3 Techniques To Reduce Stress Now

3 Techniques To Reduce Stress Now

Have you ever had someone tell you to ‘breathe’ when you were upset and wonder why, exactly?  Well, the reason is that certain breathing practices are effective ways to reduce anxiety and stress.

In fact, I often use breathing methods, along with other relaxation and visualization techniques, to begin a hypnotherapy session because they bring on a state of deep, focused awareness. Once learned, these calm-producing practices can be used on one’s own. Exam jitters, performance anxiety, mind racing and insomnia are only a few of the troubles that can be alleviated – either during a stressful event or naturally throughout the day.

Why does breathing deeply help? Very simply, it triggers the relaxation response in the brain thus counteracting the ‘fight and flight’ rush of adrenaline that comes on when nervous or panicked. Here are three things to try on your own when you need to reduce stress now.

1- Balanced Breathing

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When we are stressed or anxious this is a great way to calm down and feel more, well, balanced.  To start, inhale for a count of four, then exhale for a count of four: all through the nose. Do this for a few minutes. For variation you can increase the count of the inhale and the exhale. Then, try holding the breath at the top of the inhale and the bottom of the exhale. Practicing this balanced slow breathing makes it more natural to use in any situation but also helps reduce stress for the long term.

2- Move The Body

The saying ‘move a muscle, change a thought’ is spot on. Brining your awareness away from racing or anxious thoughts and onto or into the body is a great way to relax. Borrowing from some easy yoga poses here are few moves to do – repeat them all for at least five breaths.

-        Cat/Cow: Sit straight in a chair with both feet flat on the floor. Exhale as you round your spine forward into a cow pose; then inhale as you arch your back into a cat pose.

-        Side to Side: Inhale and extend your arms straight up. Stretch to the right as you exhale. Inhale to come back to the center, and then exhale to the left.

-        Twist: With arms bent by your side, exhale and rotate your torso to the right. Inhale back to the center and twist to the left.

3 - Self-Directed Neuroplasticity

Neuroplasticity is the idea that a person’s brain is capable of changing its function in response to environment, thinking, emotions, behavior and even injury. Self-directed neuroplasticity allows us to consciously control how we want our brains to work. Below are some steps to help you harness the power of self-directed brain change.

Step 1. Awareness: Identify, or become aware of the particular habit, mood, etc. that you’d like to change.

Step 2. Attention: Focus all of your attention on implementing a more healthy thought pattern and behavior. Don’t let your attention drift away.

Step 3. Stay with it: Have the caveat that practicing a new thought pattern is going to be uncomfortable at first and you may face some degree of resistance. With willpower and keeping your focus on the new thought your brain will eventually adapt.

Step 4. Practice: Try to engage the newer neural pathways for at least 15 minutes every time the unwanted thought that you are working on changing, occurs. This shifts focus away from the old and into the new.

The newest neuroscience indicates that the brain can change: not only in the moment but in the longer term. I not only believe this to be true I’ve seen it, even helped make it, happen.  These relaxation techniques are powerful when self-directed and even more so when combined with hypnotherapy and neuro-linguistic reprogramming. Learn more today at www.bethsnyderhypnosis.com. Beth A. Snyder is a Clinical Hypnotherapist practicing in Sarasota, Fl.

Hypnosis For Sports Performance

Get Your Game On Through Hypnosis

Tiger Woods uses a little blink. Others may use a breathing pattern or a phrase they say to themselves. These ‘anchors’ and ‘triggers’ call up suggestions, put into body and mind muscle memory through hypnosis. The suggestions are designed to be exactly what you need to hear or remember to play golf or any activity to your best ability. 

Anchoring and triggering come from the world of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming). In NLP, ‘anchoring’ refers to the process of associating an internal response with some external or internal ‘trigger’ so that the preprogrammed response may be quickly, and sometimes covertly recreated. For example, if you watch Tiger Woods play you will notice he opens and closes his eyes before each shot. He is recalling his state of excellence, or what some may refer to being ‘in the zone.’  

“Golf is a blending of physicality and of visualization,” says Beth A. Snyder, a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Master NLP Practitioner practicing in Sarasota (bethsnyderhypnosis.com). “That is why hypnotic techniques and suggestion therapy work so well for golfers,” she adds.

Snyder begins her work with a complementary consultation to discuss motivation and goals. “My approach is customized, because there are so many ways people block their own performance. Also, people have different areas they want to enhance,” she says.

She reports that some of her clients have to overcome the competitiveness of the game, or even need help to transform their own anger and frustration. If you are breaking your clubs or feeling more stressed after a game than before you start, then hypnosis can help to transform that anger into focus and enjoyment.

On the technical side, let’s say you are struggling with your long shot or putt. If so, Snyder can help you experience making the shot mentally. “Many times people are thinking about what can go wrong, not visualizing what will go right.” Hypnosis can turn that negative into the positive. By ‘seeing’ the perfect drive on the course, and setting up an anchor and trigger to that vision, you are conditioning and rewiring your brain and body for success. It puts the visualized shot into ‘mind muscle memory’ so that the trigger movement or phrase will bring back that ‘perfect’ feeling.

Sports hypnosis is not new; in fact it has been used by Olympic athletes and professionals to achieve excellence for many years. “I like to dispel any myths around hypnosis. It isn’t something that takes you over or where you lose control. It is an alert state, it wakes you up so you are more aware and able to achieve your personal best.”  

Depression and Hypnotherapy

You Don’t Have to Stay Depressed: Hypnotherapy Helps!

Q: What’s an advantage to being depressed?

A: You never have to make your bed, since you’re always in it.

Chances are that you or a loved one has had at least a brush with depression. After all, nearly 1 in 10 Americans every year suffers from this kind of emotional distress – whether it’s brought on by a loss, life transition, or traumatic event; or caused by a chemical imbalance. But what is really causing the chemical imbalance to begin with? Your thoughts, in fact are chemicals. So when you change your thinking, well you change your entire body’s biological response.

Some signs of depression include excessive worry, overeating or under-eating, using drugs or alcohol to get through the day, insomnia and yes, the lack of interest in life to the point where you don’t want to get out of bed. And, while humor is a good way to lighten one’s mood: when depression hits it is anything but funny.

In recent years the standard approach to the relief of depression has been psychotherapy, medication or a combination of the two. Both of these treatments can help but their fundamental flaws are that they treat the mind and body as separate and serve to merely mask symptoms temporarily. Luckily, people who suffer from depression, anxiety and chronic sadness today have another option: one that truly leads to relief: hypnotherapy.  

You are a magnificent bodymind, in fact one whole psychosomatic network and by changing your thoughts, beliefs and old programming it impacts every cell and system in your human body.

Hypnotherapy is gaining popularity in treating depression because of its effectiveness in alleviating the deeper underlying causes of depression. Very often depression is rooted in past events, core negative beliefs, anxieties or trauma. By working together, we can first discern what is actually going on in your subconscious mind. Then we can teach or ‘reprogram’ your default negative thoughts with positive feelings, new more automatic positive thinking and experiences.  Hypnotherapy also equips you with new tools to continue to create the life you desire more and more.  

Through hypnotherapy you are literally changing the neural connections in your brain and body.The changes resulting from hypnotherapy are long lasting because they access the power of your own imagination. My job, as a hypnotherapist, is simply to facilitate the process of your taking back control of your own mind, your own body and your own life. In truth, you already have all the answers within your bodymind. By working with a highly trained hypnotist from a State Licensed School with over 500 hours of training you can uncover for yourself exactly what you need to return to joy and peace.  Ask your doctor today for a prescription for hypnosis or contact Beth A. Snyder Hypnosis a Clinical Hypnotherapist in Sarasota, FL at www.bethsnyderhypnosis.com.

How to stop smoking with hypnosis

Hypnosis To Stop Smoking

Are you tired of being a chained to your addiction? Are you sick of feeling like an outcast? Are you ready to take back your health, money and freedom? As an ex-smoker, I understand the prison of nicotine addiction. It is my deepest honor to bring these cutting edge techniques and my personal passion to help you break free from nicotine addiction. Take back your health with this unique and powerful hypnosis recording to help you Stop Smoking Now. The truth is Hypnosis works! In fact, Hypnosis was found to be the most effective way to stop smoking in a controlled study by The University of Iowa and in another study, conducted in conjunction with The University of Washington results reported a 90.6% success rate using hypnosis for smoking cessation. 

Hypnosis is a safe and natural state that you experience many times a day, such as when you daydream or can’t quite remember that last stretch of highway. Your subconscious is the driver of your behaviors and by changing your beliefs your subconscious begins to instantly direct your behavior and supports your conscious decision to Stop Smoking Now! Hypnosis is the smart and chemical free choice to support your decision to Stop Smoking Now! This is the simplest and safest way to Stop Smoking.

All you do is pick your stop date, listen to the powerful hypnotic recording once a day for at least the next 60 days and begin to step down by 1 or 2 cigarettes a day until you easily and effortlessly stop smoking now. This is a natural, safe and automatic way to take back your health, without adding more chemicals, patches or expensive and poisonous vapors to your body. Join the thousands of others who have safely, quickly and easily become free of the addiction of tobacco through the power of your own mind.

Imagine yourself now, free from the chains of nicotine, with more money and improved health and never going back again, today and forever smoke free. After just one day of listening to this powerful recording you will begin to notice a healthier you, as your subconscious mind now supports your decision to Stop Smoking Now. Learn more and read reviews from my private clients in my Sarasota Clinical Hypnosis office. You can also visit  http://www.bethsnyderhypnosis.com/stop-smoking-now/ to learn more about hypnosis to stop smoking. Begin today!

Hypnosis to Overcome Addictions

How Hypnosis Helps You Overcome Addictions

There is a saying on my website (bethsnyderhypnosis.com), “pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.” This is true, but just knowing it doesn’t stop you from hurting. Whether your addiction is to a substance, a person or a behavior, the emotional pain feels sharp as a knife.

That is because physical pain and emotional pain are experienced in the same part of the brain. So, when you suffer emotional disruption your pain receptors light up as if you were sliced open.

If you believe, as I do, that all addictions are a misguided attempt to soothe emotional pain and distress, then you will understand that finding a way to be with your pain, allowing it to pass and resolving it internally is the path to emotional freedom, wholeness and freedom from addiction.

This is where hypnotherapy is at its most effective. The latest neuroscience shows that the brain continues to grow new circuitry throughout a person’s lifespan. When hypnosis is conducted by a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist such as myself, it can be used to bypass the critical mind and access the subconscious. Then it can help to ‘rewire’ the underlying pain, or root cause, of addiction and allow for a more loving and expansive life. In essence, once the cause is removed or reconsolidated in the bodymind you are simply reacting differently and the addiction falls away. 

The hypnosis and nlp techniques available today employ clinical hypnotherapy practices that empower you to tap into the bodymind connection and clear the root cause of your internal suffering. Clinical hypnotherapy frees you from the chains of addiction because, you have the answers within you and a qualified hypnotherapist will be able to guide you to the answers you seek.

To learn more about Beth A. Snyder, Clinical Hypnotherapist in Sarasota, FL visit www.bethsnyderhypnosis.com. There you will find free resources and information to help you stop smoking with hypnosis, overcome addiction with hypnosis, lose weight with hypnosis and enjoy a more joyful, content and peaceful life. 

How NLP Can Change Your Life

What Is NLP and How It Can Change Your Life?

Beth A. Snyder, Sarasota Clinical Hypnotherapist and Master NLP Practitioner explains that, NLP or neuro-linguistic programming is a mechanism or tool in which a person can fine tune or program his thoughts and create new emotions, reactions and behaviors. NLP provides practical ways in which a person can change the way he lives his life and the way he thinks, remembers his past events and memories and change his overall approach to life.

NLP is similar to the software of any computer or machine. It is like the software of the mind. It is an extraordinary, innovative and inventive approach on how to develop, improve and perfect human communication skills to achieve excellence in all areas of one’s life.

The principle behind NLP

The main and basic principle of NLP is that you can change the way your life works and the way you live your life by changing the way your mind works and the way you think. NLP focuses on programming the brain into reaching high levels of motivation and positivity to overcome all barriers and obstructions in order to reach your goals and dreams in a more focused and directed manner.

The discovery of NLP

NLP shows you how you can take control of your life by taking control of your mind. It focuses on the ‘how’ aspect more than the ‘why’ aspect. It was discovered by two people -  one a mathematician named Richard Bandler and the other a linguistic named John Grinder.

Both of them were fascinated by the fact how some people were able to excel at a particular skill and how some people were merely average or good at a particular work or task because they didn’t have the same skill. They were curious to learn the difference between these two kinds of people and what it was that made them so different from one another intellectually.

How can NLP change your life?

NLP has proven to be extremely effective in a number of areas in a person’s life. Some of these areas include –

• Work or business
• Relationships
• Sports and physical activity or fitness
• Health and well-being
• Different forms of therapy, and much more.

By using and incorporating NLP into your life you can drastically change the way things work in your life and get the most out of what you do and achieve a 100 percent every time as opposed to just 70 or 80 percent. NLP also uses techniques like attracting positivity and the power of belief. Visit www.bethsnyderhypnosis.com to learn more today.