Stress, tension and anxiety can be defined as the way you feel when you’re under too much pressure. Pressure can be caused from work, home or our personal lives, and each individual will cope differently with these levels of stress. What one person may regard as highly stressful, another person may only regard as mildly stressful or not stressful at all. Problems occur when individuals perceive themselves as unable to cope with the level of stress they face, and feel they are not capable to combat their stress.
Anxiety can be experienced at different levels, and although most people experience a relatively mild form of anxiety when facing particularly stressful situations (such as a speech or presentation) anxiety disorders are severe and can disrupt the day-to-day life of an individual. Anxiety can be brought on by a fear of something that happened, or what we think happened and dread happening again. When individuals suffer from an anxiety disorder it may lead to avoidance of certain situations because they fear their anxiety may be triggered. This can in turn lead to relationship and/or career problems such as not being able to achieve potential job opportunities or promotions and being unable to develop personal relationships.
As it is not the situation itself that causes stress and anxiety (or everyone would be stressed by and anxious about the same situation), but our reaction to the situation, hypnotherapy can be effective for managing stress and anxiety. By altering your reaction to a particular situation during hypnosis to a more positive one, the feelings about that situation can also become more positive. When you then experience that situation in real life, your reaction will be much different.
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