WHAT CAN HYPNOSIS HELP?
What Can Hypnosis Help?
QUIT SMOKING WEIGHT LOSS
SPORTS PERFORMANCE GOLF GAME
CREATIVE BLOCKS SHAME
ANXIETY ANGER
MEMORY SHYNESS
GRIEF DYING
HEALING MIGRAINES
INSECURITY SUCCESS
IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME DEPRESSION
SELF WORTH PHOBIAS
SELF ESTEEM SELF-RELIANCE
SELF-CONFIDENCE STUDY HABITS
FEAR OF FLYING TEETH GRINDING
TEST ANXIETY HAIR PULLING
PRE-SURGICAL FEAR PUBLIC SPEAKING
FREEWAY PHOBIA AUDITIONS
PROCRASTINATION NAIL BITING
RELATIONSHIPS BAD HABITS
SCHOOL PHOBIA THUMB SUCKING
BED WETTING CHILD BIRTH
ABUNDANCE SUCCESS
WRITER’S BLOCK INSOMNIA
FORGIVENESS IMPOTENCE
BAD HABITS TRAUMAS
STRESS REDUCTION INNER BEAUTY
SUBSTANCE ABUSE PAST LIFE REGRESSION
STRENGTHEN IMMUNE SYSTEM ADD/ADHD
Here are some facts:
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Women with severe PMS have a 57 percent reduction in physical and psychological symptoms. Obstetrics and Gynecology, Volume 75, pages 649-655, April, 1990
• Hypnotherapy is an effective treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The American Journal of Gastroenterology 2002; 97 : 954-961
Here is a study that was done by Dr. Montgomery at Mt. Sinai Medical School in New York on breast cancer patients who received hypnosis prior to surgery:
Health News | Tue Aug 28, 2007 | 4:14pm EDT
Hypnosis eases breast cancer surgery pain: study
By Julie Steenhuysen | CHICAGO
Women who underwent hypnosis before breast cancer surgery needed less anesthesia and had fewer side effects than women who got counseling instead, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
"This is a randomized clinical trial of 200 patients that really showed beneficial effects for patients," said Guy Montgomery of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. "It really works well."
While hypnosis was used to control the pain of amputations in India more than 150 years ago, its use is still not routine.
"It has this baggage," Montgomery said in a telephone interview.
The hypnosis used in the study was not of the spinning watch variety popularized by carnival side shows. One hour prior to breast cancer surgery, 100 women underwent hypnosis for 15 minutes and the rest had 15 minutes of counseling with a psychologist.
Those who received hypnosis needed less anesthesia during the operation, reported less pain afterward and their procedures took less time. They spent 11 minutes less in surgery, amounting to $773 per patient in reduced surgical costs, according to the study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Montgomery said patients first needed to be debunked of any misconceptions.
"We're not going to make you cluck like a chicken or sing like Madonna," he told patients. "Hypnosis is not mind control. It's more like focused attention."
Women in the study were directed to think of a relaxed place, often a beach scene. "At the end, we make suggestions for reduced pain," he said.
Montgomery said the point was to set expectations for reduced pain.
"It's not magic. But it will make you feel better," he said.
In a commentary in the same journal, Dr. David Spiegel of Stanford University School of Medicine wrote, "You have to pay attention to pain for it to hurt, and it is entirely possible to substantially alter pain perception during surgical procedures by inducing hypnotic relaxation."
Montgomery, who has been analyzing the effect of hypnosis on pain for years, plans to study it in other cancers and hopes to see it more broadly used.
QUIT SMOKING WEIGHT LOSS
SPORTS PERFORMANCE GOLF GAME
CREATIVE BLOCKS SHAME
ANXIETY ANGER
MEMORY SHYNESS
GRIEF DYING
HEALING MIGRAINES
INSECURITY SUCCESS
IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME DEPRESSION
SELF WORTH PHOBIAS
SELF ESTEEM SELF-RELIANCE
SELF-CONFIDENCE STUDY HABITS
FEAR OF FLYING TEETH GRINDING
TEST ANXIETY HAIR PULLING
PRE-SURGICAL FEAR PUBLIC SPEAKING
FREEWAY PHOBIA AUDITIONS
PROCRASTINATION NAIL BITING
RELATIONSHIPS BAD HABITS
SCHOOL PHOBIA THUMB SUCKING
BED WETTING CHILD BIRTH
ABUNDANCE SUCCESS
WRITER’S BLOCK INSOMNIA
FORGIVENESS IMPOTENCE
BAD HABITS TRAUMAS
STRESS REDUCTION INNER BEAUTY
SUBSTANCE ABUSE PAST LIFE REGRESSION
STRENGTHEN IMMUNE SYSTEM ADD/ADHD
Here are some facts:
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Women with severe PMS have a 57 percent reduction in physical and psychological symptoms. Obstetrics and Gynecology, Volume 75, pages 649-655, April, 1990
• Hypnotherapy is an effective treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The American Journal of Gastroenterology 2002; 97 : 954-961
Here is a study that was done by Dr. Montgomery at Mt. Sinai Medical School in New York on breast cancer patients who received hypnosis prior to surgery:
Health News | Tue Aug 28, 2007 | 4:14pm EDT
Hypnosis eases breast cancer surgery pain: study
By Julie Steenhuysen | CHICAGO
Women who underwent hypnosis before breast cancer surgery needed less anesthesia and had fewer side effects than women who got counseling instead, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
"This is a randomized clinical trial of 200 patients that really showed beneficial effects for patients," said Guy Montgomery of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. "It really works well."
While hypnosis was used to control the pain of amputations in India more than 150 years ago, its use is still not routine.
"It has this baggage," Montgomery said in a telephone interview.
The hypnosis used in the study was not of the spinning watch variety popularized by carnival side shows. One hour prior to breast cancer surgery, 100 women underwent hypnosis for 15 minutes and the rest had 15 minutes of counseling with a psychologist.
Those who received hypnosis needed less anesthesia during the operation, reported less pain afterward and their procedures took less time. They spent 11 minutes less in surgery, amounting to $773 per patient in reduced surgical costs, according to the study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Montgomery said patients first needed to be debunked of any misconceptions.
"We're not going to make you cluck like a chicken or sing like Madonna," he told patients. "Hypnosis is not mind control. It's more like focused attention."
Women in the study were directed to think of a relaxed place, often a beach scene. "At the end, we make suggestions for reduced pain," he said.
Montgomery said the point was to set expectations for reduced pain.
"It's not magic. But it will make you feel better," he said.
In a commentary in the same journal, Dr. David Spiegel of Stanford University School of Medicine wrote, "You have to pay attention to pain for it to hurt, and it is entirely possible to substantially alter pain perception during surgical procedures by inducing hypnotic relaxation."
Montgomery, who has been analyzing the effect of hypnosis on pain for years, plans to study it in other cancers and hopes to see it more broadly used.
