Hypnosis has actually long been used to ease tension and stress and anxiety and now we have the evidence that it works. Research undertaken by Dr Spiegal, Psychiatrist of Stanford University, stated that there is now scientific evidence 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 achieved by guidance given by the therapist to allow you to quiet your mind and achieve relaxation at levels not ordinarily experienced.
Hypnotherapy for stress and anxiety
Using hypnosis for stress and anxiety works, as it creates a state of deep relaxation. In all anxiety conditions, there is one typical aspect-- getting a stress action in situations where it is not necessary. It is the tension response that is accountable for the physical signs experienced in the body.
How does it work?
In my own programs you are directed by myself into a state of deep relaxation. You do not have to do anything, simply listen.
Everybody have the ability to experience deep relaxation, but for the majority of us, our head obstructs. We attempt to unwind by seeing TELEVISION, sport, walking, however normally our head is engaged. Thinking, examining, chatting. In the directed hypnosis, I help you to disengage with your thought 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 open to change. I will assist you to change your emotional actions and encourage your body and mind to produce a relaxation action.
What is stress and anxiety?
Anxiety is the action you get when your brain detects a 'threat.' As soon as a hazard is found, your stress response is activated, and it is this 'tension reaction' that provides you the uncomfortable sensations in your body, and triggers your mind to race.
In order to comprehend what anxiety is, I find it beneficial to draw from evolutionary psychology as it enables me to see that stress and anxiety is an adaptive action that must work, however our intelligence gets in the way! Let me describe.
In the really short video above, I start by showing you how your brain should react when it identifies a threat. Hazard detected, brain provides you the energy to get ready for threat and you cool down when the risk has passed.
what is anxiety? caveman
If you believe how we have evolved with time, we were once prey to other larger, quicker animals.
Those early humans who might detect 'threats' quickly and respond appropriately were most likely to make it through, and therefore more most likely to hand down their adaptive 'threat detection system' to their kids.
As we developed, we lost the risk 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 office, or any place we take place to be!
contemporary anxiety
The system that helped primitive man out when he was under hazard, being chased after by a large predator, is the very same system that is responding to modern 'dangers' such a sensation under pressure at work!
How does this risk detection system produce anxiety?
In primitive male, the stress reaction is activated when a risk (predator) is identified. The tension action provides him the energy to eliminate the predator or flee-- for this reason why we speak about the fight or flight response.
Once he runs out harms method, his body relaxes once again. This fast burst of energy, in my mind is not stress and anxiety, rather it is more similar to fear and this is an essential distinction, as I shall explain now.
Modern day man spots a risk, such as worrying about cash and his stress reaction gets activated. He still gets this big burst of energy, but what he is now experiencing is anxiety, rather than fear.
Fear is where there is a real danger present (a genuine threat) and anxiety is where you are stressed over a 'threat' that might happen in the future.
What triggers anxiety?
There are different paths in your brain that can lead to the anxiety you experience, but each include an alarm bell being set off to activate your tension response. The alarm bell can be activated by a 'thinking' path, where your ideas and concerns can make you anxious, and by a quicker route, where your brain keeps in mind to be anxious.
Start utilizing hypnosis right away to soothe your mind.