To minimize risk of exposure to and spread of the COVID-19 virus and COVID-19 variants, I am continuing to suspend in-person hypnotherapy sessions with me in my office. Meanwhile, phone, and Zoom consultations ARE and WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE!
(This blog was originally posted on May 14, 2014)
Have you
refused to participate in an activity because you didn’t want to look bad or
ruin your current performance record? Have you ever refused to participate in
an activity in which you were likely to succeed? Both of these examples are
potential causes of performance anxiety, and recognizing what triggers this
anxiety is the first step to successfully managing and treating it.
Fear of success
is often more difficult for people to imagine feeling, because who doesn’t want
to succeed and to be the best at something, right? But success comes with its
own kinds of pressure and stress, including responsibility. Suddenly, it does
not matter to that newly minted executive that he or she has years of training
and experience to validate this promotion. It does not matter that the person
has a proved track record of being able to execute profitable negotiations in
the boardroom and is willing to make tough decisions about that will benefit
the company. Once you get the big promotion that you have been working so hard
to receive, you have to do more work and probably take on more roles than you
previously had, to earn the new title and salary that you now earn. You will
have to use the skills you have honed during your tenure in your previous role
and put them to a real test in a leadership position. Like it or not, when you
make a decision the buck will start and stop with you.
Or, imagine an
honors student at high-school student who has received two letters of
acceptance from two different universities. He or she may decide to accept a
place in the state university because he or she feels intimidated by the
anticipated course demands and his or her family’s expectations about what it means
to be a student at Harvard. It doesn’t matter that you have earned academic
letters or were the captain of your sport or debate team. It doesn’t matter how
many awards you have received for community service or other extracurricular
activity. Once you leave the security of high school (and childhood) where you
were the top-ranked student of your class, you will be starting over in a new
environment that is populated by hundreds of young adults just like you. You
may well become the head of your class and set a new standard of academic
achievement, or not. Whatever you do academically, high-school graduation and
attending college are a rite of passage from childhood to adulthood.
The physical
manifestations of performance anxiety take many forms, including trembling or
shaking, feeling nauseated or “blanking out” (forgetting) the lines or music
you are going to perform or the information you are supposed to present.
Hypnotherapy and therapeutic guided-imagery techniques can help you to manage
these symptoms and overcome this anxiety so you can do the performance or
presentation.
- Systematic desensitization to the stimuli that trigger the anxiety/fear response.
- Creating hypnotic scripts that reinforce the client’s recent achievements to boost his or her self-confidence about ability to achieve the stated goal.
- Use guided-imagery techniques to help the client re-experience those previous successes and further reinforce his or her self-confidence about being able to achieve a new goal.
- Teach the client how to practice diaphragmatic breathing and to activate an “anchor” to help relieve symptoms of anxiety.
- Educate the client about the relationship between nutrition and anxiety; specifically, the correlation between drops and spikes in blood-sugar level and feeling anxious or afraid.
- Instruct the client about using the Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping) to reduce anxiety and replace negative responses with positive/desired responses to achieve a goal.
Performance anxiety affects most people at some time in their lives. As John Kappas, Ph.D. explains in his book Success Is Not an Accident: The Mental Bank Concept, every person has the ability to
achieve success. You do not have to be afraid to fail or to succeed to achieve your goals. Now is the perfect time for
you to turn your dreams into reality.
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Hi, there. I am Tom Neil and I want to explain how life had been for my younger brother living with schizophrenia and how he had been permanently able to conquer this debilitating disease via a naturopathic, herbal method.
ReplyDeleteMaicon - my kid brother was twenty years old when he was brought to the emergency room by the campus police of the college from which he had been suspended several months ago. A professor had called and reported that he had walked into his classroom, accused him of taking his tuition money, and refused to leave.
Although he had much academic success as a teenager, his behavior had become increasingly odd during the past year. He quit seeing his friends and no longer seemed to care about his appearance or social pursuits. He began wearing the same clothes each day and seldom bathed. He lived with several family members but rarely spoke to any of them. When he did talk to them, he said he had found clues that his college was just a front for an organized crime operation. He had been suspended from college because of missing many classes. My sister said that she had often seen him mumbling quietly to himself and at times he seemed to be talking to people who were not there. He would emerge from my room and ask my family to be quiet even when they were not making any noise.
My father and sister told the staff that Maicon's great-grandmother had had a serious illness and had lived for 30 years in a state hospital, which they believed was a mental hospital. Our mother left the family when Maicon was very young. She has been out of touch with us, and they thought she might have been treated for mental health problems.
Maicon agreed to sign himself into the psychiatric unit for treatment. The whole family except I had agreed to have Maicon transferred to a mental asylum. I knew inwardly there was still some plausible means by which my kid brother could overcome this condition. I knew botanical means of treatment will be more favorable than any other type of treatment, and as such, I had taken a keen interest in the research of naturopathic alternative measures suitable for the treatment of schizophrenia. I had pleaded for some little patience from the family in the delay of the transfer, I was looking forward to proving a point to the entire family, of a positive botanical remedy for this condition.
It was during my ceaseless search on the internet I had been fortunate enough to come across Dr. Utu Herbal Cure: an African herbalist and witch doctor whose professional works had majored on the eradication of certain viral conditions, especially schizophrenia, ( improving the memory capacity positively), via a traditional, naturopathic process and distinguished diet plan. It was by the administration of this herbal specialist that my brother had been able to improve his condition for better.
Before the naturopathic remedy - Maicon's story had reflected a common case, in which a high-functioning young adult goes through a major decline in day-to-day skills. Although family and friends may feel this is a loss of the person they knew, the illness can be treated and a good outcome is possible.
My brother Maicon is just like many other patients out there suffering from this disease. Although he was able to overcome this condition via a naturopathic herbal remedy administered by this African herbal physician and saved completely thus, rekindling the lost joy which had been experienced by the family members.
I wish to use this opportunity to reach across to anyone who may happen to be diagnosed with this disastrous condition to spread the hope of an everlasting herbal remedy that is capable of imposing a permanent end to this disease.
For more information concerning this naturopathic herbal remedy, feel free to contact this African herbal practitioner via email:
drutuherbalcure@gmail.com