Fear and anxiety are normal parts of life. While fear is a rational emotional response to a real threat, anxiety is an irrational emotional response to an imagined threat. Anxiety symptoms can become worse when a person is under stress and if ignored, anxiety may eventually cause irrational fears, specific phobias (like social anxiety) and panic attacks. Prolonged anxiety may also lead to more serious physical problems such as problems with eating and sleeping. Anxiety, panic attacks and related emotional disturbances may be caused by multiple factors, including behavioral, environmental, as well as chemical.

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Carole Malin, CranioSacral Therapy | Profile
Anxiety is characterized as excessive, exaggerated worry about everyday life issues. Anxiety manifests feelings of apprehension and fear experienced through palpations, sweating, irritability, and stress.
Emotions lay beneath the surface of anxiety. Surrender to a CST session and give yourself permission to journey into your field of emotions.

Melissa Tierney, MS, Intuitive Energy Healer | Profile
By learning to breathe properly, we can energize our systems with renewed vitality. Breathe deeply from BELOW your belly button. Hold, then slowly release. Repeat until symptom eases.

By identifying the source of dis-ease, which is often a reaction to a past trauma or past LIFE, we can begin to love ourselves out of it. Energy work can actually REMOVE the discomfort from our energy field, giving temporary, and eventually, lasting, relief.

Judaline Nelson, Energy Worker and Psycho-Spiritual Mentor | Profile
Anxiety/Fear is often connected to experiences of the past, known or unknown. You can begin to search for the source when, in an anxious or fearful moment, you stop, take a deep breath and ask yourself when in my life have I felt this way before.

My treatment for Anxiety/Fear includes an assessment of your life and present struggle; exercises for self discovery and energetic balancing; techniques for mental/emotional and energetic release and healing of past experiences and related feelings.

Pamela Myers, CMT, RYT | Profile
Possible cause: emotional trauma.

Treatment: slow diaphragmatic breathing perhaps with soft music counseling

Massage Therapy / Reiki, Yoga Practice, including sitting meditation time/Walking

Bernadette Doran, Certified Huna Healer & Reiki Master Teacher | Profile
One of the principles of Hawaiian Huna shamanism is, “Energy flows where attention goes.” By changing the focus of your mind away from worries and toward comforting thoughts, you can relieve anxiety and start seeing actual, positive change in your life. Promise yourself every day to trust yourself, to bless the present, and to expect the best.

By taking my Hawaiian Huna shamanism class, you can start creating the life – free of worry and fear – that you want. You’ll learn the loving, transformational principles of huna, and how to use them to harmonize, heal, change or manifest what you really want in your life.

Shelley Radja, Certified Master Practitioner, Yuen Method of Chinese Energetics | Profile
Can have multiple causes. I believe that within the cells of our bodies we carry all the cumulative emotions from all the traumas and fears from our many lifetimes, which can manifest as fears and anxieties in this lifetime as well. For example, an otherwise unexplainable fear of water or swimming might indicate a past life trauma related to water.

By listening to the client and how they describe their fear/anxiety issues, I energetically and intuitively determine the root causes of the issue and then energetically release and clear those memories with the non-touch method of Chinese Energetics.

Susan L. Atchison, MA, LCPC, Advanced Clinical Heart-Centered Hypnotherapist and Certified Release Therapist | Profile
You may know what you want or need to do but for some reason unknown to your conscious mind, are unable to do so; you just keep procrastinating. You or someone else may even have labeled this as “laziness”. Generally, procrastination is based on fear. It could be fear of making a mistake, fear of success, or any other fear. The key is to become aware of what root fear is behind the procrastination, and to heal that fear.

In hypnosis, we will go back to the source of the fear and empower you to move through it, leaving it behind. We will identify what decision you made at that time to deal with the fear, a decision that has been in your subconscious like a bug in your software, impeding your progress. We will gently change this to a positive decision, and almost miraculously, you will find that your life changes for the better.

Funda Kahn, D.D.S., CH, Certified Hypnotherapist & EFT Practitioner| Profile
Feelings of anxiety, or unexplainable panic attacks seem to be more prevalent these days. Symptoms can be a loss of breath or rapid breathing, feelings of panic, a high pulse, dizziness, nausea, and it can actually feel like a heart attack.

EFT Techniques can help immediately to calm and restore a person’s well being. Breathing techniques are also critical to helping alleviate anxiety and fear.

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