Hypnotherapy for Stress Management

Treating stress with hypnotherapy is just one of the many ways hypnosis can help clients achieve a more healthier, longer and happier life.

This program is designed for those needing assistance in managing their situational stress, seeking positive mental attitude, to become more optimistic and successful in their personal organization and management. During the program participation many discover that they become more attractive, more spiritual, more self-confident, more successful. They become more interpersonally effective and improve their general sense of wellness.

Do you suffer too much Stress?

There is nothing wrong with stress and tension, they are necessary for success; but when they become excessive and prolonged, or our reaction to them is inappropriate, the body protests in various ways.

How we react to stress differs from one person to another. Most people have a tendency towards using one pattern of bodily reaction rather than others, for example,

  • some have stomach upsets,

  • others tension headaches,

  • migraine,

  • insomnia,

  • respiratory illness

  • or high blood pressure.

The Fight or Flight Reaction

Our bodies react in deliberate ways to protect. In the earliest of times it helped us to stay alive; run away or fight against a predator; avoiding our chances of becoming the main course in some other animal’s meal. We call this the ‘fight or flight’ reaction’. We still have inside of us the instinct for fight or flight.

During a dangerous situation, every part of our body gets involved to help you get out of danger, with priority given to muscles, heart, lungs and brain. This explains why stress causes our heartbeat and blood pressure rises, we breathe more deeply and in order to prevent us from overheating in battle, we sweat more.

Those parts of the body which cannot help us get out of danger take second place:

  • the blood supply is shifted away from functions that do not help with survival, for example the stomach,
  • the digestive system slows down or is halted
  • the salivary glands dry up,
  • the anti-inflammatory mechanisms that deal with infections are subdued.

When the danger is over, everything settles down to a normal, relaxation takes place and no harm is done.

The Prolonged Effects of Stress

The fight or flight response is important for all animals when life is threatened, but we are unlike them. Pressures exerted by people, unacceptable time scales, sleep deprivation, major life-style changes may all produce the same response as those that are a life threatening.

It is when these reactions are prolonged, excessive and inappropriate, that the trouble begins.

 

If blood pressure remains high and blood vessels constricted, this may lead to cardiovascular disease. If the stomach remains with its impoverished blood  and the mucous membrane of the gut engorges there will be digestive disorders such as stomach ulcers. If the lungs continue to strive for more air there will be over-breathing with associated giddiness and fainting. If the anti-inflammatory mechanism is subdued for long, there will greater susceptibility to infections of various sorts.

High levels of stress have also been found to lower fertility and contribute to menstrual disorders. Nervous breakdowns can be brought on by too much stress and being unable to relax.

Learn to Relax

Excessive exposure to stress is so common in everyday life that it goes unnoticed most of the time.

There are many ways in which you can combat it’s ill effects including regular exercise, a healthy diet and getting a proper balance to life.

Relaxation is also vitally important,  for this enables our bodies to repair and heal itself. 

Learning to relax is an important life skill and should not be underestimated.

Your wellbeing may depend on your ability to relax.

Hypnosis for Managing Stress

Hypnotherapy is the use of therapeutic techniques and hypnosis. The characteristics of hypnosis are an extraordinary combination of mental, physical and emotional relaxation; extraordinary because the type of relaxation achieved with hypnosis is not found in any other procedure.

Stress Related Problems That Respond Well to Hypnotherapy:

Pain Management, depression, anxiety, fatigue, communication skills, forgiveness, grief and loss issues, overeating, insomnia, health issues, life transitions, relationships, sexual dysfunction, speech problems, learning and memory, smoking and more.

During the hypnotic state, clients are taught and programmed to use self hypnosis for handling most stressful situations.

There is probably no other technique quite as powerful as self-hypnosis for handling stress. 

Once learned and regularly practiced, individuals have a powerful life-long and entirely natural technique which will quickly and effectively take themselves into hypnosis in order reduce the symptoms of stress.

With self hypnosis you can assist yourself in lowering blood pressure, easing breathing  and clearing  the mind.

Contact Us Today

Contact the Totnes Hypnotherapy Practice for a free consultation to discover what changes you can achieve.

Telephone  01803 868031.