Did you know that anxiety disorders affect 18% of the United State's population? Experiences of stress and anxiety are growing at a rapid rate in our current society. The tendency towards always moving and always doing seems to be having a tremendous effect on our wellbeing, both individually and collectively. Anti-anxiety pills are one of the most commonly prescribed medications in our country. Unfortunately, there are many issues with these medications. Conventional treatment often gives a sufferer a prescription that only treats the symptom and not the cause itself. There are many adverse side-effects, such as suicidal thoughts, withdrawal, weight gain, drowsiness, and bodily inflammation and pain. The risk of relapse is a possibility,
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It's within our subconscious that we can uncover our unconscious fears and irrational belief systems. Hypnotherapy allows us to achieve relaxation and focus, simultaneously. In a hypnosis session, the hypnotherapist directs the client into a heightened state of relaxed awareness in which they are able to be detached from the distractions around them, but are also extremely susceptible to positive suggestions. This state is called the "trance," or hypnotic state. While in this state, we are able to connect with and address the triggers of our anxiety, and the hypnotherapist is then able to reframe those triggers in a way that rewires our neural pathways so that the reaction and behavior is stopped completely. This ensures that relapse of the anxiety can no longer take …show more content…
Through the use of positive suggestions, we notice boosted confidence and self-esteem, better sleep, less tension and pain in the body, reduced fear and worry, and the ability to access the relaxation of the trance state at any point in time. Most hypnotherapists will teach their clients self-hypnosis in order to reinforce the work that they do within sessions. This gives us more control and power over our responses to our varying triggers throughout the day. The work that is done in sessions is also highly individualized and works specifically on what it is that the client is experiencing, and the outcome the client desires. This is extremely contrary to conventional treatments, where a doctor will hand a sufferer a bottle of pills and call it a
It's within our subconscious that we can uncover our unconscious fears and irrational belief systems. Hypnotherapy allows us to achieve relaxation and focus, simultaneously. In a hypnosis session, the hypnotherapist directs the client into a heightened state of relaxed awareness in which they are able to be detached from the distractions around them, but are also extremely susceptible to positive suggestions. This state is called the "trance," or hypnotic state. While in this state, we are able to connect with and address the triggers of our anxiety, and the hypnotherapist is then able to reframe those triggers in a way that rewires our neural pathways so that the reaction and behavior is stopped completely. This ensures that relapse of the anxiety can no longer take …show more content…
Through the use of positive suggestions, we notice boosted confidence and self-esteem, better sleep, less tension and pain in the body, reduced fear and worry, and the ability to access the relaxation of the trance state at any point in time. Most hypnotherapists will teach their clients self-hypnosis in order to reinforce the work that they do within sessions. This gives us more control and power over our responses to our varying triggers throughout the day. The work that is done in sessions is also highly individualized and works specifically on what it is that the client is experiencing, and the outcome the client desires. This is extremely contrary to conventional treatments, where a doctor will hand a sufferer a bottle of pills and call it a