Anxiety and stress and Cognitive Behaviour Hypnotherapy
Examples of stressful situations:
- My job is stressful
- I get really stressed driving in the city
- Living in the city is stressful
- My family stress me out
- Looking after children is stressful
- Job interviews are stressful
And so on and so on. I am sure you can add more to the list….
The truth is that the above are all triggers. It is our subconscious beliefs about these situations that create our response.
For example take 100 people who have challenging jobs.
Some may suffer from severe stress, some may feel it motivates them and some may take it all in their stride.
The trigger is the same, but our response is created by our beliefs.
Beliefs can be healthy or unhealthy. Unhealthy beliefs lead to unhealthy thought, feelings, behaviour and symptoms
Unhealthy beliefs are rigid, unrealistic, don’t make sense and don’t help you. Unhealthy beliefs are usually in the form of musts, should or have to.
Take for example someone at work whose unhealthy belief is “I must complete all my work, if I don’t , its awful, like the end of the world, I can’t stand it, I am useless and a complete failure.
The person with this belief is going to feel stressed for the majority of the time as pressure at work often means that we cannot always complete everything.
A healthier belief will create a different response, they are not likely to suffer from stress.
CBH is a structured process that involves uncovering your subconscious unhealthy beliefs, changing them to healthier beliefs, which results in healthier thoughts, feelings behaviour and symptoms. Unhealthy beliefs are rigid, unrealistic, don’t make sense and don’t help you.
Healthy beliefs are flexible, logical, realistic and help you
Hypnotherapy adds a powerful dynamic in that it weakens the unhealthy beliefs and strengthens the healthy beliefs. The process also involves tasks and challenges that you carry out between the sessions. CBH is a proactive proven therapy. Results can be achieved in 6 hours.
