Hypnosis for stress and anxiety.

I include both stress and anxiety in one page because although they are different, they have many similarities as you will see. We all have everyday stressors such as a school or a work deadline, going to the dentist or getting on a plane. We experience these stressors for a short period of time.

What are stressors?

Most people identify the stress in their lives as something outside of themselves, something they have little or no control over. The top two causes of stress, as you might guess, are work and money, something most of us deal with from time to time. Things that cause stress are “stressors,” and stress is your personal reaction or response to those stressors. What may be a stressor to you may not be for another. We are all different, we all have different stressors, and we all respond differently to them.

What is stress?

The hormones released when you feel stressed, such as cortisol and adrenaline, put your body into fight or flight mode. Activity in the advanced decision-making part of your brain (the prefrontal cortex) is reduced, and your immune system and digestion are inhibited. Which served us well when we were being chased by predators, but any ability to make complex decisions is extremely crippled. And while it’s fine for your immune system to sit on the sideline for a little while, serious trouble can arise when we are stressed for long periods of time. High and prolonged levels of cortisol cause problems like heart disease, high blood pressure diabetes, depression, and other illnesses. 

It is when we experience stress for a long period of time or constantly or we feel stressed about things we don’t need to feel stressed about that we begin to have a problem. When stress becomes chronic meaning for a long period of time it’s called anxiety. 

Stress can be mental and or physical such as headaches, shortness of breath, irritability, anger, fatigue, muscle pain, digestive troubles, high blood pressure, unusually emotional, and difficulty sleeping.

Anxiety is a state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear. Which results from some realistic or unrealistic event or situation often impairing our physical and or psychological functioning. 

Anxiety, on the other hand, is defined by persistent, excessive worries that don’t go away even in the absence of a stressor. Anxiety leads to a nearly identical set of symptoms such as feeling nervous, having a sense of impending danger or doom, increased heart rate breathing rapidly, sweating, trembling restless or tense insomnia, difficulty concentrating, fatigue, muscle tension, and irritability. So, you can see stress and anxiety have much in common.

It’s impossible to avoid all stressors – sometimes you don’t even know what they are until you are faced with them. 

The good news is it is treatable, and you CAN change your reaction to stressors. Hypnosis is a wonderful way to deal with stress and anxiety. Hypnosis helps us to change the way we look at things and change the way we respond to things using the unconscious mind to make changes. As well as teaching you how to relax deeply, virtually shutting your body down to allow it to rest properly. Which can reduce those cortisol levels by about 30%. Hypnosis can be a life altering change for the better.