Hypnosis has long been used to relieve tension and anxiety and now we have the evidence that it works. Research undertaken by Dr Spiegal, Psychiatrist of Stanford University, mentioned that there is now scientific proof that, under hypnosis, something happens in the brain that does not happen normally.
When you experience hypnosis, you are not in a trance. You experience deep relaxation. You experience this state of relaxation in both your body and mind.
This state is achieved by guidance offered by the therapist to enable you to peaceful your mind and accomplish relaxation at levels not ordinarily experienced.
Hypnotherapy for stress and stress and anxiety
Utilizing hypnosis for stress and stress and anxiety works, as it produces a state of deep relaxation. In all anxiety conditions, there is one typical factor-- getting a stress action in circumstances where it is not needed. It is the stress response that is accountable for the physical symptoms experienced in the body.
How does it work?
In my own programs you are directed by myself into a state of deep relaxation. You do not need to do anything, simply listen.
All of us have the ability to experience deep relaxation, however for many of us, our head gets in the way. We attempt to relax by seeing TV, sport, strolling, but normally our head is engaged. Believing, evaluating, talking. In the guided hypnosis, I assist you to disengage with your thought processes, and guide you into relaxation. You are not in a hypnotic trance, you are still in control.
During this deep relaxation, when your mind is quiet, your mind is more available to alter. I will assist you to alter your psychological actions and encourage your body and mind to produce a relaxation reaction.
What is anxiety?
Stress and anxiety is the action you get when your brain identifies a 'hazard.' When a threat is identified, your tension response is activated, and it is this 'tension action' that provides you the uneasy sensations in your body, and causes your mind to race.
In order to comprehend what stress and anxiety is, I discover it useful to draw from evolutionary psychology as it allows me to see that anxiety is an adaptive response that must work, but our intelligence gets in the method! Let me explain.
In the really short video above, I start by revealing you how your brain should react when it spots a hazard. Danger found, brain provides you the energy to get ready for threat and you relax when the hazard has actually passed.
what is anxiety? caveman
If you think how we have actually progressed in time, we were once prey to other larger, quicker animals.
Those early people who could find 'hazards' rapidly and respond properly were most likely to make it through, and for that reason most likely to hand down their adaptive 'threat detection system' to their children.
As we evolved, we lost the threat from predators, however kept our risk detection system. It's like we still have this primitive risk detection system, but are now utilizing it to spot dangers in the office, or anywhere we occur to be!
modern day anxiety
The system that assisted primitive male out when he was under risk, being chased after by a big predator, is the same system that is responding to modern-day day 'risks' such a sensation under pressure at work!
How does this threat detection system create anxiety?
In primitive man, the tension reaction is activated as soon as a threat (predator) is detected. The tension reaction gives him the energy to combat the predator or flee-- hence why we speak about the battle or flight action.
As soon as he is out of harms method, his body relaxes down again. This quick burst of energy, in my mind is not stress and anxiety, rather it is more similar to fear and this is an essential difference, as I will describe now.
Modern day male detects a risk, such as fretting about money and his stress response gets activated. He still gets this huge burst of energy, but what he is now experiencing is anxiety, as opposed to fear.
Worry is where there is a genuine risk present (a genuine danger) and anxiety is where you are fretted about a 'danger' that may happen in the future.
What causes anxiety?
There are different pathways in your brain that can lead to the stress and anxiety you experience, but each include an alarm bell being triggered to trigger your stress response. The alarm bell can be triggered by a 'thinking' route, where your ideas and concerns can make you nervous, and by a quicker route, where your brain remembers to be anxious.
Start using hypnosis right now to calm your mind.