How frustrating it is that you try to sleep at night but can not! All you end up doing is thinking about a conversation you had three days ago.
Apart from that, how one worrying thought somehow multiplies into 30-50 within minutes, each one worse than the last.
Most people don’t realize that these three mental patterns (anxiety, stress, and overthinking) are not their character flaws or signs of weakness. But these are the learned responses that got stuck on repeat in their subconscious mind. And just as their mind learned these patterns, their mind can unlearn them too. Want to know how? People can control all these mental aspects with creative hypnotherapy.
The Cycle of Anxiety, Stress, and Overthinking
When you’re anxious or worried, your entire nervous system gets stuck in a similar situation, as you would behave in a survival mode.
Another thing is that most people lose their calmness due to overthinking. Suppose you have just thought through every possible outcome, predicted every problem, and prepared for every scenario, then maybe you’ll be safe. But it doesn’t work that way in real life, my friend. Instead of solving your problems, when you overthink a situation too much, it creates new problems. Further, it drains your energy, makes your sleep go away, and keeps you trapped in what psychologists call “rumination”, that endless mental loop that makes people depressed and hopeless.
According to a research study by the American Psychological Association, stress affects every system in the human body. It disrupts your sleep, weakens your immune system, and even changes how your brain processes information. Meanwhile, anxiety disorders have become one of the most common mental health concerns throughout the world that affects millions of people across all ages and backgrounds.
Overall, these three human behaviors feed each other. Stress initiates anxious thoughts, anxiety begins overthinking, and overthinking creates more stress. It’s a cycle that is nearly impossible to break using willpower alone.
How Your Conscious and Subconscious Minds Work
You know logically that everything will be fine. Besides, you understand that worrying doesn’t change outcomes. That’s why you perhaps read self-help books and downloaded meditation apps. Even after that, you are unable to calm your mind, and your chest still tightens when your mind recalls something uncomfortable.
The answer is that you have to understand how your mind actually works. Basically, human minds have two levels – the conscious and the subconscious. Let us give you an example – suppose you are the captain of a ship. Naturally, you will think logically, make decisions, and try to take the ship in the right direction by giving instructions to your crew. This is how your conscious mind works. But what about your subconscious mind? That’s the entire crew below deck who are running all the operations you’re not even aware of.
When it comes to human psychological changes, your subconscious controls your automatic responses, stores your memories and emotions, and runs your deeply rooted patterns. It has been collecting data since you were born, creating associations and responses designed to keep you safe. When something begins to cause anxiety, your subconscious reacts instantly, long before your conscious mind can start thinking about what to do with rational thoughts.
This is why you can know intellectually that public speaking won’t kill you, yet still experience a panic response when you step on stage. Your conscious mind knows the truth, but your subconscious is running an old program that says, “Being the center of attention equals danger.”
If you consult with a psychologist (traditional talk therapy), it works primarily with the conscious mind. It’s valuable and helpful, but the effects won’t be much as the psychologist will help you with your conscious mind. On the other hand, a certified hypnotherapist will work on your subconscious mind’s thought patterns.
How Hypnotherapy Helps Rewriting Your Mental Programming
Let’s clear up some myths first. You will not be unconscious or under someone’s control. Moreover, you won’t act silly or reveal your deepest secrets. Whatever you have seen about hypnotherapy in movies or read in a novel is hypnosis gimmicks that have nothing to do with therapeutic hypnosis.
In reality, hypnotherapy is actually quite simple. When you join a session with a qualified hypnotherapist, they will guide you to perform specific tasks to determine and transform the automatic patterns that cause your anxiety, stress, and overthinking.
If you are currently dealing with anxiety, hypnotherapy will help your subconscious mind to open up and trace back to the moment when the anxious response first formed. This way, the hypnotherapist determines the real cause of your anxiety. Maybe you learned early in life that speaking up led to criticism, so your subconscious developed an anxiety response around expressing yourself. In hypnotherapy, you can revisit these formative experiences without the emotional charge and essentially teach your subconscious a new, healthier response.
The interesting part is that when you are working with the subconscious, all the changes that happen within you look natural. You will not feel that you are forcing yourself to think differently. Instead, you’re removing the old programming that created the problem in the first place. In a real-life example, we can compare it with pushing a boulder uphill every day or simply removing the boulder from your path (the latter is similar to how hypnotherapy works – easy and to the point).
Last Words
Remember that the same mind that makes you anxious can also make you free from all these worries.
Basically, like how your subconscious mind learned to respond with stress and overthinking, it can learn new, healthier patterns. You don’t have to live in constant negative mental aspects.
Life truly is beautiful. Sometimes people just need help clearing away the mental clutter so that they can actually see it and celebrate it. And that help is available – deeper, more transformative, and more effective than they might have imagined.
Just contact Hana Bisceglie for a free hypnotherapy consultation, and understand how she can help you offer a path to reclaim your mental space and emotional energy.
