Hypnosis has actually long been used to ease stress and anxiety and now we have the proof that it works. Research carried out by Dr Spiegal, Psychiatrist of Stanford University, mentioned that there is now scientific evidence that, under hypnosis, something happens in the brain that does not happen 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 achieved by assistance given by the therapist to permit you to quiet your mind and achieve relaxation at levels not generally experienced.
Hypnotherapy for tension and anxiety
Using hypnosis for stress and stress and anxiety works, as it produces a state of deep relaxation. In all stress and anxiety conditions, there is one common factor-- getting a tension action in circumstances where it is not required. It is the stress response that is responsible 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 have to do anything, just listen.
Everybody have the capability to experience deep relaxation, but for many of us, our head obstructs. We attempt to relax by enjoying TELEVISION, sport, walking, however usually our head is engaged. Thinking, examining, chatting. In the assisted hypnosis, I assist you to disengage with your idea procedures, 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 up to change. I will help you to alter your emotional actions and motivate your body and mind to produce a relaxation reaction.
What is anxiety?
Anxiety is the reaction you get when your brain spots a 'danger.' As soon as a hazard is detected, your tension response is activated, and it is this 'stress reaction' that provides you the uncomfortable sensations in your body, and triggers your mind to race.
In order to understand what stress and anxiety is, I discover it helpful to draw from evolutionary psychology as it enables me to see that stress and anxiety is an adaptive response that ought to work, but our intelligence gets in the method! Let me discuss.
In the very brief video above, I begin by revealing you how your brain need to react when it discovers a danger. Threat found, brain provides you the energy to get ready for threat and you cool down when the risk has actually passed.
what is anxiety? caveman
If you think how we have actually progressed with time, we were as soon as victim to other larger, faster animals.
Those early humans who might find 'hazards' rapidly and react properly were more most likely to survive, and for that reason more most likely to hand down their adaptive 'threat detection system' to their children.
As we developed, we lost the threat from predators, but kept our hazard detection system. It's like we still have this primitive hazard detection system, however are now utilizing it to find risks in the workplace, or anywhere we happen to be!
contemporary day stress and anxiety
The system that assisted primitive man out when he was under danger, being gone after by a big predator, is the very same system that is reacting to contemporary 'hazards' such a feeling under pressure at work!
How does this risk detection system produce stress and anxiety?
In primitive male, the stress response is triggered when a threat (predator) is found. The tension reaction gives him the energy to combat the predator or run away-- thus why we speak about the fight or flight action.
Once he runs out harms method, his body relaxes again. This quick burst of energy, in my mind is not anxiety, rather it is more akin to fear and this is an important difference, as I shall describe now.
Modern man identifies a danger, such as stressing about cash and his stress response gets activated. He still gets this big burst of energy, but what he is now experiencing is anxiety, instead of fear.
Worry is where there is a genuine threat present (a real hazard) and anxiety is where you are stressed over a 'threat' that might take place in the future.
What triggers anxiety?
There are different pathways in your brain that can lead to the stress and anxiety you experience, however each involve an alarm bell being triggered to trigger your tension response. The alarm bell can be triggered by a 'thinking' path, where your ideas and worries can make you anxious, and by a quicker path, where your brain remembers to be nervous.
Start using hypnosis right away to soothe your mind.