How Can Hypnotherapy Help Sweating?
What causes sweating? Your subconscious is your control centre. It monitors everything, keeping all systems running smoothly so that you can continue living well, healthily and happily.
Your organs, your nervous system, your hormones; everything that goes on in your body has a general command HQ, a control centre that keeps it all regulated and working at optimal levels. That is your subconscious – it beavers away ceaselessly so that our conscious minds need not be bothered. We don’t have to think about blinking, swallowing, breathing, digesting or any of the myriad other functions required to keep our bodies working.
If you need fuel, it will cause you to feel hunger. If you need hydration, it will cause thirst. Need to recharge, you’ll feel tired. Too cold and it will cause you goosepimples to raise hairs and maintain heat; and if you’re too hot, your subconscious will cause you to sweat.
Cooling Sweat
We all sweat, to varying degrees, when our body needs to cool down. Mostly, this is a natural and very necessary reaction whenever our internal temperature is too high, such as:
- weather or overheated room,
- exertion or exercise,
- illness/fever
- or even a highly spiced meal.
If that Control Centre senses that we are overheating, it sends out messages to our sweat glands to produce sweat. As the moisture evaporates, it cools the skin. A brilliant system and all conducted subconsciously without any conscious input from us whatsoever. More often than not, we don’t even know it has occurred unless we happen to notice the end result.
Emotional Sweat
But what of emotional sweating? Why do we sweat when we’re not overheating? What is the purpose of sweating when we’re nervous, embarrassed, or afraid? There are several theories, but no one really knows the answer to this. We know that when we get stressed or anxious, our blood pressure rises, adrenalin is produced and our sweat glands are triggered; that it’s part of the ‘fight or flight’ response. It is likely that its purpose is again to cool us down, to regulate our temperature to allow us to fight or to flee more efficiently.
Excessive Sweat
But then there is problem sweating; hyperhidrosis. This is excessive sweating with no obvious cause and the kind that people often seek hypnotherapy treatment to address.
For some it is general (sweating in several places or all over their body). Sometimes this is localised – for example:
- sweat pouring from their hairline,
- covering their top lip or
- dripping from their hands;
It is unconnected to overheating and while it may not be due to stress or nervousness, it can certainly cause the sufferer a good deal of anxiety.
In these cases, the subconscious is sending out wrong messages and the sweat glands are activated inappropriately. Managing these symptoms can be hugely stressful in itself:
- Only wearing black clothing so the sweat marks don’t show,
- Always having a plentiful supply of drying-cloths to hand,
- Wearing only loose-fitting clothes of natural fibres.
- Abstaining from certain foods and drinks
- Not shaking hands,
- Avoiding particular places or occasions,
- Keeping a distance from other people –
– not to mention the self-consciousness or the discomfort and skin issues that so much sweat can create.
Hypnotherapy for Emotional Sweating
If the excessive sweating is caused by stress, anxiety, nervousness or when certain emotions are experienced (such as anger or embarrassment), then addressing these issues with Curative Hypnotherapy will automatically solve the problem of sweating too.
Hypnotherapy for Excessive Sweating
The reason hypnotherapy is beneficial, is because it works directly with the subconscious – tackling the hyperhidrosis at the root of the issue. Curative Hypnotherapy aims to correct the reasons for the ‘wrong messages’, ensuring the systems are not incorrectly activated, so that the excessive sweating can be reduced or eliminated completely.
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