STRESS REDUCTION, RELAXATION & ANXIETY MANAGEMENT
STRESS REDUCTION, RELAXATION & ANXIETY MANAGEMENTStress causes strain on your immune system and that can lead to illness and disease. Many doctors report that up to 90% of people in hospitals are there because of stress?cincluding many types of cancer and heart disease. Our Stress Reduction Hypnosis Program Helps Even?@The Most "Uptight"?@Person To Unwind, Relax And?@Find Renewed?@Balance?@In His or Her Life. Are you out of energy all the time? Do you find yourself irritable and angry? Do you feel sad or depressed? Do you suffer from panic or anxiety? Do you sleep until the afternoon? Do you find it?@difficult?@to fall?@asleep? These are all symptoms of stress.?@Daily practice with?@hypnosis?@will help you reduce negative stress from your life...resulting in a more balanced and happier life.
Which symptoms do you have? Symptoms of stress
*Anxiety *Depression *Powerlessness *Poor self-esteem *Hostility *Anger *Irritability
*Resentment *Phobias *Fears *Obsessions *Unwanted thoughts *Muscular tension
*High blood pressure *Headaches *Neck aches *Backaches *Indigestion *Irritable bowel *Ulcers *Chronic constipation *Chronic diarrhea *Muscle spasms *Tics *Tremors *Fatigue *Insomnia *Sleeping difficulties *Obesity *Physical weakness *Job stress
Stress leads to more stress. The symptoms of stress can cause more stress. Physical discomfort can cause anxiety, which causes even more stress. Emotional discomfort can cause tightening in the body, which can lead to more stress.
How many of the symptoms did you count? De-Stress Your Life With Hypnosis
Stress causes strain on your immune system and that can lead to illness and disease. Many doctors report that up to 90% of people in hospitals are there because of stress?c including many types of cancer and heart disease. If you drink alcohol or take drugs to avoid stress you'll end up worse off in the long run. Stress causes the brain waves to increase, which causes a chain reaction of events to cascade in the body. A few of the changes that take place in the body when we experience stress are higher blood pressure, rapid heart beat, tense muscles, rapid and shallow respiration, cold hands and feet and decreased immune function. When you are stressed it's as though your brain is preparing your body to fight or run away?cand it is!
The stressors faced by humans conditioned to a nomadic hunter-gather lifestyle are obviously different to the high-tech lifestyle of today. Our distant ancestors needed responses to stress that would enable them to trigger physical flight or fight responses to the perils and pleasures of hunting. These types of responses are inappropriate today. If you physically ran away from your work-place whenever things got on top of you then this would not enhance your standing in the organization. Conversely if you punch the boss on the nose when he/she gives you a tough time then the resulting dismissal and assault charges will generate considerably greater levels of stress. Stress causes strain on the body?cand the strain can lead to illness?cunless we do something about it...like practice relaxation and meditation?@with hypnosis.
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The perfect antidote to stress is relaxation?cnot relaxing with a brew at the pub or relaxing in front of the television?cbut relaxing the body and slowing the brain waves into the Alpha state with hypnosis. When we are in the Alpha State the brain waves slow down to 6 to 8 cycles per second. When that happens we are perfectly relaxed! Everything that happens to the body is the opposite of what happens when we are stressed. In the Alpha State the blood vessels dilate, so the blood pressure goes down. The breathing is slow and deep. The heart rate slows down. The muscles completely relax. In the Alpha State the immune system speeds up?c so Alpha is a healing state.
Imagine yourself full of health and vitality, just he way you want to be and keep this imagine focused in your mind as you direct your awareness to your health. Feel and experience a new, healthy energy beginning to flow into you as your nervous system becomes more stable and you become so much calmer and more relaxed than ever before. All organs and systems of your body are functioning at higher levels as you direct your mind to improve your health and increase your energy levels. Your whole metabolism is becoming finely tuned to your individual needs. Your digestive system uses the food that you eat more effectively and you limit the quantities of food so that you?fre eating just the right amount of healthy, nutritious food that you require to give you proper nutrition. You desire only the foods that are good for you. And because you are becoming so much calmer inside and so much more relaxed, your whole outlook on life is improving and you begin to take each day as it comes. You feel a sense of acceptance, a feeling of peace and serenity deep within you.
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What is STRESS?
We are all familiar with the word "stress." Stress is when you are worried about getting laid off your job, or worried about not having enough money to pay your bills, or worried about your mother when the doctor says she may need an operation. In fact, to most of us, stress is synonymous with worry.
Your body, however, has a much broader definition of stress. To your body, stress is synonymous with change. Anything that causes a change in your life causes stress. It doesn't matter if it is a "good" change, or a "bad" change. They are both stressful. Even when you find your dream home and get ready to move, that is stressful. If you break your leg, that is stressful. Good or bad, change is stress as far as your body is concerned.
Even imagined change is stressful. Imagining changes is what we call "worrying". If you fear that you will not have enough money to pay your rent, it is stressful. If you worry that you may get fired, that is stress. Even if you think that you may receive a promotion at work, it is also stressful, although this would be a good change. Whether the event is good or bad, imagining changes in your life is stressful.
Stress is any change that you must adapt to. You experience stress from four basic sources:
1. Your environment bombards you with demands to adjust. You must endure weather, noise, traffic, and pollution.
2. You also must cope with social stresses such as deadlines, financial problems, job interviews, presentations, disagreements, demands for your tie and attention, and loss of loved ones.
3. A third source of stress is physiological. The rapid growth of adolescence, menopause in women, illness aging, accidents, lack of exercise, poor nutrition, and sleep disturbances all tax the body. Your physiological reaction to environmental and social threats and changes can also result in stressful symptoms such as muscle tension, headaches, stomach upset, and anxiety.
4. The fourth source of stress is your thoughts. Your brain interprets and translates complex changes in your environment and body and determines when to turn on the emergency response.
Here are some overwhelming facts about stress:
Stress in the workplace is undermining performance and productivity in nine out of ten companies, according to a study conducted by Industrial Society. That's an amazing finding from a British survey. It becomes all the more incredible when you project it to the American workplace.
America has more than five times more people and easily five times more stress .
It is also estimated that 40 million working days are lost each year as a result of stress-related illness in the US alone.
And up to 60% of all absences from work are caused by stress.
The World Health Organization calls stress, "A global epidemic."
72% of workers report emotional stress is pervasive in the workplace. Changes in workplace dynamics result in employees feeling overwhelmed with work responsibilities.
The average number of hours spent at work has increased 20% over the past five years, while the amount of leisure time has decreased 30%.
Over 80% of patient visits to their physicians are stress related.
More heart attacks occur on Monday morning between the hours of 8-10 than any other time during the work week.
The number of workplace violence episodes is currently two per month. This number is expected to increase to six per month in the next five years.
According to the American Heart Association, one person dies from coronary heart disease in the United States every 32 seconds.
According to the American Cancer Society, one out of every three people will get some form of cancer in the course of their lives. Today, a plethora of documented studies reveal the mind-body connection is not a theory, but a fact.
Meditation, Yoga, and Ti Chi, once part of the counter culture movement, are now accepted as mainstream activities. In fact, the American Heart Association advocates meditation as a means to lower resting blood pressure and heart rate.
How does stress affect us?
Of course there are times when the stress response is still adaptive today. You need it in the face of physical danger or when participating in sports that require fast, rigorous muscle activity. But neither of these situations demands a constant or prolonged stress response.
Chronic Stress
Chronic or persistent stress can occur when the stressors of life are unrelenting, as they are during a major reorganization or downsizing at work, undergoing a messy divorce, or coping with a chronic or life-threatening illness.
Chronic stress also occurs when little stressors accumulate and you are unable to recuperate from any one of them. As long as the mind perceives a threat, the body remains aroused. If the stress response remains turned on, you can be increasing your chances of a stress-related disease.
Stress and disease
Researchers have been looking at the relationship between stress and disease for the last fifty years. They have observed that people suffering from stress-related disorders tend to show hyperactivity in a particular "preferred system," such as skeletal-muscular, cardiovascular, or gastrointestinal system. For example, the evidence shows that chronic stress can result in muscle tension and fatigue for some people. For others, it can contribute to stress hypertension, soreness, migraine headaches, upset stomach, ulcers, or chronic diarrhea, colds, and insomnia.
Almost every system in your body can be damaged by stress.
Suppression of the reproduction system can cause amenorrhoea (cessation of menstruation) and failure to ovulate in women, impotency in men, and loss of libido in both.
Stress-triggered changes in the lungs increase the symptoms of asthma, bronchitis, and other respiratory conditions.
Loss of insulin during the stress response may be a factor in the onset of adult diabetes.
Stress suspends tissue repair and remodeling, which in turn causes decalcification of the bones, osteoporosis, and susceptibility to fractures.
Inhibition of immune and inflammatory systems makes you more susceptible to colds and flu and can exacerbate some diseases such as cancer and AIDS.
In addition, a prolonged stress response can worsen conditions such as arthritis, chronic pain, and diabetes.
There is also some evidence that the continued release and depletion of epinephrine during a state of chronic stress can contribute to depression.
The relationship between chronic stress, disease, and aging
Aging experts are looking at the changing patterns of disease and the emergence of degenerative disorders. Over just a few generations, the threat of infectious diseases such a typhoid, pneumonia, and polio have been replaced with such "modern plagues" as cardiovascular disease, cancer, arthritis, respiratory disorders such as asthma and emphysema, and a pervasive incidence of depression. As you age normally, you expect a natural slowing down of your body's functioning. But many of these mid-to late-life disorders are stress-sensitive diseases. Researchers and clinicians are each now asking how stress accelerates the aging process and what can be done to counteract this process.
Stress can affect you from all sides.
Emotionally , stress expresses itself through depression, fear, anxiety, anger, and lack of confidence, cynicism, and lack of humor.
Social signs of stress include loneliness, withdrawal, aggressiveness, phoniness, and rejection.
Intellectually, stress shows up as inability to concentrate, feeling apathetic or bored, lacking creativity, and difficulty making decisions.
Finally, stress can impact us spiritually by causing us to feel hopeless, guilty, desperate, empty, and lacking joy.
Causes of Stress
Emotions
When arguments, disagreements, and conflicts cause changes in your personal life.
Taking Responsibility for Another Person's Actions
When you take responsibility for another person's actions, changes occur in your life over which you have little or no control. Taking responsibility for another person's actions is a major stressor.
Illness
Catching a cold, breaking an arm, a skin infection, a sore back, are all changes in your body condition.
Pushing Your Body Too Hard
A major source of stress is overdriving. If you are working 16 hours a day, you will have reduced your available time for rest. Sooner or later, the energy drain on your system will cause the body to fall behind in its repair work. There will not be enough time or energy for the body to fix broken cells, or replace used up brain neurotransmitters. Changes will occur in your body's internal environment. You will "hit the wall" or "run out of gas". If you continue, permanent damage may be done. The body's fight to stay healthy in the face of the increased energy that you are expending is major stress.
Environment
Very hot or very cold climates can be stressful. Very high altitude may be a stress. Toxins or poisons are a stress. Each of these factors threatens to cause changes in your body's internal environment.
The Special Case of Tobacco Use
Tobacco is a powerful toxin!! Smoking destroys cells that clean your trachea, bronchi, and lungs. Smoking causes emphysema and chronic bronchitis, which progress to slow suffocation. The carbon monoxide from cigarette smoking causes chronic carbon monoxide poisoning. Tobacco use damages the arteries in your body, causing insufficient blood supply to the brain, heart, and vital organs. Cigarette smoking increases the risk of cancer 50 fold.
Chewing tobacco or snuff is no safe haven. It also damages your arteries, and it carries the same cancer risk. (Cancers of the head and neck are particularly vicious, disfiguring, and deadly).
Poisoning the body with carbon monoxide, and causing the physical illnesses of emphysema, chronic bronchitis, cancer, and arterial damage, tobacco is a powerful source of added stress to one's life.
Hormones
Puberty - The vast hormonal changes of puberty are severe stressors. A person's body actually changes shape, sexual organs begin to function, new hormones are released in large quantities. Puberty, as we all know, is very stressful.
Premenstrual Syndrome - Once a woman passes puberty, her body is designed to function best in the presence of female hormones. For women past puberty, a lack of female hormones is a major stress on the body. Once a month, just prior to menstruation, a woman's hormone levels drop sharply. In many women, the stress of sharply falling hormones is enough to create a temporary overstress. This temporary overstress is popularly known as Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS).
Postpartum - Following a pregnancy, hormone levels change dramatically. After a normal childbirth, or a miscarriage, some women may be thrown into overstress by loss of the hormones of pregnancy.
Menopause - There is another time in a woman's life when hormone levels decline. This is the menopause. The decline in hormones during menopause is slow and steady. Nevertheless, this menopausal decline causes enough stress on the body to produce overstress in many women.
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