YOU FEEL STRESSED SO YOU USE SOMETHING TO COPE.
Hypnotist Valerie Grimes explains how hypnosis brings awareness of your stressors (the cause of your dependency on coping devices) and the natural ability to change your current “go to” stress reliever.
When we are stressed we reach for what we think works, methods such as:
- Alcohol
- Tobacco and other drugs
- Overexertion
- High-risk behaviors
- Overeating
- Cruelty
- Illness or injury produced by stress
- Sex-Orgasm
The reasons people use methods of stress release remain as complex and varied as the personality itself. Factors may include early, random, or even accidental exposure to that form of release, the subconscious modeling or parental behaviors, peer pressure, beliefs, values, and associations or simply the fact that other methods are unavailable.
Hypnosis uncovers and transform the source of addiction: stress.
Each of the following methods may work in different ways but all work to release pent-up stress, sometimes life times of stress. High-risk behavior works through a rush of adrenaline and the following period of “relaxation” or lassitude. Drugs lead to immediate lethargy. Each method has benefits and liabilities. They all share they primary benefit of producing a sense of satisfaction and a reduction of internal stress. However, over time loose the original effectiveness and the person becomes trapped in a counter-productive pattern.
Alcohol is often favored by those who seek a relatively passive or easy way to escape the pain of the everyday world; which is really the pain within their own psyche. Others may use alcohol as a means of finding altered states, or seeing a more open, spiritual connection with life. Unfortunately, the long-term results are the opposite.
Tobacco and Other Drugs
The method of drugs includes overuse and misuse of social drugs such as tobacco, coffee and even sodas that contain caffeine as well as the misuse of drugs such as uppers, downers and illegal drugs. These drugs produce not only a psychological dependence but a strong physiological compulsion as well.
Illness and injury serve as a common method for children who don’t have ready access to other means of releasing pent-up energy. Those who use this method as an adult may have found as children that illness or injury were among the only ways they got their parents attention and a means to stay home from school or work or to avoid responsibility that seemed burdensome.
Overexertion or overwork become a path for those who feel driven to high achievement, unrealistic standards of fitness or puritanical work values.
Fear serves as a method for many different people for various reasons. Phobias or panic attacks often come to those who feel repressed or inhibited and who refrain from using other methods, or during times of unusual stress when usual means aren’t enough. Those who are more extroverted may consciously choose suspenseful, shocking, humorous or sad movies. Thrill seeking, gambling, or other high-risk behaviors may be motivated by the drive for excitement, getting high, and living on the edge. Crime is often used by those who are under-skilled, under-educated, or who feel angry at what they perceive as unfair society.
Overeating may serve as a psychological insulation from life or as a perceived protection against unwanted attention for those who have been sexually abused. It may also result from lack of education about food, familial pressures, or blocked creativity. Our subconscious mind may have associations between food, especially sweets and treats, and a form of love or indulgence; they may be trying to fill a lack that will never be filled until they learn to love themselves and feel loved.
Cruelty serves those feeling tremendous inner pain, self-hatred, and frustration (though it may not show at the surface). Work with a therapist and support group can help break through the walls of agonizing childhoods so that they can feel loved and cared for.
Orgasm, like food, services as a primary biological drive to release and is easy to access.
HYPNOSIS HELPS.
Right now, whether you like it or not, your body is choosing the stress response because it lacks a more compelling alternative.
Hypnosis teaches you how to use your mind to control reaction to stress, with hypnosis, you slowly expand the amount of time you are in relaxation mode until your mind and body choose it naturally.
WHY WAIT FOR THE NEXT STRESSFUL EVENT?
Hypnosis is a state to examine your current responses to stress and create a relaxation response. In that state you can dissolve the pent up stress energy so that compulsions fade. It is a natural state of focused attention that allows powerful transformations that are lasting because they are subconscious. Call for consultation 972-974-2094 or schedule your first appointment. We make the process stress-free.