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Relax your way to perfect health

Posted on 07. Mar, 2010 by Bruni in General News, Health Articles, hypnotherapy, Uncategorized

Cutting-edge scientific research now proves what the yogis have always known: deep relaxation can have a profound effect on a wide range of medical conditions as reported by Anastasia Stephens for The Independent on Sunday, Health and Families, UK.

To read the whole story,  you can click on the link shown here:   http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/relax-your-way-to-perfect-health-1763109.html

As a hypnotherapist I know that the self hypnosis we teach our clients is even more powerful when we have first released any causal feelings and emotions from their past.  It is even more powerful if instead of using a mantra that we teach our clients how to specifically focus on their own needs in this brain lowered-trance state.    It is nice to read such a positive article and noting that science in some areas is validating the same answers that hypnotherapy practitioners have observed for centuries through their own clinical outcomes.

Learning to use your mind where both conscious and sub-conscious are working with each other for the same objective produces unimaginable results. Sports people are well aware of how it can give them the edge in their performance.  High profile sports people use it all the time.  There is research that shows  that people who practice things in their mind improve nearly as much as those that do the actual practicing, and topped up with minimal actual practising achieve the same results.  What people need to learn is how to do this and in a way that it does not produce a nocebo effect.

It has been the misfortune of hypnotherapy that you can’t bottle it and make a profit through selling it, else we would have seen copious amounts of funding to introduce this no-side-effects self-healing into main stream therapy by now.

It is also unfortunate that some therapists are unqualified in their training in hypnotherapy who make use of hypnotherapy and produce poor results.  It is also ludicrous to think because of other background training that certain people should be  more qualified to use hypnotherapy because of their other skills.  Other training may help a person understand where they are at and why they feel what they feel, but it is the expertise in hypnotherapy that releases the feelings and emotions so that a person can release themselves from their stuck energies that still reside in their bodies.

Hypnotherapy does not require the patient to necessarily understand intrinsically who they are on a conscious level, but that they can be released emotionally and move on.   Outcome evaluation is by way of a SUD’s (subjective units of distress) rating or a VAS (Visual Analogue Scale).

As cited on www.durbinhypnosis.com, Dr. Spiegel wrote; “If  we have any special knowledge about hypnosis.  It is our ethical obligation to share this knowledge with others who in their own field are diligently pursuing their own work.”  It is a pity that some are not so generous in their own thoughts or actually believe their own propaganda.

Hypnosis cannot, and should not, stand alone as the sole medical or psychological intervention for any disorder. Hypnosis should not be used instead of appropriate medical, dental, or psychological treatment, and any individual with a medical or psychological problem should first consult a qualified health care provider for diagnosis and professional advice.  Hypnosis should only be practiced by those who have been appropriately trained, who practice appropriately, and within the scope of their training.

With an increase of global diseases such as anxiety and depression, obesity and cancer we have a shortage of practitioners that are able to make a difference in these areas.  Areas that may be minimized by the early intervention of  psychotherapy, counseling and hypnotherapy.

Professor Peter Whorwell, a gastroenterologist who heads an NHS-funded hypnotherapy centre in Britain, which pioneered hypnotherapy as a treatment of irritable bowel syndrome says; “When I am dead and gone, people are going to suddenly realise that hypnotism is an incredible powerful tool and question why it has been ignored for so long.”

There are other ‘powerful helpers’ that release feelings and emotions, such as EFT, EMDR, T/A & TIR etc., but it is the opinion of the author (through clinical observation) that the importance of the  knowledge and caring of the therapist, their expertise and training in hypnotherapy combined with the trance state of hypnosis that  are the key that shortens the journey to freedom.

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