What is Stress?
The subject of stress has become a common topic of conversation. We often hear friends, classmates, coworkers, and family members talk about the problems they have in managing the stresses of everyday living. We say we feel 'b?urned out,' stressed out, overwhelmed, angry, irritable, depressed, anxious, and on the verge of 'losing it.'
Stress can be defined as our mental, physical, emotional, and behavioral reactions to any perceived demands or threats.
What does managing stress and learning relaxation ?
Some of the early research on stress (conducted by Walter Cannon in 1932) established the existence of the well-known 'fight-or-flight' response. His work showed that when an organism experiences a shock or perceives a threat, it quickly releases hormones that help it to survive.
In humans, as in other animals, these hormones help us to run faster and fight harder. They increase heart rate and blood pressure, delivering more oxygen and blood sugar to power important muscles. They increase sweating in an effort to cool these muscles, and help them stay efficient. They divert blood away from the skin to the core of our bodies, reducing blood loss if we are damaged. As well as this, these hormones focus our attention on the threat, to the exclusion of everything else. All of this significantly improves our ability to survive life-threatening events.
Not only life-threatening events trigger this reaction: We experience it almost any time we come across something unexpected or something that frustrates our goals. When the threat is small, our response is small and we often do not notice it among the many other distractions of a stressful situation.
Unfortunately, this mobilisation of the body for survival also has negative consequences. In this state, we are excitable, anxious, jumpy and irritable. This actually reduces our ability to work effectively with other people. With trembling and a pounding heart, we can find it difficult to execute precise, controlled skills. The intensity of our focus on survival interferes with our ability to make fine judgements by drawing information from many sources. We find ourselves more accident-prone and less able to make good decisions.
There are very few situations in modern working life where this response is useful. Most situations benefit from a calm, rational, controlled and socially sensitive approach. In the short term, we need to keep this fight-or-flight response under control to be effective in our jobs. In the long term we need to keep it under control to avoid problems of poor health and burnout.
Most companies are aware of the impact of stress upon their staff. We can help and support you in successfully managing stress and to avoid the problems of long-term stress. By identifying the causes and symptoms of stress, We can work together with clients to find the most appropriate intervention - either for the individual or the organisation! Tackling stress increases performance, productivity and morale, through enhanced individual and organisational health and well-being
How may stress reveal itself?
* Chest Pains
* Feeling permanently tired
* Frequent headaches
* Frequent colds and other minor ailments
* Sweating and palpitations
* Regular insomnia
* Muscle aches
* Sweeping nausea
* Feeling dizzy
* Panic attacks
* Feeling anxious
* Feeling angry
* Feelings of depression
* Forgetfulness
* Irrational fears and phobias
* Frequent mood swings
* Feelings of guilt and shame
* Feelings of powerlessness and helplessness
* Feeling a lack of control
There are various tools and techniques that may be applied to the management of stress, anxiety and panic attacks.
How can clinical hypnotherapy help you manage stress?
Working together, you can learn and apply a series of tools and techniques for coping with everyday stressful situations, as well as the more situational stressful situations, such as flying, public speaking and sitting examinations. You will also learn how to relax, build your confidence and successfully manage the various stress-associated symptoms such as phobias, panic attacks as well as feelings of powerlessness and helplessness.
Self-esteem, confidence and improving personal relationships
Clinical hypnosis is an amazingly powerful way to help improve your overall self-esteem and improve your interpersonal skills and relationships
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