Christmas is coming!

Yes Christmas is coming, complete with all the joy, excitement, family time, sharing and fun. Sounds just like Christmas in the movies doesn't it. I'm certainly dreaming of a white Christmas this year because that's what we have been told to expect here. Perhaps I should change my introduction to look forward to all the stresses & strains, pressures of finding money you don't have, coping with memories of absent friends or simply wondering where the energy will come from to cope with the whole process!

Many of us spend hours on end trying to think off something different from the usual Christmas present. What can we buy someone which is useful and yet unique? Hypnotherapy can provide relief from of life's constraints and unwanted habits or behaviour. At Bee Yourself Hypnotherapy we are now selling Christmas gift vouchers which can be purchased for any treatment be it #StopSmoking, #WeightLoss, #GastricBanding or simply for pampering and #Relaxation. What better gift!

Call now to order yours. Payment and orders can be taken over the phone by credit and debit cards. Make this Christmas a relaxing one for someone.

Best wishes to all for the forthcoming season. May it be a good one! Maggie. Senior therapist. www.beeyourself-hypnotherapy.co.uk

How stressed are you?

Stress can be likened to a silent epidemic causing all sorts of physical, mental and emotional conditions in our lives. Quite often, stress is never identified as the root cause and literally gets away with murder. Much is being said on the news about the over prescribing of anti-depressants at the moment. Many people simply cannot function without them. And yes, they can help in cases of stress & anxiety. Please note I said 'help' and not 'cure'. It can almost feel like the quick and easiest method of damping down the symptoms which is always very welcome indeed. The symptoms and side effects produced by stress can indeed become debilitating. But I believe, that until we start to tackle the cause of the stress and develop strategies to target this, we might as well continue to gently blow the flames rather than extinguish the fire.

Sometimes it helps to talk to someone about what exactly is happening in our lives. We certainly live life at some pace and for reasons unknown to man, it is now expected of us to function at this pace. The busier you are, the more you do, the more expected of you, the more you are meant to do; but was this how we were designed to function? I think not. Otherwise why do our blood vessels react to keep us under control? Why do we stretch our digestive systems to the limit? Why do we struggle to sleep? Why do we become so short tempered over the smallest of things? Why do we become so forgetful? Why worry? Why worry indeed! All these bodily reactions are in response to stress in our lives. The brain is preparing us to fight or run for our lives. Don't get me wrong; if we ever being chased for our lives that is a very helpful state to get into! But within our every days lives, it becomes unhelpful and even downright dangerous to our health and well-being.

So is there an antidote to stress; one that does not involve ingesting chemicals? Yes there is: The perfect antidote to stress is relaxation.......... Relaxation is something we don't do nearly enough of; until of course we are forced to in response to something interfering with our health. But why wait until it gets to that stage. There are many ways to relax and unwind. The hardest is all to often to start of with.......finding time for you. Once you find that time use it well. Guard and protect it. Cherish it! Whether you spend an hour at a time soaking in bubbles by candle light, spending undisturbed time getting into a good book, standing in the garden or on the beach and taking in the most beautiful deep breaths along with the beautiful scenery.....now that is great to reduce your heart rate and blood pressure! But for those who need help to relax, help to unwind, help to fight the negative effects of stress on the body, there's always hypnotherapy. It's an amazing way to relax and charge the batteries. Jack Dee likens it to popping in for a massage to the mind. I love that description. In fact, I couldn't put it any better myself! Maggie. Senior therapist. Bee Yourself Hypnotherapy. 8th November 2012.