Stress management

Do you find yourself worrying at the slightest thing, uptight and irritable? Do you feel tense and at breaking point sometimes, perhaps not sleeping as well as you might do? Did tension, pressure and stress just seem to creep up on you, without your awareness? Perhaps you’re feeling more and more that life is out of your control and you’ve decided to seek assistance for your stress and tension.

Stress management is one of the key issues facing us in the UK today. However overwhelmed you may feel right now, you can learn to perceive stress making situations in a very different light as well as lower your stress levels to bring relaxation and health back into
your life.

   What causes stress?

As individuals we have different levels of stress tolerance. What one person might perceive as a stressful situation might be a walk in the park for another. However, in general, some careers and some life experiences are considered more stress making than others. Many of these life situations can lead and contribute to the development of symptoms of excessive stress. The causes can range from:

— bereavement
— divorce
— fear
— overwork
— responsibility
— unemployment
— relationship problems
— lack of confidence
— lack of fulfillment in life
— illness
— uncertainty and change
— conflict
— unresolved past emotional issues

   How Angela can help you unwind

Sometimes it is our perception of life situations that causes us stress when they needn’t do and sometimes stressful life situations cannot be avoided, such as the loss of a loved one. In either case it is possible to lower our stress levels and in some cases eradicate stress altogether.

The one common theme Angela hears with stressed clients is that they don’t know how to relax or they’ve forgotten how. Relaxation is the key to diffusing stress.

Hypnosis is the polarity of the fight or flight state. It is one of relaxation and calm. Using hypnotherapy, NLP and cognitive therapy, Angela will help you address the causes of stress in your life, teach you self-hypnosis in order that you can master your own relaxation, lower and manage any stress effectively and use therapeutic techniques to change the way in which you perceive stressful situations. By creating different thinking styles and approaches to stressful situations, you can change your emotional state around the stressful situations.

Hypnotherapeutic and cognitive techniques are very effective in reducing the effects of chronic stress, such as anxiety, panic, loss of confidence etc.

Sometimes stress can be a build up of many factors with no single cause and it can build up suddenly or over a period of time. Angela will take a look at your lifestyle in general, including sleep, nutrition, relaxation, work and play,

This approach combined with self-hypnosis for stress management will teach you new strategies for coping with stress in your daily life and at work. With your new stress management 'toolkit' you will be able to avoid reaching high stress levels in the future.