Hypnosis for a Healthy Lifestyle New Year Resolution Adelaide: Emotions and Health Hypnosis has seen a steady rise in its being accepted as a viable option to address a wide range of concerns, from weight loss to overcoming phobias to stopping harmful habits. There's something else that these concerns have in common, however, besides being treated with hypnotherapy. They all have an emotional root, somewhere. Failure to lose weight, for instance, can be caused by someone feeling insecure about themselves, and turning to food for assurance. Irrational fears stem precisely from that feeling of not being safe in a certain situation. Harmful habits like smoking or drinking started as ways to dull the pain felt from negative emotions. Quite possibly the more confusing aspect of life, emotions were first thought to originate from the heart, not the brain. Can you imagine that organ pumping blood through your body as the source of happiness, sadness, anger, and all other feelings? Sounds improbable, but that's what they believed before. Now, researchers know that perception – how you view an event or circumstance – is what creates the emotion you feel at the time. One study showed, too, how negative emotions could actually increase the level of pain participants perceived they felt in certain situations. So what does this mean for you? Emotions and Health Keeping negative emotions inside can lead to a 'blockage' of sorts in the body. If you still feel, say, angry, you're still sending some of those signals to your brain. Your brain, then, will tell your body to be ready to run, or stand and fight – your fight-or-flight response. This will eventually lead to you feeling drained at the end of each day, and you may start feeling listless, unable to enjoy even the simple things that once made you feel happy and content. Other physical symptoms would include headaches and tense muscles, among others. As mentioned earlier, your unwillingness to deal with anger, sadness, and pain can lead to harmful habits, which affect your health even worse. This means that emotions may well have a bigger impact on your life than you may have first thought. Certainly, some may be the main reason you're unable to stick with, say, a weight loss plan for 2015 Adelaide. If you had a choice, you'd of course want to feel positive emotions like joy and elation. However, you often don't have that luxury. It's your subconscious mind that tells the conscious one how to feel – and that's where hypnosis comes in. Hypnosis and Perception The world is made of opposites, and so are your perceptions; you often view situations both positively and negatively. For example, your best friend tells you they've been promoted after only a year in a company. You feel happy for them due to their success. Since you haven't seen the same success even after 3 years with your firm, you also feel envious.
Other situations will have the same duality, with different results – in some scenarios, you'll feel the positive more than the negative, and vice versa. This means that hypnosis is merely reinforcing your positive perceptions, bringing them to the fore instead of the negative. So it isn't mind control, since the practitioner isn't changing your mindset with their own. With a hypnotherapist's help, you can get to the real root of your negative emotions, no matter how long ago the event took place. Realising the true cause of your troubles, and talking about it in a calming, relaxing environment, will help you slowly start to release the bad feelings. Eventually, you'll learn to accept negative emotions as they come, and release them once they've served their purpose. Such a practice deserves to be included in your tips for a healthy new year Adelaide, since it will lead to you being both emotionally freer and physically healthier overall.