When your body experiences stress (either perceived and real), the brain releases chemicals around the body telling it to shut down digestion, shallow breath, heart pumps increases production to send more blood to arms and legs for “fight or flight”. With this adrenaline running through your body you may experience shakes, sensations of clamminess, dry mouth, nervousness, frustration, panic and aggression. The theory is that when the threat abates, the body settles down to normal functioning but what happens if the threat is perceived and your thoughts are driving the adrenaline rush around your body. Your body reacts as though the threat is real.
While you may “come down” from the peak of the effects of stress, the body does not settle completely and each time you perceive something stressful, the body is thrown into turmoil and all because of your thoughts. With hypnosis and NLP (neuro linguistic programming) you can learn how to stop these thoughts from wearing out your body. Do you suffer from muscle ache, headache or an inability to breathe deeply? These symptoms can be helped by learning how to first relax the mind and body (to give them a break as it were) and then you can work on your subconscious programming – why you feel threatened in the first place.
The wonderful experience of hypnosis while focusing on the change you want to make (in this case, calm and relaxed) is beneficial in that you are turning on your own self healing energy, all normal working order to be restored to the body and the mind). In this context the “threat” can be attending a meeting, standing up in front of people, going out – whatever causes you to feel like running away and makes you angry is your “threat”. Because the perceived threat re-enforces the fear and panic, that strong neural connection in your mind must be broken. But before breaking it, we need to understand why you feel threatened. Is it a lack of confidence or an inability to be assertive?
Whatever it is we can work on it together and at the same time make new neural links (remember your brain is a mine of electrical activity and this is to our advantage in that we can re-wire your brain essentially). The new neural links become stronger as you practice your new skills. The main component is that you feel you can change but just don’t know how.
Then you focus on how great your life would be without stressful thoughts – what can you do with all that thought space you are creating? How would you hold yourself, how would you feel being confident and assertive? What would be great about your life with this change made?
All hypnosis is self hypnosis and you are learning how to adapt these processes into all other areas of your life – you gain your rightful place – as the controller of your mind and its working all with the help of hypnosis and NLP. It is about making you the best you can be and bringing out the best of you so that you can be happier and more content with your mind free to concentrate on the things you really want to think about. Take a moment to close your eyes and image a stressfree you. How do you hold yourself, how do you look, how do you feel? How wonderful would that be – and all with the power of hypnosis!
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