Stress - The New Fad
Stress has been called a disease of cultural sophistication. Our distant ancestors didn’t know stress as we understand it today. Their less complex environment, while certainly more dangerous than ours, and lacking in modern conveniences and comforts, was more suited to a “flight or fight” response, which offered them the opportunity to act on their impulses in a way which we deny ourselves, by virtue of our many cultural inhibitions.
Primitive peoples, when confronted with threats to their physical safety, had the choice of fighting or running away; both actions were fueled by, and consumed, body/brain chemicals, so that either choice guaranteed the dissipation of any long-term accumulation of these. Biologically, we and our earlier ancestors are much alike, and the “flight or fight” response is still very much a part of our natural rhythms. However the threats we face today are not usually imminent threats to our physical safety, but more likely to our dignity - our sense of ego - and since our cultural bias precludes the options of either fighting or fleeing, we are left with an overload of body/brain chemicals and no way to dissipate them. Essentially, this is the origin of the “new disease” of stress.
The long term negative effects of excessive or prolonged stress on an individual are quite signifigant. If you are suffering from excessive stress, whatever the cause, you should seek options. It can certainly begin to make you ill, however strong you are.
Often, we hear cynical voices suggesting things like this: "Modern life has never been so easy", and "Things were much more terrible during the war, but nobody talked about 'stress' then, you just had to get on with it."
What these comments reflect is that society has changed, as people have become more aware of how much our health can be affected by the way we feel. Of course, people suffered terrible stress in the past also, but they were expected to suffer in silence. And if it made them ill, well, then they were just 'weak'.
Now we no longer look at stress that way. Now it is acknowledged universally throughout the medical professions that excessive or prolonged stress, if untreated, causes serious health problems, and people should certainly not suffer in silence, but should seek expert advice on ways to reverse the dangerous build-up of stress
A Cure For Stress
Guided Auto Suggestion is an effective treatment for stress and stress-related illness. It is literally the antidote. It is easy to attain deeper states of relaxation than most realize are even possible, opening the door to a new way of living.
Guided Auto Suggestion is a safe and much better option as opposed to caffiene, tobacco products, alcohol, beta-blockers, tranquillizers and sleeping tablets.
Guided Auto Suggestion is always more of a learning process than a "treatment", and the mind adapts very readily to new ways of doing things - especially when they are far more effective. Guided Auto Suggestion for stress is designed to release one's own natural, inner resources against stress. It provides a means for replacing fear and pain with feelings of calm, peace and confidence.
Most clients report an immediate sense of relief after just one session and usually go on for a further short series of sessions in order to build on the initial improvements and ensure they are long lasting.
