SODT neurotransmitters and your hormone balance make you a certain type of person. People who have more testosterone are more muscular, hairier and often have a powerful jawline. They are also naturally stronger.
But their survival strategy then is often to become, be and remain the strongest. He or she can do the most pull-ups and in doing so, that person feels safest.
Then you also have the other side. The estrogen hormone. This is more present in women than in men. Which in turn give very different qualities and connecting, nurturing and empathic characteristics. This is also a wonderful survival tactic.
After all, they cannot become the strongest, but rather survive by connecting with communication.
Also, estrogen makes the pelvis wider, which in turn triggers men to fall for those women. So those males with testosterone fall on women with lots of estrogen, because they are good at giving birth and taking care of children. And that's good for offspring, so the two attract each other.
Men and women have different hormone balances, but individually they can differ.
Then you also have many neurotransmitters, which are substances that pass signals between nerves. There are several of these, such as dopamine. This is a transmitter that makes you happy and energetic. For example, it makes you feel like doing something.
Some people get above average results from this. Those people are the explorers, the adventurers who want to discover new things. Those don't feel like fighting the testosterone boys at all. Their survival tactic is precisely to look in other places to see if there is what they want there. They are people who start projects and keep going. Maybe they don't finish anything either, because they still need that shot of dopamine.
Then you have the other aspect and that is with serotonin. This is to stabilize. This dampens feelings such as anxiety and uncertainty. This makes you more stable and confident.
For example, when people are anxious, they are given medications that cause more serotonin to enter the body.
People who have a little more of this survive by keeping an overview, staying calm and by dealing with danger analytically in order to make assessments - without too much emotion.
These four facets, everyone has some kind of profile of that.
How a person naturally is with these substances creates a certain personality, and you can't always do much about that. But if you know about yourself what type you are through your hormones and neurotransmitters, then you can design your life accordingly.
For example, it is not helpful to be different from your base. This often actually causes you to become unhappy. Of course, you can learn from anything. If I do a lot of strength training, I also get more testosterone. Of course you can make yourself vulnerable.
But you also shouldn't start suppressing things that are already naturally present. Like I enjoy doing new things and discovering new things with my dopamine. This can also be a pitfall. The trap of not finishing anything because you keep starting something new. Then you can find someone who is just serotonin driven, who can turn everything I discover into a structure.
When you look at these kinds of profiles and discover that the people in your business are all the same, you do have a challenge. If you have all testosterone males everyone is mostly fighting with each other, but no new things are being discovered.
When you look at yourself in this way and how everyone has a certain foundation, it does get interesting to see how you can then work best with other people.
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Hypnosis and its impact on hormones: testosterone
Hypnosis also affects your hormones. In a Finnish study, people had to do stressful things, namely running exercises and taking a sauna bath (that is, an ice bath). A year later, they relived this moment while in hypnosis.
What turned out? By retrieving the memory with hypnosis, they (obviously) produced more stress hormones and also, among other things, more testosterone[1]. So if you want more testosterone, thinking about stressful things while under hypnosis can help you with this. Unfortunately, you also get more stress hormone, so it remains to be seen how useful and healthy this is for you.
Hypnosis and estrogen
Estrogen is nice, but after menopause, as a woman you have much less of it. Consequently, you often find that you can suddenly find it a lot less fun to take care of other people than before menopause.
In addition, it can have other effects, such as hot flashes. It is now known that you can reduce these through hypnotherapy. This does not mean that you will magically produce more estrogen, but it does mean that by changing your mental state, you will have fewer hot flashes[2].
In addition, you also need estrogen to grow breasts, and now comes the extraordinary thing: In the 1970s, research was done to see if hypnosis could help you grow breasts. What was found was that this succeeded in hypnosis where suggestions were used about growing the breasts to the desired size, but not in hypnosis where no hypnotic suggestions about the breasts were given. No idea if this also has a correlation with estrogen production, but it is remarkable.
At the time, scientists found hypnosis to be a good alternative to surgical breast augmentation[3].
Hypnosis and dopamine
Dopamine is related to hypnosis in several ways. For example, your dopamine activity has a predictive factor on how hypnotizable you are. The more dopamine, or even the more enzymes important for dopamine production, the more hypnotizable you are[4].
In addition, dopamine also plays a role in overcoming social anxieties, because when you have overcome them you feel like you have to go out. Research shows that hypnosis - when used against social anxiety - can cause the systems to make more dopamine, reducing the amount of anxious delusions that make no sense[5].
Hypnosis and serotonin
For post-traumatic stress disorder, serotonin reuptake stimulant medications are often prescribed. It now appears that hypnosis may compete with this type of medication to reduce symptoms of PTSD[6]. So this may mean that hypnosis does something to your serotonin receptors or neurotransmitters.
In addition, serotonin also plays a role in irritable bowel syndrome. Especially when this syndrome causes diarrhea. This syndrome is also well treatable with hypnosis[7].
Hypnosis and showing your strengths
You can see that hypnosis can be particularly helpful when you have stopped making a hormone or when a neurotransmitter is no longer being made or doing what it is supposed to do due to stress or anxiety.
But when all is said and done, what matters most is being able to be yourself. To allow yourself to be yourself, regardless of what other people think of that.
Hypnosis can help you focus on your own strengths and be able to go a long way with those oars.
Maybe you have a lot of testosterone, but all that manly energy is inhibited because you only had teachers instead of male teachers. This may have given you the idea that competition and winning is a bad thing, when it's just something that can be part of life (especially if you're entrepreneurial).
Who knows, maybe your caring is something that was previously seen as weakness, so you are now inhibiting yourself in your caring.
Perhaps your urge for discovery was often seen as irritating and stubborn, which is why you now try to do "as you should," but are not happy at all.
Your environment may also find you boring, precisely because you like overview and structure so much. So you just join in on all these adventures, but whether it really makes you happy? No, for you it is not the "perfect" life.
With hypnosis, you can find out why you find it difficult to be yourself and how this came about. Then you can do something in your mind to deal with the arising moment, making it less of an influence on you.
Your beliefs about how the world works and how you are supposed to function in it then change, making it easier for you to behave according to your physical blueprint.
Want to know exactly how hypnosis works and how to help yourself and others with it? Then come to the free online master class on hypnosis.
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Sources:
[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0954-6820.1982.tb00363.x
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3556367/
[3] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224497409550865
[4] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Niamh_Flynn2/publication/332180982_Medicine_and_Hypnosis_An_Historical_Examination/links/5ca5e6b4299bf118c4b0a262/Medicine-and-Hypnosis-An-Historical-Examination.pdf
[5] http://repository.zums.ac.ir/id/eprint/6753/
[6] http://nvvh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/IJCEH-64-1-05.pdf
[7] https://pmlegacy.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7211531/
