Hypnosis has long been used 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 clinical 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 achieved by assistance provided by the therapist to enable you to peaceful your mind and attain relaxation at levels not ordinarily experienced.
Hypnotherapy for tension 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 tension response in circumstances where it is not necessary. It is the stress 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 need to do anything, just listen.
All of us have the capability to experience deep relaxation, but for many of us, our head obstructs. We try to relax by viewing TV, sport, walking, but typically our head is engaged. Believing, evaluating, chatting. In the directed hypnosis, I help you to disengage with your idea processes, and guide you into relaxation. You are not in a trance, you are still in control.
During this deep relaxation, when your mind is quiet, your mind is more open to change. I will help you to alter your emotional responses and motivate your mind and body to produce a relaxation action.
What is stress and anxiety?
Stress and anxiety is the response you get when your brain identifies a 'risk.' When a risk is found, your stress action is activated, and it is this 'tension response' that offers you the uncomfortable sensations in your body, and causes your mind to race.
In order to understand what stress and anxiety is, I find it beneficial to draw from evolutionary psychology as it permits me to see that stress and anxiety is an adaptive action that needs to be beneficial, however our intelligence gets in the method! Let me explain.
In the extremely brief video above, I start by showing you how your brain must react when it finds a hazard. Threat detected, brain gives you the energy to get ready for risk and you calm down when the hazard has passed.
what is anxiety? caveman
If you believe how we have progressed over time, we were once prey to other larger, faster animals.
Those early people who could discover 'hazards' rapidly and react appropriately were most likely to survive, and for that reason most likely to pass on their adaptive 'danger detection system' to their children.
As we developed, we lost the threat from predators, but kept our risk detection system. It's like we still have this primitive risk detection system, however are now utilizing it to identify risks in the workplace, or wherever we take place to be!
modern stress and anxiety
The system that helped primitive guy out when he was under risk, being chased by a big predator, is the exact same system that is reacting to modern 'risks' such a sensation under pressure at work!
How does this risk detection system create anxiety?
In primitive guy, the tension reaction is triggered as soon as a risk (predator) is identified. The tension reaction offers him the energy to combat the predator or flee-- thus why we speak about the battle or flight reaction.
As soon as he is out of harms method, his body relaxes down 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 essential difference, as I will describe now.
Modern day guy identifies a danger, such as stressing over money and his stress response gets triggered. He still gets this big burst of energy, but what he is now experiencing is stress and anxiety, as opposed to fear.
Fear is where there is a genuine risk present (a genuine danger) and anxiety is where you are stressed over a 'hazard' that may take place in the future.
What causes anxiety?
There are various paths in your brain that can result in the anxiety you experience, however each include an alarm bell being set off to trigger your stress action. The alarm bell can be triggered by a 'thinking' path, where your thoughts and worries can make you nervous, and by a quicker path, where your brain remembers to be nervous.
Start utilizing hypnosis right now to relax your mind.