The human brain has something called neuroplasticity, which means it rewires itself based on repetition.  A powerful danger-management system means that we are literally primed to notice the negativity in our environment and respond to it with intensity.  Although negative thoughts naturally occur inside our heads, the brain and body receive the message that there is a major threat outside in the outside world.  An ancient escape-the-predator mode has been triggered; one which is biased in favour of negativity.  We only notice the bad stuff in our environment.  Opportunities pass us by unnoticed and our creativity drains away.  Just one negative thought can trigger stress hormones, but when our brains keep repeating our negative thoughts,  unnecessary feelings of despair bubble.  We might as well have a panic sign behind our eyelids and an alarm shrieking in our ears. 

This chronic high alert state shuts down digestion, removes attention from anything but the perceived threat – including memory, which leaves us scattered, frazzled and disjointed.  We’re now stuck in survival mode, preventing us from focusing on living gratefully.  The blood-flow drains energy from task management and executive skills, diverting to muscles for escape.  All we want to DO is escape – escape our suffering.  We feel victimised and irrational, fuelling anger which is either internalised or blows-up so we want to fight.   Research reveals that negative thinking can literally shrink the hippocampus which plays a key role in learning, memory and managing emotions.  Impulse control is reduced and the brain’s default mode becomes affected, eroding self-esteem and making the world-view more negative.   We lose track of what is important to us and become concerned with nitty-gritty to gain a sense of control. 

The great news is, we can turn all this around, using hypnotherapy.  If one negative thought can do all that, imagine what you can do to heal your brain by using hypnotherapy recordings daily.  Don’t take our word for it, download our free hypnotherapy recording and try it for one month.  Your life will lift, your mood will lift and all we ask is that you come back and join us and/or download more recordings from us.