about what other people thought about me, and spending waaaaayyyy too long thinking about what I was going to say rather than actually being present in the moment.

And not only is all that worry mentally and physically draining, it also means missing out on doing things you want to do and having to endure rather than enjoy being around others.

So it’s always a real delight to me when someone comes to me for help with self confidence and social anxiety when I can help them find a way to make the changes that mean they can happily achieve the things that they want to.

Recently I worked with a lovely guy called Tom and you can read what he had to say after our sessions below.

Hypnotherapy in Newmarket – New Location!

by Dan Regan | Jul 26, 2017 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Hypnotherapy in Newmarket – New Location!

From 1st August 2017, I will be working from a new office location with my hypnotherapy in Newmarket clients (my Ely office is staying where it is though!). The new location is in a much more pleasant environment, has client parking available and is a much more user-friendly building.

My new Newmarket address is:

White Tara Complementary Health Centre

32 Dellor’s Yard

Mill Hill

Newmarket

Suffolk CB8 0JB

The Happiness Journal – Feel Better in 5 Minutes a Day

by Dan Regan | May 31, 2017 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

The Happiness Journal

Over the last eight years and through thousands of hypnotherapy sessions, one of the most consistently positive things that I encourage people to do is to start to focus on what is going right in their lives.

When we feel anxious, worried or generally a bit rubbish, a natural trait we share is to become more and more engaged with thoughts about all the people, things, situations and circumstances that aren’t how we want them to be.

For example, an anxious person can become completely engrossed in thoughts of worst case scenarios or about things going wrong. Someone who lacks confidence may spend their time thinking about what if they mess up or people think they are weird or an idiot or some other negative judgement about them.

And the same can be true for someone trying to lose weight who criticises themselves after snacking, or a stressed person who becomes overwhelmed at thoughts of not being able to cope. No matter what the issue, it’s easy to become lost in a cloud of unwanted and unhelpful thoughts and emotions and to lose sight of other things.

Which is where the happiness journal comes in.

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