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If it hasn’t happened to you as yet, you’re probably aware of a friend or acquaintance that’s experienced it. Performance anxiety happens at the most inappropriate of all moments; the moment when it’s time to deliver – sexually.

There’s enough evidence to show that performance anxiety arises with most people, whether they’re men or women – but it definitely is the men that suffer the horror of not being able to either have an erection or to loose one during intercourse. With the amount of stress where being normal is concerned, sexual ability is way ahead on the list of worries when it comes to living life in general. Stress in itself is the primary factor that causes performance anxiety, and it’s a self eating monster – since performance anxiety causes a good deal of stress.

So how does one deal with this? Since in most cases it’s not usually a physical condition that causes performance anxiety but a mental state; it’s vital to overcome the mental state causing the anxiety. The first step in this is to positively identify the cause of the anxiety. Is it embarrassment of being naked, premature ejaculation concerns, an erection that doesn’t get hard enough or gets flaccid – just some of the questions to be asked when looking for the root of the issue!
Once the problem on which the performance anxiety has been identified, it’s important to condition the mind not to worry about it. If it’s a physical condition that’s bothering you, you’ll find many medicinal cures including those that help with erections. However, on the parallel track it’s important to condition the mind to overcome the anxiety itself.

This may be achieved through any of three simple methods. The first is sexual health counseling, followed by meditation and finally by self hypnosis. It’s not unusual for the counselor to advice hypnosis either if the case calls for it. However each of these methods fixes the problem by creating confidence in personal ability to perform.

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