7 NLP techniques to reduce stress and anxiety – By Komal Talan

A certain level of stress is beneficial to our health; it strengthens us and aids in the development of resilience. Too much, on the other hand, causes an overabundance of chemicals in our bodies, which has a major and detrimental impact on our health over time. This article outlines seven ways for reducing stress and anxiety to healthy levels.

Approach

Consider stress and anxiety as allies rather than foes. They serve as crucial messengers, informing us of what we need to learn and/or alter in our lives. They serve as a wake-up call for us to continue our journey of discovering how to live our lives to the fullest, in the most fulfilling way possible.

Some people may find this overly optimistic, but even so, it’s worth considering: how we perceive stress and worry might influence how they affect us.

The Stress-Proof Individual

1. Invest in our family, friends, and network with social support and connectives.
2. We can focus more on what we can control if we have a sense of control.
3. Predictability is something we get better at once we accept what is and begin to love and appreciate uncertainty.
4. Positive expectation and planning for the worst-case scenario are both beneficial, but we should focus 80 percent of our attention on taking action toward our goals.
5. It’s empowering to have a purpose for ourselves as well as for something larger than ourselves.
6. It’s beneficial to establish techniques to get rid of excess tension, which is called dissipation. Exercise, a good diet, adequate hydration, adequate sleep, stretching, and contemplative techniques are all beneficial.

Developing Daily Routines and Habits

Routines provide us a sense of predictability and control, as well as a significant increase in the likelihood that we will actually perform the things that are truly essential to us.

Komal Talan – an NLP master practitioner says- as per her observation, studies, and experience that people tend to become hard with themselves, most of the people fail to build good habits because of creating a tough schedule for themselves, due to which the mind rejects it on the spot. Komal Talan again says that one has to start with very simple and small tasks to change their habits and routine and the important point to note is to be cool and calm with yourself. To change yourself you have to accept yourself first.

A good way to start over is:

Morning routines:

1. a brief workout session
2. a brief meditation period
3. Confirm your three daily priorities: what are the primary areas in which you want to focus your time, energy, and attention?

Habits in the evening:

1. Body stretching as per your time limit
2. Evening queries, typically in the form – did I do my best?

With a few additional structures. These questions serve as an input criterion. What kind of effort did we put forth? For example, did I do my utmost to complete my three priorities today? Did I do everything I could to assist my clients today? Did I make every effort to achieve my goal? What three things did I value today? What do I have to be thankful for?

Stress Reduction and/or Immunization

Many people are attempting to draw our attention, take our time and energy, and press our emotional buttons in order to do so in today’s world. A simple first step is to keep track of when we’re distracted and triggered into a stressful circumstance. Review our list at the end of each day and pick which instances we’ll address.

1. accept (since it helps us in some way merely prevent inoculating us against the trigger in the future).
2. Future pacing and spinning feelings are two methods for accomplishing this.

Simply doing so increases our sensation of control, which reduces stress. Taking further action diminishes it even more.

Enhancing ‘Feel Good’ Anchors

This is the polar opposite of the last point: we frequently overlook the triggers that make us happy. Make a note of anything that makes us feel good throughout the day; it could be something as easy as smelling a cup of coffee, watering a series of pot plants, or petting the dog (as well as some things you don’t want to share!)

Make your evening questions about what you’ve enjoyed and valued. Every good memory serves as a resource for the future. Both pleasant experiences and the act of noticing and remembering them are anchored by the art.

Future Pacing for Stress and Anxiety Reduction

Bad planning is the source of a lot of tension and anxiety. The problem is that we often get pretty good at it, and we keep replaying what’s going on in our thoughts as if it were a too short movie. By too short, I mean that instead of continuing the movie until we’re cheerfully carrying out the first steps of a solution, we end up with the difficulty and dilemma.

Consider a situation in which we believe we will be stressed. Continue watching the movie in our heads until we’ve gotten through the problem and identified 1-3 positive steps we can take to improve the situation. Replay the mental movie, this time exploring the future. This time, we take the time to confirm what we’ve learned, and we begin to enjoy taking the steps forward.

Remember that all obstacle, no matter how difficult it appears, contains the seeds of future achievement and fulfillment.

Any scenario that is important to us is worth future pacing so that we can maximize our chances of making the best of whatever happens.

Stress and Anxiety Can Be Reduced by Spinning Feelings

Komal Talan says “I’ve been effectively using this approach to treat headaches for many years, but I’ve just recently begun learning how toutilizee it to treat stress and worry. Richard Bandler, one of the co-creators of NLP, uses it to deal with stress and anxiety.”

Take a few moments to relax in a comfortable chair or bed. Imagine a clock face in front of you with the 12:00 on your chin, the 03:00 on your left, the 06:00 on your waist, and the 09:00 on your left. Consider a situation that has previously caused you stress. Consider spinning your emotions in a clockwise and counterclockwise direction. In which direction does the stress level rise? In which direction should it be reduced?

Put the 03:00 in front of you and the 09:00 behind you on the imagined clock. (The 12:00 is still close to your chin, and the 06:00 is at your waist.) Repeat with the clock set to this time. Which is more comfortable: spinning clockwise or anticlockwise? What more can you do with the submodalities of either the trigger or triggered event to protect yourself from negative emotions and boost empowering ones?

Modeling successful, joyful, and stress-free people

Do you know who seems to be completely unaffected by stress? What exactly do they do? What are their core beliefs, values, and strategies? What states do they have easy access to? Carry out your own modeling project, incorporating a variety of NLP modeling techniques.

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