Stress management acupuncture

Acupuncture is  a profoundly relaxing treatment, giving the opportunity to balance the affects of stress.  Most commonly people exerience, Insomnia, Anxiety, Tension, Headaches, Nausea, Neck, Back and Shoulder Tension, Emotional Irritability.

Bookings are essential, phone 021 895 004

Stress management includes a brief verbal consultation, tongue and pulse diagnosis and acupuncture treatment.  

      Benefits of treatments

• Relaxing the chronic state of alertness.
• Profound relaxation.
• Commitment to take care of yourself.
• It is likely you will experience relief of aches, pain, head aches, insomnia and anxiety.
• Acupuncture stimulates the release of endorphins. These chemicals make us calm, restores our sense of centeredness, relaxes and helps improve the quality of sleep.
• When the system is balanced and centered and not hyperstimulated, your ability to focus on goals and tasks in a balanced way is improved.
  

The Down Side of Stress

• Chronic feelings of burnout or exhaustion, difficulty getting up in the morning, or waking wired at all of the things you need to accomplish in the day, things can feel like they are hard to deal with. 
  
  
• Under Stress there is a tendency toward impatience, intolerance, lashing out in anger or internalising & not expressing frustrations, these all have a profound affect on your health and well being especially over the longer term.

• When we have busy lives, we tend to miss out on having necessary down time. Many people are now work more than one job or who work long hours, putting pressure on oursleves to achieve and do a lot.  This often again adds to the stress load on the system.
  
  
• When under stress your levels of the stress hormone cortisol (a stress hormone) rises, this contributes to fat gain, lethargy, muscle tension and can contribute to insomnia, irritable bowel, constipation, irritability.