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“Life cannot be lived nor can death be faced without anxiety. Anxiety is guide as well as enemy and can point the way to authentic existence”
– Irvin D. Yalom
“Life cannot be lived nor can death be faced without anxiety. Anxiety is guide as well as enemy and can point the way to authentic existence”
– Irvin D. Yalom
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Why search for existential contentment when you can have it find you?
Why search for existential contentment when you can have it find you?
Why search for existential contentment when you can have it find you?
What Is “Existential Anxiety, or Angst”?
Existential anxiety, sometimes called “existential angst”, is an enduring feeling of distress due to uncertainty about the life-questions that matter the most: meaning, freedom, significance, identity and purpose. It may be apparent that familiar routines and beliefs lack the clarity, or comfort they once had. Alternatively, you might be experiencing deep unease with no apparent reason at all.
How are You Experiencing Existential Anxiety?
In existential anxiety there are a number of concepts which had previously kept you grounded, might begin to disintegrate. For example, you might feel a loss of purpose, a vacuum of identity, or authenticity, a sense of loneliness, or abandonment. You might also notice a fear or regret about making the wrong choice, or a deep questioning about the nature of existence itself.
These ‘dis-integrations’ can come in the context of significant life transitions, whether personally, or globally. They might seem to be time-related. For example, crises at quarter-life, mid-life, end of life, or retirement milestones.
They might be triggered by personal transitions, such as career change, divorce, marriage, or bereavement.
Then there is the unsettling uncertainty around global transitions, which can be personally destabilising. Such responses to potential transitions can include:
These ‘dis-integrations’ can come in the context of significant life transitions, whether personally, or globally. They might seem to be time-related. For example, crises at quarter-life, mid-life, end of life, or retirement milestones.
They might be triggered by personal transitions, such as career change, divorce, marriage, or bereavement.
Then there is the unsettling uncertainty around global transitions, which can be personally destabilising. Such responses to potential transitions can include:
If these issues were certainties they would be awful, but they are not certain, which is arguably more anxiety-inducing. This keeps you vigilant, ready to react according to the worst case scenario.
This is a sign that you are functioning as normal – there is nothing broken about you. However, the changes in society can outpace human operating systems, which sometimes require a manual update.
Existential disintegrations can also be spiritual if they involve, for example, altered identity, or perception, supernatural encounters, or unusual and intense emotions and bodily sensations.
This is a sign that you are functioning as normal – there is nothing broken about you. However, the changes in society can outpace human operating systems, which sometimes require a manual update.
Existential disintegrations can also be spiritual if they involve, for example, altered identity, or perception, supernatural encounters, or unusual and intense emotions and bodily sensations.
Help is Available
Integrative hypno-therapy can help you understand the patterns of your existential anxiety and re-formulate their meaning, helping you relate to them anew. Furthermore, accessing help online can be more comfortable, more convenient and potentially more private.
More +Signs Of Underlying Existential Anxiety
A disintegrated sense of:
Purpose, identity, or authenticity
Feeling:
Uncertain, lonely, or abandoned
Crises arising during:
Quarter-life, Mid-life, career change, divorce, marriage, or bereavement
Triggered by the questions of:
Artificial intelligence, climate change, or economic collapse
A disintegrated sense of:
Purpose, identity, or authenticity
Feeling:
Uncertain, lonely, or abandoned
Crises arising during:
Quarter-life, Mid-life, career change, divorce, marriage, or bereavement
Triggered by the questions of:
Artificial intelligence, climate change, or economic collapse
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How Integrative Hypnotherapy Can Help
The therapeutic alliance is the most fundamental driver of success in all therapy, and therapy for existential anxiety is no different. Think trust and bond in working together, between you and me – the therapist. Be guided by your sense of rapport. This is why it is important that you are able to meet me for a free initial inquiry before you make the choice about working together.
Hypnosis is highly effective for calming anxious feelings, especially when integrated with other approaches. It can also be a useful tool for helping you to explore and reshape your own conscious and unconscious beliefs about meaning, purpose, identity, relationships and other existential questions.
Mindfulness offers a stable way to engage thoughts and feelings that may have previously been too overwhelming to confront. By experiencing a new frame of engagement, uncertainty gradually diminishes and resilience increases.
Distressing internal experiences can seem, to your nervous system, just as threatening as immediate physical danger. Exposure-based approaches convince your nervous system of the truth, that you are ok, even with uncertainty, and that there is value and insight to be gained from every inner experience.
The safe engagement in discomfort that the therapeutic alliance, hypnotherapy, mindfulness and exposure therapy can produce a trail of opportunities to piece together possibilities for meaning formation. This is where existential therapy and transpersonal therapy excel. They are vehicles for paradigm-shifting deep reflection and refreshed formation of identity, beliefs, meaning, purpose and more.
Research shows that online therapy is just as effective as in-person therapy, so therapy can come to you, wherever you are and at any point in life’s journey.
More +Hypnosis is highly effective for calming anxious feelings, especially when integrated with other approaches. It can also be a useful tool for helping you to explore and reshape your own conscious and unconscious beliefs about meaning, purpose, identity, relationships and other existential questions.
Mindfulness offers a stable way to engage thoughts and feelings that may have previously been too overwhelming to confront. By experiencing a new frame of engagement, uncertainty gradually diminishes and resilience increases.
Distressing internal experiences can seem, to your nervous system, just as threatening as immediate physical danger. Exposure-based approaches convince your nervous system of the truth, that you are ok, even with uncertainty, and that there is value and insight to be gained from every inner experience.
The safe engagement in discomfort that the therapeutic alliance, hypnotherapy, mindfulness and exposure therapy can produce a trail of opportunities to piece together possibilities for meaning formation. This is where existential therapy and transpersonal therapy excel. They are vehicles for paradigm-shifting deep reflection and refreshed formation of identity, beliefs, meaning, purpose and more.
Research shows that online therapy is just as effective as in-person therapy, so therapy can come to you, wherever you are and at any point in life’s journey.
In Short: How Integrative Hypnotherapy Can Help
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Through your participation in integrative hypnotherapy you can anticipate your life to infuse with:
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My integrated approach to therapy unites the following dimensions:
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