What Is Behind It All
Why me? Stress victims ask this question quite often. Many factors enter into the picture of possibilities. Overachievers, typical Type A personalities, and the hyper-competitive. They can be addicted to stress. They can enjoy it, until it gets out of control. We sometimes learn stress early in life from parents, teachers, relatives and others. Through early experiences in our lives we can consider stress a normal part of life because it has always been a part of our life.
Fears, valid or otherwise, can lead to the development of symptoms of stress. They can expand into full grown phobias or even psychiatric situations such as repressed emotions.
Medical conditions, including dietary deficiencies, can lead to stress, as can such female experiences as PMS. External factors such as continuous or intermittent bothersome noise levels can create or add to stress levels as well.
Every individual is different in tolerance levels and coping abilities.
Hypnosis For Stress Management
The human brain receives messages from several sources, each dealing with separate types of information. Input dealing with everyday matters such as news, music, jobs, relationships, weather, etc., comes from the external environment. Our own bodies provide data concerning movement, digestion, tension, pain, etc., all in the form of messages, sent to the brain.
From primitive times the human animal has possessed an escape mechanism that even today, under severely threatening conditions, can cause regression to primitive behavior. The fight/flight syndrome, always a means of dealing with fears, threats, attacks and other disturbances, has gained tolerance though evolution with addition of reaction vs. action and repression vs. depression. Without these, when the message input volume reached overload conditions, the escape would be toward the denial of reality. However, the desire for social acceptance provides motivation to cope with and adapt to reality.
Nevertheless, when the conscious mind can no longer handle the message units overloading the brain, the subconscious prepares us for fight or flight—the heart pumps harder, blood pressure rises, super-strength can be generated. But sometimes there is nothing to fight. We can't fight the environment. We can't fight a job, an accident, a bad decision.
What now?
Imagine all of your stress simply melting away just by listening to a relaxing hypnosis CD at the end of each day. It really is as simple as that. Allowing your mind and body to let go of stress and anxiety will help to keep you at your peak and live a healthier, happier and more productive life.
