Mind Over Matter of Clear Lake Hypnotherapy
Explainer: Hypnotherapy safely offers pain relief
Hypnotherapy
is the use of guided imagery which motivates detachment from unwanted
sensations and replaces them with new beneficial ones that promote general
well-being. By increasing relaxation
and decreasing anxiety, pain is reduced, and mainstream treatments are better
tolerated.
Why should you consider hypnosis as a supplement to your current conventional treatment? How does it feel?
- It’s a natural state that people achieve without realizing it, such as when you are watching a good movie. In other words, it’s a state of focused concentration or attention.
- You are able to dissociate yourself from pain and hence, external environmental triggers diminish.
- You are focused and easily and positively respond to verbal or non-verbal communication.
- People describe the hypnotic mindset in different ways such as, “being beside oneself”, “out of body experiences”, “daydreaming”, “tuning out” or a meditative state. Thus, from a different vantage point it’s easier to healthfully change how you perceive pain.
Hypnotherapy as support to conventional treatments:
Healing the body is a natural process that
is stimulated or started with the promotion of positive thoughts. Pain,
discomfort, unpleasant urges, sensations, and general malaise are the result of
a series of neurophysiological processes; there is no such thing as a single
pain center in the brain that we can target. Hence, using guided imagery we target the
source of the pain to create a state of analgesia.
Hypnotherapy and reaching goals:
Hypnosis is essentially a simple, straightforward, and
common-sense therapy. For example, by relaxing, thinking positively, and
picturing your goals, hypnosis can help you to progressively improve your
habitual feelings, behavior, and change your thought patterns.
Important points about hypnotherapy for medical purposes:
· In
1961 the American Psychiatric Association endorsed hypnosis
as a therapeutic procedure.
· Many well-known and respected
hospitals use hypnotherapy as a complementary and holistic approach to increase
the results of mainstream treatments.
The integration between the mind, body and spirit, has proven to
accomplish the deepest level of healing possible.
· Ericksonian Hypnotherapy focuses on
solutions and outcomes, not problems.
*Medical institutions and affiliates that use Hypnosis and
Alternate Holistic therapies to increase positive results from mainstream
therapies:
*Information found on the internet
MD Anderson Hospital
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Mayo Clinic
Cleveland Clinic
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Mount Sinai
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St. Luke’s Hospital
Houston Methodist Hospital
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Montefiore Medical Center
John Hopkins
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Dialysis and Chemotherapy Infusion
Clinics throughout the U.S.
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Does Hypnosis work?
Seven out
of 10 people benefit from hypnotherapy.
Furthermore, uncertainty is not predictor to responsiveness if the
client is willing to relax during a hypnosis session. Motivation toward a chosen result is the main
catalyst because you are focusing on a goal.
Hypnosis to cope with pain:
Physiological and emotional issues many times are the result
of negative thinking, whereas hypnotherapy aims to encourage positive ideas
which lead to improvement of health conditions.
For instance, pain, soreness, and
discomfort during chemotherapy or dialysis can be felt as either the most terrifying
sensation or a fulfilling experience that leads to optimal health.
During hypnosis you cannot be made to do anything against
your will. On the contrary, you must want to accept suggested ideas and
actively imagine responding to experience their effects. Using MRIs and PET scanning techniques have shown that
hypnosis modulates activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, which links the
limbic (emotions) and sensory cortical areas (physical sensations) of the brain
during hypnotic pain relief. This means that the sensations that would normally
be experienced as painful no longer have the negative emotions that would normally
be associated with them.
Please,
read what MD Anderson and Psychology Today have written about hypnosis:
Take a
look at these three studies:
Elkins G, Jensen MP, Patterson DR.
Hypnotherapy for the management of chronic pain. Int J Clin Exp Hypn.
2007;55(3):275-87.
Spiegel D, Bloom JR: Group therapy and
hypnosis reduce metastatic breast carcinoma pain. Psychosom Med 45(4):333–339,
2009.
Patterson D, Jensen M: Hypnosis and
clinical pain. Psychol Bull 129(4):495–521, 2003.
Mao JJ, Palmer CS, Healy KE, et al:
Complementary and alternative medicine use among cancer survivors: a
population-based study. J Cancer Surviv 5(1):8-17, 2011
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