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	Mayo Clinic Cleveland Clinic	Mount Sinai
St. Luke’s Hospital Houston Methodist Hospital	Montefiore Medical Center John Hopkins	Dialysis and Chemotherapy Infusion Clinics throughout the U.S.

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:

https://www.mdanderson.org/patients-family/search-results.html?q=hypnosis#_

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/hypnotherapy

https://www.livescience.com/35827-clinical-hypnosis-medial-problems.html

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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The Meaning of Dreams

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Myrene Dickinson C.Ht
October 2, 2018

Earth is filled with over seven billion beating hearts, seven billion ticking brains, and seven billion weary heads that hit the pillow and fall asleep each night. For around two hours each and every night, these seven billion people dream while tucked in their beds, even if they can’t remember the dreams once they wake up the next day.

More than often these dreams consist of an easy message, maybe seeing a loved one who has passed away, going on holiday with your best friends, or living your wildest fantasies. Dreams have this strange, but beautiful capability of making the imaginary feel real.

But what about those dreams that leave you scratching your head after your alarm clock wakes you up. What about the strange goings on within your resting mind that don’t seem to make much sense at all? What are the true meanings of those dreams?

Being chased

One of the most common dreams known to man, being chased in dreams has been experienced by many people. While it doesn’t represent a fear of the chase itself, it can show unease towards what you’re running from in the dream. Maybe you have been putting something off in your day to day life, whether it’s an action, person or object.

Water

Water is often seen to be a measure of your unconscious mind when it appears in dreams. If the liquid is clear and still, you are likely to be calm and happy. If it is cloudy and rough, or you depict yourself drowning, it can mean that you feel helpless over something in your life.

Vehicles       

They often represent a direction in your life, and the journey to a goal. The nature of the journey, whether it is rough or smooth, can also indicate how you are feeling about it.

People

Dreaming of other people can often indicate personal issues or something about an existing relationship. Seeing a partner when you are single can show loneliness for example. Dreaming about a particular person in your life can represent some issues surrounding that person, whether it’s an argument, attraction, or a development in relationship.

School

In these dreams you will often face a test or lesson which corresponds to your real life. It can also mean a need to go back to your childhood to address an issue.   If you can sense your age in your dream, it indicates the approximate age when the issue or incident took place.

Paralysis

An indication that you lack control in your day to day life. The body actually enters paralysis when it dreams, hence why you don’t actually do the things you dream of.  This type of dream can also mean the lack of ability to the action on an important matter.

Death

This represents a change, often the end of one thing and the start of another.  Though alarming, it usually means leaving the past behind and entering a new phase in life.  Though if you dream about causing someone’s death, that may mean you harbor guilty feelings that need to be addressed.

Flying

Dreams about flying often say a lot about your day to day life, and how you are handling it. If you fly smoothly in the dream, you are probably comfortable in your self. If your flight is unsuccessful, you may be feeling uneasy about something.

Falling                         

Much like unsuccessful flight, falling from a great height can represent a lack of control in real life. However, there have been reports of slow falls in dreams, which can indicate letting go of something.

Nudity

Indicates a feeling of vulnerability in your life.  At the same time, it may mean that you have reached a point in your life where you accept yourself just as you are.   Dreaming of nudity can also mean the release of negative feelings associated with self-rejection.   

Baby

Represents the birth of something new, not necessarily a child. It could be a new job, new house, new relationship, anything that has the potential for growth.  A baby also represents welcome responsibilities and new love.

Food

Food is often a dream symbol for energy, knowledge or nourishment.  Depending on the true context of the dream and your current situation, this dream can also symbolize prosperity and abundance or survival. 

House

Different rooms of the house can represent different feelings for the dreamer. If you picture yourself trapped in the basement, you may feel as if you are neglecting something or someone. The bedroom is usually linked to intimacy.

Sex

This one can be extremely simple. If you dream of intimacy with a particular person, or even just sex in general, it may represent simple urges. It can also represent intimate connections with your own self, others around you, and new information.

Ancient Egyptians believed that dreams were a different way of seeing, and had trained dreamers who helped plan for future battles. Similarly, the ancient Greeks and Romans saw dreams as predictions of future events, or appearances from beyond the grave.

We now know that dreams in fact indicate thoughts and feelings about the past, present and future, and although they cannot predict the future, they serve as guides and make you aware of hidden emotions.

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