18/12/2023
How Hypnotherapy can help with Social Anxiety
1. **RAS Focus Shift**: Hypnotherapy can be used to retrain the Reticular Activating System (RAS) to concentrate on positive social experiences, moving away from the negative focus of the primitive mind.
2. **Reframing Social Perceptions**: It helps in reframing how one perceives social status and interactions, reducing the primitive mind's emphasis on negativity and perceived social threats.
3. **Visualisation for Positive Experiences**: Hypnotherapy employs visualisation techniques, encouraging the brain to imagine positive social scenarios, thereby aligning with the idea that the mind doesn't distinguish between reality and imagination.
4. **Reducing Stress and Anxiety**: By inducing relaxation, hypnotherapy aids in emptying the 'stress bucket', crucial for allowing the intellectual mind to process social situations more effectively.
5. **Empowering the Intellectual Mind**: The therapy can unlock and strengthen the intellectual mind's approach to social interactions, fostering a more positive and confident attitude.
6. **Utilising Past Experiences Constructively**: Hypnotherapy can help in using past social experiences not as sources of anxiety but as learning opportunities for future social success.
7. **Sustained Mindset Change**: Regular hypnotherapy sessions can lead to long-lasting changes in the individual's approach to social situations, firmly establishing a more positive, intellectual mindset.
We often fight for "social status" without realising it, and if someone doesn't like us, and we are in our primitive minds, our status can suffer. The primitive mind brings negativity. It could be from school or socially negative experiences. The reticular activating system (RAS) may start after, an...