Hypnosis has long been utilized to relieve stress and anxiety and now we have the proof that it works. Research study carried out 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 happen ordinarily.
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 provided by the therapist to enable you to quiet your mind and attain relaxation at levels not normally experienced.
Hypnotherapy for stress and anxiety
Using hypnosis for tension and anxiety works, as it produces a state of deep relaxation. In all stress and anxiety conditions, there is one common aspect-- getting a tension response in situations where it is not required. It is the tension reaction 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, just listen.
Everyone have the capability to experience deep relaxation, but for the majority of us, our head obstructs. We attempt to unwind by watching TV, sport, strolling, however normally our head is engaged. Believing, analyzing, talking. In the assisted hypnosis, I assist you to disengage with your idea procedures, 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 peaceful, your mind is more open 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?
Stress and anxiety is the response you get when your brain identifies a 'danger.' As soon as a threat is discovered, your tension action is triggered, and it is this 'stress response' that provides you the uncomfortable sensations in your body, and triggers your mind to race.
In order to understand what anxiety is, I find it helpful to draw from evolutionary psychology as it enables me to see that stress and anxiety is an adaptive response that must work, but our intelligence gets in the method! Let me discuss.
In the extremely brief video above, I begin by revealing you how your brain need to react when it discovers a hazard. Hazard found, brain gives you the energy to prepare for threat and you cool down when the hazard has passed.
what is anxiety? caveman
If you think how we have evolved gradually, we were when prey to other bigger, much faster animals.
Those early human beings who could discover 'hazards' quickly and react appropriately were more likely to make it through, and therefore more most likely to hand down their adaptive 'risk detection system' to their children.
As we evolved, we lost the risk from predators, however kept our risk detection system. It's like we still have this primitive threat detection system, but are now utilizing it to spot risks in the workplace, or anywhere we take place to be!
contemporary anxiety
The system that helped primitive guy out when he was under hazard, being chased by a large predator, is the same system that is reacting to contemporary day 'threats' such a feeling under pressure at work!
How does this danger detection system produce anxiety?
In primitive male, the stress response is activated as soon as a threat (predator) is detected. The tension action offers him the energy to combat the predator or run away-- thus why we discuss the fight or flight response.
Once he is out of harms method, his body relaxes once again. This quick burst of energy, in my mind is not stress and anxiety, rather it is more akin to fear and this is a crucial difference, as I shall describe now.
Contemporary guy identifies a danger, such as fretting about loan and his stress reaction gets activated. He still gets this huge burst of energy, however what he is now experiencing is stress and anxiety, instead of fear.
Worry is where there is a real risk present (a real hazard) and stress and anxiety is where you are worried about a 'threat' that may take place in the future.
What triggers anxiety?
There are various paths in your brain that can lead to the anxiety you experience, but each involve an alarm bell being set off to trigger your tension reaction. The alarm bell can be triggered by a 'thinking' path, where your thoughts and worries can make you distressed, and by a quicker path, where your brain remembers to be anxious.
Start using hypnosis immediately to calm your mind.