Stress Management
A certain amount of stress and anxiety can be beneficial, providing extra drive and energy in challenging situations. However, too much stress and anxiety is counter-productive, and over a prolonged period can be harmful, when left unchecked stress potentially becomes lethal.
When we feel threatened by something – real or imagined – our mind orders our body to go into fight-or-flight mode, activating the stress response to motivate ourselves to try to survive. Evolutionary speaking, preparing to either run away or to stand and fight would have been the perfect response to seeing a rather hungry looking sabre-toothed tiger. Nowadays however, we are becoming anxious at modern things such as impending deadlines, unpaid electricity bills, troublesome teenagers and all manner of health issues.
Unfortunately, while those things that trigger our stress have evolved, our physical response them haven’t. So that stress we feel doesn’t just last a few minutes until we can escape it, it keeps affecting us until we can find a satisfactory resolution. While we are living inside that stress bubble, which is caused by a psychological interpretation of the situation at hand, all sorts of physical effects manifest that help to make life seem that little bit harder to cope with.
There is a very close connection between our mind and our body and when we become stressed or anxious, the brain activates the stress response in the body and several things happen:
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The heart beats faster
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We breathe more rapidly,
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Blood flows away from the stomach and reproductive organs inhibiting their functioning,
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Our visual and auditory focus narrows, and
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Hormones are released which suppress our immune cells.
If this response continues for a prolonged period it can lead to serious illness.
Fortunately, there is a solution, and it’s a simple one: You need to relax but simply telling ourselves to relax is rarely enough. This is where I can help you with Hypnotherapy.
Hypnotherapy relieves stress and anxiety. Hypnotherapy works by having the opposite effect of stress on the mind and body, promoting improved physical and mental health. Hypnotherapy for stress is extremely effective at triggering the antidote to the stress response – the relaxation response. There are a number of ways we can achieve this goal:
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We can work together to combat the physiological symptoms of stress as they occur, such as changing your stressed breathing patterns to the way you breath when you’re relaxed effectively tricking yourself into a state of relaxation;
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We can look at events in your life up until now that mean that you may not always be able to look at a situation from different angles, and change your perception of them;
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We can find the mental and emotional resources that you need to deal with the issue that is causing you stress and anxiety;
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we can help you to make a decision that you will be happy with to help you resolve your stressful situation.
In short, hypnotherapy is the perfect antidote to stress. By putting you into a deeply relaxed state of mind and body, it neutralises the harmful effects of stress and anxiety and increases productivity. By taking better care of your body you will look and feel younger and healthier, and have more energy in your daily life. By taking care of your mind you will feel more positive, refreshed and more focused in everything you do.
Contact me on on 0795 6138216 or email me at diane_wynne@yahoo.co.uk to find out more about how I can help you. I can tailor-make the perfect therapy programme to help you learn how to relax and take control, so that you need never feel so stressed again.
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