Hypnosis has actually long been utilized to alleviate tension and anxiety and now we have the evidence that it works. Research undertaken by Dr Spiegal, Psychiatrist of Stanford University, specified that there is now scientific evidence that, under hypnosis, something takes place in the brain that does not occur generally.
When you experience hypnosis, you are not in a trance. You experience deep relaxation. You experience this state of relaxation in both your mind and body.
This state is accomplished by guidance provided by the therapist to allow you to peaceful your mind and attain relaxation at levels not normally experienced.
Hypnotherapy for stress and anxiety
Utilizing hypnosis for stress and stress and anxiety works, as it develops a state of deep relaxation. In all stress and anxiety conditions, there is one common element-- getting a tension reaction in scenarios where it is not essential. It is the tension action that is accountable for the physical symptoms experienced in the body.
How does it work?
In my own programs you are assisted by myself into a state of deep relaxation. You do not have to do anything, simply listen.
Everyone have the ability to experience deep relaxation, but for many of us, our head obstructs. We attempt to relax by watching TV, sport, strolling, but normally our head is engaged. Thinking, evaluating, chatting. In the assisted hypnosis, I help you to disengage with your thought procedures, and guide you into relaxation. You are not in a hypnotic trance, you are still in control.
Throughout this deep relaxation, when your mind is peaceful, your mind is more open up to alter. I will help you to alter your emotional reactions and motivate your body and mind to produce a relaxation response.
What is stress and anxiety?
Anxiety is the response you get when your brain finds a 'danger.' When a threat is spotted, your tension response is triggered, and it is this 'stress response' that provides you the uncomfortable sensations in your body, and causes your mind to race.
In order to comprehend what anxiety is, I find it beneficial to draw from evolutionary psychology as it allows me to see that anxiety is an adaptive reaction that must work, but our intelligence gets in the way! Let me describe.
In the extremely short video above, I begin by revealing you how your brain ought to respond when it identifies a danger. Risk discovered, brain offers you the energy to get ready for threat and you relax when the risk has passed.
what is anxiety? caveman
If you think how we have actually developed over time, we were when prey to other larger, much faster animals.
Those early people who could find 'hazards' rapidly and respond appropriately were more likely to survive, and for that reason most likely to pass on their adaptive 'danger detection system' to their children.
As we progressed, we lost the hazard from predators, but kept our threat detection system. It's like we still have this primitive danger detection system, however are now using it to spot risks in the office, or wherever we occur to be!
modern day stress and anxiety
The system that helped primitive male out when he was under danger, being gone after by a big predator, is the very same system that is responding to contemporary 'dangers' such a sensation under pressure at work!
How does this danger detection system create stress and anxiety?
In primitive guy, the tension reaction is activated once a threat (predator) is found. The stress reaction gives him the energy to eliminate the predator or run away-- hence why we discuss the fight or flight action.
Once he is out of damages way, his body cools down once again. This fast burst of energy, in my mind is not stress and anxiety, rather it is more similar to fear and this is an important difference, as I will describe now.
Contemporary man discovers a threat, such as stressing over money and his tension response gets triggered. He still gets this big burst of energy, but what he is now experiencing is anxiety, rather than fear.
Worry is where there is a real danger present (a real danger) and stress and anxiety is where you are stressed over a 'danger' that might happen in the future.
What triggers anxiety?
There are various paths in your brain that can lead to the stress and anxiety you experience, however each include an alarm bell being set off to trigger your tension action. The alarm bell can be activated by a 'thinking' path, where your ideas and concerns can make you anxious, and by a quicker path, where your brain keeps in mind to be anxious.
Start utilizing hypnosis immediately to relax your mind.