Hypnosis has long been utilized to relieve tension and stress and anxiety and now we have the proof that it works. Research undertaken by Dr Spiegal, Psychiatrist of Stanford University, stated that there is now scientific proof that, under hypnosis, something occurs in the brain that does not occur ordinarily.
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 guidance given by the therapist to permit you to peaceful your mind and accomplish relaxation at levels not ordinarily experienced.
Hypnotherapy for tension and anxiety
Utilizing hypnosis for stress and anxiety is reliable, as it produces a state of deep relaxation. In all anxiety conditions, there is one typical element-- getting a tension action in circumstances where it is not needed. 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 guided by myself into a state of deep relaxation. You do not need to do anything, just listen.
All of us have the ability to experience deep relaxation, but for most of us, our head gets in the method. We attempt to relax by seeing TELEVISION, sport, walking, however normally our head is engaged. Believing, analyzing, chatting. In the assisted hypnosis, I assist you to disengage with your idea procedures, 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 change. I will help you to alter your emotional actions and encourage your body and mind to produce a relaxation reaction.
What is anxiety?
Stress and anxiety is the response you get when your brain identifies a 'danger.' Once a risk is detected, your stress response is triggered, and it is this 'stress action' that gives you the uncomfortable sensations in your body, and triggers your mind to race.
In order to understand what anxiety is, I discover it helpful to draw from evolutionary psychology as it enables me to see that anxiety is an adaptive reaction that must work, however our intelligence obstructs! Let me explain.
In the extremely brief video above, I begin by showing you how your brain need to react when it detects a danger. Danger spotted, brain provides you the energy to get ready for threat and you relax when the danger has passed.
what is anxiety? caveman
If you think how we have developed with time, we were once prey to other bigger, quicker animals.
Those early people who could identify 'risks' rapidly and react appropriately were more most likely to survive, and therefore more most likely to hand down their adaptive 'danger detection system' to their kids.
As we progressed, we lost the risk from predators, however kept our hazard detection system. It's like we still have this primitive danger detection system, but are now using it to detect dangers in the office, or any place we happen to be!
modern stress and anxiety
The system that helped primitive man out when he was under risk, being chased by a big predator, is the very same system that is reacting to contemporary 'risks' such a sensation under pressure at work!
How does this hazard detection system produce anxiety?
In primitive guy, the tension reaction is triggered once a threat (predator) is found. The stress reaction offers him the energy to fight the predator or escape-- thus why we discuss the battle or flight response.
Once he runs out harms method, his body cools down 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 will describe now.
Modern day male finds a risk, such as worrying about cash and his tension reaction gets activated. He still gets this huge burst of energy, however what he is now experiencing is stress and anxiety, as opposed to fear.
Fear is where there is a real threat present (a genuine threat) and anxiety is where you are fretted about a 'threat' that may take place in the future.
What causes anxiety?
There are various pathways in your brain that can lead to the stress and anxiety you experience, but each include an alarm bell being set off to activate your stress response. The alarm bell can be activated by a 'thinking' route, where your thoughts and concerns can make you nervous, and by a quicker route, where your brain remembers to be distressed.
Start using hypnosis right away to calm your mind.