Stress Management and Modern Living

Stress management is vital for today’s faster modern life. With the advent of the internet everyone has become used to easier and quicker access to information, products and services. We have become used to communications happening within seconds via email rather than by mail. The world of the future which was predicted to have more leisure time hasn’t been realised.

There is no escape from the pace of life and although most people cope most of the time, occasionally events and experiences can conspire seemingly against us. One unhappy event can soon be compounded by another in quick succession. What we used to take in our stride now feels like a burden. We hadn’t noticed that our energy levels were being eroded over time and now we are running on empty. Sleep does not seem to give as much reprieve from tiredness or restore our energy levels back to where they once were.

If the above description rings true to you, then you could benefit from taking control and utilising stress management. Stress management is more than just about controlling stress. It is about prevention as it is as much about reduction of stress levels.

Stress Management Hypnosis

Prevention as they say is far better than cure and is worth putting the effect in. Self hypnosis can be an important element of your healthier life style and your stress management too. Self hypnosis is the regular practice of a simply relaxation method than anyone can learn easily and benefit from. Taking between 5 to 20 minutes per day, self hypnosis can be an easy habit to slip into your daily schedule.

Causes of Stress

Working late, arguments at home, death, illness, a reduction in your income, larger bills, a car accident and more can all be part of what tips us over the edge. If you turn to alcohol or drugs to provide some escape from stress and anxiety then you have already recognised that you need to cope differently. Self hypnosis can help you do that and in a healthier way be part of your success with stress management.

Just imagine how it feel to be more calm and relaxed. Others may lose their cool and temper as you remain an oasis of tranquillity. A natural result of this is likely to be a better and more restful night’s sleep and an improvement in your relationships. For only 5 to 20 minutes a day practising self hypnosis the rewards of better stress management can be immense and this includes your long-term health too.

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Author’s Details

Steven Harold BA(Hons) DCH DHP
Clinical Hypnotherapist – London and Essex

Website: Stress Management London 

Email: steve@hypno-therapist.com
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Giving up smoking is something that many smokers realise they will want to do. Some may want to to it now and others believe they will make a decision in the future to pack up smoking.

Unfortunately the term “giving up” does not help the efforts of a smoker. the words “giving up” implies that in doing so that you will have to “do without” something or that you will be deprived of something that you like or want.

No one likes to be denied something that on some level they have accepted that they need, want or like. “Giving up” has similat connotations to the word “diet”. A diet implies limitations and depriving yourself of something you want or have had in the past.

If you start your good intention to stop smoking with the thought that you are giving up something, psychologically this perception does not help you to stay stopped in fact it may undermine your efforts to quit smoking for good.

A perception of giving up something implies that you continue to think about what you will miss by stopping smoking.  It also implies that smoking does something for you in a positive way, which, as a non-smoker you will have to cope without.

Many smokers view smoking as an aid to relaxation and having a chance to de-stress. In reality the nicotine that enters the blood stream, if anything makes you more tense. It doesn’t relax you. What does hel;p to release and relieve any stress and tension is what you do whilst you are smoking.

Most smokers do this when they are smoking:-

1) Step away from the place of stress to smoker (eg. step outside the office)

2) Take deeper breaths in (this is a well-known relaxation method)

3) Daydream about pleasant events (if they are alone) or get things off their chest by cursing something that has upset them.

4) Engage with fellow smokers – a kind of cameraderie that aids the pereception of shared experienes and helps de-stress someone

5) Smoke when drinking alcohol (alcohol provides temporary relaxation)

Smokers make an association between the above ideas and smoking and assume that it must be the cigarette or rollie that helps them to feel chilled or relaxed. In  reality it is those other things you do when you smoke that helps you to relax.

Giving Up Smoking – Good News

There is a way of stopping smoking without having the sense of giving up anything. Part of that way is to continue to do those things you used to do when you smoked. So you can still have those 5 minute work breaks and step away for a while. You can still mix with people who smoke and enjoy the cameraderie. You can still enjoy alcohol.

If you use this tactic you will not be giving up anything, you will in fact simply be stopping poisoning yourself. In doing so you will make the task of sticking to your decision to be a non-smoker much easier.
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Author’s Details

Steven Harold BA(Hons) DCH DHP
Quit Smoking Hypnotherapist – London and Essex

Website: www.stop-smoking-hypnosis.com Email: steve@stop-smoking-hypnosis.com
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Goal Acheivement and Life Success

Without doubt, the best way to overcome obstacles, emotional difficulties, bad habits and to achieve goals, is to see a gifted, experienced and well qualified hypnotherapist. It is through working through someone else, a professional who is able to provide insights that you might miss, or encourage you towards your goals using the best techniques and tools available that change is easiest. It is my opinion that the very best of these tools is something called 5-PATH ® (5 Phase Advanced Transformational Hypnosis) which helps to clear out old patterns, heal the past and move you forward to where you want to be.

The Power and Benefits of Self Hypnosis

However, some people can’t afford, or don’t want to see a therapist to overcome obstacles to achieving their goals, and prefer to work on themselves. This is where self-hypnosis comes in.

But, what is self hypnosis? Self-hypnosis can be used whenever you want to create feelings of calmness and relaxation and is a technique that you practice alone, in your own time and involves getting yourself into a relaxed state in order to give yourself helpful affirmations, or auto-suggestions, in order to train your subconscious to believe it. In order to be effective all suggestions need to be stated in the positive. For example, instead of “I am not panicking” you can say “I am calm and relaxed”. Since the brain does not process negatives very well, “I am not panicking” translates into “I am panicking”, giving you more of what you don’t want!

What is Hypnosis?

It is important to know that hypnosis is simply an altered state of awareness where you are focused but aware of what’s going on around you. Most people will find it extremely relaxing yet still be able to hear the outside world. You will also be able to attend to any emergencies should that be required.

Self Hypnosis – What to do

The more you practice self-hypnosis, the easier it will become. Whilst it is easier to learn it from a professional, here are some guidelines:

1. Decide how much time you want to spend in hypnosis
2. Get yourself nice and comfortable in a place where you will not be disturbed
3. Close your eyes and breathe deeply
4. Focus your attention on your breathing – imagine yourself breathing out tension  and anxiety and breathing in calm and relaxation
5. Imagine any worries, thoughts or concerns being floated away on a cloud
6. Suggest complete relaxation of all the muscles in your body starting from your toes, all the way up to the top of your head. Eg “my toes are comfortable and  relaxed, my feet are comfortable and relaxed…” etc. If it helps, you may want to tense each muscle before relaxing it.
7. Imagine yourself on a staircase of relaxation where there are ten steps. Count  yourself down each and every step and notice that with each one you are twice as relaxed, twice as calm and twice as comfortable as the step before. It helps to  say something along the lines of “One, deeper relaxed. Two, deeper relaxed,   etc…”

8. Self Hypnosis and The Power of Positive Suggestions

Give yourself suggestions, stated in the positive, for example:

    It is helpful to repeat a positive affirmation at least 15 times in each self-hypnosis         session.
    9. Emerge yourself by counting backwards from 5-1, feeling refreshed and alert.

Self Hypnosis and Your Imagination

This process is more powerful if you are able to visualise what you want, ie see yourself calm and relaxed and dealing with things easily, or at your ideal weight, or being out at a party with other smokers feeling confident without a cigarette, etc., etc.  

This process, simplified above, is easy to learn (though better “installed” by a hypnotherapist) and needs to be repeated in order to achieve the necessary changes. If you think about how long it took you to create the problem, you will realise that it will take a while to undo it and create new responses and/or habits. Or self-hypnosis can be used as needed to create a calm and resourceful state.

5-Path and 7-Path Hypnosis

There is an even more powerful way if you want to create transformational change. 7th Path Self Hypnosis ® is a tool developed by Cal Banyan, the creator of 5-PATH ® and is a mind-body-spirit approach to achieve change inside your own mind and in your own time.  

How it differs from regular self-hypnosis in that, like 5-PATH, it will help eliminate the blocks and negative programming from your psyche in order that you can then enjoy the benefits of the resources or new behaviours you want in their place. It is also easier to enter into the hypnotic state more quickly and thoroughly than the standard self-hypnosis.  

Think of it as an emotional detox and you will start to understand the profound benefits you can experience using 7th Path ® Self Hypnosis.  

Email: tricia@pw-hypnotherapy.co.uk
Website: http://www.pw-hypnotherapy.co.uk

Article Posted – 28h March 2007. Copyright Tricia Woolfrey

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Hypnotherapy is one of those complementary therapies about which there can be conflicting points of view. This is usually due to lack of understanding, aggravated by seeing stage hypnosis either live or on screen. However, if you ask around, you will soon find people who have been helped by hypnotherapy, whether it is those who want to stop smoking or lose weight, people who want to overcome their fear of flying, others who want to reduce the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, or students needing help with exam nerves. In fact, the list of issues which can be helped by hypnotherapy is surprisingly long. The common theme is that part of the problem lies somewhere in the unconscious mind.

What is Hypnotherapy?
So, what do we mean by hypnotherapy? Firstly, it is the use of hypnosis in a therapeutic context, as opposed to being used for entertainment as in stage hypnosis. Hypnosis is sometimes described as an altered state of consciousness. In fact, you are experiencing this kind of state when you are waking up, falling asleep, or daydreaming. A hypnotic trance should therefore be looked upon as a very natural state, but one where your conscious mind has either stepped aside for a while or has become more narrowly focused. The hypnotherapist uses the trance to make suggestions to the client’s unconscious mind, without those suggestions being intercepted by the conscious mind. There are a number of other “trance phenomena” which can be used by the hypnotherapist, including analgesia and anaesthesia, time distortion, and dissociation. Hypnotherapy is a “talking therapy” and it is what is said to the client while in trance which is important, rather than simply being in trance (although that is a very comfortable and relaxing state in itself).

Fifty years ago the British Medical Association confirmed that hypnosis was an appropriate treatment method (indeed, sometimes the method of choice) for a number of conditions. While hypnotherapy is used by some doctors, dentists and psychiatrists it is not generally available on the National Health Service. There are exceptions, and some hospitals do employ hypnotherapists (for example, the Withington Hospital in Manchester uses hypnotherapy to treat IBS, and St George’s Hospital in London uses hypnosis to calm people before having chemotherapy). One reason may be the lack of available time. A hypnotherapist would normally see a client for one hour or 1 1/2 hours and this would not fit easily into a GP’s timetable. Although the sessions may be long the treatment is likely to be relatively quick, for example when compared to psychotherapy. The number of sessions needed will vary with the complexity of the condition to be treated. For example, smoking or blushing might be dealt with in a single session, while weight management might need six or more sessions over a period of months.

Helping people with cancer
What can a hypnotherapist do to help somebody who has cancer? The hypnotherapist will want to make it clear that he or she is not expecting to “cure” a person of cancer simply by taking them into a hypnotic trance. That said, there is plenty of evidence that hypnotherapy can help people with cancer, even if it is only to improve their quality of life for the time being. The reason why hypnotherapy can be relevant is because mind, body and spirit are interconnected and any treatment needs to take this into account. The extraordinary advances in medical science have been due to a greater understanding of how the body works and this has led to an emphasis on physical treatment (radiotherapy, chemotherapy etc), but the mind has its part to play as well. Hypnotherapy can therefore be used alongside the conventional medical treatments for cancer, and for a number of different purposes, as this list shows:

1. Relaxation versus stress It is generally accepted that stress can reduce the effectiveness of the human immune system, so changing the body’s ability to deal with cancer cells. Finding out that you have cancer is certainly stressful and, if you were not stressed before, you probably will be when you receive the diagnosis. Stress is an attitude of mind: you cannot control the entire external world but you can decide how you are going to react to it. There are a number of ways of improving relaxation, and hypnotherapy is a very effective one. When you have your first hypnotherapy session you will probably be taken through a progressive relaxation, relaxing first the body and then the mind. Of course, it is not enough to be relaxed only when you are with your hypnotherapist. Most hypnotherapists teach their clients how to do self hypnosis, giving the client a simple technique for taking themselves into a relaxing hypnotic trance. After a little practice the client will find that they can reduce their feelings of stress and feel much better as a result.

2. Psychoneuroimmunology The relatively new study of psychoneuroimmunology has shown that there is a relationship between the mind and the human immune system. Encouraging the client to think about their immune system, and focus on what it can do for them, does have a beneficial effect. The hypnotherapist will start with guided visualisation of the immune system and will ask the client to give themselves affirmations about their immune system while they are in self hypnosis, which they will be asked to do at least daily. The client may also be asked to do drawings showing themselves, the cancer, their immune system and their treatment. They will be encouraged to think about their immune system, together with their treatment, as being strong and powerful in comparison with the cancer cells.

Further reading
The following books, which are not specifically about hypnotherapy, provide a mass of information about the way mind and body interacts.

Getting Well Again, by Carl Simonton and others. This classic work appeared in the 1970s and has provoked a lot of new thinking.
Love, Medicine and Miracles, by Bernie Siegel
The Sickening Mind, by Paul Martin, brings the story up-to-date in a wide-ranging review. It is particularly interesting on the effect of stress on the immune system.

3. Side-effects There are a number of side-effects to cancer treatment which can be distressing or uncomfortable. It may be possible to eliminate or reduce these side-effects using hypnotherapy. For example, anticipatory nausea may arise in people going for chemotherapy. The fact that it happens before rather than after the treatment indicates that it has a psychological cause (although it is nonetheless real nausea). People taking tamoxifen sometimes experience hot flushes. We know that blushing has a psychological cause, and can be treated using hypnotherapy, so we can use similar techniques to help to reduce hot flushes. Other side-effects such as fear or depression can also be helped with hypnotherapy.

4. Preparation for surgery Hypnosis can be used in place of a general anaesthetic for some forms of surgery. This is of particular interest for those who find the after effects of a general anaesthetic to be unpleasant. However, a more common use of hypnotherapy is to help to prepare a client for surgery. This takes several forms. Firstly, a relaxed client who is expecting the operation to go well and who is expecting to recover quickly is likely to make better progress than one who is fearful and anxious. Secondly, the client can be trained to respond to suggestions given by the surgeon during an operation. While under a general anaesthetic a person’s conscious mind may be closed but their sense of hearing and their unconscious mind are still open. The surgeon can therefore give suggestions about bloodflow and healing to which the person’s unconscious mind can respond.

5. Self confidence and empowerment When a person is told that they have cancer there is a natural tendency for this fact to dominate their thinking and for them not be able to see beyond their recovery. Because they are in a situation which they have not had to face before they may feel overreliant on others (doctor, consultant, nursing staff) and feel they have lost control of their own lives. Hypnotherapy can help to re-establish their self-confidence, empower them in their dealings with others, and extend their focus to what they want to do with the rest of their lives. They will be encouraged to think about their goals (in addition to recovery), and to consider these goals when in self hypnosis. Establishing a goal as important in the unconscious mind will result in much better motivation.

6. Other issues People with cancer have the same issues as everybody else but the cancer may bring a particular issue to the fore. For example, a needle phobia, which was largely irrelevant in the past, may become very significant for somebody who is now visiting hospital much more than before. Emotional issues which have been put to one side in the past may become more important for somebody considering a reduced life expectancy.

7. Carers A person caring for somebody they love, and having to face the fact that they may die, will certainly benefit from the relaxation techniques and understanding that a hypnotherapist can provide. A carer may need help to focus on their own needs as well as on those of the person they are caring for.

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Patrick Browning, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Kensington London
Email: Patrick@Browning-hypnosis.co.uk
Website: www.Browning-Hypnosis.co.uk
Article Posted – 16th February 2007.
Copyright Patrick Browning

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