Posted by yxibow on September 6, 2009, at 21:43:28
In reply to Re: benson hypnosis method to Phillipa, posted by Phillipa on September 6, 2009, at 21:37:18
These are standard relaxation methods... guided imagery is one principal one, counting backward, imagining a favourite scenery, place, etc... going through your body parts imagining them relaxing and putting you in a calm state.
Then, the counting to ten is reversed back and you slowly return to the world around you. (Its not as if you might not hear things around you, although if you can get into that great a state where you're not really paying attention, that's excellent.)
I used to have fewer symptoms, anxiety and other issues that I was able to do this.
You have to be receptive to it -- and its not a parlor trick, nobody is going to make you cluck like a chicken, its being open to other ways of settling an anxious moment other than patching it up constantly with a benzodiazepine or something (not that I'm saying one may or may need that.)
Sometimes you can get your therapist, if they're savvy enough to do this, to make a tape specialized for you in their free time. You have to appreciate the voice and context of the person speaking though. Some people may respond to any voice, some to a familiar one, etc.
-- tidings
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