Hypnotherapy for the Unbelievable Effects of Stress
“95 percent of all illness is caused or worsened by stress.” “Wait, did I read that right” you may be thinking. That quote is from Dr. Mark Hyman in his January 13, 2018 Facebook post. Dr. Hyman is a 10 times #1 New York Times bestselling author, family physician and international leader in the field of Functional Medicine. He is the Director the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. He is also the founder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center, chairman of the board of the Institute for Functional Medicine, a medical editor of The Huffington Post, and has been a regular medical contributor on many television shows including CBS This Morning, Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, and The View, Katie and The Dr. Oz Show. In short, he knows a thing or two about health and the effects of stress on it!
Unless you have had your head in the sand for the past 30 or 40 years, you have heard that stress has a tremendously damaging effect on us, physically, psychologically and emotionally. Ever since the pioneering work of Hans Selye, a Hungarian-born endocrinologist and the groundbreaking “First Annual Report on Stress in 1951” to which he contributed, stress has been increasingly understood to be a major and damaging factor on humans.
According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, “Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older, or 18.1% of the population every year.” Anxiety disorders are highly treatable, yet only 36.9% of those suffering receive treatment.
Dr. Hyman went on to say “The effects of stress on brain health cannot be overstated. It shrinks the hippocampus, the memory center of the brain; reduces serotonin; lowers BDNF (brain derived neutrophic factor), which acts like Miracle-Gro for your brain cells; increases inflammation; increases belly fat; lowers thyroid function; and much more. It is one of the chief causes of our broken brains. In fact, 95 percent of all illness is caused or worsened by stress. But what is stress? Stress is defined as any real or imagined threat to your body or your ego. So how we think and what we believe make a huge difference in how healthy we are. This is why it’s so important that we all learn how to ACTIVELY relax. To engage the powerful forces of the mind on the body, you must DO something—you can’t just sit there watching television or drinking beer.”
Chances are you or somebody you know or are related to have harmful levels of stress. But did you know just how effective hypnotherapy is for it? Likely not. Every single week I work with clients in my office who either come to me to help them address their anxiety, or to address the physical and psychological manifestations of anxiety. Those include low self-esteem, suicidal thoughts, chronic or unexplained physical pain, fibromyalgia, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), fears and phobias, unwanted habits, social anxiety, panic attacks, etc. So often those clients are astounded by the changes they experience through the natural process of hypnosis.
After hypnosis, I often hear clients say “Wow, I did not want that to end” or “I have not felt this good or relaxed in years.” People walk around in such a continuous level of stress that they do not even realize it until it is relieved. Then they never want it to come back!
If you or someone you care for is suffering from the damaging effects of anxiety, please consider hypnotherapy. It can be life-changing! For more information or to contact me, please visit my website www.skipnotherapy.com or email me at Skipnotherapy@gmail.com.