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Stress has become the number one illness of the 21st Century. The
constant pressure associated with living in a fast paced, material driven world
has created an environment nearly everyone feels the effects of stress.
Stress is a tern used to describe with wear and tear the mind and body
experiences in reaction to everyday tensions and pressures. Change, illness,
injury, relationship break-ups, career and lifestyle changes are very common
causes of stress. However, it is the effects of the continuous pressure and
tensions that we feel in response to the little everyday hassles i.e. rush hour
commute, too many emails, frustrations at home and work that can often be the
final straw and therefore do the most damage.
Stress is the body and minds response to any pressure that disrupts its normal
balance. It can occur when our perception of life events does not meet our inner
expectations and we are unable to manage our reactions. As a response stress
expresses itself as resistance, guilt, tension, withdrawal from situations and
people, strain, frustration that throws off our physiological and psychological
equilibrium, making us feel out of sync. If our equilibrium is disturbed for
long, the stress can become disabling and create numerous health problems.
Stress and the effects of stress are often misunderstood. We look at outside
events as the source of stress (the stressor), but in fact stress is really
caused by our emotional reactions to events. The stress we experience in today’s
world often goes unnoticed and unmanaged. Many people simply adapt to stress in
an unhealthy way, resigned to thinking it’s “just the way life is.”
Unfortunately, lack of awareness and management of stress has created a pandemic
of low-grade anxiety and depression.
According to the American Institute of Stress, up to 90% of all health problems
are linked to psychological stress. Too much stress can continue to agitate and
contribute to many health problems including heart disease, cancer, high blood
pressure, strokes, depression, mental illness and sleep disorders.
 How to relieve Stress
In order to effectively deal with stress its important to
understand that it is our internal reaction that causes more harm
than external events or individuals. More precisely its how you feel
about them that determines whether you feel the negative effects of
stress an ultimately by changing your response to those events can
manage and relieve the effects of stress.
Our thoughts lead to emotions and feelings and these have very
powerful effect on the human body. Emotions like frustration,
insecurity, low self-esteem and feelings of anxiety and depression
are damaging and inhibit optimal health and relief from stress.
Positive thoughts and emotions such as appreciation, happiness,
care, love and gratitude not only feel good but also promote health,
performance and well-being.
Its is proven that positive, happy thoughts create a shift in the
body that creates a favourable cascade of neural, hormonal and
biochemical events that benefit the whole body. The stress relief
gained is both immediate and long lasting.
Talking Therapies, NLP and Hypnotherapy to Beat Stress
Are extremely effective in changing your outlook on life and
helping to protect against sources of stress.
By discovering the sources of your negative stress & anxiety, and to
recognise the warning signs of stress. You can develop new
perspectives and techniques to use help you to cope with life more
confidently and calmly.
Talking therapies, NLP and Hypnotherapy can help to shift negative,
damaging thoughts, anxiety, low self esteem etc to more positive
thoughts - so that you are able to move forward more positively with
life.
This can also be reinforced with Self Hypnosis techniques that you
can use in your own time. Being aware of your breathing, positive
visualisation/thinking and general relaxation techniques are also
extremely powerful. Just 10 minutes a day can help to make a
difference.
Exercise is also a great stress buster from yoga to running, tennis,
cycling, kick boxing etc. Find a sport you enjoy and can fit into
your lifestyle.
If you would like to find out more about how hypnotherapy can help
you to beat stress, please call us.
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