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Relax your mind to reduce anxiety

by Dan Regan | Dec 23, 2015 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

When you struggle with anxiety, all those anxious thoughts and feelings can leave you feeling exhausted and burnt out.

It takes a lot of mental energy to mentally race through all those anxious thoughts like worst case scenarios and those ‘what if?’ thoughts, and it can feel just as exhausting to try and force them away or distract yourself.

And with your mind on high alert, your body is also ready for action and you may experience all those energy draining symptoms such as a racing heart, sweating and shaking.

So how can you start to cool down all that stressful mental and physical activity?

Happy Christmas From Dan Regan Hypnotherapy

by Dan Regan | Dec 18, 2015 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Happy Christmas from Dan Regan Hypnotherapy!

Just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

And a huge thanks for everyone who has helped make 2015 such a great year – and let’s make 2016 an even better one!

6 Ways To Help Someone With Anxiety

by Dan Regan | Dec 14, 2015 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Generalised anxiety rarely rests. For the anxious person it can be physically and mentally draining and seem like an endless cycle of fear and dread.

They would probably give their right arm to switch off their anxiety and start feeling calm again, yet their mind continues to race with worrying thoughts and their body continues to stay in a state of high alert.

And even if someone does get moments of relief, or only gets anxious around specific situations, in those moments it can be hard to stand by and watch someone you care about facing their internal battle alone.

You want to help, yet what can you actually do that will help someone with anxiety?

4 things not to say to someone with anxiety

by Dan Regan | Dec 14, 2015 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Living with anxiety can be tough. And trying to support someone with anxiety can be just as tough.

I’m often asked by partners, parents and friends how they can help someone they care about who seems to be anxious. After all, no-one wants to put their foot in it or make it worse and sometimes it may feel like anything you do seems to fan the flames of anxiety (or make them angry that you ‘don’t understand’ or ‘don’t get it’).

So you may be desperate to help in some way yet feeling helpless to help.

I’m going to give you some ways to help a person with anxiety, but before I do, what should you avoid saying to an anxious person?

Reduce Your Anxiety & Worry

by Dan Regan | Dec 7, 2015 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Are you fed up with running anxious scenarios over and over through your mind? And constantly thinking of things going wrong and worst case scenarios?

If you imagine vivid scenarios of things going wrong – and often these may be big, bright and colourful – then you can find that you start to generate the anxious feelings you would get if these were going on right now.

These feelings can grow and grow as you go from one scenario to another, each getting more catastrophic along the way.

So how do you calm those anxiety fuelled thoughts?

End Insomnia And Sleep Better

by Dan Regan | Dec 7, 2015 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Do you struggle to get a good night’s sleep? Maybe you feel anxious in your own bed? Perhaps you can’t stop all that overthinking?

Maybe you have even learnt to dread your bed time and that ritual of frustration, anxiety, worry and restlessness.

There is no doubt about the importance of sleep – we all know how much harder everything seems to get after a few nights of limited or poor sleep. Not to mention that we need enough rest to cope emotionally and to repair and recharge.

And you could turn to sleeping tablets and use them as a crutch or you could learn how to drift effortlessly and naturally into a wonderful deep sleep every night.

Ease Social Anxiety At Christmas

by Dan Regan | Dec 5, 2015 | Confidence and Self Esteem

With the festive season well and truly upon us, and all those Christmas meals and parties, your social anxiety may be getting to set to rise a few notches.

For some, just the thought of being around friends, relatives and work colleagues can create worry, anxiety and stress. After all, there is all that small talk to endure and all those ‘what ifs?’ about saying the wrong thing, messing up or being judged in some way.

And even if you decide not to go due to those fears, there may still be that nagging concern over what they will think if you don’t show up. So you’re kind of caught in a trap of worry about going versus the worry of not going.

Just like with presentations, social functions may lead to worry about making an idiot of yourself, perhaps by drying up during conversations, not knowing what to say, or worries about being thought of as boring.

So what can you do to lower social anxiety at social events?

Abolish Anxiety Coming Soon

by Dan Regan | Dec 3, 2015 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Very pleased to let you know that my new anxiety-specific website will soon be published.

My new site – Abolish Anxiety – will specialise in helping you to overcome anxiety, social anxiety, phobias and panic attacks.

With lots of useful tips and advice, as well as a free Creating Calm hypnosis audio, it’s certainly worth keeping your eyes peeled for its launch.

Reign In Your Anxiety

by Dan Regan | Dec 3, 2015 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Does it feel as though your anxiety is running your mind and you’ve lost control over your own thoughts and reactions?

In many ways, anxiety is like a river – it will always find somewhere to flow and it will always find something for you to worry about. Whether those anxious thoughts are worst-case scenarios, what-ifs or whys, sometimes it can seem that they are never-ending.

And the more you think all those anxiety-infested thoughts, the more they seem to be there filling your thoughts. So how can you reign them in?

New Free Anxiety Hypnosis Coming Soon!

by Dan Regan | Dec 3, 2015 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

I’ve been busy back in the recording studio producing a wonderful new (and free) hypnosis audio for you.

If you could benefit from feeling calmer, more in control and more relaxed, then this forthcoming hypnosis audio will really help you because I’ve specifically designed it to help you start creating more calm within the storm of your anxiety and worry.

Using this audio, I’m going to help you to start regaining a sense of inner peace and start letting go of all that anxiety and worry so that you can start feeling calmer and more relaxed in your life. Sound good?