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Why Hypnosis Is Better For Stress Than Meditating
Silvia Hartmann
Stress Is The Life Killer
Stress is the greatest problem for people in the modern world,
and it's much worse than just health problems such as heart
attacks that are brought on by too much stress for way too
long.
Stress impacts EVERYTHING.
Stress kills our libido, our enjoyment of life; stress causes
disturbed emotions of anger, rage, sadness and depression;
stress makes us clumsy; stress causes us to make mistakes
and worst of all, stress makes us think stupid thoughts (we
become "stress stupid") and it cuts off the internal flow
to our creative and innate talents and abilities.
It is clear that we ALL need to de-stress, whether we are
teenagers who suffer from acne and migraines as a result of
stress, men and women in "anger management", authors who suffer
from writer's block, business people who burst a blood vessel,
or parents at home who aren't enjoying their kids but end
up screaming at them instead. So how do we de-stress, and
urgently, and FAST?
Why Stress & Meditation Are At Odds
Many hold that meditating and meditation is the answer to
stress. Meditating and meditation is the act of entering into
altered states of consciousness, to widen our conscious awareness
and to re-connect with the superconsciousness of our energy
mind (subconscious mind, subconsciousness).
This does not happen when we are stressed - a person under
stress is like a TV that isn't tuning properly. Everything
is disturbed, mad, doesn't fit together, there is no clarity.
Trying to meditate when you are stressed is like trying to
be romantic with a pick axe embedded in your forehead - try
as you might, it's not going to work very well if ever at
all.
So we have the classic Catch 22 and another big stressor to
add to all of that stress - a stressed person is TOLD to relax
and go away and meditate, but they can't meditate because
they're way too stressed!
Why Hypnosis Is The Best For Stress
Long before a person who is under a lot of stress can even
BEGIN to enjoy harp music to relax them even further, they
need to be made to slow down into other states of being, and
for that you need HELP.
"A good talking to" by a sympathetic other is the most NATURAL
way of getting rid of stress invented by human kind, and it
even exceeds physical touch approaches in high stress situations;
it precedes them too. We "talk" a potential suicide victim
DOWN from the top of a building, not massage them off; we
"talk" an angry man with a gun down into lowering it, we don't
pat him on the back.
That is exactly where hypnosis comes in to help with stress.
Hypnosis is DESIGNED to assist people to ENTER INTO AN ALTERED
STATE of meditation - that is the first purpose of hypnosis,
and its specialty.
Often people get confused by the "instructions" or the content
of hypnosis - the post hypnotic suggestions for change that
take all the attention, but it is the fact that hypnosis brings
people into the restful meditative state where they even become
RECEPTIVE to suggestions, ideas, visions and new thoughts
is where the power of hypnosis to heal the mind actually lies.
From Hypnosis To Meditation - Breaking The Stress Loop
"Going into trance" is something that we learn and we are
taught when a hypnotist talks to us, and talks us down from
the stress of the thoughts that fly here, there and everywhere,
into a relaxed state of clarity, and peace, where your body
is at ease and mind healing can finally begin.
THE MORE HYPNOSIS YOU DO, THE BETTER YOU GET AT RELAXING.
It is a learned skill that gets ever better with practice.
So my recommendation to combat stress, and to learn how to
relax and EVENTUALLY to be able to meditate successfully,
which then leads to being able to control one's own stress
levels in the real world and to be able to relax and de-stress
even in the middle of a stressful situation, is to DO HYPNOSIS
- and LOTS OF IT.
Rather than to hopelessly try and "find inner peace" so necessary
for mind healing without guidance, do hypnosis inductions.
This is as easy as sitting down in a chair, putting on the
headphones and letting the hypnotist do their job.
Hypnosis CDs, mp3s and tapes are readily and freely available;
there are MANY free downloads and trial downloads available.
Try many, and if you find a hypnotist that YOU GET ON WITH,
someone you find relaxing to listen to and who can make you
feel safe, relaxed and you can feel your stress begin to drain
away as they speak with you, you have struck "Anti-Stress
Gold".
Now you have a tool to help you break out of the stress loop.
Use this hypnotist to de-stress you regularly and as often
as you possibly can.
You will find after a few repetitions that you LEARN TO LEARN
TO RELAX and HOW YOU DO THAT.
Now, you are ready to start meditating on your own.
Anti-Stress Meditation In The Moment
When you are out and about in your daily environment and you
notice your stress levels rising, remember your hypnotist
and what they said, just for a moment. Find out if you can
feel your stress beginning to flow away. Even if your stress
abates just a little bit, you can know that you are now on
your way - you have started to learn to control your states
of being, your states of mind.
This is the beginning of a new stress free life.
Life will ALWAYS be stressful.
We need to learn to be able to notice when we're stressed,
and to step back from that into the clarity of altered states.
That is what hypnosis teaches you, teaches you easily, and
just for the listening, no willpower required at all.
When you have learned the basics of relaxation, THEN and only
THEN are you ready to begin to meditate on your own, or to
use meditation devices that require these basic skills of
knowing how to shift state in the first place.
Hypnosis, Stress & Meditation - In Conclusion
Using hypnosis for stress relief doesn't mean that you should
only look at hypnosis programs designed for stress alone.
Remember that what you want to learn is the skill of altering
your states of being, so that you can also then meditate and
get all the health benefits from that; but more importantly
even still, so that you can de-stress yourself in REAL LIFE.
You can choose ANY good hypnotist, and ANY good hypnosis program
that excites you, in a double benefit, because it is not the
CONTENT, but the hypnosis skills themselves you need to learn
to put an end to being in stress states all the time.
You can choose intelligence enhancing hypnosis programs; mind
healing programs; performance programs, health programs -
the CONTENT is irrelevant and just the icing on the cake.
Hypnosis is a WONDERFUL and incredibly USEFUL tool for dealing
with the human mind, for healing the mind, and for getting
our thoughts and conscious mind under control.
Explore. Find a GOOD hypnotist who can teach you the life
saving skill of going into trance, and you get control not
just of your stress, but of your entire WORLD.
Dr. Silvia Hartmann is an international energy therapies
trainer, hypnotist and author of "Project Sanctuary". For
many free hypnosis mp3 downloads and other mind healing resources,
please visit http://starfields.org
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