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Stress Management

Stress is caused by the demands placed upon us.  Learning to respond to life rather than reacting is the key to stress management. This is a learnable skill - it doesn't always come naturally.  Learn effective stress management tools today.

Stress | Responding Rather Than Reacting To Life

Life would be boring without some stress.  Consider retirees... how many people have you heard of who find retirement difficult and decide to do voluntary work or sink into depression or self-destructive behaviours.  There even seem to be a few that die from the boredom and lack of challenges. 

Stress | The Art of Balance

The goal then is finding a healthy balance between our skills and resources and the way we deal with demands.  Most people have too many demands, not too few, and become "stressed out".  Stress can affect our physical and our emotional health. 

Picture this... a playground seesaw...

On one end is your resources, and the other end is the demands life deals you (or you create).

If demands out weigh resources, (as in the cartoon on the left), you become stressed. 

In the ideal world, both ends would be off the ground and at similar height, your resources and demands would be balanced. It would be easy to meet the demands life dealt. 

Where does stress come from?

Stress is both internal and external; it can be cognitive, emotional, physical and behavioural. Each category comes with it's own symptoms.  To find out more about symptoms of stress (many you'll already know) click here.

External Stress

In a common external stress for many of us is the acceleration of technology.  How many people take their work home with them (i.e. their lap top or their i-phone); how many students spend more than 2 hours per day on face-book?   Other external sources of stress include family, work, the weather, interest rates, and major life events.  And if you've got teenage children, welcome to a whole new realm of parenting! Employment is no longer permanent and stable. Finances are changable in the flash of an eye. And the stock market... well let's not go there.  Let's face it, to get through life's challenges, you have to have a competitive edge, but at what cost?

Internal Stress

Internal sources of stress can be even more demanding the external sources!  Physical and mental illness, internal feelings of shame, guilt, embarrassment, beliefs about your performance and your own self-criticism or worse yet - internalisation your parents voice! (How ghastly) Internal stresses can result in feeling like life has no meaning, hopelessness, helplessness, substance abuse, agressive / abusive behavious, anger, plus many unreleased issues from your past.

Treatment Options

Hypnotherapy and Professional Counselling can effectively treat stress and improve relationships (with self and others) quickly.  Hypnotherapy can help you water "thought seed" that will grow productive fruits, while weeding out "thought seed" that are growing weeds.

If your inner or outer health is suffering, call today to find out more about how we can help you.

Common Questions About The Stress Affect

So how does stress actually affect your health? What does it feel like when you are being attacked from the inside? how does "fight or flight" work?   To find these answers and more... check out Stress Warning Signs & Symptom here.

When you are ready to learn good stress management to rearrange your life, decrease your demands, and learn new coping skills, give me a call.  If you are ready do take life off "automatic pilot" and take control, STOP!  It's time for you to pay attention!  It's time we talked. 

I can offer you a free 20 minute chat so you can decide for yourself if hypnotherapy will help you with your stress management issues.   Talk to us.