Now more than ever, scientific surveys are confirming the fundamental responsibility of stress in causing and aggravating different psychological and somatic disorders. In the June 6, 1983 issue of Time Magazine, the cover story described stress as “The Epidemic of the Eighties.” The journalist also declared that stress is our considerable health issue. Indeed there is very little doubt that today’s world has become even more complicated and stressful over the past twenty-five years since that article was published.
A lot of surveys indicate that most adults feel that they are subject to a lot of stress. Authorities in this domain estimate that 75 – 90 percent of the visits to primary care physicians somehow have to do with stress.
Most adults claim their stress is primarily due to their job. The levels of stress have also grown in children and the senior population because of several reasons including: Peer pressures that often lead to everything from smoking to drug and alcohol abuse; the dissolution of religion and family values; increased crime rates; threats to personal safety; but also social isolation and loneliness.
Stress contributes to conditions such as diabetes, ulcers, low back and neck pain, high blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks. This is due to the ever growing sympathetic nervous system activity and the release of cortisol, adrenaline, and other hormones. Chronic stress is co-morbid with defective immune system resistance. Stress can be responsible for anxiety, depression, and its different impacts on the body’s organs.
The following definition for “stress” can be found in the American Heritage Dictionary: “To subject to physical or mental pressure, tension, or strain”
The following is the definition of “tension” from the same dictionary: “Mental, emotional, or nervous strain”
It defines “anxiety” as follows: “A state of uneasiness and apprehension, as about future uncertainties”
And it defines “depression” as follows: “The condition of feeling sad or despondent”
“Clinical depression” is defined as follows: “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 mind is the first source of our experience of stress, anxiety and depression. In other words, what we think about, and our attitudes and the way we view our experiences dictate what we feel. So if we can manage to modify our thoughts, attitudes, and points of view, then we can be relieved of our feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression and change them for a more positive state of being.
People have always tried to find methods that would allow them to release stress. The pharmaceutical industry seems to have a pill for everything. For that the industry has developed a wide array of tranquilizers from Valium to Xanax. If you choose to utilize these pills for relief, please make sure that you pay attention to the fine print and learn about the side effects, which commonly are, among others, addiction and dependency. Indeed these kinds of drugs attempt to cure the symptoms, instead of the cause. So if one stops ingesting them, the symptoms can come back.
A more intelligent method to eliminate tension, stress, anxiety, and depression is to work on its actual cause, which as I said above, is generally our thought processes. There is the good news. Hypnosis is all about relaxation. The AMA recognized hypnosis in 1958 as an effective way to cure stress or stress related symptoms. However unlike anxiolytics, there are completely no undesirable side effects.
When you are in hypnosis, you are in the Alpha level of consciousness. It is the daydream like temporary psychological state which we experience as we are about to fall asleep in the evening. And we go through it again as we wake up in the morning. There are hundreds 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.
Once we are in the hypnotic state, we can interact with our unconscious mind, which is the center of our emotions. And it becomes easier to acknowledge new ideas and points of view which can help us to get rid of anxiety, or even avoid it in the first place.
NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), which is a new sort of hypnotherapy, has a lot of excellent techniques for releasing stress. Maybe the technique that works best is called the “swish” pattern – or the “flash” pattern. After using the “swish” pattern, your unconscious will automatically use bad, stress producing mental pictures, as triggers for relaxation producing mental images. Otherwise stated, what usually makes you feel stress will now make you feel more relaxed!
TO SUM THINGS UP Our thoughts can trigger depression, anxiety and tension. So if we change our attitude and the way we resent our situation and what we’ve lived, we can get rid of these feelings at the source. Hypnosis and NLP are natural tools that we can use to help us change our attitude and point of view to rapidly dissipate the source of our negative feelings.
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