How to cope with stress through hypnosis

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We’ve all experienced stress at some point in our lives. A lot of us are walking around unconsciously holding stress in our bodies. It’s like we’re carring around a constant burden, it’s slowly grinding us down in hundreds of little ways. I’m going to introduce you to the 60 second anti-stress exercise. Once you’ve practiced this a few times you will be able to significantly reduce your stress levels whenever you need.

Now, the important thing here is to note that this is a form of self-hypnosis … not in the ’spooky swinging-watch look-into-my-eyes’ type … but the sort of hypnosis that allows you to be in full control of how you are feeling. (Shhhhh …. don’t let anyone know, but this is on of the secrets of hypnosis - shifting state!)

So how do you change state in 60 seconds? You’ll have to rehearse a bit but the key is to immerse yourself in a real or imagined memory of something pleasant … not as an intellectual thing, but as a full sensory remembering.

Try the following:

Make sure you are in a calm, non-disturbed environment (at least when you start-off to practice this).
Close your eyes and recall a time when you experienced a wonderful feeling of release … perhaps walking in the hills one summer afternoon or when you first met you’re future partner and …
Start by imagining it as if someone was looking down on the scene and gently float down and see it through first-person eyes … as if you were there.
Run the scene in your imagination as a movie … as if you were there.
See things in color and as you do, recall any sounds that were there … sounds that you can hear now in this scene you are participating in.
Begin to notice those good feelings you are experiencing as you ‘re-live’ the scene and let them amplify through you.
Bask in the imagined memory, first person, surround sound, with the feeling you felt then welling through you in the present.
And gently open your eyes.

You should have quite dramatically changed your state by doing the above exercise. Learning how to hypnotise yourself isn’t as difficult as you might imagine! Practice makes perfect. Try different scenarios. Fantasy works as well … use your imagination. Be curious about finding out which imaginary journey brings about the biggest change in stress levels.

Make a promise to yourself to become more aware of when you are holding onto stress and use that as a trigger to do the exercise.

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