Stress can be outlined as a state we experience while there is a mismatch between perceived demands and our coping ability. Stress can also be outlined as an adaptational response by a body to alterations in the environment.
Stress response evolved to allow mankind to deal with grievous dangers or stressors such as being confronted with a hostile human or even a wild animal.
Situations like this expected action – the energizing of the stress response to either stick around and fight back or to run away.
Nowadays, we hopefully wont have to face the same perils as our ancestors, however the stress response to rigorous situations we encounter is still with us and our mind and body still prepare for fight or flight when confronted with this equivalent of the wild animal.
This is where the trouble might begin as activation of the fight or flight response with no physical release, much as if we are stuck in a traffic jam and can’t fight it or flee from it, or maybe an unjust confrontation in the workplace where again the response for action might be triggered but we cant release it by fighting or running away without consequences we would instead avoid.
Perhaps both of these events and more are experienced on the same day, perhaps every day, and the stress level builds within us until it can damage our health because of the unceasing pressure placed upon our immune system.
The resulting reducing in efficiency of our immune system might then open us up to many undesirable symptoms such as yeast overgrowth, rashes, indigestion, IBS, migraines and headaches, diminished memory efficiency and a tendency to become negative and depressed unless a solution is found and healing is facilitated.
Stress isn’t always bad – the stress response was designed to support and protect us and some individuals even position themselves in stressful places they understand they can manage for excitement and ‘the rush’ as it is often called.
We all experience stress in different ways depending upon our personality type, conditioning and possible training also.
When we confront stress but comprehend we have the ability to contend with it successfully, a feeling of success and achievement can be gained. Finding the balance right between positive stress to motivate us and encourage us to develop, and our ability to cope with the stress is perhaps the key to remaining healthy, positive and effective in whatever arena of life we find ourselves.
Our ability to cope with stress can be affected by our diet and the intake of good substances that out body needs to remain strong and flexible and to repair itself whenever needed. Also we should avoid anything that could cause us to be more stressed or weaker, such as drugs, alcohol, smoking, lack of sleep, poor diet, etc.
Finally, our stressor can be mostly external, some event or situation that is inducing stress, or internal attitudes or emotions that lead to stress (anxiety, guilt, low self esteem, fear, etc).
Hypnosis allows an individual to enter a state of deep relaxation which in itself is a very useful therapy for combating stress. It also allows one to become calm and focused, as all the parts of the mind work in concert and concentrate on solving the problem at hand.
Hypnotherapy consequently provides relaxation (and clients of good therapists learn self-hypnosis so they can find this deep relaxation for themselves) and is therefore usable at even this initial level, as a form of first aid.
The skilled hypnotherapist will help the client to dissolve any repressed emotions, triggers and false instincts from the past that are a kind of out-of-date misconception, or perhaps just no longer required or needed programming, that loops around once triggered to cause us much anxiety and feelings of panic, but we often don’t even consciously know why.
Following this, the wonderful power of hypnotic suggestion and therapy will be used to allow new and efficient programming to support moves forward into a much more positive life with an improved mindset on everything.
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