Hypnosis Can Overcome Stress And Anxiety So You Can Find Tranquility

More than ever, scientific investigations are proving the essential responsibility stress can have in causing and aggravating a lot of physical and emotional afflictions. An article in a 1983 issue of Time Magazine described stress as "The Epidemic of the Eighties." The journalist also said that stress is our major health issue. Indeed it is doubtless that our world has become even more complicated and stressful over the last two decades since that article was written.

A lot of surveys indicate that most adults are under the impression of being subject to a lot of stress. Researchers in the field estimate that 75 to 90 percent of all visits to PCPs (Primary Care Physicians) are for stress related issues. Most adults say their stress is for the most part due to their job. The levels of stress have also soared in children as well as the elderly population for reasons including: Peer pressures that often lead to everything from cigarette smoking to drug and alcohol abuse; the dissolution of family and religious values and ties; increased crime rates; threats to personal safety; but also social isolation and loneliness.

Stress can be responsible for problems 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 corollary of impaired immune system resistance. Stress can contribute to anxiety, depression, and its various effects on the body'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 following definition is given for "anxiety": "A state of uneasiness and apprehension, as about future uncertainties" And it defines "depression" as follows: "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."

We can be sure of one thing, our thoughts are the chief cause of our experience of stress, anxiety and depression. In other words, what we think about, and our attitudes and points of view about our experiences create our feelings. That way, if we can discover how to modify our thoughts, attitudes, and points of view, we can get rid of our stress, anxiety, and depression and replace them with a better state of being.

Since the beginning of time, people have tried methods that would allow them to get rid of stress. The pharmaceutical industry seems to have a pill for everything. For that the industry has designed a large array of tranquilizers from Valium to Xanax. If you choose to utilize these pills for relief, please make sure that you are aware of the side-effects by reading the fine print, which often are, among others, addiction and dependency. Indeed these kinds of drugs try to cure the symptoms, but not the cause. So when one stops ingesting them, the symptoms can come back.

A better way of releasing tension, stress, anxiety, and depression is to work on the root cause, which as I said before, is generally our thought processes. There is some good news. The heart of hypnosis is relaxing. The AMA recognized hypnosis in 1958 as an effective method of treating stress and stress related symptoms. But unlike anxiolytics, there are totally no negative side effects. When you enter hypnosis, you are in the Alpha level of consciousness. It's the daydream like temporary psychological frame of mind that we experience as we are about to fall asleep at night. And we experience it once more as we awaken in the morning.

There are several different ways that will help us guide ourselves into this condition of tranquility, from progressive relaxation to visual imagery to listening to hypnosis CD's. Once in a hypnotic state, we can interact with our unconscious mind, which is the seat of our feelings and one can more easily admit new points of view and ideas that will help us to dissipate anxiety, or even avoid it in the first place. NLP, which is a recently developed kind of hypnosis, has a lot of excellent methods for dissipating stress. Perhaps the most effective technique is called the "swish" pattern - or the "flash" pattern. After using the "swish" pattern, your unconscious will automatically use negative, stress triggering mental pictures, to generate tranquilizing mental pictures. Put differently, what commonly makes you feel stress will now make you feel more relaxed!

TO SUM THINGS UP Our thoughts can trigger depression, anxiety and tension. So if we change our attitude and point of view towards our situation and our experiences, we can dissipate these feelings at the source. Hypnosis and NLP are natural tools that make it possible to change our attitude and point of view to easily dissipate the root cause of these negative feelings. (c) Copyright 2007 By Alan B. Densky, CH. All rights reserved. Alan B. Densky is an NGH certified hypnotherapist. He offers a complete line of stress management NLP CDs, and advanced stress elimination CDs through his Neuro-VISION hypnosis website. You can visit his video hypnosis blog, and download a free MP3.