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Dr. John J. Murphy Psychologist and Hypnotherapist | Beverly Hills, CA |
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A primary focus in my practice is in the area of anxiety and performance. The anxiety can be specific and focused towards an issue (such as performing in front of people, flying in an airplane, or over a new relationship) or it can be general.
What counts is the negative feelings and self-talk that occurs during the anxiety. When someone has anxiety performing in front of a crowd, for example, that person will have various negative emotions (ranging from dread to fear to insecurity and so forth) and hurtful self-talk (i.e. "you're going to fail, everyone is going to look at you, you're not prepared"). Usually this self-talk is learned as a young child. Usually, it sounds exactly like an overly-expectant mother or father.
In my treatment model, these anxieties are trained responses from a younger age that are used today by the person's subconscious to protect the person and prevent him or her from being hurt. And on one level, the subconscious is correct: it's better to be scared and cautious in an unsafe world, better safe than sorry. The problem is that the subconscious doesn't have an accurate grasp of what is really dangerous. The idea here is to show the deeper level of the mind that these protective measures (i.e. warning about defeat, feelings of threat) are not protective but really harmful.
In other words, your subconscious wants to help you but has learned, inadvertently, that protecting you with anxiety is the best way to serve and protect you. Once your subconscious knows that these feelings and thoughts are unnecessary and are not helpful but harmful and limiting, they are naturally abated and controlled. We work here to re-teach the subconscious the best way to help you in your goals, be it performing in front of a skeptical casting director or simply flying across country for the first time.