Self-Hypnosis for Stress Relief- Yes you CAN!

Join me this Thursday evening at 7:15 PM at the Sand Hills Community Wellness Center 57 Sand Hills Rd, Kendall Park, NJ 08824 to learn how to use of self- hypnosis to help relieve stress. Register here

What exactly is Self- Hypnosis?  Images in our minds tend to go to some magician show showing a swinging pendulum and making people do things that they wouldn’t normally do.  But that’s really not what hypnosis is.  

Self- hypnosis is, very simply,  the act of inducing a hypnotic state using your own voice and mental imagery- hypnosis on yourself to help you change habits and behaviors that don’t serve you.   

And what precisely is hypnosis or a hypnotic state?   

According to Dr. Emmett Miller, MD:

“Hypnosis is a process using a particular collection of tools and skills that:

• Enable a person to move in and out of various states of consciousness.
• Enable the user to guide awareness (the conscious mind)
• Are used to enhance or diminish certain patterns of thinking, feeling, behaving, believing, or relating
• May affect behavior of the cells of the body, the emotional state, the thoughts and images in the mind, and the belief system
• Used properly, can facilitate healing and wholeness at every level of system.”

You can change your stress levels simply by changing your mind through the use of a self-hypnosis technique.  How so?  The stress response begins in the brain and it can be set off by many things- including your thoughts.  What’s the big deal about that?  The BIG deal is that chronic stress leads to disease; debilitating life threatening diseases like heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity.  How?  

When you are stressed your body is flooded with  stress hormones that skyrocket blood sugar, blood fats, cholesterol and triglycerides; all meant as a survival mechanism to help you run fast and get away from danger (fight or flight). But we are not running anywhere!  We are at our desks, trapped in traffic or sitting anxiously on the couch trying to unwind and relax. Did you know that  95% of all illnesses are caused or worsened by stress? (Dr. Marc Hyman)

Since most of our stress begins in the brain (we are not running away from man eating tigers anymore) it makes sense that if we can alter our brains- specifically a certain portion of the brain called “The Limbic System” (our “Emotional Brain”) we can alter our stress levels.  This week’s class builds on much of what we have already learned and takes it all yet a step further and deeper.  This week, we work to empower you to really take control of your stress causing habitual thoughts. 

Come dressed comfortably, with a mat and headphones.  Learn this powerful technique to stop your stress, calm yourself and take control of stress inducing thoughts and behaviors.

“Relax and Relieve Stress with Self- Hypnosis” is being offered this Thursday night June 19th   in a series of Relax & Renew classes at the Sand Hills Community Wellness Center, 57 Sand Hills Road, Kendall Park, NJ 08824.  $12.00 pre- register (click here ) or $15.00 at door. 

 Call 732-735-3209 for more info.