Effectively Manage Stressful Experiences and Anxiety with wingwave® Coaching
Dental anxiety often persists into adulthood and triggers corresponding stress-response patterns.
What exactly are stressful experiences?
Does this sound familiar? An experience that stresses you out or weighs on you actually happened a long time ago. Yet it still keeps you preoccupied, or keeps coming back to you?
These can include experiences such as breakups, conflicts, hurt feelings, failures, defeats, accidents, injuries, or even financial worries during “tight times.” They can range from recent experiences to events that occurred long ago in childhood.
We refer to such experiences—which trigger specific stress-response patterns in people—as “stress imprints.” These often give rise to emotional blocks, unwanted behavioral patterns, or reactions that paralyze, hinder, and stress us. Some stress imprints are so severe that they can even lead to anxiety, sometimes accompanied by physical symptoms (e.g., heart palpitations, sweating, …).
A turbulent flight, a painful experience at the dentist (e.g., as a child), a failed exam, an important presentation, a car accident or a fall, etc.—all of these can give rise to anxiety and trigger other unpleasant physical reactions, such as heavy sweating, nausea, nervousness, etc.
Fear of flying can be very stressful for those affected. Often, the fear of flying limits people both professionally and personally.
Negative comments and behavioral patterns in social relationships and partnerships can also be very stressful if the partner repeatedly triggers the same negative reactions (e.g., anger, jealousy, fear of loss, etc.).
When emotional and physical stress responses trigger additional stress or anxiety, this can create a very stressful self-perpetuating cycle that often leads those affected to adopt outright avoidance tactics or to experience fight-or-flight responses.
What can you do about it?
The wingwave® coaching method has proven to be a particularly effective treatment approach. It is a form of performance and emotional coaching that quickly and tangibly helps reduce stress and anxiety in just a few sessions.
The method is based on stimulating cooperation between the two hemispheres of the brain through bilateral hemispheric stimulation, thereby releasing mental blocks and initiating processes of change. This approach is grounded in the latest findings from brain research, trauma therapy, neurolinguistics, and metabolic research.
Exam anxiety and learning blocks can also be managed with wingwave coaching
What is wingwave coaching, and how does it work?
Our brain works much like a computer. Everything we experience, along with the emotions associated with it, is stored on a “server,” where it is processed, relayed, and sorted into memory.
Experiences and the emotions associated with them enter the mind and arrive at the brain’s first “server,” the hypothalamus. During sleep, they are then “uploaded” to the cerebrum, much like filtered data being uploaded.
Over the past 20 years, therapists have observed that eye movements can also help people cope with intense emotions while awake. A wingwave coach, therefore, helps people properly “organize” their emotions in the brain without requiring them to sleep or dream.
The Process of Wingwave Coaching
Fear of public speaking, or anxiety about giving presentations or speeches, can manifest in many physical symptoms that are often very unpleasant for those affected and can cause additional stress. It’s a vicious cycle.
In wingwave coaching, the Myostatic Test (a muscle feedback instrument) is first used to identify the exact trigger of the stressful situation (stress imprinting) or the unpleasant emotions. After the coachee (client) has been properly prepared, bilateral hemispheric stimulation begins. To do this, the client is guided to follow the coach’s specific hand movements with their eyes.
This seemingly simple basic intervention triggers blocked processing mechanisms in the brain and stimulates the processing of “stress imprints” (stressful memories). We refer to this process as “waking” REM (Rapid Eye Movement) phase simulation.
Everyone experiences these REM phases (rapid eye movements during dream sleep), as they serve to naturally process the day's experiences.
How quickly does wingwave work?
As a rule, wingwave often leads to a reduction in distressing stress-related symptoms in just 3 to 5 sessions. The number of sessions varies from person to person, depending on the individual’s initial situation and how they process the information during and after the coaching sessions. Clients also frequently report increased resilience to conflict, improved mental fitness, greater creativity, and better performance.
Take control of your fears. wingwave coaching helps you overcome your fears in a targeted way.
Where has wingwave coaching proven to be an effective method so far?
- Stress imprinting, negative experiences, performance stress
Examples: insults, conflicts, separations, defeats, financial "dry spells," etc. - Anxiety with or without physical symptoms
Examples: exam anxiety, fear of public speaking, fear of flying, fear of dental treatment, anxiety following accidents or injuries - Negative emotions and behavioral patterns in relationships
Examples: Jealousy, fear of loss, negative spirals, recurring sources of conflict - Resource coaching
e.g., to increase creativity, self-image coaching, performance improvement - Belief Coaching
e.g., overcoming limiting beliefs, avoiding the "euphoria trap"
Example: excessive consumption, cravings
Self-help through self-coaching
In addition, you can also learn to coach yourself to reduce anxiety and stress to a healthy level. When you succeed in doing so, fear transforms from an enemy into a friend. With targeted anxiety management, you can guide your emotions. In my next blog post, I’ll share a few useful self-coaching exercises on this topic.
Book recommendation:
“Quick Relief from Anxiety: Overcoming Paralyzing Feelings with the wingwave® Method. I Coach Myself!” by Cora Besser-Siegmund.
This book and other self-coaching resources are available in the Wingwave Shop.
It offers a mix of theory and practical exercises, so you can quickly get started with your personal self-coaching program.
Sometimes self-coaching is possible. However, you often reach a point where you can’t make any further progress on your own. In such cases, you should seek help from a trained coach. The best long-term results are achieved when the two approaches complement each other.
Who is wingwave coaching suitable for?
wingwave coaching is suitable for anyone in a normal, healthy mental and physical state. This means that mental stability and resilience are required, as is generally the case with coaching, because wingwave is not psychotherapy and cannot replace it.
For more information about wingwave coaching, self-coaching products, and pricing, click here.
