Most of my clients at my London hypnotherapy clinic have some sort of stress or anxiety. We live in stressful times. The pace of life in London is frantic and even in rural areas there are sources of stress whether lack of jobs or the weather impacting farming and tourism.
We all know the negative effects stress can have on our health and wellbeing. Stress is a feeling that gets labelled as a ‘bad’ feeling. I want to offer an alternative way of looking at it.
What is a feeling or emotion? It is a means of your mind/body communicating with you. It is telling you whether your intrinsic need are being met or not. If they are you feel positive or ‘good’. If they are not then you can feel ‘bad’ whether it be stress, fear, anxiety, doubt.
So knowing it is has a positive intent, to keep you healthy and happy you can accept it for what it is – a communication method. So next time you are stressed take a moment to think about what needs of yours are not being met.
Perhaps you have a need to be respected by others and it is not being met, perhaps it is a need to be understood.
Whatever it is, once you understand it you can decide how to act on having the need met which will let the stress go. Even realising it has a positive intent ( to communicate your needs so you can be healthy and happy) can be enough to thank it and let it go – what you resist persists.
So, perhaps stress is not so bad for you!
If you find the stress or other emotions are hi-jacking you then contact me as perhaps I can help you find peace of mind whether at my London hypnotherapy clinic or on the phone. I work with people all over the world.
