What is Stress?

Stress is a natural response to the challenges of our everyday life. However, if the stress we experience is too frequent, extreme or prolonged, our health will be affected.

Stress is often indicated by fatigue, insomnia, irritability, nervousness, worrying or depression. If left unchecked, more serious medical problems may develop, including high blood pressure, migraines, diabetes, strokes and even cancer.

The aim is not to eradicate all stress from our lives, but to manage it in a healthier way, allowing us to achieve more of our personal potential and to enjoy life.

What Causes Stress?

The human brain receives messages from several sources, each dealing with separate types of information. Input dealing with everyday matters such as news, music, jobs, relationships, weather etc. comes from the external environment. Our own bodies provide data concerning movement, digestion, tension, pain etc., all in the form of message units sent to the brain.

The conscious mind deals with logic and reasoning, decisions, goals, planning, and all conscious activities. The subconscious mind wields the greatest influence on us and receives all its messages from our senses, neither accepting nor rejecting information according to logic or ‘deep thinking’. The evaluation of incoming messages is left to the conscious mind. When threatening conditions exist, we revert to the use of primitive reflexes and behaviors as a means of defense and safety for ourselves.

When the conscious mind can no longer adequately deal with the stressors that overload the brain, we suffer a sort of ‘fight or flight’ dilemma. The body often responds with a fast heart rate, breathing rate increases, the pupils of our eyes widen, and all of our energy is rushed to the muscles in preparation to stay and fight the battle, or flee quickly. Sometimes there is nothing to fight. How can we fight the environment? The job stress? A screaming child cutting teeth? A poor decision we’ve made?

Anxiety & Stress result… and we’re left with the feelings of nervousness, sick stomach, headache, racing thoughts, tremors, and the feeling that there may be no escape. After repeated and prolonged stress, the body often starts to turn to apathy, depression, and negativity. At this time it sure is easy to allow our behaviors to remove us from the awful feelings with overeating, smoking, nail biting, teeth grinding, poor concentration, irritability, restlessness, and a myriad of other reactions-turned-habits.

If you are experiencing unrelenting stress and anxiety, you should seek the attention of a medical and/or psychological professional. Every individual is different intolerance levels to stress. Every person’s ability to cope or react to stress varies due to heredity, environment, previous responses to stress, and many more contributing factors.

Through hypnosis and NLP positive, new responses can be created to replace the devastating reactions you’ve used in the past. Future responses can be helpful and energize you, relieving the fear and promoting your successful handling of new, stressful times.

• You can learn how to stop eating junk food or chain-smoking cigarettes when stressed.
• You can learn to remain focused on your goal when that algebra or licensing test looms.
• You can learn to quiet your thoughts and muscles to promote rest and rejuvenation.
• You can learn to cope with situations effectively and with confidence.
  

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