Stress and How Hypnotherapy Can Help
Whether your stress arises from your family situation, your job, your living situation, your friends, your relatives, or other common sources, there is more to relieving stress than simply willing it away. The key to your success is learning to use the power of your subconscious mind to change the way you respond to stressful situations.
Stress is an emotional and physiological response to specific situations that you perceive as threatening or very challenging. Anxiety is a condition where you experience high levels of worry, unease, or fear without any obvious, specific situational causes known.
When you sense a situation or event is dangerous, your subconscious triggers a biological response called the fight or flight response. This response increases your breathing and heart rates, sends energy to your muscles, and raises your level of conscious awareness which enables you to better focus on the immediate danger.
This first stage of stress is known as the alarm – reaction stage. Usually it dissipates and you return to normal when the immediate threat or challenge passes. However, if you experience a long term stressful situation, your body begins to adapt. You enter the resistance stage of stress which is characterized by symptoms such as irritability, frustration, and poor concentration. Frequent, long-term episodes of stress may lead to the third stage, a state of chronic stress. Chronic stress is often accompanied by chronic anxiety. Chronic stress and anxiety can bring long-term harm to our physical, mental and emotional health.
To avoid the harmful consequences that prolonged, repeated episodes of stress or chronic anxiety can cause, it is important and valuable to learn how to lower your stress levels and avoid chronic anxiety when possible. Hypnotherapy can help you to relax and relieve stress as it occurs.
In Hypnotherapy, you will gain new skills to cope with your stress and anxiety. You will learn how to anchor the calm and relaxed feeling that you feel in hypnosis to a physical trigger that you can use whenever you need.
You will discover what you are telling yourself each day about your stress and replace that self-talk with a set of positive affirmations that are authentic and powerful for your particular situation. These affirmations will be embedded in your subconscious mind under hypnosis and you will learn how to reinforce them with daily practice.
You will also receive your own copy of my book, The Power In Affirmations. Clients use this as part of their daily practice in reinforcing their personal affirmations and tracking progress toward their goals for relieving stress and preventing anxiety in their lives.
Hypnotherapy can help you to master your stress and anxiety and make the positive changes you desire.