Need to reduce stress? You can use your body or your mind.

I’m sure you’ve noticed that yoga studios are almost as common as Starbucks. And I’m sure you’ve heard yoga is very beneficial for stress reduction among other health benefits including improved circulation, reduced heart rate and muscle tone. And it is.

However, if you’ve tried yoga and it isn’t for you, there is another method that you can do in your sleep. Yes, you can reduce your stress and reduce anxiety while you sleep with hypnosis.

Hypnosis is known to improve health, here is an excerpt from Time Magazine (September 27, 2004) “A growing body of research supports the ancient practice (of Hypnosis) as an effective tool in the treatment of a variety of problems from anxiety to chronic pain. Rather than taking away one’s control, it enhances a person’s control, teaching them how to control aspects of their body’s function and sensation that they thought they couldn’t. Hypnosis is a form of highly focused attention-an induced state of mind that enables people to alter they way the perceive and process reality.
Studies using positron emission tomography (PET) have looked at what goes on in the brain during hypnosis. In one subject their hands were immersed in painfully hot water, but were told it was comfortably warm. This not only altered their perception of the pain but also altered blood flow in pain related parts of the brain.”

So, if time isn’t on your side or you find yoga too difficult but you need to reduce the stress or anxiety in your life, hypnosis may be an alternative.