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Consider these three different scenarios.

Recession is making life difficult for a sales rep. His recent records show poor sales. He is about to meet a big and important new client who could be his saviour. Success will decide whether he still has a job or not.

A man is desperately and madly in love with this popular and attractive female. He cannot see a future without her but she is popular an other men are attracted to her. He has a ring, the red roses lie by the door and table carefully set for two. Any moment she will knock on the door and he will ask her to marry him and he does not know what her answer will be.

A woman walking home alone late at night. The streets are poorly lit. The sound of footsteps ahead of her make her uneasy. A group of people wearing hoodies is walking towards her. She now hears footsteps behind her. She turns around to see a group of youths walking towards her.

Although there is potential danger in only one scenario, a person becomes very focussed and alert. The body goes into the fight and fright reaction.

This is a reaction in humans and animals that developed a long time ago to protect us from life threatening dangers. The hormones adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisone are released during the reaction.These hormones cause a remarkable change in the body.

The heart rate speeds up, the breathing become faster and deeper, the mouth becomes dry, the pupils dilate, skin becomes cold and clammy and hairs on the back of the neck stand up.

You may even want to vomit, open your bowels or urinate. This is the brain trying to lighten the load to move faster during ‘flight’.

The fight or fright reaction prepares the body for action. You become alert and aware. Your senses are very sharp. Your sense of smell, sight and hearing are all sharpened. Your body is now functioning at it optimum.

Your heart, beating faster pumps more blood to the muscles and brain. With faster and deeper breathing, more oxygen is transported by the blood to the muscles and brain. In addition blood is temporarily diverted from other important organs such as the kidneys, immune system and the gut to enable more blood to the muscles.

The fight and fright reaction is primeval, developed in early humans to survive amongst dangerous reptiles and mammals. Unfortunately the brain cannot differentiate between real and percieved dangers or threats. The reaction is the same.

The fight or fright reaction is triggered in all three scenarios.

Panic attacks are in reality fright or fright reactions and, during an attack, to the individual the threat or danger is very real. Rationality suddenly disappear and there is no where to run to or no one to fight.

In stress, even though there is no threat to our lives, the fight or fright reaction is triggered and can be harmful to the body. If persistent, it can cause diseases.

Knowing the effects of the fight or fright reaction on stress will help you make some sense about the symptoms of stress you experience with stress.

This article looks into the causes of stress and gives free tips to help you control and reduce your worries. I have, as I am sure many people do, stressed for most of my life for many different reasons. Even though I still worry about many things, I have now learned how to handle many of these situations and will write about how I go about doing this, in this article.

I do not work within the stress management industry and am in fact a web promotion expert from the UK. I also work on other projects to do with offering stuttering advice and for cost reduction consultants who offer cheap calls.

I am the kind of person who likes to have a simple and settled life. When something comes along which is quite a big event or a bit out of the ordinary, this is when I start to stress. I am not the kind of person who likes change, therefore things like moving house is something which will cause me a lot of stress. I have actually moved house four times in the last six years, not very clever for someone like me. I am now happy where I live and plan to stay at this abode for a long time.

I am also self-employed. There are many things I love about being self-employed, the fact that I am my own boss, I can choose my own hours, I have no-one to answer or to report to and the all round freedom it gives me. I often stress however that business will go through a bad period and that I do not have the security of a regular income. How will I pay the mortgage? How will I pay my car loan? How will I feed and clothe my children? These are all the things that at times can keep me awake at night.

I now have started to build up a back-up fund in a bank account. At the times when business is booming I am very disciplined at saving a fairly large perentage of the profits. These profits can then be used to help during the not so prosperous periods. This gives me a peace of mind and therefore I do not have to worry so much. Business will go through good and bad periods and this way I can easily cope when it does go slow.

I used to also worry about how I would pay my tax bill at the end of the year, however I have also started to put money away each month similar to the above example, to pay for it.

I now try and think about all of my worries in a logical manner and instead of losing sleep over them I try to find solutions.

I also feel stressed and I am not sure why it is, the day after I have a night out drinking alcohol. In the morning and nowadays since I am getting older, throughout the day, I often feel lethargic and my mind starts to play tricks on me. This makes me wary of what the future might hold and this in turn makes me start to think in a negative manner. I then start to stress about a range of issues. It now takes me around forty-eight hours to recover from a boozy night out and affects my family and work life. I have now decided that I will go out far less and that when I do, I will limit the amount I drink.

These are other things that can cause me to stress:

When I have basically been working too hard!

When I have had a lack of sleep

During and after an illness

After an argument with my girlfriend

When I am invited to a social occasion which I do not want to go to, such as a wedding

A visit from my girlfriends family for say a weekend

Going on holiday

Some of the above may seem a bit bizarre to some people who read this article, however I am trying to be truthful. Yes going on holiday does cause me to worry. I do not like flying for a start, I worry that I or a member of my family may become ill or that the hotel may not be as good as what was described in the brochure.

One thing which I am now careful to ensure of, is that I get enough sleep. I have to admit something here; I adore going to bed and I love going to sleep. I am fairly confident that I could sleep for a whole day if needed! OK maybe this is going slightly overboard but I am sure you know what I mean. My bed is where I feel safe and comfortable. I used to fall into a trap of working too hard and would then stay up late, possibly watching the television. I would set my alarm to wake me up early and I would then start the whole process over again.

From reading a book about stress management, I discovered that sleep was one of the best forms of stress-relief. It had to be worth a try and try I most certainly did. I am happy to report that it does work. I now stay in bed an hour later in the mornings and where possible, I am in bed by 10pm at night.

I am also now attempting to take life in my stride. What happens will happen and I will deal with each challenge on its own merit. I try to deal with potential problems in a positive way and realise that if life was very smooth and easy, that it would probably be quite boring.

I am now far more appreciative of the life that I have; I am more than aware of the fact that I am one of the lucky ones. I will be successful and I will make the most of the opportunities that life brings; it is all about having a positive outlook on life. I know that at times life will be hard and am determined to get through these periods as quick as I can.

Nowadays when I do feel down and miserable, I tend to spend as much time as possible with my children, as they make me happy and can soon put a smile back onto my face.

There is no doubt that hypnosis is a very effective stress treatment of stress. When an individual feels he does not have the resources to cope with a task he is confronted with stress develops. Hypnosis changes belief, preception and ability to cope so the subject no longer feels he is no longer incapable.

Dr. Lipton said that up to 90% of diseases are directly due to stress. Persistent stress starves vital organs of nutrients and oxygen. On the odd occasion this is not a problem but diseases are likely when it becomes persistent.

It is not the situation you confront that is the cause of stress but by the the perception of that situation and whether you feel you have the power in you to deal with it. hypnotherapyworks remarkably well in stress because it changes your perception, expectation and belief.

Following hypnosis treatment, extremely stressful tasks are transformed into tasks you can easily do because, you have the belief that you have the resources to handle what you are faced with little effort on your part.

Hypnosis takes you down to a deep relaxed state and to brainwave level theta. At this level, the filters that block unwanted messages to enter the Subconscious Mind,ease their tight grip and the hypnotherapist can alter attitude, belief and expectation.

Hypnosis is without doubt a safe and powerful anxiety and stress treatment. Another recommended stress treatment is meditation. It is, however, very difficult to see how a stressed person can relax, and if he or she cannot relax, meditation becomes very difficult. Best practice is to use hypnosis in the first instance and use meditation for the long term and overall life enhancement.

Lets face it. Stress is an unpleasant thing. The fun goes out of your life and your libido goes away. You can develop anger, rage, anxiety and depression. During stress you become less creative and makes unnecessary mistakes.

Worse of all, because it triggers the fight or flight reaction, it shuts off vital nutrients to some organs of the body while at the same time stimulating the heart. Researchers believe this is the reason it is the underlying cause for 90% of diseases. In industry there are millions of days a year lost through stress and the cost to healthy services is enormous.

Hypnosis can change your attitude to stress and provides not just short term stress control but coping skills for the long term.

In a hypnotic session, powerful post hypnotic suggestions are given not just on how to cope with your current situation but generally on all aspects of your life. Things a hypnotist will say are, “You are relaxed and calm. You will have no fear when confronting any situation and know that if it can be done, you are very capable and competent to do it.” This type of post hypnotic suggestion enables you to adopt the attitude, “What is fast and best way of doing this?” rather than, “This task is beyond me.”

So instead of drugs, counselling, psychotherapy or CBT, have hypnotherapy for safe and better control of all your stress problems. Remember hypnosis is simply a state of heightened awareness and your brain becomes alert and receptive. The Subconscious Mind is not analytical or filters like the left brain. While remaining in a deep relaxed state, the Subconscious MInd simply accepts positive suggestions.