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What
Can Hypnosis Help?
Here
are some facts:
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Who’s Overweight?
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the
number of overweight adults has increased by more than SIXTY
PERCENT in the past 20 years. Read more about achieving your weight loss goals here.
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Smoking Risks:
Smoking is recognized as the leading preventable cause of
death, causing or
contributing to the deaths of approximately 430,700 Americans
each year.Anyone
with a smoking habit has an increased chance of lung, cervical,
and other types of
cancer, respiratory diseases and cardiovascular disease, such
as heart attack, high
blood pressure, stroke and atherosclerosis.
Read more about using hypnosis to quit smoking here.
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Stress:
Studies have shown that between 75% percent to 90% percent
of all physician
visits are for stress-related complaints.
The
Mind/Body Connection:
The thoughts that we think, and the emotions we feel impact
our physical body just as conditions of our physical body
impact our thoughts and emotions.
Authors Herbert Benson, M. D. , Andrew Weil, M. D. and also
Depak Chopra, M. D. have written volumes about the mind-body
connection, integrative medicine and behavioral health.
Mind-body
medicine integrates modern scientific medicine, psychology,
nursing, nutrition, exercise physiology and belief to enhance
the innate healing capacities of body and mind.
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Clinical findings that support the use of mind-body approaches
include:
100 percent of insomnia patients reported improved sleep and
91 percent either eliminated or reduced sleeping medication
use.
The American Journal of Medicine, Volume 100, pages 212-216,
1996
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Women with severe PMS have a 57 percent reduction in physical
and psychological symptoms.
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Volume 75, pages 649-655, April,
1990
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Hypnotherapy is an effective treatment for irritable bowel
syndrome (IBS).
The American Journal of Gastroenterology 2002; 97 : 954-961
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