Hypnosis has long been utilized to reduce tension and stress and anxiety and now we have the evidence that it works. Research 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 ordinarily.
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 attained by assistance provided by the therapist to permit you to quiet your mind and accomplish relaxation at levels not normally experienced.
Hypnotherapy for tension and anxiety
Utilizing hypnosis for tension and anxiety is reliable, as it creates a state of deep relaxation. In all anxiety conditions, there is one common aspect-- getting a stress action in circumstances where it is not essential. It is the stress response that is accountable for the physical signs 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 need to do anything, just listen.
Everyone have the capability to experience deep relaxation, but for the majority of us, our head obstructs. We try to relax by enjoying TELEVISION, sport, walking, however normally our head is engaged. Believing, examining, talking. In the guided hypnosis, I assist you to disengage with your thought processes, 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 to alter. I will assist you to change your emotional reactions and motivate your mind and body to produce a relaxation response.
What is stress and anxiety?
Anxiety is the action you get when your brain identifies a 'hazard.' As soon as a hazard is found, your stress action is activated, and it is this 'tension action' that provides you the unpleasant feelings in your body, and causes your mind to race.
In order to understand what stress and anxiety is, I find it useful to draw from evolutionary psychology as it permits me to see that stress and anxiety is an adaptive action that must work, however our intelligence obstructs! Let me describe.
In the really brief video above, I start by revealing you how your brain ought to respond when it detects a threat. Risk detected, brain offers you the energy to get ready for threat and you cool down when the threat has passed.
what is anxiety? caveman
If you think how we have actually developed with time, we were once victim to other bigger, much faster animals.
Those early humans who could identify 'hazards' quickly and react appropriately were most likely to make it through, and for that reason more most likely to pass on their adaptive 'risk 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 identify dangers in the workplace, or any place we happen to be!
contemporary anxiety
The system that helped primitive guy out when he was under danger, being gone after by a big predator, is the same system that is responding to modern day 'dangers' such a sensation under pressure at work!
How does this hazard detection system produce anxiety?
In primitive guy, the stress response is activated when a danger (predator) is detected. The stress response offers him the energy to combat the predator or escape-- hence why we discuss the battle or flight response.
As soon as he runs out damages way, his body relaxes again. This quick burst of energy, in my mind is not stress and anxiety, rather it is more similar to fear and this is a crucial difference, as I shall explain now.
Modern man discovers a threat, such as fretting about loan and his tension reaction gets activated. He still gets this huge burst of energy, but what he is now experiencing is stress and anxiety, rather than fear.
Fear is where there is a real risk present (a genuine risk) and stress and anxiety is where you are stressed about a 'danger' that may take place in the future.
What causes stress and anxiety?
There are various paths in your brain that can lead to the anxiety you experience, but each involve an alarm bell being triggered to activate your tension reaction. The alarm bell can be triggered by a 'thinking' path, where your thoughts and worries can make you anxious, and by a quicker route, where your brain keeps in mind to be nervous.
Start using hypnosis right now to soothe your mind.