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"I had three sessions with Peter (4 hours total) and am very glad I had a chance to do therapy with him. Even after one session, I already felt better about some of the trauma I have had since I was young. With him, I learned to dissolve the trauma and came to terms with what happened in the past. I very much appreciate Peter’s kindness, wisdom, and patience."

During these online counseling sessions I will teach you how to use mindfulness for working with all forms of anxiety disorders, including Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder, OCD, depression, and for help with and other forms of emotional suffering, by using the very successful techniques of Mindfulness Therapy. 

This approach is extremely effective and you will see noticeable results after the first 2-3 online sessions with me. 

Online Mindfulness Psychotherapy is highly effective for managing anxiety and depression without relying on anti-anxiety medications and antidepressants. It is better to treat the underlying psychological cause of your emotional pain instead of just suppressing symptoms.

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Hello there! My name is Peter Strong of the Boulder Center for Mindfulness Therapy. Now, many of the people who seek my assistance here either in the office or online through Skype sessions come to me suffering from panic attacks and panic anxiety. This is by far the most common form of emotional suffering that people encounter in their lives.

Now, in the last few years or so more and more people have been seeking Mindfulness Therapy for their Panic Attacks and General Anxiety over the internet using Skype, as I say, which works extremely well, and there are many studies that show it to be equally effective to in-person therapy. And in some ways, it is even better than in-person therapy, because the client feels more empowered and in charge of the process.

Any how, I just wanted to take a couple of minutes to describe to you a little bit about what Mindfulness Therapy is and some of the essential principles of how to work with your anxiety, and particularly with your panic attacks. Panic attack anxiety is very, very painful. It is one of the most painful forms of emotions that a person can experience. I know this from personal experience as well as from working with people. It is very distressing. Out natural reaction to distressing emotions like this is, of course, to run away from them, or to avoid them, or to indulge in a whole range of secondary reactivity - Thinking about the fear, worrying about how you are going to cope if the panic attack should occur, what people are going to think about you, and so on - And this starts to spin out of control and people suffering panic attacks can literally just close down entirely.

When we work with panic anxiety here in the office or online through Skype sessions, the first and most essential principle of Mindfulness Therapy is learning how to sit with that emotion, with that feeling. The term, "sitting" is a very nice term and it describes the process very well. It's like sitting with a friend or a child who is in pain, in which you are basically there, being very present with an open mind and an open heart. The attitude of friendliness is absolutely essential.

So, when you are encountering panic anxiety, what really helps is if you can take a few minutes and start to explore how to sit with that feeling as you experience it in your body and in your mind as if it was a child in pain, crying for your attention. And in many ways, that is the function of mental pain or suffering. It is there to attract our attention. It's saying, "Look over here!" and the skillful response to anxiety of all kinds is to do just that. It is to take the time to look at the anxiety and sit with it without becoming reactive, without getting caught up in the story, the emotional drama, in all the secondary thinking about the pain that you are experiencing.

It is just to create a space inside in which you are sitting with that pain and being fully present. When you do this, you are creating the right internal conditions that allow that anxiety to begin to change itself. One of the second principles of Mindfulness Therapy is that we understand that our mind is more than capable of solving the problem of emotional anxiety. Our psyche has the skills, the intelligence, and all that it needs to heal emotional suffering, in the same way that our body has the skills and bodily intelligence it needs to heal a physical wound - a cut or a graze. However, in order for the psyche, that is the Big Mind, the intuitive mind, not the thinking mind, but the deeper intuitive aspect of our mind. In order for it to begin to start healing anxiety it has to have freedom; freedom in which to change. This freedom, which allows an emotion to begin its own transformation and healing is exactly what we are providing through mindfulness.

Mindfulness, as I define it in my book, 'The Path of Mindfulness Meditation' is engaged-presence, is that quality of being really, really interested and present for your experience, without getting caught up in reactivity and thinking about the experience, which is not the same as being present. So freedom to change equals presence equals mindfulness. It's hard, it's a hard process, to literally learn how to face your emotions and your suffering in this way. It is hard, but it is possible. It is a process that is guaranteed to lead to beneficial change. So, I invite you to experiment with this by yourself. Learning bit by bit how to sit with your pain and create the right inner conditions that will allow that pain to undergo transformation and healing. If you would like more information or if you would like to talk to me about your panic anxiety, or other forms of anxiety, please send me an email. Visit my website, CounselingTherapyOnline.com. Thank you!

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Mindfulness Therapy incorporates Cognitive Therapy (CBT) but focuses more on the underlying core emotion of anxiety-fear that fuels the reactive thinking, the cognitive "what if" and negative thinking that feeds the core emotion. It is a vicious cycle, of course, where the emotion fuels the reactive thinking, which then feeds the core emotion. The product of the cycle of reactivity is the emotional suffering we experience as panic attack anxiety.

You probably already know that fighting your panic anxiety doesn't help; the more you fight it the stronger it becomes. Indulging in the panic attack doesn't help either. What is needed is a different approach that is at first counter-intuitive; we need to make friends with our emotions.
Mindfulness is not simply awareness, but the combination of awareness and compassion, or friendliness. It is often described as loving-presence, a genuine friendliness and acceptance of the emotion. You should think of the emotion as if it were a child in pain. The child needs you to be accepting and not to react with aversion, judgement or avoidance. We need to adopt this same attitude towards our panic anxiety - it is literally the scared and frightened child within. It needs our loving-presence to heal...

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Hello there! My name is Peter Strong of the Boulder Center for Mindfulness Therapy. Currently, a lot of the folks who seek my aid here either in work or online through Skype sessions come to me suffering from panic attacks and panic anxiety. This is by far the most frequent form of mental anguish that individuals encounter in their own lives.

Now, in the last few years or so increasingly more individuals happen to be seeking Mindfulness Therapy for their Panic Attacks and General Anxiety over the internet using Skype, as I say, which functions exceptionally well, and there are numerous studies that demonstrate it to be equally successful to in-person treatment. And in a few ways, it's not even worse than in person treatment, because the client feels more empowered and in charge of the procedure.

 Panic attack nervousness is really, very agonizing. It's but one of the very painful forms of emotions that an individual can experience. I know this from personal experience together with from working with individuals. It is very distressing. Out natural reaction to distressing emotions such as this is, obviously, to run away from them, or to avoid them, or to indulge in a complete selection of secondary reactivity - Thinking concerning the anxiety, worrying about how you're likely to cope in the event the panic attack should happen, what individuals are going to think about you, and so on - And this begins to spin out of control and people suffering panic attacks can literally simply close down completely.

When we work with panic tension here in the office or online through Skype sessions, the initial and most crucial rule of Mindfulness Therapy is learning just how to sit with that emotion, with that feeling. The term, "sitting" is a really nice term and it describes the procedure very well. It is like sitting using a buddy or a child who's in pain, where you're essentially there, being quite present with an open heart and an open mind. The attitude of friendliness is completely essential.

 And in a lot of ways, this is the function of anguish or mental pain. It's there to attract our attention. It is saying, "Look over here!" along with the skillful response to anxiety of all kinds is to do just that. It really is to take some time to consider the stress without getting swept up in the story, the psychological crisis, in each of the secondary thinking about the pain and sit with it without becoming reactive that you're experiencing.

It's simply to generate a space inside in which you might be sitting with that pain and being totally present. You are creating the proper internal conditions that enable that stress to start to change itself, when you do that. Our psyche has got the intelligence, the abilities, and all that it requires to treat emotional suffering, in exactly the same manner that our body gets the abilities and physiological wisdom it has to heal a wound that is physical - a cut or a graze. Yet, in order for the head, this is the Big Head, the intuitive mind, not the thinking mind, but the more profound intuitive part of our mind. In order for this to begin to commence treating nervousness it needs to have independence; liberty where to change. This independence, which allows an emotion to start healing and its own transformation is precisely what we are providing through mindfulness.

Mindfulness, as I define it in my own novel, 'The Path of Mindfulness Meditation' is participated-existence, is that quality of being really, truly curious and present on your expertise, without becoming swept up in reactivity and thinking concerning the experience, which is not just like being present. So freedom to alter equals mindfulness is equaled by existence. It is hard, it's a procedure that is difficult, to find out the way to face your emotions and your suffering in this manner. It is not impossible, although it is tough. It is a process that is guaranteed to lead to favorable change. So, I invite one to experiment with this on your own. Learning bit the way to sit along with your pain and create the correct internal conditions that can allow that pain to get healing and transformation. Please send me an e-mail, if you'd like more details or in the event you would like to talk to me about your panic anxiety, or alternative kinds of anxiety. Visit my web site, CounselingTherapyOnline.com. Thanks!

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 It is now possible to receive online psychotherapy via Skype as a primary method to learn how to manage anxiety, panic attacks, depression and other forms of emotional stress. The approach described here is called Mindfulness Therapy, which describes a variety of skillful ways of working with emotions.

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One of the most important techniques to learn for managing anxiety attacks is called Reframing. This simply means that you teach yourself to see the anxiety emotion as an object that arises within the mind. This is the opposite to identifying with the anxiety or fear and then becoming swept up with catastrophic thinking, worrying and other forms of reactive thinking that simply make things worse. Instead of, “I am afraid!” we reframe that as “I notice the emotion of fear arising in me.” This simple action stops the mind contracting into the emotion and keeps the mind free to engage with the emotion as an object, and that is something totally and absolutely different. In a sense, you leave the “I” out of it altogether – something to be discovered at a later time. The main point of Reframing is that you learn how not to be overwhelmed by a panic thought when it arises and not to feed the emotion by becoming lost in thinking and reacting. With practice you become more and more familiar with the anxiety emotion as an object, a visitor and you find that you don’t need to react to it with fear or more anxiety.

            This form of retraining how we respond to our emotions develops a kind of immunity to the anxiety not unlike the immunity that the body develops to pathogens. Before immunity is established, we are at great risk from viruses and bacteria, but after we have developed an immune response, the same organisms are rendered completely harmless and incapable of causing suffering. It is the same when we develop mental immunity to our emotional pain. The panic anxiety may still arise out of habit, but we don’t react and therefore are immune to the suffering that we create when we react to emotional pain. Mindfulness is the tool that allows us to develop this mental immunity.

            When the mind is free from reacting to our emotional pain then it is put in an ideal state to allow the pain itself to begin to heal and lose intensity. When you learn how to sit with your pain without becoming reactive then you are creating the right inner conditions that allow beneficial change and that allow your innate intelligence and creativity to work on healing and resolving the pain.

The next factor that works to facilitate this new relationship with our panic anxiety is the immensely powerful factor of friendliness. Now that we are getting better at holding the panic anxiety as an object within our mind that we can relate to and look at, we take this relationship to a whole new level by welcoming the emotion. We actually train our self to greet is just as we would greet an old friend. Turn to the anxiety with warmth and friendliness instead of our habitual knee-jerk reaction of hatred and resistance and everything changes. Why? Because we actually create an inner space in which that anxiety emotion can exist unmolested and unharmed. This above anything else creates the best possible conditions in which the emotion can heal itself.

Try this for yourself: Practice Reframing followed by the Response of Friendliness. You may find this difficult to do at first, but it becomes increasingly easier with practice, especially when you begin to feel the benefits as the reactivity and the core panic anxiety begin to resolve themselves.

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Now Online Counseling and Online Therapy are available via Skype to teach you the specific skills you need to better manage your anxiety, panic attacks, depression and stress.

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The number of people suffering from panic attacks and panic disorder is very large indeed. Often referred to as General Anxiety Disorder, the effects of prolonged anxiety can be very debilitating and a major cause of depression. There are of course a number of medications available to treat the symptoms of panic disorder and you should contact your doctor to seek advice on the appropriate medical treatment for your panic disorder. But, of course, pills are seldom sufficient because they do not address the underlying psychological cause of anxiety. As the saying goes, "pills don't teach skills."

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Online Mindfulness Therapy is a revolutionary new approach combing elements of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and principles of Buddhist psychology. Mindfulness is an extraordinarily powerful tool for working with anxiety, depression and many other forms of emotional distress and suffering and is a perfect complement to CBT. Dr Strong is a specialist in Mindfulness Therapy, and author of The Path of Mindfulness Meditation, an in-depth investigation into mindfulness, meditation and mindfulness therapy (available through Amazon).

"In my experience, working with many, many clients who suffer from anxiety, mindfulness is perhaps the most effective single factor in helping a person break free from the patterns of habitual reactive and negative thinking and self-beliefs that create and sustain anxiety and depression."

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Panic attacks and panic disorder affect a growing number of people in the US and Western Europe. Those who do not suffer from panic attacks have a hard time understanding how unbearably painful panic anxiety is for those who experience ongoing panic attacks. To the victims of panic disorder, the experience is very visceral; it is a full-blown fight or flight type reaction that can cause the heart rate to increase dramatically and produce profuse sweating and many other physiological and biochemical changes. Imagine walking along a trail and suddenly encountering a mountain lion; that is how it feels for those suffering from panic anxiety - and sometimes much worse.

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Panic anxiety is certainly not just “in the mind” as some people might think, but comes from an integrated reaction that involves both mind and body; each supporting the reactive process. However, ultimately it is what happens in the mind that triggers the emotional and physiological processes that produce a full-blown panic attack. Many panic anxiety sufferers are looking for methods to change the underlying mental process that produces anxiety. Many turn to some form of counseling or talk therapy, others prefer a more direct process of therapy such as CBT or Mindfulness Therapy because these attempt to change the internal mechanism that creates the emotional reaction that then triggers the bodily reactions.

At the core of panic disorders you will inevitably find some form of reactive thinking that triggers the panic attacks, and of course the theory behind CBT is that if you can change these habitual patterns of negative thinking and negative beliefs then you can diffuse the panic attacks. In the Mindfulness Therapy approach, we take this a step further, because we realize that the problem is not simply with the content of the thoughts or beliefs or memories, but with the emotional energy that is infused into these particular thought forms. It is this emotional charge that gives such power to negative thoughts, beliefs or traumatic memories. This is why two people can think the same thought but react completely differently - because the emotional charge is different for different people. Therefore, in Mindfulness Therapy the emphasis is on finding ways to change this emotional energy, allowing it to discharge and resolve itself. Then all that remains is an “empty thought” which ceases to have any particular meaning or power to cause anxiety or suffering.

In Mindfulness Therapy, clients/students learn how to “sit” with their emotions. This means that they learn to hold the emotion in their conscious awareness without getting lost in the story or becoming reactive to the emotion with hatred, resistance or avoidance. This fundamental change in relationship from being consumed by an emotion to one of being able to observe the emotion as an object, which we hold in our awareness is pivotal. We call this the Primary Relationship in Mindfulness Therapy, and this provides the best possible conditions in which the emotional charge can begin to discharge itself. Then the negative thoughts and beliefs begin to lose intensity and lose their power over you.

Find a quiet period during the day and practice sitting with your panic anxiety. It is difficult to do this during a panic attack, but quite possible to do when you are not. What you are learning to do is to meditate on the emotion itself, making it the focus of mindful awareness. In this deliberate way you will begin to develop a relationship with the emotion itself that is not based on reactivity, which only reinforces the problem, but on mindfulness, which creates the ideal inner environment for change. It is through repeatedly returning to the emotion and cultivating this non-reactive relationship that you begin to break free from the habitual patterns of reactivity, becoming stronger and more balanced. But, more than that, this mindfulness meditation on the emotion creates the inner space in which the emotion will begin to change and transform itself.

Peter Strong, PhD, is a Professional Mindfulness Psychotherapist, Online Therapist, Spiritual Teacher, Medical Research Scientist and Author, based in Boulder, Colorado. He was born in the UK and educated at the University of Oxford.

Besides therapy sessions in his Boulder Office, Dr Strong offers Online Counseling through Skype.

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Do you feel yourself to be a victim of your anxiety? Do you feel hostage to your emotions?

Do you feel that your anxiety is ruining your life and preventing you from doing the things that you want to do?

Do you feel that anxiety is preventing you from forming close personal relationships?

Are you afraid of having a panic attack and losing control?

Mindfulness Therapy, whether in-person or online via Skype, provides a particularly effective approach for healing anxiety disorders.

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Mindfulness Therapy for Anxiety

As a Mindfulness-based psychotherapist it never ceases to amaze me the extent of the problem of anxiety disorders, general anxiety (GAD) and panic attacks anxiety. At least 1 in 5 people will experience some form of panic anxiety attacks at some time in their lives, and it is particularly common in young people in their 20s-30s. In its most severe form, it leads to social anxiety disorder and agoraphobia, which can be extremely debilitating.

            Today, more and more people suffering from anxiety are taking matters into their own hands and seeking help to learn self-help strategies to better cope with their anxiety and better manage the stress and distress produced by anxiety and panic attacks. To address this growing need, I developed a system of cognitive therapy called Mindfulness Meditation Therapy (MMT), based on Buddhist Psychology, NLP and Experiential Psychotherapy. What I have discovered over the years is that MMT works very well for online counseling therapy through Skype-based video call sessions. Skype Therapy or Internet Therapy is gaining tremendous popularity and is so much more convenient and less intimidating than going to a therapist’s office. Now, there is a growing number of research studies that show Online Therapy to be just as effective as traditional office therapy.

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 Now it is possible to get help for your anxiety and panic attacks online via Skype. Online Therapy and Online Counseling and Online Psychotherapy in general is making it very much easier for people to get professional help for managing their anxiety, depression and emotional stress.

Panic disorder affects between 3 and 6 million Americans, and is twice as common in women. We all experience panic at some time in our lives, but those suffering from panic disorder experience panic attacks on a daily basis, and this form of anxiety can severely reduce the quality of life, making even simple activities like grocery shopping unmanageable. In its most severe form this crippling form of anxiety can lead to agoraphobia, a very intense fear of going beyond the safety zone of one’s own home. In such severe cases, it is wise to seek medical help.

One of the characteristics of panic anxiety is the intense fear of the panic attack itself. Sufferers are deathly afraid of the next panic attack and the sense of losing control, and the social embarrassment that that will bring. Some times we feel afraid that the core anxiety is so powerful that it will literally suck us in permanently into a state of madness. Most panic anxiety sufferers recognize that fear of fear is the main problem that they have to deal with and the main source of their emotional suffering.

Panic anxiety is made up of primary reactions and beliefs that form the core of the emotion and a whole superstructure of secondary reactions, which are all the cognitive and emotional reactions of avoidance, resistance and proliferation. The cause of the primary reactions can be due to chemical imbalance or a severe emotional trauma that produces changes in the brain that result in a very primitive “fight or flight” type reflex reaction. Whatever the cause of the primary reaction, the mind is left with the job of trying to process this intense emotional energy, which leads to layer upon layer of secondary reactivity. The mind begins to proliferate beliefs about what is safe and what is a threat, resulting in avoidance behaviors, which can become very complex and convoluted.

The fear of losing control proliferates into endless worrying and catastrophic thinking, which intensifies and prolongs the original anxiety. This can lead to tertiary reactivity, which are all the feelings of depression and anger directed at oneself for not being able to cope and which lead to a loss of self-esteem and self-confidence.

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Besides causing so much suffering, all these forms of secondary and tertiary reactivity have another harmful effect in that they prevent the core primary reactions from healing. The fear of the fear is like throwing salt onto an open wound, stopping it from healing, or throwing wood onto a bonfire, keeping the flames alight. The action of reactivity actually causes the primary fear to become rigid. In Buddhist Mindfulness Psychology, we say that the core anxiety loses its emotional plasticity. It becomes hard like ice, unable to change, unable to resolve itself, unable to heal. The main reason for this inhibitory effect is that worrying about our panic attacks has the effect of distracting our conscious awareness away from the core emotions and we become dissociated from them.

One of the most fundamental insights of mindfulness psychology is that conscious awareness is essential for any emotion to heal itself. Without that direct conscious awareness, suffering can never heal and will remain frozen in place, and will remain there indefinitely until we are able to bring consciousness back to the emotion. The common saying amongst mindfulness-based therapists is, “reactivity inhibits healing; mindfulness promotes healing,” and this is certainly the case for panic anxiety.

So how can we change the patterns of reactive thinking that keeps the whole process locked in place? Mindfulness Therapy offers a number of practical insights and solutions, but one of the most effective approaches is to change the way we respond to our fears and anxieties. When we are in the grip of anxiety, we don’t respond to our negative emotions at all; we react to them with some form of resistance, aversion or avoidance. This, of course, simply makes things a lot worse for the reasons described above. The art of responding, instead of reacting, is learning how to recognize the emotion as it arises and then respond to it purposefully, on our terms, rather than becoming a hapless victim, which is what happens when we become reactive.

When I work with panic sufferers, I encourage them to actively greet the emotion as it arises, with:

“Welcome. I see you. Please take your place, and I will take mine, and we will sit together for a while.”

This may seem strange, since we don’t normally feel welcoming towards our anxiety and fear and all those negative feelings and thoughts, but the effect can be very dramatic when we really get into the feeling of welcoming the emotions instead of resisting them, ignoring them or running away. For starters, you will begin to regain your power and position when you actually welcome the emotion. You become the host instead of the frightened victim. With practice, aided with some inner visualization and guided imagery, most people find that they can really develop this art of “being the host” and are amazed at the transformation that results. The intensity of the fear begins to loosen as they develop and cultivate this inner relationship with their emotions. In Mindfulness Therapy, we talk about establishing the “fertile ground” of the mindful-relationship with emotions. This inner space of non-reactive conscious awareness allows the emotions to regain their plasticity. They start to melt, just as ice melts in the warmth of sunlight. Mindfulness is like the warm healing rays of the sun, and it melts the frozen emotions that have been abandoned through reactivity into the deep recesses of the mind.

Eventually, we get down to the primary reaction itself and can learn to sit with the primary fear that powers the whole process. With sustained mindfulness, this dark and frightening ice monster cannot resist the healing power of mindfulness, and over time it also become plastic and begins to resume its natural process of healing and resolution. We know from experience how reactivity inhibits this process of natural inner healing and we see for ourselves how mindfulness is the opposite of reactivity. It is only logical that mindfulness promotes healing. Therefore, cultivate mindfulness and watch the changes unfold.

Peter Strong, PhD is a Professional Online Therapist and specialist in Mindfulness Therapy. He offers an Online Counseling Service via Skype for Anxiety (Online Therapy for Anxiety), Depression (Online Counseling for Depression) and Emotional Stress (Online Stress Management).

You can purchase a copy of Dr Strong’s book ‘The Path of Mindfulness Meditation’ at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca and Amazon.co.uk and BarnesandNoble.com. A Kindle edition is also available.

Online Mindfulness Therapy for treating anxiety and panic attacks

  Online Mindfulness Therapy for treating anxiety and panic attacks

ONLINE COUNSELING FOR ANXIETY

Online e-therapy through Skype or similar web-based services has gained significant popularity over the last few years, mostly because of its convenience and cost-effectiveness. When combined with Online Mindfulness Therapy, a form of psychotherapy that focuses directly on healing core emotions, without spending years on biographical analysis, the results can be very dramatic.

Online Counseling for Anxiety - Online Mindfulness Therapy

When I ask people what they most want from a therapist, most will answer that they just need a few pointer on how to work with their emotions, their anxiety or depression, stress or other form of suffering. They want to learn how to stop being overwhelmed by their emotions, of becoming the victim of emotional reactivity over and over again. People want to break free from their negative habitual reactivity, and learn new ways of processing their feelings that is positive and leads to healing, balance and happiness.

We all need help with difficult emotions, but many of us are afraid of therapists! We don’t like the idea of showing our vulnerability to a complete stranger and we may feel embarrassed telling them all about our personal history. Yet at the same time, part of us recognizes that we have become stuck and remaining stuck is just not an option anymore. Perhaps our anxiety or inner turmoil is causing us to be depressed and negative all the time leaving us feeling listless and fatigued. We see how this affects our personal relationships and family life, how we are just less “there” for our partner or our children. Life should be a passionate dance in which we interact positively with all the challenges that face us. Instead, we retreat, contract and withdraw into our shell. No one at home; Do not disturb; Leave me alone. This is the state that so many of us find ourselves in, condemned to live life as slaves to our reactive habits. We live as victims of our emotions, thoughts, beliefs and memories, enslaved by the contents of our mind that arise out of habit and years of denial, and this is what Mindfulness Therapy tries to put right. Interestingly, communication through a videocam is definitely more comfortable for many people, and conducting a session in the familiar surroundings of ones own home (or office) makes the client feel much more empowered in the therapy process.

Mindfulness Therapy is all about regaining a sense of our real identity as something so much more than all the petty contents that make up the story of who we think we are. At some level, we know that there is more to us than the material content of shadowy forms; we sense an inner spirit that is bigger than all our worries, disappointments, frustrations and anxieties. Mindfulness Therapy puts us directly in touch with this spiritual dimension of our being, and as we make contact with this larger dimension, it breathes healing warmth onto the frozen and frigid regions of the contracted mind and transformation and healing begin. It is an extraordinary feature of the human mind that being completely present with our suffering is in itself directly healing. Mindfulness heals. Learning how to be fully present with our suffering, or the suffering of others, is the focus of Online Mindfulness Therapy.

When we focus mindfulness on painful emotions, we create a space around them that is the essence of compassion and kindness and non-reactivity. Nor surprisingly, contracted emotions respond to this inner freedom by unclenching and releasing their grip on you. In this inner space of full engaged-presence, which is what mindfulness is, painful emotions are finally given permission and freedom in which to change and heal. This is the remarkable insight pointed out by the Buddha over 2,500 years ago, and which is now regaining popularity with therapists and counselors everywhere. The big mind, called the psyche, is more than capable of healing the suffering created by the little mind, the ego, if…and this is the big IF…it is given the freedom in which to change. No freedom, no change. Mindfulness is the conscious awareness that generates this inner freedom and facilitates healing at the core. I encourage all of you who genuinely want to make a change for the better to learn mindfulness skills, including mindfulness meditation and apply this remarkable form of conscious awareness to heal the wounds of the heart.

"Mindfulness Online Therapy: The Effective, Convenient and Affordable Choice for Anxiety Disorders."

Do you feel yourself to be a victim of your anxiety? Do you feel hostage to your emotions?

Do you feel that your anxiety is ruining your life and preventing you from doing the things that you want to do?

Do you feel that anxiety is preventing you from forming close personal relationships?

Are you afraid of having a panic attack and losing control?

Mindfulness Therapy, whether in-person or online via Skype, provides a particularly effective approach for healing anxiety disorders.

As a Mindfulness-based psychotherapist it never ceases to amaze me the extent of the problem of anxiety disorders, general anxiety (GAD) and panic attacks anxiety. At least 1 in 5 people will experience some form of panic anxiety attacks at some time in their lives, and it is particularly common in young people in their 20s-30s. In its most severe form, it leads to social anxiety disorder and agoraphobia, which can be extremely debilitating.

            Today, more and more people suffering from anxiety are taking matters into their own hands and seeking help to learn self-help strategies to better cope with their anxiety and better manage the stress and distress produced by anxiety and panic attacks. To address this growing need, I developed a system of cognitive therapy called Mindfulness Meditation Therapy (MMT), based on Buddhist Psychology, NLP and Experiential Psychotherapy. What I have discovered over the years is that MMT works very well for online counseling therapy through Skype-based video call sessions. Skype Therapy or Internet Therapy is gaining tremendous popularity and is so much more convenient and less intimidating than going to a therapist’s office. Now, there is a growing number of research studies that show Online Therapy to be just as effective as traditional office therapy.

Mindfulness Therapy for Panic Attacks

One of the most important techniques to learn for managing anxiety attacks is called Reframing. This simply means that you teach yourself to see the anxiety emotion as an object that arises within the mind. This is the opposite to identifying with the anxiety or fear and then becoming swept up with catastrophic thinking, worrying and other forms of reactive thinking that simply make things worse. Instead of, “I am afraid!” we reframe that as “I notice the emotion of fear arising in me.” This simple action stops the mind contracting into the emotion and keeps the mind free to engage with the emotion as an object, and that is something totally and absolutely different. In a sense, you leave the “I” out of it altogether – something to be discovered at a later time. The main point of Reframing is that you learn how not to be overwhelmed by a panic thought when it arises and not to feed the emotion by becoming lost in thinking and reacting. With practice you become more and more familiar with the anxiety emotion as an object, a visitor and you find that you don’t need to react to it with fear or more anxiety.

            This form of retraining how we respond to our emotions develops a kind of immunity to the anxiety not unlike the immunity that the body develops to pathogens. Before immunity is established, we are at great risk from viruses and bacteria, but after we have developed an immune response, the same organisms are rendered completely harmless and incapable of causing suffering. It is the same when we develop mental immunity to our emotional pain. The panic anxiety may still arise out of habit, but we don’t react and therefore are immune to the suffering that we create when we react to emotional pain. Mindfulness is the tool that allows us to develop this mental immunity.

            When the mind is free from reacting to our emotional pain then it is put in an ideal state to allow the pain itself to begin to heal and lose intensity. When you learn how to sit with your pain without becoming reactive then you are creating the right inner conditions that allow beneficial change and that allow your innate intelligence and creativity to work on healing and resolving the pain.

The next factor that works to facilitate this new relationship with our panic anxiety is the immensely powerful factor of friendliness. Now that we are getting better at holding the panic anxiety as an object within our mind that we can relate to and look at, we take this relationship to a whole new level by welcoming the emotion. We actually train our self to greet is just as we would greet an old friend. Turn to the anxiety with warmth and friendliness instead of our habitual knee-jerk reaction of hatred and resistance and everything changes. Why? Because we actually create an inner space in which that anxiety emotion can exist unmolested and unharmed. This above anything else creates the best possible conditions in which the emotion can heal itself.

Try this for yourself: Practice Reframing followed by the Response of Friendliness. You may find this difficult to do at first, but it becomes increasingly easier with practice, especially when you begin to feel the benefits as the reactivity and the core panic anxiety begin to resolve themselves.

Peter Strong, PhD, is a Mindfulness Psychotherapist, Online Therapist, Spiritual Teacher, Medical Research Scientist and Author, based in Boulder, Colorado. He was born in the UK and educated at the University of Oxford.

Besides therapy sessions in his Boulder Office, Dr Strong provides an Online Counseling Service via Skype for anxiety (Online Therapy for Anxiety ), depression (Online Therapy for Depression ) and mindfulness-based therapy for stress and PTSD (Online Therapy for PTSD). Email inquiries about Online Therapy and Online Counseling are most welcome. Request an Online Psychotherapy Skype session today and begin a course of Mindfulness Therapy for your Anxiety, Depression or Emotional Stress.

You can purchase a copy of Dr Strong’s book ‘The Path of Mindfulness Meditation’ at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca and Amazon.co.uk and Barnes&Noble.com. A Kindle edition is also available.

ONLINE THERAPY FOR ANXIETY