Essay 2 final hypnosis 
Essay 2: Review the Different Hypnotherapeutic Treatments for Stress, Anxieties and Phobias, Along with Limitations of this Treatment
1959 words
“It is important to remember that if your emotions are not given relief from stress, your body will soon feel the results”
Susie Hadley/Carol Staudacher
Hypnosis for Change
The origins of stress and anxiety stem back millions of years ago when the fight or flight was a response vital to our survival.
In these cave man days, when we were hunted and ‘hunters’ the fight or flight response served to prepare the body to either ‘fight e.g.the tiger’ or run from it !
Our nerve impulses send alerts of potential danger to the brain which in turn sends a message to the adrenal glands to release adrenaline, epinetirine and steroids stress hormones into the blood stream. These hormones make the body faster, stronger and lighter.
The body evacuates the bladder and colon to make it lighter and faster. Water is soaked up by the body making the mouth dry. The skin turns pale as blood is diverted to internal and ‘priority’ organs in order to carry resources such as oxygen and glucose to vital organs and muscles. Digestion slows down and the body starts to sweat in order to cool itself down, our senses also become heightened.
In this state, the body is prepared for battle or escape. Whichever occurs, ‘fight or flight’, it uses up all the produced adrenaline and the hormones and then the body returns to normal.
However in modern day life we are experiencing much higher levels of stress and anxiety that simply were not there hundreds of years ago. Our physical make up has not had time to evolve with these social stresses to function correctly under such conditions, yet the fight or flight response still reacts as it would to a life or death scenario even though our ‘today stress’ is merely say a traffic jam and not a life threatening situation such as a hungry tiger!
The problem here is that the body does not use up the hormones
1959 words
“It is important to remember that if your emotions are not given relief from stress, your body will soon feel the results”
Susie Hadley/Carol Staudacher
Hypnosis for Change
The origins of stress and anxiety stem back millions of years ago when the fight or flight was a response vital to our survival.
In these cave man days, when we were hunted and ‘hunters’ the fight or flight response served to prepare the body to either ‘fight e.g.the tiger’ or run from it !
Our nerve impulses send alerts of potential danger to the brain which in turn sends a message to the adrenal glands to release adrenaline, epinetirine and steroids stress hormones into the blood stream. These hormones make the body faster, stronger and lighter.
The body evacuates the bladder and colon to make it lighter and faster. Water is soaked up by the body making the mouth dry. The skin turns pale as blood is diverted to internal and ‘priority’ organs in order to carry resources such as oxygen and glucose to vital organs and muscles. Digestion slows down and the body starts to sweat in order to cool itself down, our senses also become heightened.
In this state, the body is prepared for battle or escape. Whichever occurs, ‘fight or flight’, it uses up all the produced adrenaline and the hormones and then the body returns to normal.
However in modern day life we are experiencing much higher levels of stress and anxiety that simply were not there hundreds of years ago. Our physical make up has not had time to evolve with these social stresses to function correctly under such conditions, yet the fight or flight response still reacts as it would to a life or death scenario even though our ‘today stress’ is merely say a traffic jam and not a life threatening situation such as a hungry tiger!
The problem here is that the body does not use up the hormones