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Overcoming Dog Phobia

by Dan Regan | Dec 29, 2014 | Phobias and Fears

One of the hardest things if you suffer with a dog phobia is that dogs are everywhere! With many other phobias like the dentist or flying you can try and control your fear by avoiding those things.

Yet dogs can be found everywhere in your day to day life – outside shops, by play areas, on green spaces and even walking towards you down the street. And with a dog phobia you are likely to be alert to any possible sounds or sightings of dogs – especially dogs off their lead who could run towards you.

And most people with dog phobias whom I have helped have also carefully managed their contact with friends who own dogs. This may be making sure the dog will be shut in another room or even avoiding going to their house altogether.

When you are around or near a dog, that fear response will kick in. You will feel on edge, alert, probably keeping one eye constantly on the dog. Depending on how near the dog is and what it is doing you may even experience shaking, sweating, breathing changes and a racing heart.

Is your anxiety depressing?

by Dan Regan | Dec 19, 2014 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Living life in a struggle with anxiety is tough. There may be specific situations that trigger your anxiety or it may feel all encompassing – it’s always lurking, just waiting to strike.

And when your anxiety kicks in you’ll experience all these unpleasant sensations – that feeling in your stomach or chest, you get hot, can’t concentrate, you get shakey and you just want to get out of there as soon as you can.

With all those unpleasant thoughts and feelings, you may stop doing things that seem to trigger anxiety, or you may have to force yourself to endure them (perhaps telling yourself that if you do it enough the feelings will have to go, won’t they?).n

So it’s no wonder that may people with anxiety also talk about depression.

Free Relaxation Hypnosis MP3

by Dan Regan | Dec 18, 2014 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

I’ve been busy recording a FREE rapid relaxation hypnosis MP3 for you.

To get your own copy just sign up for my anxiety guide on the right of the page and you’ll get instant access to download the hypnosis MP3.

I’ve been getting great feedback from those who have already used it and so I hope you find it helpful too.

Is Perfectionism Driving Your Anxiety?

by Dan Regan | Dec 17, 2014 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Do you need to be perfect all the time? Would you describe yourself as a perfectionist? Is it either a complete success or complete disaster?

It’s a good thing to set your standards high and aim to hit them, yet often I meet people who feel bad because hitting 100% every time can be hard work and may not always be only up to you. You can then feel rubbish because if it isn’t perfect then it is that disaster.

Recently I worked with a client with anxiety. He had set himself five goals a day to drive forward feeling better, yet when he only hit 4 (80%) on one day he felt bad and considered the day a disaster and described himself as a failure (in fact, he was quite keen to write off the whole week).

Another client wanted to end the fear of driving, yet even after she got in the car for the first time in years and drove a few miles, she wrote it off as a failure because she wasn’t yet 100% calm and relaxed.

I also worked with a client who wanted more confidence so he could deliver presentations. He was calm and confident throughout but because he didn’t know the answer to one question, he started telling himself that he was rubbish at presentations.

The all or nothing attitude can keep reinforcing your anxiety and low confidence and help you stay stuck because you can’t recognise your positive progress.

Find Your Strengths: A Simple Way to Build Confidence and Self-Esteem

by Dan Regan | Dec 17, 2014 | Confidence and Self Esteem

Do you spend too much time criticising yourself and putting yourself down?

If you struggle with low self esteem and low confidence it may feel all too natural to accept criticism from yourself and others and to focus on perceived flaws in what you are capable of.

So now is the time to dilute this flow and start to focus on your strengths.

Planning to stop smoking?

by Dan Regan | Dec 13, 2014 | Quit Smoking Hypnosis

With the New Year approaching, are you now planning to quit smoking? Maybe stopping smoking will be your New Year Resolution or maybe you’ve just decided that you no longer want to be a slave to the cigarettes and the toil they reap on your health.

If you want to successfully stop smoking for good then you can start to stack the odds in your favour even before you quit smoking. Your smoking feeds off your current habitual behaviours and associations around smoking as well as the impact of the nicotine and all the rest of the chemicals on your body.

Just trying to sort out your smoking habit alone can lead to increased stress and irritability and so you eat more or go back to smoking to cope. And just swapping cigarettes for another nicotine form doesn’t address the habitual relationship you have with smoking. As one stop smoking client told me yesterday: even with nicotine patches he still felt the need to hold a cigarette and smoke and he ended up feeling dizzy and sick from increasing his nicotine intake.

Beat Christmas Stress

by Dan Regan | Dec 11, 2014 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Christmas can be one of the most enjoyable times of the year….and also one of the most stressful.

Against the ticking clock as the day approaches there are presents to find, buy and wrap. There’s the food to organise and prepare and at the same time you may be busy clearing that workload, managing the kids or just keeping on top of the other day to day things to get done. Alongside this you may have social activities and many other friends and relatives visiting and making demands upon your time and energy. So much to do! So much stress!

It’s no wonder that with all these pressures sometimes we can all feel the stress, worry and strain of Christmas.

So here are 5 ways to make sure you have a truly enjoyable and relaxing Christmas this year.

Award Winning Hypnotherapy Practice

by Dan Regan | Dec 10, 2014 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

I’m very pleased to be able to reveal that I’ve won an award!

Dan Regan Hypnotherapy has won the award for Hypnotherapy Business Of The Year 2014.

The award was presented by the Hypnotherapy Business School and I’m very honoured to receive this in recognition of my work during 2014 striving to deliver an excellent service to my clients.

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.

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