These days, the current pandemic situation and living through COVID can really amp up the stress levels in our body. Losing your jobs, seeing your loved ones and friends get sick, among others. It can bring out the stress and insecurities that you never even knew you had. With that being said, is it entirely possible to start reducing stress through meditation, positive affirmations and self-hypnosis?
As a personal practitioner of Hypnosis throughout the years, I have seen how hypnosis can really change one’s mindset. Simply put, hypnosis promotes a relaxed, peaceful and focused mind. Especially during this time of pandemic, a quiet time while practicing hypnosis can really help in reducing stress.
Most people can be trained to enter this state of deep relaxation and purposefully. You can even listen to audio instructions and practice self-hypnosis within your home while in a quarantine lockdown.
Reducing Stress Through Hypnosis
By quieting down the body and the mind, hypnosis sets into motion a chain reaction of physiological responses. Thus, reducing stress is entirely possible through hypnosis too. Hypnosis reduces the effects of stress on the body by thwarting the “flight or fight” response. Some of these effects are lowering heart rate and blood pressure and relaxing muscle tension. These changes, in turn, stimulate other positive changes such as lowered production of stress hormones and increase of protective T-cell production by the immune system.
Since the 1970’s a growing number of scientific studies indicate that hypnosis, among other “mind/body” therapies such as biofeedback and meditation are effective options in treatment of illness where stress is a major factor. While not meant to take the place of traditional medical care, hypnosis can be a therapy.
With this self-hypnosis program, your subconscious mind can be taught to relax every part of your body, every muscle can be relaxed. Through this relaxation technique, the stress can seep out of your body, leaving you to feel refreshed and re-energized.
And you can use this to help you get through the anxiety of being caught in a lockdown during this pandemic.
It is important that you take time for yourself. Reducing stress benefits you in so many ways. It allows you to face each day with a positive attitude and to take on any challenges that may come your way. Help yourself today. Alza Fintrion