Want to find out how you can make this Christmas one of the best ever?
Thursday; 18 December 2008 Filed in: Hypnotherapy
| Personal
Improvement
Leigh Payne, an accredited hypnotherapist and
achievement coach based in South Lanarkshire,
suggests that Christmas can be one of the most
stressful times of the year. She explains that:
“During a time of year where we often overindulge
on food and drink, generally overspend and
radically upset our normal routines, Christmas can
elevate our stress levels and have a significant
effect on our health and wellbeing.”
Leigh Payne, an accredited hypnotherapist and
achievement coach based in South Lanarkshire,
suggests that Christmas can be one of the most
stressful times of the year. She explains that:
“During a time of year where we often overindulge
on food and drink, generally overspend and
radically upset our normal routines, Christmas can
elevate our stress levels and have a significant
effect on our health and wellbeing.”
Symptoms of stress at Christmas, nominated the sixth most stressful life event in a poll by MemoriseThis.com, include tiredness, a feeling of being removed from day-to-day activity, being emotionally sensitive and having a lowered immunity to coughs, colds and infections. Without a conscious effort to avoid these symptoms, Christmas can dramatically lose its appeal.
To help you make the most of things over the festive period, Leigh shares her top tips on how to de-stress your Christmas:
• Plan as far in advance as you can. Organising your Christmas festivities during the week leading up to the big day can help you tackle the largest of dinners and ensure you have enough time to relax.
• Laugh a lot. Christmas is a time for fun and frivolity. Take some time alone, as a family or as a group of friends to watch a few good Christmas movies or spend a bit of time doing something that you wouldn’t normally do.
• Remind yourself of great times you have had in the past and make an effort to re-live them.
• Take some time over the festive period to plan and organise some improvements for 2008. The New Year period is often a time for good intentions and resolutions. Make them stick this year by committing some time to think about what’s important to you and write down your goals at the front of a 2008 diary.
• Listen to some uplifting music or burn some seasonal candles.
• Learn to relax. Breathe long deep breaths when you feel things getting on top of you. Take time to detach yourself if you can, and spend 15 minutes relaxing and recharging your positivity.
Leigh has made a Christmas rapid relaxation audio recording available free from her website to everyone wishing to make the most of the festivities this year. You can download the 15 minute hypnotherapy session to listen to at your leisure by visiting http://www.leighpayne.co.uk/xmas.html.
For further information on Leigh Payne please contact:
Leigh Payne,
http://www.leighpayne.co.uk
Symptoms of stress at Christmas, nominated the sixth most stressful life event in a poll by MemoriseThis.com, include tiredness, a feeling of being removed from day-to-day activity, being emotionally sensitive and having a lowered immunity to coughs, colds and infections. Without a conscious effort to avoid these symptoms, Christmas can dramatically lose its appeal.
To help you make the most of things over the festive period, Leigh shares her top tips on how to de-stress your Christmas:
• Plan as far in advance as you can. Organising your Christmas festivities during the week leading up to the big day can help you tackle the largest of dinners and ensure you have enough time to relax.
• Laugh a lot. Christmas is a time for fun and frivolity. Take some time alone, as a family or as a group of friends to watch a few good Christmas movies or spend a bit of time doing something that you wouldn’t normally do.
• Remind yourself of great times you have had in the past and make an effort to re-live them.
• Take some time over the festive period to plan and organise some improvements for 2008. The New Year period is often a time for good intentions and resolutions. Make them stick this year by committing some time to think about what’s important to you and write down your goals at the front of a 2008 diary.
• Listen to some uplifting music or burn some seasonal candles.
• Learn to relax. Breathe long deep breaths when you feel things getting on top of you. Take time to detach yourself if you can, and spend 15 minutes relaxing and recharging your positivity.
Leigh has made a Christmas rapid relaxation audio recording available free from her website to everyone wishing to make the most of the festivities this year. You can download the 15 minute hypnotherapy session to listen to at your leisure by visiting http://www.leighpayne.co.uk/xmas.html.
For further information on Leigh Payne please contact:
Leigh Payne,
http://www.leighpayne.co.uk