Stress and Panic and Damaging Self Talk
As a hypnotherapist it isn’t rare for us to get to deal with people, who need to have help with stress and anxiety, many clients had been experiencing stress their whole life sometimes not really aware that it could be demoralizing on their system. People have become comfortable to live with a consistent build-up of emotional stress, muscle tension and the risk of stress and anxiety related complications.
Sadly, people hardly ever invest time to release their stress and take time on their own, take time or create the time to just let go their worries and the accumulated stress from regularly responsibilities. Between working, looking after their kids, paying your bills for many of us, relaxing happens seated in front of the television set watching violent and stressful shows that keep us on the edge of our seats and full of adrenaline and tensions. Never shutting down, sleep does not even count as the heighten tensions and adrenal level prevents any kind of meaning full relaxation before morning hits. People often train themselves to work through the stress rather than taking care of building a stress reduction routine. Some finish up with hypertension others with chest pain, ulcers, back problems; the list goes on.
Precisely what is there to do?
Well as hypnotherapist we teach clients how to deal with these problems and listed here are 3 simple tricks you can begin using today to start the whole process of letting go.
Set aside some time to de-stress: On a daily basis take the time to internalize your thoughts and feelings. Choose a place where you can unwind for several minutes 10-20 minutes more if you need. A cosy place that is just not your bed is always best as your mind will not think your there to sleep and you can focus without difficulty.
Visualize: Take some time to feel the stress, the anxiety and imagine that it has a form, give it a colour and imagine it within your body, then imagine it disappearing more and more, you may imagine a powerful bright light coming from the top of your head and cleaning the stress from your body as the light moves through it. As you try this, take it easy the different parts of your body as you visualize the stress being cleansed away. Numerous people do that by adding tension in that part of the body and to release it completely as you rid yourself of the stress. Imagine the “stress colour” being washed away as you do this. Once you are done, imagine a place where one can unwind fully and completely, perhaps a place you had been before or a place you would like to be, real or imagined. Repeat the process.
Alter your frame of mind: This one is the long term aspect of this method. Take a notepad and jot down what you presently do to address your stress, compose a list of those things, forget about them and burn the list! If you had been feeling the way described above, nothing you have been doing continues to be helping so instead do this. As soon as some thing transpires that you have no control over, let it go!
A friend of mine lost a bag of food on her way home recently it was worth $12.13 and was packed with things such as toothpaste, a magazine etc once she discovered that she had lost it she started out saying things just like, “oh god what am I going to do”, bearing in mind that she did not have money problems and that the $12.13 was trivial yet it still got her to stress out as we were on our way back to the store to see if we had forgotten the bag there. It took about 10 minutes to get back to the store and I mentioned how, the $12.13 was not the end of her and how the worse that could happen was already done an over with, not having the bag.
She would agree with me but then search for a reason to validate her stress getting worse as we got closer to the store. From blaming herself to blaming the employees at the store her mind was looking for something to do with the stress, a direction to go, up seemed to be the direction of choice as this is what she was used to do.
As we got to the store she started out looking in the car as I went inside to ask about the missing prize! When I came out, she was completely relaxed and immediately told me it was fine that she had found it.
Now why is it that we do that? Because we have done it so much that it has been set on autopilot! Next time something like that happen think for a second, is it out of your control? Is your stress going to make you better ready to fix the situation? If the answer is no, make the decision to breath in, breath out and let it go. Does it stop being unfortunate you lost the bag? No but knowing there is nothing that you will be able to do with stress that will fix the situation will be enough to help you realize that you can let go. Stress is the signal to tell you to act whenever you require to, knowing this, it’s okay to let it go when it will not be useful. $12.13 seriously isn’t a life or death situation.
So settle back, imagine and police damaging ideas and you will then get steadily better. In case you need to have more assistance contact your friendly neighborhood Hypnotherapist.
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