[P321]Physical Symptoms Of Anxiety Stress

Now more than ever, scientific research is attesting the fundamental role of stress in triggering or aggravating a lot of physical and emotional disorders. A cover story from a 1983 Time Magazine called stress "The Epidemic of the Eighties." It also claimed that stress is our considerable health issue. Indeed one has to acknowledge that our world has become more and more complex and stressful in the last 25 years since that article was published.

Many surveys indicate that most adults are under the impression of being subject to a great deal of stress. Researchers in the field estimate that 75 to 90 percent of all visits to primary care physicians are for stress related problems.

Most people report their stress is for the most part due to their job. Stress levels have also grown in children as well as the senior population because of several reasons including: Peer pressures that often lead to everything from smoking to alcoholism and drug abuse; the dissolution of family and religious values and ties; growing crime rates; threats to personal security; but also social isolation and loneliness.

Stress contributes to conditions such as diabetes, ulcers, low back and neck pain, hypertension, strokes and heart attacks. This is due to the ever growing sympathetic nervous system activity along with a high level of cortisol, adrenaline, and other hormones. Chronic stress is often associated with defective immune system resistance. Stress can be responsible for anxiety, depression, and its various impacts on one's organs.
The following definition for "stress" can be found in the American Heritage Dictionary:
"To subject to physical or mental pressure, tension, or strain"

The following is the definition of "tension" from the same dictionary:
"Mental, emotional, or nervous strain"

The following definition is given for "anxiety":
"A state of uneasiness and apprehension, as about future uncertainties"

And the following is the definition of "depression":
"The condition of feeling sad or despondent"

The following is the definition of "clinical depression":
"A psychiatric disorder characterized by an inability to concentrate, insomnia, loss of appetite, anhedonia, feelings of extreme sadness, guilt, helplessness and hopelessness, and thoughts of death."

We can nonetheless be sure that our mind is the chief reason for our feelings of stress, anxiety and depression. To put it into different words, what we think about, and our attitudes and the way we view our experiences create what we feel. That way, if we can learn to modify our thoughts, attitudes, and points of view, we can release our stress, anxiety, and depression and replace them with a more positive state of being.

People have always searched for methods that would allow them to get rid of stress. With the pharmaceutical industry there seems to be a pill for everything. And to that end the industry has produced a large line of tranquilizers from Valium to Xanax. If you choose to utilize these pills for relief, please make sure that you are aware of the side-effects by reading the fine print, which most of the time include addiction and dependency. Unfortunately, these sorts of drugs aim at curing the symptoms, but not the cause. So if one stops ingesting them, the symptoms can return.

A finer way of releasing tension, stress, anxiety, and depression is to treat the root cause, which as I said above, is most often our thought processes. Now, here is some good news. Hypnosis is all about relaxation. The AMA recognized hypnosis in 1958 as an effective method of treating stress and stress related symptoms. And unlike anxiolytics, there are categorically no bad side effects.

Hypnosis is the Alpha level of consciousness. It's the daydream like temporary psychological state that we experience as we are about to fall asleep at night. And we experience it another time when we wake up in the morning. There are hundreds of different ways that we can guide ourselves into this relaxed mood, from progressive relaxation to visual imagery to listening to hypnosis CD's.

Once we enter the hypnotic state, we are able to communicate with our unconscious mind, which is the center of our emotions. And it becomes easier to acknowledge new points of view and ideas that will help us to get rid of anxiety, or even avoid it completely.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming or NLP, which is a recently developed form of hypnosis, has several excellent techniques for eliminating stress. Maybe the technique that works best is called the "swish" pattern - or the "flash" pattern. When you use the "swish" pattern, your unconscious will automatically use bad, stress triggering mental images, to generate tranquilizing mental images. Put differently, what usually makes you feel stress will now trigger relaxation!

TO SUM THINGS UP
Our thoughts can cause depression, anxiety and tension. So by changing our attitude and the way we resent our situation and our experiences, we can get rid of these feelings at the source. Hypnosis and NLP are natural tools that allow us to change our attitude and point of view to swiftly get rid of the root cause of these negative feelings.

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