Goodbye Stress!!

Say Good-bye to Stress

Dorthy V. Tyo, MH
Director, Palo Alto school of Hypnotherapy

You can never be free of stressful situations. That’s right. As long as you are alive and breathing there will be events in your life that will be difficult, people who will be toxic, and environments that will be harrowing. Of course, these situations, people and environments are located outside your body.
You’ve probably read articles in many noteworthy publications. A few quotes from those articles: “Insurance claims for stress, depression and job burnout are now the U.S.'s fastest-growing disability category.” (Time, 2007). “People who face serious life stress are more likely to develop a peptic ulcer over the next 15 years.” (Psychology Today, 2005). “World Health Organization (WHO) says employee fatigue and stress can also affect performance, especially as organizations try to do more with fewer employees in a difficult economy.” (HR Magazine, 2009), “Forty-eight percent of Americans say they're more stressed now than they were five years ago, and the same percent report regularly lying awake at night because of stress, according to a new study by the American Psychological Association.” (New York Post, 2007).
All this information you’re reading, seeing on television, or hearing on the radio can be really daunting, very concerning,, terribly frightening. Well, it is if that’s your perception. You’re perception of the world around you causes your internal response to that outer world to be one of anxiety (stress) or neutral (calm).
Let me repeat that. Your perception of the world located outside your body produces the stress response or the opposite, depending upon your perception of that external environment. Our perceptions produce our mind-talk and mind-movies.
Aristotle (384BC-322BC) said it long, long before quantum physics and neuroscience proved it. “A vivid imagination compels the body to obey it, for it is a natural principle of movement.” Another way to say that, “The thoughts that we think produce physiological responses.” Here are a few symptoms of stress and anxiety from the AMA: indigestion, hair loss, tremors, premature aging, neck and back pain, headaches, infertility, etc;, etc., ad nauseum. Sounds physiological to me.
There is a light at the end of the proverbial tunnel however. You have the power within you to change your perceptions. That’s right. It’s an inside job. Inside your body is your internal environment. Only you can know if that environment is calm, peaceful, and harmonious, and only you can know if it’s more like a war zone. As you begin to change your perception of situations, people, and the world around you, you can look forward to enjoying a self-empowered life.
Perceptions are just ideas that we have collected during this journey called life; most of which were developed with only fragments of information, but have become our “truth” and are buried in our sub-conscious. We’ve all changed our minds about something or someone when we have learned more information that changed “our picture”, and we suddenly relaxed about it.
There are many ways to help you say goodbye to stress. One of the most effective ways is to change your mind-talk and mind-movies. Therapeutic hypnosis can help you strengthen your ability to become aware of old patterns and thoughts no longer appropriate or healthy for the adult you are today, and to change old internal reactions to new and healthy ones. This is your body, you own it, and only you know when there’s peace and happiness inside.

YOU CAN SAY GOOD-BYE TO STRESS.