By Andrea Dalton – Irish Hypnosis Rathfarnham
When you are happy, and all is well in your world everything is ok or even great. Your head is clear and generally, there is a sense of lightness and general wellbeing emanating from within you. Life is magic.
But when you are down things can look very different. Some might even say ‘What’s going on with them, did they wake up on the wrong side of the bed?’ Maybe something happened, maybe you got bad news out of the blue and maybe you’ve had a ton of stuff hit you all at once and it is hard to deal with, or it is simply your past catching up with you.
Our emotions are so powerful. They can at times make us or break us. When a client comes in and they are releasing verbally why they have come for a hypnosis session, sometimes they can be fighting to hold back the tears. Oftentimes people tell me things they have ever told anyone before. They have kept it hidden and buried deep down in their subconscious mind for years, whether that is out of fear, guilt or shame, through their own doing or not, it doesn’t matter! My job is to help that person in front of me who is opening up so they can change their life for the better. There is nothing really that I have not heard before and it is my job to be non-judgmental, and I work on this daily. Never, suppress your tears, that is the energy that needs to flow out of you to help you heal. Sometimes during a session tears can flow too, they are a release, something has been addressed, brought out into the open, released, forgiven and unblocked.
Your emotions are energy in motion, so don’t stop them and keep them trapped in the body. Our emotions are stored in our subconscious mind, but they are also then stored in our organs which can lead to a physical manifestation of ill health.
Just looking at anxiety and stress alone, working from the head down, can affect your head and brain, foggy brain anyone? Can’t think of something or that name or word is just on the tip of your tongue a lot of the time and it doesn’t come?
Your stomach can also be affected, like when a young child says ‘Mam, I have a sick/upset tummy’ they could be quite anxious about something that you are unaware of, it’s not always a tummy bug.
For long term sufferers of anxiety their whole digestive system can be so upset it can even cause IBS. You can be ‘sick to your stomach’ a lot and have a loss of appetite, losing weight because you are so stressed and anxious.
So, what can you do? Look at your life and make a list of the areas in your life that are causing you stress. What can you do to relieve or remove the stress? How does that make you feel having identified the cause of the stress and the positive change you can bring about?
For anxiety, identify what triggers you, is a person, a situation, an event? What makes it worse? Try box breathing, breathe in for the count of 4 seconds, hold that breath for 4 seconds, breathe out for the count of 4 seconds, then do nothing for the count of 4 seconds (no in or out-breath), repeat a few times, this will bring your anxiety levels straight down. Seek professional help if it is ruining your joy and overshadowing everything in your life.
