How hypnosis can help you stop feeling anxious and stay calm and connected.
When smartphones were first introduced to the world, we weren’t told they would make us anxious, we were told how they were going to revolutionize our lives. You could be anywhere at any time and still be connected to work, our families, and breaking news as it happened.
We would be able to go anywhere or do anything because we’d be free from the constraints of conventional life.
Except, as time has gone on and smartphones have become so integrated into our lives, many of us feel anxious if our phone isn’t in reach. We feel stressed if there’s a possibility that we could miss an important call, email, or social media update. We soothe ourselves by scrolling late into the night. This behavior can cause a knot in our stomachs as we answer every email as it arrives, envy of the over-the-top lives we see influencers posting, or worry over the doom and gloom in life.
Not to mention the epidemic of overstimulation and distraction caused by reduced attention spans from watching short-form content.
Smartphones have become an addiction that stir up anxiety, stress, and exhaustion from being “on” all the time.
If you’re looking for help with smartphone addiction, then hypnosis can help you stay calm, focused, and present.
How smartphones create a cycle of being anxious:
Of course, smartphones have revolutionized the business world. We can get deals green lit quicker, paperwork signed across oceans in an instant, and get up to speed for meetings during the course of an elevator ride up to a conference room.
But along with the expectation of speed comes an understanding that we must be reachable at all times. As a result, a cloud of varying degrees of darkness follows our every move. A dead phone battery could be the difference between being promoted and being fired.
Beyond the stress smartphones wreak at work, they can invite all levels of anxiety and mental overload in our personal lives. After coming home from work, we might eat dinner in front of the TV, but now, with our shorter attention spans, even a 30-minute TV show is too much of a commitment. So we escape reality even further with a stream of short videos that are seemingly never-ending. Our brains never get a break, and before we know it, the night is lost.
And it’s not just our evenings that have been wasted; the quality of our sleep is severely impacted. The blue light emitted from smartphones can disrupt our natural circadian rhythms, making it difficult to fall asleep. The longer it takes us to settle down at night, the more tired and sluggish we feel the next morning. We’re not performing at our best, and it’s obvious to others.
Wasting our free time on our phones provides an easy “out” from our responsibilities or even feelings we find difficult to sit with. Perhaps we’re feeling lonely, rejected, angry, embarrassed, or overwhelmed from something that happened within the course of the day. Or some time in the past. Instead of dealing with the underlying reasons or behavior that led to these feelings, we choose to lose ourselves in our smartphones.
It becomes a vicious cycle of putting off our problems, escaping to the internet, and then panicking when we realize that the issues we left to fester have come home to roost.
How hypnosis can help with anxiety:
When you’re feeling anxious, it’s natural to distract yourself by scrolling through your phone because it will make you feel better in the moment. But that distraction won’t help you deal with the underlying cause of your anxiety in the first place.
The good news is that hypnosis for anxiety can help overcome self-defeating behaviors and uncomfortable emotions that keep you in survival mode. It can give you the tools to stop doomscrolling your time and opportunities away so you can live without being plagued by fears and stressors.
Under the guidance of an experienced hypnotist, you will be guided into a deep state of calm, allowing you to be more open to suggestions. From there, the hypnotist will ask you a series of questions specifically designed to zero in on the source of your particular issues. These are housed in the subconscious, where you may have unknowingly carried negative beliefs from childhood.
Once these root causes are uncovered, the hypnotherapist can then “rewire” your subconscious with new and positive beliefs that promote internal calm. Your subconscious will “detach” from the old beliefs that no longer serve you. They will be supplanted by new and positive beliefs.
For instance, you may be worried about a report that you must present in front of a room of higher-ups. Instead of giving it the attention it deserves for a successful execution and delivery, you bury yourself in mindless rabbit holes on social media. With the help of a skilled hypnotist, you may uncover a negative belief about presenting in front of a group that’s been lodged in your subconscious since childhood. Maybe you had an embarrassing experience when doing an oral report in middle school. Unbeknownst to you, that shame has stuck with you since then. The hypnotist will shift your perception of the event from negative to positive. From then on, you will feel neutral about having all eyes on you. You can embrace it with confidence and positivity.
Find calm in a hyper-connected world with hypnosis for anxiety:
Technology isn’t going anywhere, and you don’t have to give up your smartphone to feel calm again. But you do need to take care that it isn’t overtaking your life.
Hypnosis for anxiety can help you change the default thoughts and habits that keep you reaching for your phone whenever you feel stressed, overwhelmed, or uncomfortable. By addressing the automatic patterns behind smartphone addiction, technology anxiety, and related stress, you can begin to use your phone as a tool rather than relying on it as an escape.
If you’re ready to let go of smartphone addiction, then I’m ready to help. Whether you’re in Dallas County or Collin County or on the other side of the United States, I can see you in-person or schedule a virtual appointment. You deserve a life that’s filled with peace, a spirit that’s full of confidence, and a future that you can be excited about.
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