Online Mindfulness Therapy for Stress
Online Mindfulness Therapy for Stress Management
Online Mindfulness Therapy is especially effective for managing stress, both personal and work-related stress because it teaches you how to manage stress-based thinking and worrying.
Stress is created internally through our blind habitual reactions to stressful situations. It is the unconscious proliferation of emotionally charged reactive thinking and rumination that creates stress and anxiety.
Thoughts in themselves are not the cause of our stress. It is the blind reactive identification with thoughts that is the problem. It is the blind attachment to thoughts and beliefs that is the cause of stress and that is what we learn to overcome through Mindfulness Therapy.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches you how to work with your reactive thoughts and emotions so that you become more effective in managing stress without becoming emotionally overwhelmed.
Online Mindfulness Therapist for help with Stress & Anxiety via Skype or Zoom
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Stress is a habit
Stress is a conditioned habit. We learn to react to situations, people, thoughts, memories, beliefs and expectations emotionally by becoming irritated, angry or upset. We believe that stress is an inevitable consequence of the challenges of life, that its cause is external. But this is erroneous, it is a delusion. We create stress through our blind conditioned reactivity. Stress is a learned reaction, which means it can be un-learned.
There is absolutely no law that says that you have to react with stress, irritation or anger. Stress is JUST A HABIT – and HABITS CAN BE CHANGED!
Old style talk therapy can be helpful, but often it does not alter the the underlying process that is the real cause of your emotional stress, depression or anxiety.
The same can be said for medications - drugs may provide a temporary relief from symptoms for a while, but medications are not able to heal the underlying cause that generates your emotional suffering and stress. That underlying process is psychological in nature and requires a psychological approach to bring about significant change.
The kind of psychotherapy that I provide is called Mindfulness Therapy, which can be noticeably successful for handling emotional stress, including all forms of anxiety as well as for treating depression or other emotional difficulties caused by conditioned negative thinking. Most of my clients report measurable reduction in the level of anxiety and depression after the first few sessions of psychotherapy via Skype.
Go to my website and email me to discover more about this online counseling service and to arrange for a therapy session with me.
The many techniques offered during online sessions of Mindfulness Therapy will teach you exactly how to undo the "stress habit", allowing you to find more balance and happiness in your life.
Testimonials
Everyone that I have worked with really likes the mindfulness approach that I teach for healing emotional suffering…
"After 8 years, two therapists, many self-help books…..my hypochondria and OCD was worse than ever. I figured I would just have to live like this and deal with it. I put on a good show in front of people and cried alone. Then, I stumbled upon Peter’s website. I figured this was my last attempt. Peter is kind, understanding, and patient. He helped guide me out of the dark and see the light. He is truly there to help. He never looks at his time during sessions. I would have to remind him that time is up. His rates are reasonable so everyone cam get proper therapy. He gave me practical tools to use to overcome my anxiety. He is always available via email for advice. He truly cares about the progress of his patients. Peter changed my life and gave me the chance to enjoy my life again. I am eternally grateful to him."
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Online Mindfulness Therapy for Stress Reduction
Online Mindfulness Therapy for Stress Reduction provides an extremely effective tool for managing stress. During these online mindfulness therapy sessions I will teach you specific ways of working with the habitual patterns of reactive thinking that contribute so much to emotional stress, worrying, anxiety and depression.
This approach is very effective because it works on changing the underlying process that causes stress, and most people see dramatic improvements and significant reduction in their stress levels after 3-4 online sessions.
The first step in mindfulness training is to train ourselves to become aware of reactive thoughts the moment they arise. Of course our habit is one of unawareness, which results in becoming lost in our thoughts. The thoughts proliferate and overpower the mind causing emotional stress and anxiety.
When the mind becomes crowded with thoughts it become less able to make decisions and skillful actions and more prone to error, which causes more stress-based thinking.
Reactive thinking creates a vicious cycle that leads to more stress and more reactive thinking. If we do not gain control of this reactive process it can lead to depression and chronic anxiety. Chronic stress can also lead to health problems and can seriously affect our relationships, too.
When we are over-stressed we tend to become more irritable and angry. Our family life suffers and we often become more withdrawn and disconnected from life. Chronic stress can also lead to addiction, and is one of the major contributing factors for alcoholism and substance abuse.
Welcome! My name is Peter Strong, and I am a professional online therapist. I offer online therapy via Skype for anxiety, depression and for stress.
I teach Mindfulness Therapy for stress reduction. This approach is very effective for helping you change the underlying process that causes emotional stress. Now, what is that underlying process?
Well, if you look closely you will see that the majority of stress that we experience is produced by uncontrolled reactive thinking. We may find some stimulus that generates an anxiety or concern and then immediately we start proliferating thoughts; thoughts around "What if...?" or anticipation of some kind of catastrophe.
So, this kind of catastrophic thinking, rumination, or just general proliferation of thought from the single stimulus is what generates most of our emotional reactivity.
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The purpose of online mindfulness therapy for reducing stress is to teach you how to prevent this process of reactive proliferation of thinking.
Mindfulness is a very sophisticated tool of awareness that allows you to see what is happening when it is happening so you can catch these reactive thinking processes earl on, before they start to gain momentum and cause emotional stress.
So that is, in brief, what we focus on during these sessions of online mindfulness therapy for emotional stress reduction. If you would like to learn more, please read my website and then please contact me and we can schedule a Skype therapy session to help you work on reducing your stress levels through mindfulness therapy.
The Placement Technique for Stress Management
There are many mindfulness-based techniques available to help you better manage stress, but one that I frequently teach in my Skype sessions of Online Therapy for Stress is called the Placement Technique. You can try this for yourself and see how it works for you.
The basic concept is that stress is closely related to the spatial orientation of stress thoughts in the mind. If there is insufficient space, then the stress becomes more intense. It’s rather like cramming several people into a small elevator. There is not enough space and they end up stepping on each other’s toes, or jabbing each other with their elbows, etc. The interesting point here is that if you take these very same people and place them in a large space, like the hotel lobby, the level of stress becomes greatly reduced. The only thing that is different is the size of the space containing the people.
It works very much the same when our minds become crowded with intrusive thoughts. The congestion is the primary factor that creates the stress rather than the thoughts themselves. So, to help reduce stress we practice increasing the psychological space that contains the thoughts.
1. Establish mindfulness, which simply means allow yourself to become aware of thoughts as the arise, but without reacting to them in any way.
2. Greet the thought and imagine picking up the thought with your hands and deliberately placing it further away from you. I like to imagine the thought as a black pebble and I place it on a beach, which is a powerful symbol of spaciousness.
3. Repeat the Greet and Place routine with each subsequent though that arises.
It is really quite remarkable how effective this simple mindfulness technique can be for reducing stress levels. I find it invaluable when managing the stress around giving presentations. Just Greet and Place, Greet and Place each and every stress/worry thought.
Mindfulness Meditation for Managing Stress
The common perception is that we use meditation to distract the mind from stressful thoughts: we meditate on a pleasant thoughts or relaxing scene instead; we quieten the mind with relaxing music; we listen to a guided meditation. etc.
Now, while this general approach may produce a temporary reduction in stress levels it does nothing to change the underlying cause of stress, the reactive thinking, and more specifically, the blind attachment to reactive thoughts and beliefs.
So, during Mindfulness Therapy we learn how to meditate on the stressful thoughts and beliefs themselves. Instead of avoiding them, which is never going to work in the long term, we learn to face those thoughts, but consciously, mindfully. We train the mind to see those thoughts as mental objects instead of becoming blindly attached to them. Thoughts are not the problem; blind attachment and reactive identification to them is the problem, and this can be overcome by meditating on those very thoughts that tend to overwhelm us.
Meditation is training: Training the mind to remain as the Observer instead of becoming blindly identified with the observed. It is all about changing the relationship to those thoughts and beliefs and other mental objects, including emotional reactions.
The key to stress management is developing Objective Consciousness.
Further reading:
Online Mindfulness Therapy for Stress
Online Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
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