Break The Cycle Of Stress Anxiety & Depressions

Feel like you are losing your petals sometimes? Like the stress is killing you? Maybe up until now you’ve had so many emotional upsets or traumas that you are just not sure you can endure another round. And it feels like what ever you do is never good enough – you constantly question all the decisions you are making. And in the end, all you feel is depressed and hopeless about what your future has in store.

It may surprise you to know that you are not alone. Consistently since the 1960’s 70% of visits to doctors offices are due to conditions that are stress related. And between 1994 to 2004, visits to doctors offices for depression and anxiety doubled making it Canada’s fastest growing diagnosis. In 2003, that meant 11.6 million visits to doctor’s offices.

With doctors visits dominated by stress, anxiety and depression this may be a good indication that our society does not have the necessary tools to cope with our emotions and the stresses we face. Especially when something in life comes up that is unexpected or goes terribly wrong like divorce, death, a devastating disappointment or a financial mishap. When we don’t have the proper emotional tools in place, then these events along with the everyday stresses in life can take there toll on us. In fact, research is beginning to show us that our emotions will be a better predictor of future disease than the traditional factors such as high blood pressure, cholesterol, obesity and smoking.

What Causes Stress Anxiety& Depression

One of the reasons many people suffer from stress, anxiety and depression is because of both conscious and unconscious fears and beliefs about themselves and their ability to cope with the world around them.They have underlying concerns for their safety and survival becoming overwhelmed easily, not feeling like life is in their control or that they have the capability to handle life’s stresses and events that present themselves.They simply don’t feel good about themselves. Negative self talk begins to erode away at their self confidence and they feel that nothing they do is good enough or right. Before time, overwhelm and helplessness set in.

The truth is we can’t change the world outside,because we simply do not have that much control. Unexpected things will happen in life that catch us off guard, stress us out and challenge us. What we do have control over though, is the way we respond to those events and circumstances in our live

The problem today is that we have become a society of “habitual stress responders”. What does this mean? The mechanism of fight or flight was originally designed as a part of our biology for use under “real physical threat”. Today however, many of us have begun to respond to many of our everyday emotional events - as if they were a “real physical threat” to our survival. How many people do you know sit in dread when their boss calls them into the office, even though more times than not, he simply wants to speak about something work related.

Any thought intensely imagined has the same impact to the body as if that event were occurring in real time. This is because for every thought we have,there is a biochemical correspondent that is released into our bodies. When we have anxiety or a stress response we are releasing over 14,000 different biochemical’s into our bodies that stay there for up to 6 hours after the triggering event, even though the thought or event may have lasted less than 3 seconds. It is our response to the things that happen that will determine the impact to our minds and bodies, not what happens to us.

Research demonstrates that if we were to predict illness on stressful life events, we would only be right only 15% of the time. It is the way in which we interpret those events,the thoughts we have about them and how we react to them that will determine if we will become ill from the stress or not. Habitual stress responders are more than likely to become ill.

How Our Minds Work

Below is a diagram showing how the thoughts and feelings we have create a particular state of mind or attitude in us. And it is the combination of our thoughts feelings and state of mind that will drive our behaviors and ultimately create our reality.

One of the key concepts we apply at Bloom, is the idea that we have much more control over our Thoughts, our Feelings and our State Of Mind than we know. Once we develop a sense of self awareness we can begin to take charge the Thoughts, Feelings and State of Mind that cause us stress and anxiety and begin to transform them into an empowering State of Mind that lifts us up

How We Can Help

If you don’t feel like you don’t have the emotional health you would like when it comes to the way you deal with your emotions and the everyday stresses in your life, then here’s how we can help.

At Bloom we offer a 6 Step Program that will help you to break the cycle of stress, anxiety and depression and become emotionally empowered and successful. Our unique approach includes a combination of hypnosis, the successful elements of cognitive behavioral therapy and the latest mind body techniques that focus on accessing your inner potential for coping.

At Bloom we can help you to achieve the sound emotional health you are looking for in a few weeks to months,what would normally take years of traditional talk therapy to accomplish.

In our 6 Step Program we will help you get to the root of what is causing the stress or anxiety you are experiencing, and implement new and effective strategies for coping that will have you feeling calm and empowered regardless of what is going on around you.

Backed By Real World Science & Research

All of the methods we use at Bloom are scientifically researched and validated providing you with most effective ways to get the change you are looking for.

The 6 Keys To Breaking The Cycle of Stress, Anxiety & Overwhelm

Step 1: Create An Inspiration

At Bloom we want to give you an emotional make over. This is your opportunity to reinvent yourself, the way you have always envisioned you would ideally like to be. You will discover what is inspiring you to change at your deepest core level through creating a vision of you as your ideal self. This is the first step in making your journey both motivating and compelling. It is through using your state of mind to build confidence anddevelop a positive mindset that you will begin to feel more hopeful about the future that lies ahead. Doing this also serves to create a pathway or road map for your mind and unconscious to follow.

Step 2: DiscoverWhat Is Behind The Stress, Anxiety And Depression

Hypnosis & Regression

Using the process of regression through hypnosis, we will take you on a guided exploration of your unconscious,going back to the source of your underlying fears and the limiting beliefs you hold about the world around you and your ability to cope.We will also investigate other possible issues that may be contributing to the way you are feeling.Once these discoveries are made you have won 50% of the battle, because you will finally understand what the unconscious drivers of your behavior were.

Knowing Is Not Enough

Knowing is not enough though. In order to be successful emotionally, we must then create and implement new behaviors and strategies for coping,which include remaining calm and resourceful regardless of what is going on in the environment around us.

Step 3: Implementing New And Resourceful Strategies For Emotional Health

This is the process where we create a set of personalized strategies and coping mechanisms that allow you to have the optimal state of mind and emotional resourcefulness in most any situation. Included in these strategies is the ability to process your emotions in a healthy way and change the way you respond to stress.You will also learn to access your inner potential for coping.

Step 4: Discovering Your Triggers

These are both the emotional and internal triggers or “defeating thoughts” you have that cause you stress, anxiety and depression. They come in the form of pictures you are creating in your minds eye, what you are saying to yourself about yourself, and how all of this makes you feel that brings you down and creates a disabling state of mind.We will take you on a guided discovery process of identifying your internal triggers and then transforming them into healthy self talk, so that you develop a better sense of self esteem and empowerment.

Step 5: Cultivating Self Awareness

In order to create the optimal State of Mind for emotional empowerment we must cultivate a self awareness about what inspires or motivates us,as well as what disables and deflates us. We will provide you with the necessary tools and exercises that will help you to bring this sense of awareness around your thoughts, feelings and the state of mind you hold. With this awareness you can then begin to use your thoughts in a very directed and intentional way to begin to ‘live’ in a positive mindset.

Step 6: Break The Cycle Of Stress, Anxiety & Depression Through Rewiring Your Brain For Success

Think of the brain like a CD that you put into your computer. The information needed to carry out the task has been burned onto that CD so the all the laser in the CD player has to do is follow the patterns burned into that CD in order to carry out the instructions.

Your brain is like that CD. Any thought, pattern or behaviour we continue to engage in over time begins to become burned or hardwired into the neural circuitry of your brain. This is our brains way of making us efficient. Think of the first time you learned to drive a car. You were so conscious of where your foot was on the petal, that you sat upright and were vigilant - aware of every little thing that was going on around you. And you certainly couldn’t carry on a conversation or drink your coffee while driving. Through the practice of driving continuously though, these new learning’s became hardwired into your brain, becoming second nature to you. This is what enables you to carry on conversations or get lost in your thoughts for minutes at a time without having to concentrate on every aspect of your driving.

The good thing is that none of this hardwired information in your brain is or needs to be permanent. Research in brain plasticity is showing us that when we want to change a behaviour or pattern that has become hardwired into our brains - we can. We can do this by simply breaking the pattern and re-writing in a new way of being.

With our six step program at Bloom, we will ensure that you get what it is you need to break the cycle of stress, anxiety and depression for once and for all. We will give you the necessary tools, Personal Development Coaching and Hypnotherapy sessions that will help you to rewire your brain in a way that leaves you feeling both positive and empowered with great emotional health.

Why This Can Work For You: The Research Behind the Process

In research carried out by Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz, he was able to demonstrate that he could take people who had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and have them rewire their brains in a successful way, allowing them to be free from obsessive thoughts.

According to PET scans(Positron Emission Tomography) , people with OCD have certain parts of their brain that are overactive showing a continuous pattern of brain activity. It is like a perpetual worry circuit has been locked on in the OCD persons brain and continues to cycle around and around, never giving them a break from the dread and anxiety of their compulsive thoughts.

Dr. Schwartz was able to demonstrate through a four step process he developed,that an individual with OCD could successfully alter their brain and rewire a worry circuit that had been locked onto a pleasure circuit.

The approach he uses to have his patients rewire their brains is similar to the approach taken at Bloom. It is part mindful awareness and part cognitive behavior therapy.

We at Bloom believe if people with such an extreme condition as OCD are able to overcome their affliction, that you too can rewire your brain for emotional success you desire.

Break the cycle of stress, anxiety and overwhelm and begin to think and feel more positive and confident about yourself and the world around you.

Research done on individuals between the ages of 55 and 85 showed that those who felt they had personal mastery and control over life's events had a 60% lower chance of death rather than those who felt they had no control over life's events.

If you are ready to begin taking back your control and create a positive and empowering state of mind so that you respond to life in a calm and resourceful way, then please contact us today for your free – no obligation consultation. Please contact us today at 416-709-8895