Managing your response to stress with hypnosis is so vital because stress is said to be the cause of most illnesses.

Hypnosis helps you manage your perception of any stress event and teaches your mind/body a new response, the relaxation response, not a reactive response which sends you into fight or flight mode which is not healthy long term.

While we can’t make our cities and jobs stress free, we can shift our perspective on the stressors involved.   For example you can learn to see traffic and crowds as part of the fabric of life and everyone is just trying to get from A to Z.

HYPNOSIS works by creating a new habit of responding with a calm physical body and a relaxed and clear mind in the presence of stressors. So when there is a stressors present you can more effectively decide how to handle it. It has been said that you can’t be both stress reaction event and calm and relaxed at the same time…the brain will go the course of what is the established path.

In 1991, yes even way back then we knew this, 60% of the visits to doctors were emotion induced stress responses. This was from an article in the journal Stress Research. Additionally a study connecting stress events and illness was conducted by Dr W. Thomas Boyce at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and he concluded that life change was the strongest predictor of how long a child stayed ill. Major life change in the setting of a highly ritualized / rigid family appeared to predispose greater illness severity. _{(Boyce, TW, et al. Influence of life events and family routines on childhood respiratory tract illnesses. Pediatrics 1977;60(4):609-615.)}

Stress suppresses ones immune system leaving the person susceptible to a multitude of infections, a Carnegie Melon University study showed. _{(Cohen, S, Tyrrell, D, Smith, A. Psychological stress and susceptibility to the common cold. New Engl J Med 1991;325:606-12.}

Black Monday Syndrome An Indicator of Stress

Black Monday Syndrome was named for the day when most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 AM. Research prior to 1993 shows a link between the brain and our immune system. The immune system is hard wired into our autonomic nervous system and branches off to the lymph nodes, spleen, bone marrow and thymus gland. All of which is in direct communication with white blood cells which have been shown to possess receptors for neurochemicals. The brain and immune system are in communication. When the body is under stress and strain, chemicals are released for survival but when stress is compounded over time the release of cortisol continues which causes T-cell destruction in the thymus thus shrinking the gland. _{Dossey, L. Black Monday. New Age 1991: Nov/Dec:36,100-101.}

Hypnosis is important in this way, when we can change our perception to an event, we can quickly shift our response to it. Meaning the thing that once bothered us, no longer can. Remember it is not always the Stress, but how we cope.

“We should always recall that no matter how stressful the event, we can always bring our attitudes and beliefs and meaning to bear on the situation and change its effect on us.”

Larry Dossey, MD was based in Dallas and blended medicine with a spiritual practice in the 80s.

What can you do to change your response to stress?

Consider hypnosis, it is a state of mind wherein you can examine your out-dated, counter productive beliefs (which changes your perception of the stressors). It is a natural state of focused attention that allows powerful transformations that are lasting because they are subconscious. The autonomic nervous system of the body is controlled by the subconscious and a hypnotic state allows access to those processes. Think of it this way, you “learned” those concepts and anything you learned you can unlearn through hypnosis. And your brain and body can learn how to create a Relaxation Response which it true Stress Relief.

Hypnosis sessions can also help you UNDO your previous counterproductive coping habits that overtime have negative effects.

Counterproductive Stress Release Methods

• Tobacco, alcohol or other drugs
• Illness or injury produced by stress
• Overexertion
• Fear and high-risk behaviors
• Overeating
• Cruelty
• Orgasm

Are you ready to give up these coping mechanisms?

Each of these methods may work in different ways but all work to release pent-up stress. High-risk behavior works through a rush of adrenaline and the following period of “relaxation” or lassitude. Drugs lead to immediate lethargy. Each method has benefits and liabilities. They all share they primary benefit of producing a sense of satisfaction and a reduction of internal stress. The negative effects of each addiction, is generally obvious to most people.

In addition to using hypnosis as a tool to change your reaction to stressful events and the stressors in life, you can also learn to give up the old ways of coping. Hypnosis helps with stopping nicotine, overeating, anxiety and other old counter productive ways to release stress.

How we do it. Read more about the ways we assist you in hypnosis.