How to combat
stress and worry
 Stress
and depression are the biggest single cause of absenteeism
in the workforce today. The current volume of litigation
against so many businesses due to stress related
problems is merely the tip of the iceberg, for stress
- or to be more accurate "distress" -
is the overloading of peoples physical, emotional
and mental systems that can lead to depression and
could almost be regarded as an epidemic. Obviously,
not only business managers but also a number of
individuals are now turning to stress management
as a pathway to a happy, healthy, successful, and
enjoyable lifestyle.
Mental pressure
There are a wide range of differing reasons for
the varied levels of mental pressure build up in
an individual.
Each person will react in a different way to
the same set of pressure stimulants. These reactions
will in some part be result of things that have
happened in the past (often a result of childhood
influences) and the individual character types.
Accept stress as a fact
It is a fact that we do need stress - to give
meaning to our lives. There can be no highs in
life without some lows, life without highs and
lows would be a flat lie !
We all need to accept stress as a fact in our
daily lives. Nobody can take your stress away
from you, its your stress and there is only one
person that can deal with it.
How many of these signs
do you recognise?
minor health problems (upset stomach, headache,
cold, flu, pains, rashes)
missed menstrual periods
loss of confidence or feeling of low self esteem
depression, feeling of hopelessness
feeling of intense fatigue, even after sleep
indigestion, eating disorders
self blame, guilt, cynicism, sense of total failure
anger and resentment at nothing in particular
lowered sex drive
extreme reluctance to go to work
greater dependency on alcohol, caffeine, nicotine
or drugs
loss of appetite or eating binges
Origins of stress
The origins of stress are as old as time itself
- it is a function of part of our primitive brain.
If we look at the times of early cave man and
consider him walking across a clearing with a
club over his shoulder, relaxed and happy. Just
then, around the corner comes a prehistoric wild
beast. As you would expect our cave man would
instantly register danger and signals would be
sent to the brain which we generally refer to
as FIGHT or FLIGHT. That's all very well, but
we no longer come face to face with wild animals
and of course our "stressors" come in
different guises.
What happens when stress
and pressures occur?
In these modern and relatively safe times, most
of our stress responses are set off by our own
thoughts, but it is widely accepted that we all
think and imagine in one of three ways : seeing,
hearing & feeling (emotion). There are further
triggers, which can come from within, that consciously
have no known origin and tend to manifest themselves
in anxiety or panic. This is named free-floating
anxiety. Once stress is triggered responses come
in two forms - Chemical & Physical:
Chemical: Adrenaline, Noradrenaline, Cortisone,
Testosterone, Thyroxin & Endorphines
Physical: Breathing, Heart Rate, Blood Pressure,
Blood Flow, Digestion, and Muscular Tension
Taking positive control
of stress
A person who is stressed is like a car running
on high tick over - we need to examine the cause(s)
of the problem(s) and take a positive control
of the situation and reduce that "tick over"
to an acceptable level. Hypnotherapy is particularly
successful as a means of controlling the excesses
of stress.
A successful course of HYPNOANALYSIS will get
to the cause of the free floating anxiety that
is at the bottom of the way we react to stress.
If the symptoms are not critical and just require
a quick fix, for example, a particularly stressful
period of work, family life etc.and it needs to
be dealt with immediately then a few sessions
of suggestion therapy will get one through it.
Analytical therapy (
Pure Hypnoanalysis )
 Hypno-analysis,
a very special type of hypnotherapy, is one of
the best methods in the world for treating emotional,
psychological or anxiety-related problems. IAPH
hypnotherapists specialise in a 'pure' type of
hypno-analysis which is not taught nor practiced
anywhere else in the world. It is unique and a uniquely successful
therapy which allows the client to resolve the
very root cause of their problem, helping them
to change their lives signifcantly in a short
space of time.
Analytical therapy is used to discover the sensitizing
event ( the cause ) of psychological problems. This is simply an emotional conflict from childhood. PURE HYPNOANALYSIS will allow a flow of memories, to guide you to a conflict that in childhood was simply locked away .
PURE HYPNOANALYSIS will allow the emotional content
release. The emotion once released will take with
it its many direct and indirect symptoms.
The conflict can then be viewed as an
adult and placed in proper perspective, ensuring
the anxiety, and the symptoms cannot return.
Rest assured, if you come and see me, Danny Nuttall,
at the Bath and West Hypnotherapy Clinic, I will
use all my clinical skills and experience in order
to help you resolve your problem as quickly as
possible
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