Hypnosis has actually long been utilized to ease stress and anxiety and now we have the evidence that it works. Research study carried out by Dr Spiegal, Psychiatrist of Stanford University, specified that there is now scientific proof that, under hypnosis, something occurs in the brain that does not take place generally.
When you experience hypnosis, you are not in a hypnotic trance. You experience deep relaxation. You experience this state of relaxation in both your body and mind.
This state is accomplished by guidance provided by the therapist to allow you to peaceful your mind and accomplish relaxation at levels not normally experienced.
Hypnotherapy for stress and anxiety
Utilizing hypnosis for stress and anxiety works, as it creates a state of deep relaxation. In all stress and anxiety conditions, there is one common aspect-- getting a tension response in scenarios where it is not necessary. It is the tension response 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.
Everybody have the ability to experience deep relaxation, however for many of us, our head obstructs. We try to unwind by watching TV, sport, walking, but normally our head is engaged. Believing, evaluating, chatting. In the assisted hypnosis, I help you to disengage with your thought 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 peaceful, your mind is more available to alter. I will help you to change your psychological actions and encourage your body and mind to produce a relaxation response.
What is stress and anxiety?
Anxiety is the action you get when your brain spots a 'danger.' When a threat is detected, your stress action is triggered, and it is this 'tension reaction' that offers you the uncomfortable feelings in your body, and triggers your mind to race.
In order to understand what anxiety is, I discover it useful to draw from evolutionary psychology as it allows me to see that stress and anxiety is an adaptive response that needs to be useful, however our intelligence obstructs! Let me describe.
In the extremely brief video above, I start by showing you how your brain must respond when it spots a hazard. Threat identified, brain gives you the energy to prepare for danger and you relax down when the threat has actually passed.
what is stress and anxiety? caveman
If you believe how we have actually developed over time, we were as soon as prey to other bigger, quicker animals.
Those early people who could spot 'threats' quickly and react appropriately were most likely to endure, and therefore most likely to pass on their adaptive 'danger detection system' to their kids.
As we evolved, we lost the danger from predators, but kept our threat detection system. It's like we still have this primitive risk detection system, however are now utilizing it to spot hazards in the workplace, or anywhere we take place to be!
modern stress and anxiety
The system that helped primitive man out when he was under threat, being gone after by a big predator, is the very same system that is responding to modern 'dangers' such a sensation under pressure at work!
How does this hazard detection system produce stress and anxiety?
In primitive man, the stress reaction is activated as soon as a hazard (predator) is spotted. The stress response gives him the energy to eliminate the predator or escape-- thus why we talk about the fight or flight reaction.
Once he is out of damages way, his body relaxes once again. This fast burst of energy, in my mind is not stress and anxiety, rather it is more akin to fear and this is a crucial distinction, as I will describe now.
Contemporary male discovers a danger, such as fretting about cash and his tension reaction gets triggered. He still gets this huge burst of energy, however what he is now experiencing is anxiety, rather than fear.
Worry is where there is a genuine risk present (a genuine threat) and anxiety is where you are stressed over a 'danger' that may happen in the future.
What triggers anxiety?
There are different pathways in your brain that can lead to the anxiety you experience, but each include an alarm bell being set off to activate your tension reaction. The alarm bell can be triggered by a 'thinking' route, 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 relax your mind.