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Hypnosis Can Eliminate Stress And Anxiety So You Can Find Serenity

A lot of surveys show that most adults feel that they are subject to a great deal of stress. Researchers in the field estimate that 75 - 90 percent of all visits to PCPs (Primary Care Physicians) are for stress related problems. NLP and Hypnotherapy are natural methods which can beat stress.

Author: Alan B. Densky Ch

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More than ever, scientific surveys are proving the essential role played by stress in triggering or aggravating different physical and emotional afflictions. An article in a 1983 issue of Time Magazine called stress "The Epidemic of the Eighties." It also claimed that stress is our main health problem. And it is doubtless that the world has become more and more complex and stressful over the past 25 years since that article was written.

A lot of surveys show that most adults feel that they are subject to a great deal of stress. Researchers in the field estimate that 75 - 90 percent of all visits to PCPs (Primary Care Physicians) are for stress related problems.

Most adults claim that their job is the main reason of their stress. And stress levels have also increased in children as well as the elderly population for reasons including: Peer pressures that often push people to everything from cigarette smoking to drug and alcohol abuse; the dissolution of religion and family values; increased crime rates; fear for personal safety; and last but not least social isolation and loneliness.

Stress is a factor of problems such as diabetes, ulcers, low back and neck pain, high blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks. This is because of the ever growing sympathetic nervous system activity as well as a high level of cortisol, adrenaline, and other hormones. Chronic stress is corollary of weakened immune system resistance. Stress can be responsible for anxiety, depression, and its various impacts on the body's organs.

"Stress" is defined as follows by the American Heritage Dictionary:
"To subject to physical or mental pressure, tension, or strain"

The following definition is given for "tension":
"Mental, emotional, or nervous strain"

It defines "anxiety" as follows:
"A state of uneasiness and apprehension, as about future uncertainties"

And the following definition is given for "depression":
"The condition of feeling sad or despondent"

The following definition is given for "clinical depression":
"A psychiatric disorder characterized by an inability to concentrate, insomnia, loss of appetite, anhedonia, feelings of extreme sadness, guilt, helplessness and hopelessness, and thoughts of death."

We can be sure of one thing; our thoughts are the primary reason for our experience of stress, anxiety and depression. In other words, what we think about, and our attitudes and points of view about our experiences strongly influence our feelings. That way, if we can learn to modify our thoughts, attitudes, and points of view, we can release our feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression and attain a better state of being.

People have always looked for methods that would allow them to dissipate stress. With the pharmaceutical industry there seems to be a drug for everything. For that the industry has created a large array of sedatives from Valium to Xanax. If you choose to utilize these pills for relief, please be sure to be aware of the side-effects by reading the fine print, which often are, among others, addiction and dependency. Unfortunately, these sorts of drugs aim at treating the symptoms, instead of the cause. So when one stops taking them, the symptoms can come back.

A finer way of eliminating tension, stress, anxiety, and depression is to treat its actual cause, which as I said previously, is usually our thought processes. Now, here is good news. Hypnosis is all about relaxing. The AMA recognized hypnosis in 1958 as an effective method of treating stress and stress related symptoms. However unlike anxiolytics, there are categorically no undesirable side effects.

Hypnosis is the Alpha level of consciousness. It is the daydream like temporary psychological mindset which we experience as we're just about to fall asleep in the evening. And we experience it again when we wake up in the morning. There are a lot of different ways that we can guide ourselves into this relaxed mood, from step-by-step relaxation to visual imagery to listening to hypnosis CD's.

When we get into a hypnotic state, we are able to interact with our unconscious mind, which is the seat of our emotions. And it becomes easier to admit new ideas and points of view which can help us to dissipate anxiety, or even avoid it completely.

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), which is a recently developed kind of hypnotherapy, offers different wonderful techniques for dissipating stress. Maybe the technique that works best is called the "swish" pattern - or the "flash" pattern. After using this technique, your unconscious will automatically use bad, stress producing mental images, to create tranquilizing mental images. Put differently, your stressors will automatically trigger relaxation!

TO SUMMARIZE
Our thoughts can cause depression, anxiety and tension. So if we change our attitude and the way we perceive our situation and what we have lived, we can dissipate these feelings at the source. Hypnosis and NLP are natural tools that make it possible to change our attitude and point of view to swiftly dissipate the source of these negative feelings.

About Author

Alan B. Densky is an NGH certified hypnotherapist. He offers a complete line of anxiety management hypnotherapy CDs, and advanced anxiety management CDs through his Neuro-VISION hypnosis website. You can visit his video hypnosis blog, and download a free MP3.
http://www.neuro-vision.us/Products/AudioStressRelaxationHypnosisTapes.htm

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