Hypnosis for Stress Management

What is Stress?

Stress can be defined as:

The emotional, physiological, and psychological effects caused by a build up of either internally or externally generated mental pressure.

Are you stressed?

Everyone responds differently to stress. Some may have anxiety, panic attacks, aggressive behaviour, while others find it affects their digestive system or make them feel tired or run down. Think back over a few months, and look through the list below. If you find that you have been suffering several symptoms on a frequent basis, it is highly likely that you are suffering from stress.

  • Sudden feelings of fear or panic

  • Waking up early in the morning

  • Feeling edgy or bad tempered

  • Headaches or migraine

  • Poor concentration

  • Constantly feeling exhausted

  • Fear of loosing control

  • Palpitation, or butterflies in your stomach

  • Poor memory

  • Upset Stomach, diarrhea, or constipation

  • Feel under pressure

  • Emotional

  • Feel distant, unreal, and remote

  • Lack of interest

  • Feeling tense

  • Difficulty sleeping

  • Irregular eating patterns

  • Smoke or drink to excess

  • Tightness in your neck, shoulders, and back

  • Feel apathetic

  • Shortness of breath

  • Avid worrisome situations

  • Lack of confidence

  • Pessimistic about the future

  • Aches and pains

  • Feel physically run down

  • Worry about the future

 

Effects of Stress

Excessive stress in your life interferes with your interpersonal relationships at home, on the job, and socially. It can make you spend your efforts on not being unhappy, rather than on being happy. Stress can waste your vitality and deplete your personal energy resources that could be used for enjoyment. You can become negatively influenced in your attitudes and feelings about yourself more easily.Stress management

 

More seriously, medical research estimates as much as 90 percent of illness and disease is stress-related. Stress can interfere with your physical functioning and bodily processes. Stress raises blood pressure and can directly harms the cardiovascular system. Stress depresses the immune system and allows chronic illnesses to overwhelm us, causing pain, disability, and even death.

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How Can Hypnosis Help with Stress?

Hypnosis is also an ideal state in which to learn new ways to cope more effectively. Hypnosis is a powerful tool to counteract stress and stress related illness. It is one of the fastest and the easiest way to relax deeply by lowering heart rate and blood pressure and relaxing muscle tension. Hypnosis is a relaxed and focused state of mind and most people can be trained to enter this state of deep relaxation in just a few sessions. Once trained, most clients can induce a self-hypnotic state at any convenient times during their day to allow themselves to enter a deep state of relaxation.


MWC’s Stress Management Program

The combination of hypnotherapy, counselling, and life coaching, has been proven to be very effective ways of creating personal change in a relatively short period of time. It allows us to build a model of how you as an individual structure your own unique experiences in life. We can step into your view of the world to discover patterns of thought, beliefs and values that are causing you to feel stressed. Our sessions help you to alter your reactions to the stressors, set compelling goals, and change your life for the better.

Our Stress Management Program is tailored to your unique needs and situation. The number of sessions may vary from a minimum of 4 treatment sessions to 12 sessions depending on the severity of your stress.