Minimizing the Risk

It is all very well to hear me preaching about the benefits of hypnosis, mediation, and RELAXation sessions, but what does it all translate to personally? Of course it is a great way to make changes, increase self-esteem, sleep better, learn about the inner mind, but it is also a great way to add relaxation to your life. That is why we do RELAXation Sessions at the office. Studies have shown that using guided meditation and relaxation can help minimize the effects of stress. How does this affect you? It can help to lower blood pressure and literally decrease emotional stress.

But to make it all a little clearer and bring home the idea of why it is important to lower blood presser and reduce stress, maybe learning about problems such as Sudden Cardiac Arrest would help. You could spend the rest of your life with an ICD Implant, a personal defibrillator that is implanted within your chest to help regulate the rhythms of the heart. It is a wonderful advancement in human health, but it is also good to know about how it works (distributes an electrical shock when the rhythm gets away from its normal pace) and why itmight be good to maintain your health before getting to that point.

St. Jude Medical has a very informative site about the heart and Sudden Cardiac Arrest at www.insidecardiacarrest.com.

Here are the risk factors they mention:

• Stress
• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• Cigarette smoking
• Excess weight
• Drug or alcohol abuse
• High fat diet
• Sedentary lifestyle

All of these can be worked on with hypnotic techniques to help lessen their impact on your health.