Stress management, relationship problems and freedom from anxiety

By using hypnotherapy techniques, a hypnotherapist can help you with problems of stress and anxiety. Anxiety and stress are present to some degree in nearly everyone's lives and can be caused by a number of factors including work, relationships, exams and family problems. The sources of stress and anxiety are varied and unique to each individual. The way we react to and manage our stress also varies.

What dictates whether or not we will become overwhelmed or badly affected by anxiety or stress will depend on a combination of; how much stress we are under at any given time, how many stressful situations are prevalent in our life at a given time and our individual coping styles. When one adds together these three factors, if all are pointing towards higher stress levels, then the likelihood of some type of stress crisis becomes higher.

Some ways in which high levels of stress and/or anxiety can manifest:

• Short tempered, irritable, perhaps withdrawn
• Difficulty in relating to others
• Problems sleeping and possibly early morning waking
• Not coping with work or home responsibilities
• Drinking too much or perhaps abusing prescription drugs
• Symptoms of extreme anxiety or even panic
• Difficulty / finding it impossible to go to certain places or leave the safety of home
• Dizziness, palpitations, sweating
• Feeling unreal and out of place
• Some sufferers have difficult intrusive thoughts that can be frightening or disturbing.
• Others may have obsessive or repetitive ritualistic behaviours

Hypnotherapy can help to reduce or even alleviate certain surface stress and anxiety symptoms whilst helping you to find the causes of stress and anxiety. It can also be used to facilitate inner healing from old problems which may be at the root of what is generating the undue stress.

Hypnotherapy can do this by providing a kind of window to the unconscious mind. This can help the therapist and client better understand and then treat some of the deeper causal factors present in some people's anxiety problems.

A hypnotherapist can help you to find inner resources that you perhaps need to change stressful behaviours. Hypnotherapy will help you deal with everyday stress in a positive rather than a negative manner. Hypnosis will not make you invulnerable to stress and anxiety, but rather your subconscious will learn to deal with it in different ways.