My hypnosis session regarding my fears about using a gym involved a great deal of visualation and focussed very much on how I physically 'feel' anxiety. I was happy with way of doing things as I am very bad at verbalising my own stress, discomfort and fears, so for me whenever I am stressed or worried it is very much a physical feeling. The session itself was a strange and familiar experience. Familiar because now well into my second term of yoga I am quite comfortable with someone guiding me into a relaxed state and strange because although I felt completely lucid and awake, at the end of the hour when opening my eyes I felt as though I had been asleep for hours.
So did it work?
Yes and no is an honest answer.
No because I was still nervous about going to the gym on my own, but also yes because I actually did go and on entering the gym I immeditely stopped feeling anxious and just got on the machines.
Yes it did work because although I was worried about going to the gym, all of my physical anxiety symptoms did not appear, my stomach was pleasantly settled.
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Three weeks on, I am now very comfortable using the gym. I enjoy that it is a bit of 'me time', cheesy as that sounds, its also very true. I go to the gym without my hearing aid (which I very much need for conversations) and my mp3 player switched on. I quite enjoy the time to think, or not. And best of all, I love that the gym is 2 minutes away from my flat, there can be no excuses for not going.
In hindsight I now feel that hypnotherapy has helped a great deal with my fears of using a gym and of exercising alone, its liberating to think that now how much exercise I do lies with me after so long of being afraid to make that leap.
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Posted by: Confidence Hypnotherapy | 12/23/2009 at 12:20 PM