Anxiety Release

Stress and anxiety are all too common in many people’s lives these days. The pace of life has become such that our natural survival instinct of fight, flight, or freeze is triggered with alarming frequency. It was once a way to protect us from fierce sabre tooth tigers giving us the adrenaline rush to either fight or make a quick getaway. These days however we seem to be surrounded by paper tigers!!

Our bodies reaction to what we perceive as threats is to release adrenaline and cortisol (stress hormones) and when we don’t fight or flee, these powerful hormones have a damaging effect on both our mental and physical health. The freeze response can also stop us in our tracks when we become paralysed by fear and anxiety to the point where even making the simplest of decisions can seem impossible.

Symptoms of stress and anxiety include: feeling inadequate, constant worrying/catastrophising, emotional swings, muscle tension, teeth clenching, headaches, racing heart, sleep disturbance, trembling, shallow breathing or feeling as though you can’t breathe.

Hypnosis is a state of fixated attention and relaxation which allows positive suggestions to enter the unconscious mind. Hypnosis activates the relaxation response by triggering the parasympathetic nervous system which then slows our breathing, heart rate and can lower blood pressure. You can think of it like a mini vacation!  Not only does it allow a person to relax deeply, it also allows for neuroplasticity to occur.

Neuroplasticity is a process we are all capable of and consists of creating new neural pathways in the brain, thereby altering patterns of behaviour. In hypnosis I can move you away from the problem and towards the solution by focussing your unconscious mind on your desired outcome.

 Assisting people to manage their levels of stress and anxiety, helping them to access their inherent resources is where my passion lies, because I’ve been there and come out the other side.