Why is there an impending danger and what are the reasons for anxiety in business owners?
The nature of their work is deeply stressful
Another word for stress is fear. Living in uncertain times activates the limbic part of the nervous system, which is in charge of survival. Its job is to throw you in a fight-flight-freeze mode when impending danger is perceived.
Staying in a 9 to 5 job is certainly less uncertain. Ever-changing economic conditions. Unpredictable stock markets. Plenty of triggers for fearful responses.
We do not like uncertainty. It is encoded into our DNA from ancient times. When we used to live in the tribe, we had to stick to the same old, same old, cause there was it guaranteed survival. The danger usually came from the unexpected and the new.
But being on a flight-fight-freeze mode for hours in a row is very exhausting. It can result in chronic fatigue and mental collapse.
Entrepreneurs are often sleep-deprived.
There is this belief that sleeping less leaves you with more hours in the day to get things done. When is an entrepreneur’s work ever done? Yet how long can you go on sacrificing the time your brain needs to renew its neurons?
The evidence suggests the brain changes during sleep as a result of the brain’s trillions of nerve cells literally rewiring themselves.
If you spend all night trying to learn something new, your brain’s not going to retain that information. Your brain really needs to process that information, which you really only do when you’re asleep.”
Normal sleep is a restorative state. Therefore,when sleep is disrupted or inadequate, it can lead to increased tension, vigilance, and irritability.
Entrepreneurs spend long hours hunched over a keyboard and feed on coffee and fast food
Did you know that after smoking, prolonged sitting ranks as the world’s top risk factor for non-communicable diseases?
We just aren’t really structured to be sitting for such long periods of time.
When we do, our body needs to shut down.
Sitting for long periods of time is not only bad for your body, but also for your mind. The study found that walking increases your resources of energy, which you can then invest in thinking and improve your working memory performance.
You might think sitting in front of your computer the whole day makes you more productive. In reality, it lowers your productivity. That is because sitting for long hours per day causes fatigue and can trigger mood disorders like stress and depression.
Evidently, a great deal of sitting not only messes up your physical and mental well-being, but also your emotional stability.
The work of an entrepreneur perpetuates solitude.
It’s likely that throughout your entrepreneurial journey, you’ll be turned down more than once. You are going to face rejection. Receiving negative feedback makes you start questioning yourself: “What is wrong with me? With my product? My idea? Why can’t I…
Being rejected can make you feel lonely. How do you overcome such an emotional disturbance? What is your method?
You probably already know this, but let me underline it one more time: being an entrepreneur is hard work. Especially at the early stages when cash is tight and you are multitasking.
It’s easy to lose touch with family and friends when you’re working round the clock on a presentation or trying to close a deal. You may not realize it at first. Maybe it sinks in one day as you flick through your Facebook and see photos of your buddies at a party without you. Or that your best friend’s baby has started walking and you haven’t even met her yet.
The point I am making here: the importance of finding work/life balance. Looking after yourself is important. Especially when it feels impossible at times. And during those times, entrepreneurship will make you feel alone.
You may find that your family and friends don’t understand you, or what drives and inspires you. They may never even understand what it is that you actually, physically do.
So if entrepreneurship makes you feel alone, find a way to vent out. The most powerful words in the world are not ” I am strong.” No. The most powerful suggestion you can give to yourself is ” Let go.” How do you do that? What is your way of letting go? Sometimes
Entrepreneurial self-worth is often tied to the company’s success
Sometimes you may go through financial failure or sacrifice.
When you make a mistake at work or in the office, there are two things you need to do: Learn from it and let it go.
Making a conscious effort to focus on your own progress. This is what you need to do. And not, which is more than likely, to compare yourself to someone who has accomplished something you wish you did.
Entrepreneurs tend to set high goals and work hard towards them. However, a high achiever can be satisfied with doing a great joy. A perfectionist can’t. Perfectionists accept nothing less than perfection, which doesn’t exist.
This is detrimental to their mental health. If you are prone to perfectionism, it will drive you to high levels of anxiety and depression. Therefore, it is always worth exploring the reason for your striving.
Proactive mental health fitness is unfamiliar to entrepreneurs
Society accepts that we have to get checkups for physical health. We screen for ailments and we are as preventative as we can be. Why don’t we do that for mental health? That’s the change that I think is coming: proactive mental health care.”
I read that half of startup founders will suffer from at least one form of a mental health condition during their life. Half of them. That’s too much. Business founders are also:
2x more likely to have depression
6x more likely to have ADHD
3x more likely to face substance abuse than an average citizen.
Investing in emotional fitness will be critical to business success in times of epidemic. Mental health can drive or put brakes on your business. Resilient companies are built by resilient leaders.
Your performance and resilience improve alongside your self-care routine.
Here is how you can keep anxiety low:
1. Stop sacrificing sleep for work.
2. Invest in healthy nutrition and forget about fast food, replace coffee with nutritional supplements, like guarana
2. Learn to meditate.
3. Treat your therapy self-work as sacred.
Entrepreneurs do not pay enough attention to their mental health and this needs to change.
The good news is help is all around. You can reach out online from the comfort of your office nowadays.
When to get help?
- Check-in with yourself about how you are feeling.
- Are you slowed down by self-doubt?
- Do you often feel pulled off course by your mental narrative?
- Have you got bodily symptoms like tightness in the chest, weight n the pit of the stomach?
Hypnotherapy is a powerful tool for changing your attitude and inner state by reprogramming the subconscious mind. Entrepreneurs are always looking for ways to improve their performance, work more efficiently and eliminate barriers to success. And hypnosis is a proven method to code in that desired outcome. In other words, to give your mind suggestions that are beneficial to your daily routine. Only a top mindset only can guarantee top results.
What are the benefits of having online hypnotherapy sessions from the comfort of your office or home office? What does hypnotherapy do for you?
1. It relaxes you enough to pause on obsessing about your problems.
When you run into a problem in your business, it triggers your body’s stress response, which can lead to elevated cortisol levels and other unfavorable hormones that keep you in full-on freak-out mode. This stress response keeps your mind in a problem-focused state as opposed to a solution-focused state
When you come out of hypnotherapy — even after a quick 10-minute recording — your previous stress is significantly reduced or eliminated, allowing you to approach the problem from a different mindset.
2. You can finally sleep like you’ve been dreaming about.
For entrepreneurs, sleep can be a precious — and sparse — luxury. The long hours, the lack of a boss, and a keen awareness that your success or failure is in your hands can mean several long days.
Short hypnotherapy audios can help you spend two-thirds less time awake as your mind is drifting away. A study has found that participants who use a hypnosis audio spent 80 percent more time in deep sleep. Deep sleep is critical, as it strengthens memory, fortifies your immune system, and restores your energy. Those are all vital components to helping entrepreneurs perform at their best.
3. Hypnotherapy eliminates pesky negative thought patterns that keep you stuck.
You have about 50 000 thoughts a day. It’s easy for the majority of them to be negative. Especially if you grew up with harmful and destructive patterning around you. Hypnotherapy has been used by leading athletes, including Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton to help them dominate by eliminating negative thoughts.
Hypnotherapy can help you to have a similar competitive advantage in your niche. Hypnotherapists focus on guided imagery and future pacing to help their clients see themselves as having already achieved their outcome, and ease the subconscious into the idea that it’s already happened.
4. It can improve your mental health.
Hypnotherapy helps rewire neural pathways. It can shift your attention away from unfocused, depressive, or anxiety-ridden thoughts towards happier, more positive outcomes.
Anxiety is a negative form of self-hypnosis. So, combatting it with hypnotherapy helps the brain to rewire itself towards positive self-hypnosis instead.
5. Hypnotherapy helps you confront fear.
As an entrepreneur, you’re continually tackling new things, and many of them require confronting your fears.
Take public speaking, for example. Almost everyone has a negative public speaking memory from childhood that leads to a life-long fear of public speaking. Hypnotherapy can help you deal with that fear through positive suggestions and visualization.
One of the hallmarks of being an entrepreneur is that you’re willing to try things that others won’t so you can get results that others can’t achieve.
Incorporating regular hypnotherapy into your routine can help accelerate your progress in your business. This is achieved by keeping your immune system strong, reducing your stress level, and helping you conquer your fears.
When in business, these personal issues have a profound impact on your achievements and level of success.
Hypnotherapy, and specifically, the innovative RTT method I use, can definitely help you to Fight Your Fears and Build A Beautiful Booming Business” sooner than you think is possible.
Getting them under control will result in increased engagement. It will allow you to expand your influence online and in personal relationships with your colleagues, mentors, and peers.
The world is full of people, dealing with a myriad of personal problems, small and large.
How Can Hypnosis Help your Business?
Hypnosis for Entrepreneurs can benefit them, even if they are among those fortunate few, who don’t have any major personal issues.
Hypnosis has enormous advantages to offer – both mental & physical, which can enhance your efficiency, performance, and the quality of your efforts.
Many of these benefits can be accomplished, through learning and practicing self-hypnosis to enhance and anchor the suggestions for life.
One of the most significant problems individuals deal with is the combined negative effect of stress and tension from a busy personal or business life.
What is it like to have your online hypnotherapist?
- It is exciting to have someone guide you through the changes you have chosen for yourself
- Besides, it is very satisfactory, as it positively impacts your mission
- Last, but not least, the affected changes are fast and lasting, because subconscious changes are all-pervasive and permanent
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