Can Hypnotherapy be used to manage stress?
Every day we hear new statistics about how many peoples’ lives are being affected by stress. It would be far too easy to consign stress to being just something we have to put up with if we are to get ahead and be successful in today’s high-technology society. How do you define “success”? Is it by the amount of money, status and possessions you have acquired? Is it by the position you have attained at work? Or is it by how content you feel with whatever little you have? Excessive stress is not something that we should have to put up with and accept. We need to accept that stress exists and that it is a killer – there are statistics produced every minute that prove this. Stress affects the functioning of our heart, lungs, stomach, intestines and blood vessels. In fact there is no system in the body that has been unaffected by a stress-related disease. Why do some people seem to be affected by stress more than others? Contrary to popular belief, the people who cope with stressful situatio