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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.

End Your Food Phobia

by Dan Regan | Dec 3, 2014 | Phobias and Fears

Over the last year I have been working with an increasing number of adults who struggle with food phobia or selective eating problems.

Whilst they do eat certain familiar foods, people with a food phobia tend to struggle with any new foods – they just physically cannot take a mouthful and swallow it. Depending on how long it has been going on, and the range of foods they can eat, this can impact on health – as well as causing social problems about eating around others.

If you struggle with something similar then it may well have been going on so long that it’s just become what you do around food. You’ll have a mental list of foods that are ok for you to calmly eat, and you will have developed practices to avoid getting into embarassing and anxious situations around food (e.g. making up excuses to avoid social eating, cooking your own meals).

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.

Get Sky High Confidence

by Dan Regan | Nov 20, 2014 | Confidence and Self Esteem

Do you want your confidence to go sky high?

To be more confident you need to take consistent daily actions that propel you forwards. You need to direct your mind to what you do want and ditch all those old unconfident thoughts and feelings.

Here’s how to ignite those confidence blasters so you can soar up and away!

No matter where you are right now you easily can change your confidence at any time.

My 7 Confidence Blasters will help you:

Are you a VIP?

by Dan Regan | Nov 20, 2014 | Confidence and Self Esteem

Are you a very important person?

A lot (if not all) of clients who come to see me to sort their low self-esteem and confidence regard themselves as the least important person in their own life – at work, at home and even when on their own they don’t feel worth it, good enough or that they deserve to feel better.

IT’s TIME TO CHANGE ALL THAT!

You are the most important person in your life – without you the show doesn’t get started.

Here are three ways to get started:

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.