Stress And Anxiety - Modern Techniques To Dissipate Them So You Can Relax
More than ever before scientific surveys are proving the essential role of stress
in triggering or aggravating various psychological and physical afflictions. A headline from a 1983 Time Magazine called stress "The Epidemic of the Eighties." It also said that stress is a major health problem. Indeed one has to acknowledge that our world has become more and more complex and stressful in the last two decades since that article was written.Numerous surveys show that almost everybody perceives themselves as being subject to a lot of stress. Researchers in the field estimate that 75 to 90 percent of all visits to primary care doctors are for stress related problems.
Most people claim that their job is the primary cause of their stress. And stress levels have also increased in children as well as the elderly population because of several reasons including: Peer pressures that often lead to everything from smoking to alcoholism and drug abuse; the dissolution of family and religious values and ties; increased crime rates; threats to personal safety; and last but not least social isolation and loneliness.
Stress contributes to conditions such as diabetes, ulcers, low back and neck pain, hypertension, strokes and heart attacks. This is because of the augmented sympathetic nervous system activity and the release of cortisol, adrenaline, and other hormones. Chronic stress is often associated with impaired immune system resistance. Stress can be responsible for anxiety, depression, and its numerous impacts on one'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"
"Tension" is defined as follows: "Mental, emotional, or nervous strain"
The word "anxiety" is defined as follows: "A state of uneasiness and apprehension, as about future uncertainties"
And the following definition is given for "depression": "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."
What we can be sure of is that our mind is the first source of our feelings of stress, anxiety and depression. To put it into different words, what we think about, and our attitudes and points of view about our experiences dictate our feelings. That way, if we can manage to modify our thoughts, attitudes, and points of view, then we can be relieved of our stress, anxiety, and depression and change them for a better state of being.
Since the beginning of time, people have tried methods for getting rid of stress. With the pharmaceutical industry there seems to be a drug for everything. For that the industry has produced a wide line of tranquilizers from Valium to Xanax. If you choose to utilize drugs for relief, please be sure to be aware of the side-effects by reading the fine print, which commonly are, among others, addiction and dependency. Unfortunately, these sorts of drugs attempt to treat the symptoms, instead of the cause. So as soon as one stops ingesting them, the symptoms can return.
A more intelligent method to get rid of tension, stress, anxiety, and depression is to try to cure the root cause, which as I wrote previously, is most often our thought processes. There is good news. The very essence of hypnosis is relaxing. The AMA accepted hypnosis in 1958 as an effective method of treating stress or stress related symptoms. Moreover unlike pills, there are absolutely no bad side effects.
When you enter hypnosis, you are in the Alpha level of consciousness. It's the daydream like temporary psychological mindset which we feel as we are about to fall asleep at night. And we feel it once more when we wake up in the morning. There are a lot of different ways that will help us guide ourselves into this condition of tranquility, from step-by-step relaxation to visual imagery to listening to hypnosis CD's.
Once in the hypnotic state, we can communicate with our unconscious mind, which is the seat of our emotions. And one can more easily acknowledge new ideas and points of view which will help us to reduce anxiety, or even avoid it in the first place.
NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), which is a recently developed type of hypnotherapy, offers different really good techniques for getting rid of stress. Maybe the technique that works best is called the "swish" pattern - or the "flash" pattern. When you use this method, your unconscious will automatically use negative, stress producing mental images, as triggers for relaxation producing mental images. Otherwise stated, your stressors will automatically make you feel more relaxed!
TO SUM THINGS UP Our thoughts can cause depression, anxiety and tension. So if we change our attitude and the way we perceive our situation and our experiences, we can reduce these feelings at the source. Hypnosis and NLP are natural tools that allow us to change our attitude and point of view to swiftly reduce the root cause of our negative feelings.
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