Stop Feeling Anxious in the Age of Smartphones Using Hypnosis

Is Being Reachable 24/7 Stressing You Out? Stay Calm With Hypnosis

It used to be that when 5 pm rolled around, your work life switched off. Emails more or less came to a halt (unless you had a laptop from work), but the office phone stopped ringing, and you could feel your body relax. And not be anxious.

But with smartphones in our lives, the lines between on-the-clock and off-duty have blurred, almost becoming non-existent.

Now, we get calls well after our workday ends and emails arrive at four o’clock in the morning, to which we’re expected to respond.

Because if we don’t? There will be someone else who will. So, the fear of missing out feels like it’s roaring in your ear.

Even if it’s from family, we feel obligated to answer because we worry that “it might be important.”

Feeling obligated to be connected at all hours creates a feeling of being anxious, plus frustration, and maybe resentment. And, most of the time, it’s a pressure that we’re putting on ourselves.

We’re expected to be reachable at all hours of the day and night, and the fear and anxiety can be crippling.

Hypnosis for stress and anxiety can help you let go of feeling like it’s necessary to be at everyone’s beck and call and put down your smartphone.

The stress of never being “off-duty”:

“Did I miss something?”

“Does someone need me?”

“What if I don’t respond fast enough?”

Having a smartphone can feel like caring for a newborn baby. Every few minutes, a noise will send you running to investigate so you don’t miss any signs of potential danger. Except, instead of a baby’s cries, you hear dings from Slack, email, texts, calendar alerts, and other work-related messages. If you ignore them, you worry that you might look like you’re lazy or unreliable, leading clients to find someone else more responsive.

You live in fear of missing messages, being anxious seems like the new normal. In fact, it seems like it never eases up. As a result, your phone becomes an extension of your arm, and you can never fully switch out of work mode. There’s always an undercurrent of anxiety crackling your nerves.

It doesn’t stop with work either. Between Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, and endless text chains, your friends and family now expect you to respond to everything they post the second it goes up. They expect you to “heart” everything and post with confidence-affirming comments. If you don’t, you face accusations of not caring or being supportive, and you don’t want to disappoint anyone. Keeping up with the drama and endless plans isn’t for the faint of heart.

The stress that accompanies these expectations can wreak havoc on your mental health and well-being. The endless cycle of checking your phone is exhausting and disruptive.

With hypnosis for stress and anxiety, you can put the phone down and learn how to react when notifications go off when you’re off-duty.

How hypnosis can help you disconnect from being anxious:

You probably realize that if you don’t respond to a colleague’s email, nothing catastrophic will happen. On a conscious level, that is.

On an unconscious level? That’s a whole other story. Your subconscious has been hoarding limiting beliefs and memories since childhood, and now they’re lodged deep in your internal belief system.

You may have been in a meeting with your boss and coworkers when another employee was ostracized with scornful looks and haughty “hmmphs” when they failed to respond to an email on a Saturday. You’d never want to be in that position and be looked over for a promotion. That memory and the related anxiety have been living rent-free in your subconscious ever since.

These stressors can manifest as automatic thoughts and a default behavior. When your phone goes off, you’ll jump over a couch to answer it.

But that’s no way to live.

By working with these automatic thoughts and responses, hypnosis can help reinforce a greater sense of calm and security when you step away from your smartphone. Instead of reaching for your device every time uncertainty creeps in, you can begin to feel more comfortable being unavailable, more present, and more confident that you don’t have to be reachable 24/7 to be safe and in control.

Hypnosis helps you shift your perspective on what causes you stress and gives you the tools to deal with it in a healthy manner.

With the help of an experienced hypnotherapist, you’ll be guided into a deep state of relaxation. Then, you will be asked a series of specially designed questions to pinpoint the root of your anxiety. Once the hypnotist understands why and how stress affects you, they will install positive and healthy associations when situations arise that once triggered fear or anxiety.

Over time, these new associations can help you respond with greater calm and confidence instead of automatically slipping into old patterns of worry, avoidance, or the need to constantly check your phone.

You’ll feel safe and no longer compelled to worry if you decide to stop answering the phone after a certain hour.

Break free from smartphone anxiety with hypnosis:

Hypnosis can help you stop feeling anxious and worrying about the potential disasters that may come with a call or email going unanswered. By changing the automatic thoughts and feelings that keep you tethered to your phone, you can begin to feel comfortable stepping away without fearing what you might miss.

Sometimes, the healthiest thing you can do is trust that the world will keep turning, even when you don’t answer right away. That might be difficult to imagine now, but you can be set free from the hold smartphones have over you.

Whether you’re in Dallas County or Collin County or on the other side of the United States I can help you with in-person or virtual appointments. So if you’re ready to reclaim your sanity, contact me today.

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