Coping Mechanisms

Survival Mode: The Simon Edwards Way™

Negative coping mechanisms are short term techniques for dealing with phobias, nervousness, stress and anxiety etc.

During his initial session, Advanced Hypnotherapist and Behaviour Specialist Simon Edwards shows his Clients why they use these techniques to ‘protect’ themselves.

He explains how these mechanisms can appear to allow them to fulfill their everyday commitments in the short/medium term, but he then goes on to show how these protective measures can sometimes become habits and negative practiced behaviours.

The ‘typical’ negative coping mechanisms are:

Avoidance – head in the sand
Pretending – did it really happen
Denial – it didn’t really happen
Attack – the best form of defence is attack
Cognitive – changing how we think
Behavioural – changing how we do
Defence – be the ‘injured party’
Lying – create a new ‘reality’
Self harming – internalising the emotion
Fantasy – creating an unreal world
Dissociation – distancing
Idealisation – creating the perfect role model
Intellectualisation – less emotion more facts
Trivialisation – wasn’t really important anyway
Samotisation – psychology becomes phsyiology
Rituals and Superstition
Seeking help then rejecting it
Pessimism – negative thoughts
Low expectations

The successes of MindMeasuring™ means that these old negative ‘coping’ mechanisms can be a thing of the past as Simon re-calibrates the natural positives and negatives and introduces new positive mechanisms. He ensures that optimism and positive thoughts and actions become bi-products of the new way of living.

New Clients should contact their GP to express their symptoms prior to meeting with Simon and to discuss his qualifications and experience when working with coping mechanisms.

For a less exhausting and debilitating way of running your very busy life contact Simon Edwards and book your first appointment with him.

For the convenience of his Clients, Simon accepts all major credit/debit cards.