What causes you stress? Your kids? Job? Money? Moving? Love or lack of it? Physical or emotional pain?
How much of your stress is from today, and how much is past experiences? You probably know what I mean by this, but the answer is not always easy figure out.
You are aware that managing and reducing stress can prevent lots of problems. Problems with health, sleep, poor diet potential addiction, and more. Stopping these problems before they start is just smart.
You know you would not choose to have trouble sleeping well or problems with your blood pressure. But, choosing to ignore your stress level is almost like that.
Some people with high stress look to avoid the discomfort by looking for pleasure to cover it. Things like watching TV, movies, medications, smoking and other addictions.
People tend to believe traditional talk therapy and medication are the only alternatives, and try to avoid that. If you knew there was a reliable and medically tested method to relieve stress, would you consider it?
Of course you would, if it really works.
You've probably watched a movie or television to relax. Does it really help? Probably most of the time you're watching it you feel relatively more relaxed. Something else to focus on and think about? But there really isn't much "thinking" going on... it just helps you make a more relaxed state of mind.
Many people go through great lengths and complicated processes to achieve this state of mind. Creative visualization, meditation, yoga, deep prayer, etc...
All of these examples technically achieve a mental state of hypnosis. With a little practice, it is very easy to get this hyper focused state. Like when you're involved in reading a book, or on the phone.
You are in a different states of hypnosis many times during a normal day. To hypnotize yourself on purpose, with the purpose of reducing stress, is easy and shown to be very effective.
There are medical clinical studies in the National Library of Medicine you can research on www.pubmed.gov.
Physical and mental stress reduction is possible in just a few short minutes.
Using an appropriately trained hypnotist or using a quality self-hypnosis audio to reduce general stress are great alternatives. Hypnosis has a higher rate of long-term success than medication and hypnosis has zero side-effects.
Please note: Hypnosis has been approved by the American Medical Association since 1958, But, it does not replace traditional medicine.
Patrick Glancy, NGH Board Certified Hypnotist Stress Reduction Hypnosis
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