Stress                               

Many people, no matter how successful in their careers or their personal lives, are finding that the modern world is more demanding and pressurised than ever before, and today's difficult economical climate is making things worse than ever.  

Many people are beginning to feel the effects of stress: finding it difficult to relax and unwind, developing sleeping problems and perhaps suffering from digestive, skin or other physical ailments.                                       

It is not always possible to change the parts of our lives which cause us stress, but hypnotherapy can help to change the way we react to those stressful situations or events. More and more people are finding that hypnosis can prove extremely useful in managing stress, relieving physical ailments, curing insomnia and achieving deep relaxation. It can also be invaluable in helping people cope with the worries of maintaining confidence, self-esteem and focus after difficult life events such as redundancy.

You can enjoy the benefit of deep relaxation during a single session of hypnosis, and/or learn invaluable stress management techniques over a course of four sessions.

                                                

The physical effects

We all have innate survival mechanisms. For example, if we were to meet a dangerous animal in the wild, as our ancestors may well have done, we would feel an immediate surge of fear. Our bodies would then undergo a number of physical changes designed to prepare us to fight or to run away:

• adrenalin and other chemicals would be released into the bloodstream

• heart rate, blood pressure and breathing rate would increase

• digestive processes would be temporarily halted to save energy (emptying bladder and bowels to get rid of surplus weight)

The fight or flight which followed would then burn up all the increased energy and internal chemicals. When the frightening event was over, the body could then return to normal, without experiencing any stress.

In the modern world, we rarely find ourselves in situations where either fighting or running away would be an appropriate response. For example, an office conflict can trigger all our physical fight/flight responses, but without the opportunity to use them for their original purpose.

Stress therefore occurs in situations where fear is present, but there is no fighting or running to burn off the chemicals released into the bloodstream.These chemicals can have a seriously adverse effect on our bodies and our health over time. Hypnotherapy, hypnosis can help