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More than ever before scientific research is confirming the essential responsibility played by stress in triggering or aggravating numerous physical and emotional afflictions. In the June 6, 1983 issue of Time Magazine, the cover story labeled stress "The Epidemic of the Eighties." The article also said that stress is our considerable health issue. Indeed there is very little doubt that the world has become even more complicated and stressful over the past twenty-five years since that article was written.
Many surveys show that most adults have the impression of being under a great deal of stress. Researchers in this domain estimate that between 75 and 90 percent of all visits to PCPs (Primary Care Physicians) are related to stress.
Most people report that their job is the main cause of their stress. Stress levels have also increased in children as well as the senior population for reasons including: Peer pressures that often push people to everything from cigarette smoking to alcoholism and drug abuse; the dissolution of religion and family values; growing crime rates; threats to personal security; and last but not least social isolation and loneliness.
Stress can cause and aggravate problems such as diabetes, ulcers, low back and neck pain, hypertension, strokes and heart attacks. This is because of the increased sympathetic nervous system activity along with the release of cortisol, adrenaline, and other hormones. Chronic stress has been associated with impaired immune system resistance. Stress can be responsible for anxiety, depression, and its different impacts on one's organs.
"Stress" is defined as follows by the American Heritage Dictionary:
"To subject to physical or mental pressure, tension, or strain"
It defines "tension" as follows:
"Mental, emotional, or nervous strain"
It defines "anxiety" as follows:
"A state of uneasiness and apprehension, as about future uncertainties"
And the following is the definition of "depression":
"The condition of feeling sad or despondent"
"Clinical depression" is defined as follows:
"A psychiatric disorder characterized by an inability to concentrate, insomnia, loss of appetite, anhedonia, feelings of extreme sadness, guilt, helplessness and hopelessness, and thoughts of death."
What we can be sure of is that our mind is the major cause of our experience of stress, anxiety and depression. Put differently, what we think about, and our attitudes and the way we view our experiences strongly influence our feelings. That way, if we can learn to alter our thoughts, attitudes, and points of view, we can be relieved of our feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression and replace them with a better state of being.
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The pharmaceutical industry seems to have a pill for everything. For that the industry has developed a large line of tranquilizers from Valium to Xanax. If you choose to utilize drugs for relief, please make sure that you pay attention to the fine print and learn about the side effects, which most of the time include addiction and dependency. Unfortunately, these sorts of drugs attempt to treat the symptoms, instead of the cause. So as soon as one stops taking them, the symptoms can come back.
A more intelligent way of getting rid of tension, stress, anxiety, and depression is to try to cure the root cause, which as I wrote before, is usually our thought processes. There is the good news. The very essence of hypnosis is relaxing. The AMA accepted hypnosis in 1958 as an effective way to treat stress or stress related symptoms. But unlike anxiolytics, there are definitely no bad side effects.
Hypnosis is the Alpha level of consciousness. It's the daydream like temporary psychological state which we experience as we're just about to fall asleep at night. And we experience it another time as we wake up again. There are several different ways that will help us guide ourselves into this condition of tranquility, from step-by-step relaxation to visual imagery to listening to hypnosis CD's.
Once we are in the hypnotic state, we can interact with our unconscious mind, which is the center of our feelings. And it becomes easier to admit new points of view and ideas which can help us to get rid of anxiety, or even prevent it from occurring in the first place.
NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), which is a recent sort of hypnotherapy, offers numerous great methods for dissipating stress. Perhaps the technique that works best is called the "swish" pattern - or the "flash" pattern. When you use the "flash" pattern, your unconscious will automatically use negative, stress triggering mental images, to create tranquilizing mental images. Otherwise stated, what commonly makes you feel stress will now make you feel more relaxed!
TO SUM THINGS UP
Tension, stress, anxiety, and depression can be prompted by our thoughts. So by changing our attitude and the way we perceive our situation and what we have lived, we can get rid of these feelings at the root. Hypnosis and NLP are natural tools that we can use to help us change our attitude and point of view to easily get rid of the main cause of our negative feelings.
