When I was working with a patient whom happened to also be a friend, He told me about a close friend of his whom he felt would benefit from the treatment that I provided although it was difficult for her to make the trip down to see me.
I suggested that he might be able to give it ago as he was familiar with my techniques and I felt confident that he would be able to administer the treatment effectively. He called me a few days later and told me that she had difficulty identifying any one particular event that could have any bearing on her present difficulties and therefore he was unsure how to commence.
If we leave a garden untended for long enough, it becomes overgrown and it may even be difficult to identify individual plants if the foliage becomes dense enough. I remain convinced that every emotional issue has a cause. A person presenting with generalised anxiety will be unable to pinpoint what the trigger for his or her anxiety is, he or she may not even be able to remember how it all started. Invariably the anxiety response would have been triggered or caused by an unpleasant or uncomfortable event and as time passed this anxiety was no longer confined to the original event but with time this would have developed into a generalised anxiety state and when asking such a person what was making them anxious or how this all started they would reply .. I don't know and they would be telling the truth. So here we have a situation whereby the person is continuing to experience anxiety which was originally caused by an event that they can no longer recall on a conscious level. Their subconscious however continues to trigger the anxiety response. This is the same as our previous analogy of the overgrown garden, left to its own devices we may not be able to recognise what was planted in there in the first place, unless we are able to do a lot weeding and digging.
To treat a person with generalised anxiety we need to do a lot of pruning and weeding before we get to root cause. his may take a few sessions before we can break through the dense foliage. It maybe necessary initially to simply deal with the anxiety symptoms, the racing heart, the tight chest, the sweaty palms and the feelings in the stomach. Eventually though when we have removed enough layers the root cause invariably becomes clear. This is always a significant moment for it is at this point that the patient has their "aha" moment and the therapist can deal the hammer blow to the original cause of the emotional disturbance.
It is well known that the human organism produces an electrical current via the activities of the central nervous system. I postulate that exposure to sudden unpleasant or traumatic events can create a disturbance in this field and unless this is corrected soon afterwards, then we begin to see various emotional/psychological disturbances emerging. As I have said previously, a single traumatic event which causes an emotional response can be corrected quickly and easily. Emotional disturbances caused by exposure to sustained stress or trauma may require longer and more frequent application of our corrective treatments but still with the same permanent resolution of the presenting symptoms.
I suggested that he might be able to give it ago as he was familiar with my techniques and I felt confident that he would be able to administer the treatment effectively. He called me a few days later and told me that she had difficulty identifying any one particular event that could have any bearing on her present difficulties and therefore he was unsure how to commence.
If we leave a garden untended for long enough, it becomes overgrown and it may even be difficult to identify individual plants if the foliage becomes dense enough. I remain convinced that every emotional issue has a cause. A person presenting with generalised anxiety will be unable to pinpoint what the trigger for his or her anxiety is, he or she may not even be able to remember how it all started. Invariably the anxiety response would have been triggered or caused by an unpleasant or uncomfortable event and as time passed this anxiety was no longer confined to the original event but with time this would have developed into a generalised anxiety state and when asking such a person what was making them anxious or how this all started they would reply .. I don't know and they would be telling the truth. So here we have a situation whereby the person is continuing to experience anxiety which was originally caused by an event that they can no longer recall on a conscious level. Their subconscious however continues to trigger the anxiety response. This is the same as our previous analogy of the overgrown garden, left to its own devices we may not be able to recognise what was planted in there in the first place, unless we are able to do a lot weeding and digging.
To treat a person with generalised anxiety we need to do a lot of pruning and weeding before we get to root cause. his may take a few sessions before we can break through the dense foliage. It maybe necessary initially to simply deal with the anxiety symptoms, the racing heart, the tight chest, the sweaty palms and the feelings in the stomach. Eventually though when we have removed enough layers the root cause invariably becomes clear. This is always a significant moment for it is at this point that the patient has their "aha" moment and the therapist can deal the hammer blow to the original cause of the emotional disturbance.
It is well known that the human organism produces an electrical current via the activities of the central nervous system. I postulate that exposure to sudden unpleasant or traumatic events can create a disturbance in this field and unless this is corrected soon afterwards, then we begin to see various emotional/psychological disturbances emerging. As I have said previously, a single traumatic event which causes an emotional response can be corrected quickly and easily. Emotional disturbances caused by exposure to sustained stress or trauma may require longer and more frequent application of our corrective treatments but still with the same permanent resolution of the presenting symptoms.
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