It’s common knowledge that stress can affect a person’s mental health, but it also poses a threat to your physical health. The subconscious mind healing techniques offered by hypnosis can help you manage your stress more effectively.

Find out why you need to be proactive about stress management:

1. Headaches

Excessive stress can give you headaches that get worse with time. Dealing with headaches isn’t always as simple as taking an aspirin. If your headache turns into a migraine, it can affect your quality of life and adversely impact your productivity.

2. Weight Gain

Unmanaged stress encourages the release of the stress hormone cortisol in high quantities. Persistently high cortisol levels can lead to obesity since the hormone promotes fat accumulation.

3. Cardiac Disease

Stress makes you vulnerable to various heart conditions such as cardiac arrhythmia, palpitations, disrupted blood flow, and increased heartbeat. These conditions weaken your heart and affect its functioning.

4. Decreased Immunity

Constant stress weakens your immune system. You’ll be prone to frequently contracting infections if your immune system is compromised. Even worse, these infections will be severe, and you’ll take a longer time to recover.

5. Hormone Imbalances

Stress disrupts the normal hormonal activity of your body, which can throw you out of balance. All our bodily functions and processes are controlled through the proper release of hormones. Improper hormonal activity affects our sleep, digestion, and metabolism.

6. Gastrointestinal Problems

Stress can create or aggravate problems in your gastrointestinal tract. These problems include heartburn, stomach pains, nausea, and vomiting.

How to Fight Back Against Stress

Here are some ways of managing your stress:

1. Breathing Exercises

Breathing properly can help keep you calm. When you feel stressed, try breathing deeply from your belly. Inhale and exhale slowly, with full concentration, and repeat this for 8–10 breaths.

2. Physical Activity

Fit some exercise into your day. It doesn’t have to be too vigorous or high-intensity. Experts recommend 20–30 minutes of moderate exercise every day to stay healthy.

3. Professional Help

If you find yourself unable to distress, consider enlisting some professional help. A hypnotist can help you relax and cultivate a calm state of mind. They can offer you hypnotic suggestions that’ll help you have the right mindset in stressful situations.

Get Effective Hypnosis Sessions at Blossom Hypnosis

The experienced hypnotist Rekha Shrivastava provides hypnosis sessions that can help you manage stress, treat anxiety, smoking cessation, and weight loss. You can get in-person sessions at Blossom Hypnosis in Rochester, NY.

If you live outside Rochester, take advantage of our convenient virtual hypnosis sessions on FaceTime, Zoom, Skype, and Google Meet.

Get a free consultation by messaging us today or calling us at 585-281-2988.