Anxiety Therapy
3 NLP Techniques to Reduce Your Anxiety
Stop your excessive anxiety now! Begin a new life free from Anxiety.
Sometimes the thoughts that are running through your head can be so overwhelming that they create anxiety.
3 NLP Techniques to Reduce Your Anxiety is about 3 different techniques you can use to help reduce your anxiety.
These 3 techniques have been tested and shown to help reduce feelings of stress, worry, depression, and other negative emotions.
1. Focus on what you want
One of the things people often do when you worry is that they use catastrophic thinking.
You think about the event that is coming up, or the challenge you have to face and you think of all the things that can happen.
You may well think of some positive outcomes that can happen but if you are worrying you are almost certainly thinking of a whole range of things that can go wrong.
Creating these thoughts in your imagination is like experiencing them in reality and you unconsciously create the exact reaction that you would have if these things really did occur.
An NLP process for anxiety involves focusing on the best outcome that can happen, or on a range of possible positive outcomes can reduce your anxiety.
Try asking yourself the simple question ‘What would I like to happen?’ Just ask yourself that question and imagine what it would be like if that were to happen.
Maybe you could create a picture in your mind, or you can imagine what things you would say to yourself and how you would feel.
You could also try writing down a description of that outcome. One advantage of doing this is that you can read it back to yourself from time to time if you get anxious again in the future.
2. Go out beyond the outcome
The thing about being anxious or worried about something in the future is that it hasn’t happened yet!
It sounds obvious, but when you have got past the event and even if it did turn out badly, it’s over.
The experience was nowhere near as bad as we had feared so often everything has ended up okay.
Thinking about what has already happened can help us feel less anxious in the present.
We should go back to when we felt at ease and remember that time again now.
In your mind think of what life would be like when you have gone through the experience and have got the best outcome you could have hoped for.
Imagine in rich detail that it is all over and things turned out to be just fine.
Do this as richly as you can.
Imagine what you see, hear, feel and think.
Imagine the words that you will say to yourself and others and what they will say to you.
Really be there.
Then, think back over the event that you were worried about and see how it feels now it is over and everything has turned out for the best.
Congratulate yourself on getting through it and a job well done.
3. Hand the anxiety over to a higher power
It’s difficult to accept the notion that many things are out of your control in life.
Many things are dependent on the behaviour and attitudes of others including chance, coincidence, or even fate depending on your personal beliefs.
When you feel overwhelmed with life, turn to a higher being. This action can help relieve stress and make your outlook more positive in the short term.
Your imagination is your gateway to a higher power. Whether you believe in an all-powerful being, or fate and karma, even if you don’t there’s nothing stopping you from creating one for yourself that can take care of the worrying instead.
- You are imagining that there is a being or physical representation of fate looking down on you with sympathy and understanding.
- You can feel the worry and anxiety of an upcoming event weighing around your shoulders like a dark cloak.
- Imagine a being gently takes the cloak of worry from your shoulders and wraps it on their own body, taking responsibility for its outcome so that you don’t have to.
