Hypnosis has long been used to relieve tension and stress and anxiety and now we have the evidence that it works. Research study undertaken by Dr Spiegal, Psychiatrist of Stanford University, specified that there is now scientific proof that, under hypnosis, something takes place 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 mind and body.
This state is accomplished by guidance provided by the therapist to enable you to quiet your mind and attain relaxation at levels not generally experienced.
Hypnotherapy for tension and anxiety
Using hypnosis for tension and anxiety is effective, as it produces a state of deep relaxation. In all anxiety conditions, there is one common factor-- getting a tension response in scenarios where it is not necessary. 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 guided by myself into a state of deep relaxation. You do not have to do anything, just listen.
Everyone have the ability to experience deep relaxation, however for the majority of us, our head gets in the way. We try to unwind by enjoying TV, sport, walking, but normally our head is engaged. Believing, evaluating, chatting. In the guided hypnosis, I assist you to disengage with your thought processes, and guide you into relaxation. You are not in a trance, you are still in control.
Throughout this deep relaxation, when your mind is quiet, your mind is more open up to alter. I will assist you to change your psychological reactions and motivate your body and mind to produce a relaxation reaction.
What is stress and anxiety?
Stress and anxiety is the action you get when your brain discovers a 'risk.' When a risk is spotted, your stress reaction is activated, and it is this 'tension action' that offers you the unpleasant feelings 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 reaction that needs to be beneficial, but our intelligence gets in the method! Let me explain.
In the really brief video above, I begin by showing you how your brain need to respond when it detects a hazard. Danger discovered, brain gives you the energy to prepare for risk and you calm down when the threat has actually passed.
what is anxiety? caveman
If you think how we have actually progressed with time, we were as soon as prey to other larger, quicker animals.
Those early people who might discover 'risks' quickly and react properly were more most likely to survive, and therefore most likely to pass on their adaptive 'threat detection system' to their kids.
As we evolved, we lost the threat from predators, but kept our hazard detection system. It's like we still have this primitive hazard detection system, but are now utilizing it to find dangers in the workplace, or anywhere we take place to be!
modern day stress and anxiety
The system that helped primitive guy out when he was under danger, being chased after by a big predator, is the exact same system that is reacting to modern 'dangers' such a sensation under pressure at work!
How does this threat detection system create anxiety?
In primitive man, the tension response is triggered when a hazard (predator) is found. The stress response provides him the energy to eliminate the predator or escape-- for this reason why we talk about the fight or flight action.
When he is out of harms method, his body calms down once again. This fast burst of energy, in my mind is not anxiety, rather it is more comparable to fear and this is a crucial distinction, as I shall explain now.
Modern day guy finds a danger, such as fretting about money and his tension response gets activated. He still gets this huge burst of energy, but what he is now experiencing is anxiety, instead of fear.
Worry is where there is a genuine danger present (a real risk) and stress and anxiety is where you are fretted about a 'threat' that may take place in the future.
What causes stress and anxiety?
There are different pathways in your brain that can lead to the anxiety you experience, however each include an alarm bell being set off to activate your stress response. The alarm bell can be activated by a 'thinking' path, where your ideas and concerns can make you nervous, and by a quicker path, where your brain remembers to be anxious.
Start utilizing hypnosis right away to calm your mind.