NLP Can Eliminate Stress And Anxiety So You Can Relax

More than ever, scientific surveys are attesting the fundamental responsibility played by stress in triggering or aggravating many psychological and physical afflictions. In the June 6, 1983 issue of Time Magazine, the cover story called stress "The Epidemic of the Eighties." It also claimed that stress is our considerable health problem. Indeed one has to acknowledge that the world has become even more complex and stressful in the past two decades since that article was published.

A lot of surveys show that almost everybody is under the impression of being under a lot of stress. Researchers in the field estimate that 75 - 90 percent of all visits to PCPs (Primary Care Physicians) somehow have to do with stress.

Most adults report their stress is primarily due to their job. The levels of stress have also grown in children and the senior population because of several reasons including: Peer pressures that often push people to everything from smoking to alcoholism and drug abuse; the dissolution of religion and family values; increased crime rates; fear for personal safety; but also social isolation and loneliness.

Stress can be responsible for conditions such as diabetes, ulcers, low back and neck pain, hypertension, strokes and heart attacks. This is due to the ever growing sympathetic nervous system activity along with the release of cortisol, adrenaline, and other hormones. Chronic stress is corollary of lower immune system resistance. Stress can be responsible for anxiety, depression, and its several impacts on one's organs.
The American Heritage Dictionary defines "stress" as follows:
"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"

The following definition is given for "clinical depression":
"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."

We can be sure of one thing, our mind is the first reason for our experience of stress, anxiety and depression. In other words, what we think about, and our attitudes and points of view about our experiences create our feelings. So if we can learn to alter our thoughts, attitudes, and points of view, then we can release our feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression and change them for a more positive state of being.

People have always tried to find methods that would allow them to release stress. With the pharmaceutical industry there seems to be a drug for everything. And to that end the industry has developed a large line of sedatives from Valium to Xanax. If you choose to use drugs for relief, please make sure that you are aware of the side-effects by reading the fine print, which most of the time are, among others, addiction and dependency. Unfortunately, these kinds of drugs aim at treating the symptoms, but not the cause. So as soon as one stops taking them, the symptoms can come back.

A better way of eliminating tension, stress, anxiety, and depression is to treat the root cause, which as I said above, is usually our thought processes. Here is the good news. The very essence of hypnosis is relaxation. The AMA recognized hypnosis in 1958 as an effective method of treating stress or stress related symptoms. Moreover unlike anxiolytics, there are completely no undesirable side effects.

Hypnosis is the Alpha level of consciousness. It's the daydream like temporary psychological frame of mind which we experience as we're about to fall asleep at night. And we experience it another time as we awaken again. There are a lot of different ways that will help us guide ourselves into this condition of tranquility, from progressive relaxation to visual imagery to listening to hypnosis CD's.

Once we access a hypnotic state, we can communicate with our unconscious mind, which is the seat of our emotions. And it becomes easier to accept new points of view and ideas that will help us to get rid of anxiety, or even prevent it from occurring in the first place.

NLP, which is a modern sort of hypnotherapy, has numerous great techniques for eliminating stress. Maybe the technique that works best is called the "swish" pattern - or the "flash" pattern. After using this technique, your unconscious will automatically use negative, stress producing mental pictures, as triggers for relaxation producing mental pictures. In other words, your stressors will now trigger relaxation!

TO SUMMARIZE
Our thoughts can activate depression, anxiety and tension. So by changing our attitude and point of view towards our situation and our experiences, we can get rid of these feelings at the root. Hypnosis and NLP are natural tools that allow us to change our attitude and point of view to easily get rid of the source of these negative feelings.