A very thought provoking article on our energy fields and how we can change them positively.
Multi-Dimensional Cell Biology
By Cameron Day
Quantum physics and ancient spiritual teachings agree that our experience of reality is determined by our beliefs and thought patterns. Neuro-plasticity continually reinforces the patterns of thought that we are comfortable with, causing information that runs counter to one’s beliefs to be ignored, while information that supports those beliefs is embraced.
In order to understand more deeply how our belief systems affect our experience of reality, we need to understand the basic mechanics by which we attract “higher dimensional” energy that matches our frequency of thought. Using that understanding while anchoring our awareness in the present moment, we can radically shift our thoughts to a higher frequency level on a moment by moment basis.
The human energy field as a biological cell
The human energy field can be visualized as an egg shaped bubble of high spectrum light that extends a few feet out from our bodies in all directions. Imagine for a moment that your physical body and energy field are two parts of a single cell in the body of the universe. The human energy field is like the membrane of the “cellular sphere of consciousness” that surrounds our physical body. Continuing with the cell metaphor, just as the cells in the human body exist in a saline solution, you as an individualized cell in the body of the universe float in a sea of energy.
Just outside the invisible boundaries of our physical world, everything is energy, and each thought, emotion and experience that we have effects and changes the frequency of our personal energy field. From the perspective of consciousness, a thought is just as real as your desk or your computer. A pattern of thought that is repeated often enough takes on a tremendous amount of “solidity” in one’s energy field, and these “solid” thoughts are called thoughtforms.
Every thought we think vibrates at a certain frequency, and the collection of thoughtforms that we call our beliefs constitutes the shape of the “energy receptor sites” on the outer cell wall membrane of our human energy field. These energy receptors determine which energies we will be compatible with and continue to attract. Our cell membrane will seek out energy that matches the thoughts we habitually think, just like a cell in the human body only accepts peptides that it is accustomed to.
So when a person has thoughts based in stress and anxiety for example, the physical body send chemical peptides to our cells in response to the stress stimuli we have created. At the same time, the energetic receptor sites on the outer cell wall of the human energy field broadcast that frequency energetically, which calls out to the universe to send energies that match those thought frequencies, and those "outside" energies lock into the energy field, similar to a peptide locking into a receptor site in the human body.
Of course, the same thing holds true for our loving, uplifting thought forms. This is the basis of the Law of Attraction, which everyone has heard about by now. Where things get a little complicated is that most people aren’t in a state of constant awareness of their thoughts, so old grievances and limiting attitudes can easily be reignited and fed emotional thought energy, ensuring that they continue to attract matching frequencies to a person’s experience of physical reality.
Every thought that we think takes on a much greater degree of importance in light of this awareness, for our experience of reality is literally the manifestation of every thought and emotion that we give power to in our consciousness. Positive thinking is all well and good, but if we’re putting 10% of our conscious energy into “thinking positive thoughts” and the other 90% of our consciousness is simply habitual reactions to external circumstances, then we are unlikely to see much of a change in our reality. A thorough examination of our habitual thought patterns is required so that we can effectively change our frequency of thought, which will eventually change our experience of physical reality.
Cleaning the energetic receptor sites
Any belief, repeated often enough in the mind becomes a part of our personality, and a part of our experience of life. Decades of unconscious, reactionary thoughts have empowered limiting beliefs that we no longer question or even think about. In order to truly change the contents of our minds, we must take back the power, the thought energy that we have fed into those old beliefs that we have forgotten about, yet still exist within and influence our minds.
In order to clean out the contents of our sphere of consciousness, we must cultivate present moment awareness of our thoughts and the motivations behind them. It is not enough to only “replace” limiting thoughts and beliefs with a mantra if the old belief hasn’t been fully cleared away. The limiting beliefs still present in our thought patterns are like mud on the window that we view physical reality through, coloring our interpretation of the world outside. Even if the world is filled with roses and beautiful wild flowers, we will mostly just see the mud that is still on our mental window until it is removed.
Once we identify a limiting belief, such as “Life is so difficult for me” we can consciously choose to take back the thought energy that we have put into that thought over the course of our lives. Reclaiming that power takes time and patience, and cannot be completely done in a single session, a single week, or a single month, especially if the belief being addressed has been present for most of our lives.
The process of reclaiming energy from limiting beliefs can be done a number of ways, depending on the system of self-change being utilized. The AscensionHelp.com Self-Clearing System empowers the individual to reclaim energy in a multi-faceted, yet relatively simple manner. While it is beyond the scope of a single article to cover all of the aspects of this practice, here are the basics.
First, a connection is made with your inner divine intelligence, referred to as the “Higher Self.” Next a connection is made to the intelligence of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is the greater body within which we are individual cells. From this place of connectedness, we ask our divine aspect to “refund” any limiting energies in our sphere of consciousness and return them to the divine aspect of whoever sent them, while at the same time bringing back our own thought energy that we have sent out in the form of judgments, resentments, etc. When the ego mind starts to chronicle the justifications for the limiting beliefs that are being addressed, we simply ask it to minimize and sit quietly off to the side. These preliminary steps are very important, but can be done rather quickly with enough practice.
From this space of divine connectedness and self-responsibility for our attitudes, we simply ask our Higher Self to help us reclaim all of the thought energy and emotional power we have put into the belief that “Life is so difficult for me” that we can reclaim at this present time. Remember, it cannot be reclaimed all at once, because it takes time to unravel a belief that we have cultivated for an entire lifetime.
Energetic peptides of higher consciousness
By reclaiming some of your thought power from a limiting belief, a space is made in your energy field for a new reality, a higher frequency of thought. This space can and should be filled with an affirmation of your choosing. If you reclaimed energy from the belief that “Life is so difficult for me,” use an affirmation such as “Great things come to me easily.” This new thought frequency will utilize the energy that was reclaimed from the limiting belief that was just addressed, allowing it to flourish in your cellular energy field of consciousness.
Now that you have imprinted the frequency of a new reality into your sphere of consciousness, you have in essence plugged an entirely new energetic peptide into your cell of consciousness. Just like a cell in the body’s receptor sites are filled with certain peptides, when the receptor sites on your cellular sphere of consciousness are filled with limiting thought forms, new and higher frequencies cannot connect to your energy field. By reclaiming your power from a limiting belief, a space is cleared and your energetic receptors can now accommodate a higher frequency “energy peptide.”
The process of clearing out limiting beliefs by reclaiming the thought energy that has been put into them, then installing a new thought frequency will yield tremendous results over time. However at first, it will seem like very little change is occurring. This is because just like a cell in the human body will adapt to receive only a certain type of peptides, a person’s energetic receptor sites attune themselves to the frequencies that they consistently receive. So a reconditioning of energy receptors must be slowly and patiently undertaken.
Present moment awareness and acceptance are two key components of this process. Becoming aware of one’s thought patterns and emotional states as they occur allows one to intercept their limiting thought signals that are being broadcasted so they can be replaced by unlimited thoughts based in self-love, self-acceptance, joy, abundance and creativity.
All conditions are temporary
When one’s external reality continues to provide circumstances which trigger a limited emotional response, one should remind their self to accept the situation as it is. Simply saying with meaning, “I accept that this is how things are at the moment” moves one out of reaction into a place of inner calm and present moment awareness. From this calm, self-aware space, we can then engage the process of reclaiming energy from the emotions that challenging circumstances in life tend to evoke.
A key component to telling one’s self, “I accept that this is how things are at this moment” is a deeper awareness that all conditions are temporary. The acceptance portion of this exercise removes the mental element of struggling against or resisting the way things are. The “in this moment” aspect reminds the individual that whatever is happening in this moment is temporary, and the future can be different.
However, in order to have a different future, one must cultivate a different mental and emotional state of being. The willingness to examine and let go of one’s belief systems is the foundation for changing our mental / emotional states. Patience, acceptance and consistent self-examination then combine with reclaiming energy from obsolete belief systems in order to open the door to a new reality. Once the energies of limitation are released from the cell walls of our sphere of consciousness, we can create a new set of beliefs to lock into our liberated receptor sites, altering our perception of reality, which ultimately changes the events in our reality.
Cameron Day is a long distance spiritual healer and psychic explorer, with a focus on helping others integrate their “material mind” with their own higher levels of Divine Mind. He has created a system of self-transformation tools that anyone can use to clear limiting patterns and access their own higher wisdom. This self-clearing system is available for free at AscensionHelp.com. He also offers one on one remote clearing sessions to help you get as clear as possible as quickly as possible so that your experience of life can be more abundant, loving and joyful.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Hypnosis and the Mind
Hypnosis and the Mind - By Michelle Beaudry
Fundamentals of the Mind
The human mind may be subdivided into three parts: the Unconscious, Subconscious and Conscious. These compare to a computer:
Unconscious = operating system
Subconscious = hard drive
Conscious = RAM
Each part has separate and distinct tasks.
The Unconscious mind operates your automatic body systems such as the circulatory system, much as a computer’s operating system includes its basic functions.
The Subconscious mind operates like a hard drive by storing files of all kinds, from a full memory bank of your past to your emotional spectrum, to its most vital task: protecting you at all costs.
The Conscious mind is our everyday mind, making immediate day to day decisions like what to wear, eat, and drink. It is the gatekeeper, choosing what information is to be acted upon moment by moment. It’s the mind you’re reading this book with right now, and its tasks include comparing, reasoning, and explaining. These abilities are called the Critical Factor and are bypassed in hypnosis.
Importance of the Subconscious Mind
To update a file on your computer, you must open the original file and make the changes. In the human mind, original files are stored in the Subconscious. To gain access, we must reach the Subconscious directly, bypassing the Conscious mind. In other words, one way to gain positive changes in the present is to neutralize the negativity in the past. We do not change the memories, we upgrade how you feel about them.This upgrading can only be accomplished in the Subconscious, for that is where memories are stored, and it can only be reached through bypass of the Conscious mind, and that can only be done through hypnosis.
Why? It’s what works. Hypnosis specifically sets the Conscious mind aside temporarily. Your Mind Must Protect You; Good News, Bad NewsAll levels of your mind work to protect you as best they can at all times. And this especially applies to the Subconscious. It must protect you at all costs, and to do so, it may even lie to you, or more to the point, to your Conscious mind. It may lie about you, about others, it may even lie to your hypnotist while you are in trance. It may hide memories from you. And much, much more. This is because once it accepts negative behaviors in the name of your safety, it hangs on to those behaviors. Some examples are:
• smoking anything
• being obese
• declining success
• biting your fingernails
• spending compulsively
You may well ask, how can compulsive spending possibly protect me? It distracts you. Misdirection is one highly effective way your Subconscious protects you by keeping a lid on overwhelming emotions. Ergo the addict. You may well ask, how can declining to be successful possibly protect me? It limits you. Limiting exposure to risk is another way to protect you. It is when such protective efforts do not meet your current needs that you desire change. Hypnosis sets aside the Conscious mind, makes changes via the Subconscious mind, and change is achieved.
How Hypnosis Upgrades Your Files
Hypnosis is able to change your perception of your memories, and thus of yourself. We do not change the events themselves, we upgrade how you feel about them, and thus your daily life is upgraded. By accessing the original files stored in the Subconscious, you are able to see all of the reasons why your mind specifies your behaviors in the name of protecting you, and together we upgrade those behaviors since, typically, the need of that protection is gone. You are no longer in the middle of the event that had such impact on you. Your Conscious mind does not have complete access to your memory files; that is not its job. This is why merely talking about change is such an ineffective means of getting any.
Talking happens in the Conscious mind. C
hange happens in the Subconscious.
And here’s the rub: the Subconscious outvotes the Conscious mind. It is far, far larger, stronger, and more powerful. This is why willpower fails so miserably for the dieter. Unless the Subconscious agrees to a healthy diet and a normalized body weight, your finest of intentions are shortlived, having been overridden by the Subconscious mind. EmotionsEmotions are a function of, and are stored in, the Subconscious. When you have had an emotional reaction to danger, for example, real or imagined, those emotions are felt and stored in your Subconscious. Hypnosis accesses those stored emotions, upgrades your perception of them, and results in changed behavior. You must give yourself permission to make changes. You must want to change. You must want to enter into hypnosis. And this means not being afraid of hypnosis.
So, let’s define what hypnosis is in several ways, as there is no single perfect way to phrase it.
What Hypnosis Is
• “Hypnosis is the bypass of the critical factor of the conscious mind combined with the establishment of selective thinking,” says the US Government.
• Hypnosis is a blend of physical relaxation and extreme mental alertness. Yes, I said extreme.
• Hypnosis is a state of focused concentration. This is why a few minutes of emotional expression in trance is worth hours in an alert state. Humans are so easily distracted, and the Conscious mind is forever making excuses for everything. In hypnosis, the conscious mind is set aside, and excuses are seen for what they are.
• Hypnosis is the state you enter into every time you watch a tv show you like, see a film you like, or sit down at the computer intending to only be there for 10 minutes... and suddenly it’s two hours later.
• Hypnosis also happens when humans fall in love, literally entranced.
What Hypnosis Is Not
• Hypnosis is not mind control.
• Hypnosis is not a royal proclamation.
• Hypnosis is not sleep. We use relaxation, not sleep, to enter hypnosis. You do not wake up from hypnosis, you emerge. And you already know exactly what emerging from hypnosis feels like! Remember the last time you went to the movies, loved the film, and at the end when the credits rolled, you suddenly “came to”? You just emerged from hypnosis. That’s exactly what it feels like, because that’s exactly what happened.
• Hypnosis is not being unconscious. You can hear everything that goes on around you during trance; you’re just not interested in it.
• Hypnosis is not relaxation. That’s just an optimal starting point.
• Hypnosis is not being drugged. However, one can easily mimic a drugged state in hypnosis, provided you have previously felt the effects of that drug. Your body remembers. This is useful for pain control.
• Hypnosis is not involuntary. Just as no one can make you enjoy a movie that fails to entrance you, no one can make you remain in hypnosis. I typically teach my clients self hypnosis on the very first session so that they know for certain that they can emerge whenever they like. Anyone can emerge from hypnosis instantly by making that their intention.
How Does It Actually Happen?
Hypnotists use methods we call techniques. These include Guided Imagery, Rescuing Events, The Forgiveness Pyramid, Parts, The Spa of Your Inner Mind, Upgrades, and Higher Mind, to mention a few.
The Last Word
The media uses hypnosis on you all the time. Aaaalllllllll the time. Advertisers have been known to employ hypnotists to assess the hypnotic potential of a given advertisement, and pay good money for it. Everytime you watch tv and enjoy it, you go into a state of trance. Ditto listening to music, going to the movies, watching a DVD, hearing talk radio, reading a magazine, and so forth. When you don’t like a particular type of music, that is expressly because it fails to put you into the trance you listen to music for.
So here comes the big duh. Why should media have all the fun? Please visit your friendly neighborhood trance specialist and use hypnosis to further your own goals.
Ah, hypnosis. So easy you can do it with your eyes closed.
Fundamentals of the Mind
The human mind may be subdivided into three parts: the Unconscious, Subconscious and Conscious. These compare to a computer:
Unconscious = operating system
Subconscious = hard drive
Conscious = RAM
Each part has separate and distinct tasks.
The Unconscious mind operates your automatic body systems such as the circulatory system, much as a computer’s operating system includes its basic functions.
The Subconscious mind operates like a hard drive by storing files of all kinds, from a full memory bank of your past to your emotional spectrum, to its most vital task: protecting you at all costs.
The Conscious mind is our everyday mind, making immediate day to day decisions like what to wear, eat, and drink. It is the gatekeeper, choosing what information is to be acted upon moment by moment. It’s the mind you’re reading this book with right now, and its tasks include comparing, reasoning, and explaining. These abilities are called the Critical Factor and are bypassed in hypnosis.
Importance of the Subconscious Mind
To update a file on your computer, you must open the original file and make the changes. In the human mind, original files are stored in the Subconscious. To gain access, we must reach the Subconscious directly, bypassing the Conscious mind. In other words, one way to gain positive changes in the present is to neutralize the negativity in the past. We do not change the memories, we upgrade how you feel about them.This upgrading can only be accomplished in the Subconscious, for that is where memories are stored, and it can only be reached through bypass of the Conscious mind, and that can only be done through hypnosis.
Why? It’s what works. Hypnosis specifically sets the Conscious mind aside temporarily. Your Mind Must Protect You; Good News, Bad NewsAll levels of your mind work to protect you as best they can at all times. And this especially applies to the Subconscious. It must protect you at all costs, and to do so, it may even lie to you, or more to the point, to your Conscious mind. It may lie about you, about others, it may even lie to your hypnotist while you are in trance. It may hide memories from you. And much, much more. This is because once it accepts negative behaviors in the name of your safety, it hangs on to those behaviors. Some examples are:
• smoking anything
• being obese
• declining success
• biting your fingernails
• spending compulsively
You may well ask, how can compulsive spending possibly protect me? It distracts you. Misdirection is one highly effective way your Subconscious protects you by keeping a lid on overwhelming emotions. Ergo the addict. You may well ask, how can declining to be successful possibly protect me? It limits you. Limiting exposure to risk is another way to protect you. It is when such protective efforts do not meet your current needs that you desire change. Hypnosis sets aside the Conscious mind, makes changes via the Subconscious mind, and change is achieved.
How Hypnosis Upgrades Your Files
Hypnosis is able to change your perception of your memories, and thus of yourself. We do not change the events themselves, we upgrade how you feel about them, and thus your daily life is upgraded. By accessing the original files stored in the Subconscious, you are able to see all of the reasons why your mind specifies your behaviors in the name of protecting you, and together we upgrade those behaviors since, typically, the need of that protection is gone. You are no longer in the middle of the event that had such impact on you. Your Conscious mind does not have complete access to your memory files; that is not its job. This is why merely talking about change is such an ineffective means of getting any.
Talking happens in the Conscious mind. C
hange happens in the Subconscious.
And here’s the rub: the Subconscious outvotes the Conscious mind. It is far, far larger, stronger, and more powerful. This is why willpower fails so miserably for the dieter. Unless the Subconscious agrees to a healthy diet and a normalized body weight, your finest of intentions are shortlived, having been overridden by the Subconscious mind. EmotionsEmotions are a function of, and are stored in, the Subconscious. When you have had an emotional reaction to danger, for example, real or imagined, those emotions are felt and stored in your Subconscious. Hypnosis accesses those stored emotions, upgrades your perception of them, and results in changed behavior. You must give yourself permission to make changes. You must want to change. You must want to enter into hypnosis. And this means not being afraid of hypnosis.
So, let’s define what hypnosis is in several ways, as there is no single perfect way to phrase it.
What Hypnosis Is
• “Hypnosis is the bypass of the critical factor of the conscious mind combined with the establishment of selective thinking,” says the US Government.
• Hypnosis is a blend of physical relaxation and extreme mental alertness. Yes, I said extreme.
• Hypnosis is a state of focused concentration. This is why a few minutes of emotional expression in trance is worth hours in an alert state. Humans are so easily distracted, and the Conscious mind is forever making excuses for everything. In hypnosis, the conscious mind is set aside, and excuses are seen for what they are.
• Hypnosis is the state you enter into every time you watch a tv show you like, see a film you like, or sit down at the computer intending to only be there for 10 minutes... and suddenly it’s two hours later.
• Hypnosis also happens when humans fall in love, literally entranced.
What Hypnosis Is Not
• Hypnosis is not mind control.
• Hypnosis is not a royal proclamation.
• Hypnosis is not sleep. We use relaxation, not sleep, to enter hypnosis. You do not wake up from hypnosis, you emerge. And you already know exactly what emerging from hypnosis feels like! Remember the last time you went to the movies, loved the film, and at the end when the credits rolled, you suddenly “came to”? You just emerged from hypnosis. That’s exactly what it feels like, because that’s exactly what happened.
• Hypnosis is not being unconscious. You can hear everything that goes on around you during trance; you’re just not interested in it.
• Hypnosis is not relaxation. That’s just an optimal starting point.
• Hypnosis is not being drugged. However, one can easily mimic a drugged state in hypnosis, provided you have previously felt the effects of that drug. Your body remembers. This is useful for pain control.
• Hypnosis is not involuntary. Just as no one can make you enjoy a movie that fails to entrance you, no one can make you remain in hypnosis. I typically teach my clients self hypnosis on the very first session so that they know for certain that they can emerge whenever they like. Anyone can emerge from hypnosis instantly by making that their intention.
How Does It Actually Happen?
Hypnotists use methods we call techniques. These include Guided Imagery, Rescuing Events, The Forgiveness Pyramid, Parts, The Spa of Your Inner Mind, Upgrades, and Higher Mind, to mention a few.
The Last Word
The media uses hypnosis on you all the time. Aaaalllllllll the time. Advertisers have been known to employ hypnotists to assess the hypnotic potential of a given advertisement, and pay good money for it. Everytime you watch tv and enjoy it, you go into a state of trance. Ditto listening to music, going to the movies, watching a DVD, hearing talk radio, reading a magazine, and so forth. When you don’t like a particular type of music, that is expressly because it fails to put you into the trance you listen to music for.
So here comes the big duh. Why should media have all the fun? Please visit your friendly neighborhood trance specialist and use hypnosis to further your own goals.
Ah, hypnosis. So easy you can do it with your eyes closed.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Using Hypnotherapy to Treat Postoperative Pain and Anxiety
Using Hypnotherapy to Treat Postoperative Pain and Anxiety Friday, June 12, 2009 by: Steve G. Jones, M.Ed.
(NaturalNews)
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 46 million inpatient surgeries were performed in 2006. This statistic does not include outpatient surgeries where people are released within 24 hours after surgery.
Preoperative surgery often causes anxiety because people have a fear of the unknown. People tend to fear the worst before surgery and this can cause stress and can actually have a negative effect on postoperative recovery. Hypnotherapy has been found to reduce stress, anxiety, and pain in patients recovering from surgery.There have been numerous studies showing that adults who have a great deal of preoperative anxiety, have a harder time recovering from surgery post-operative. In 2006, a study looked at children to see if the same was true.
The study involved 241 children ages 5-12 who were scheduled for outpatient surgeries. Before the surgery, all children were evaluated based on anxiety. All children remained in the hospital for 24 hours and their pain was assessed every 3 hours. They were evaluated for 14 more days and pain medication was standardized for all children.The results of the study showed that the children who were more anxious reported significantly more pain in the 3 days of recovering from the surgery. The more anxious children consumed more pain medication and had more anxiety and sleep problems post-operative.
This study shows that preoperative anxiety is a serious issue that needs to be addressed in both adults and children to help them in the surgery recovery process. Increased anxiety before surgery leads to more anxiety, pain, and slower recovery time post-operative.Another study looked at the effects of hypnosis and stress reducing techniques in reducing pain and anxiety in surgical patients.
The study consisted of 60 patients undergoing elective plastic surgery. They were randomly selected: a control group received stress reducing techniques and a group received hypnosis to reduce anxiety. Patients' pain and anxiety were measured before, during, and after the surgery.
Results showed that the hypnosis group reported significantly lower levels of pain and anxiety before and after the surgery. The hypnosis group also required less pain medication following the surgery and their vital statistics were more consistent during the surgery. The patients also reported greater satisfaction with their surgical experience.
This study shows that hypnosis is a highly effective form of reducing pain and anxiety for people undergoing surgery. This also leads to improved recovery after the surgery due to less anxiety and pain associated with the procedure.
SourcesFaymonville, M.E., Mambourgh, P.H., Joris, J., Vrijens, B., Fissette, J., Albert, A., & Lamy, M. (1997). Psychological approaches during conscious sedation. Hypnosis versus conscious stress reducing strategies: A prospective randomized study. Pain,73(3), 361-367."inpatient surgery." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved on June 8, 2009 from: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/FASTATS/ins...Kain, Z.N., Mayes, L.C., Caldwell-Andrews, A.A., Karas, D.E., & McClain, B.C. (2006). Preoperative anxiety, postoperative pain, and behavioral recovery in young children undergoing surgery. Pediatrics, 118(2), 651-658.
(NaturalNews)
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 46 million inpatient surgeries were performed in 2006. This statistic does not include outpatient surgeries where people are released within 24 hours after surgery.
Preoperative surgery often causes anxiety because people have a fear of the unknown. People tend to fear the worst before surgery and this can cause stress and can actually have a negative effect on postoperative recovery. Hypnotherapy has been found to reduce stress, anxiety, and pain in patients recovering from surgery.There have been numerous studies showing that adults who have a great deal of preoperative anxiety, have a harder time recovering from surgery post-operative. In 2006, a study looked at children to see if the same was true.
The study involved 241 children ages 5-12 who were scheduled for outpatient surgeries. Before the surgery, all children were evaluated based on anxiety. All children remained in the hospital for 24 hours and their pain was assessed every 3 hours. They were evaluated for 14 more days and pain medication was standardized for all children.The results of the study showed that the children who were more anxious reported significantly more pain in the 3 days of recovering from the surgery. The more anxious children consumed more pain medication and had more anxiety and sleep problems post-operative.
This study shows that preoperative anxiety is a serious issue that needs to be addressed in both adults and children to help them in the surgery recovery process. Increased anxiety before surgery leads to more anxiety, pain, and slower recovery time post-operative.Another study looked at the effects of hypnosis and stress reducing techniques in reducing pain and anxiety in surgical patients.
The study consisted of 60 patients undergoing elective plastic surgery. They were randomly selected: a control group received stress reducing techniques and a group received hypnosis to reduce anxiety. Patients' pain and anxiety were measured before, during, and after the surgery.
Results showed that the hypnosis group reported significantly lower levels of pain and anxiety before and after the surgery. The hypnosis group also required less pain medication following the surgery and their vital statistics were more consistent during the surgery. The patients also reported greater satisfaction with their surgical experience.
This study shows that hypnosis is a highly effective form of reducing pain and anxiety for people undergoing surgery. This also leads to improved recovery after the surgery due to less anxiety and pain associated with the procedure.
SourcesFaymonville, M.E., Mambourgh, P.H., Joris, J., Vrijens, B., Fissette, J., Albert, A., & Lamy, M. (1997). Psychological approaches during conscious sedation. Hypnosis versus conscious stress reducing strategies: A prospective randomized study. Pain,73(3), 361-367."inpatient surgery." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved on June 8, 2009 from: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/FASTATS/ins...Kain, Z.N., Mayes, L.C., Caldwell-Andrews, A.A., Karas, D.E., & McClain, B.C. (2006). Preoperative anxiety, postoperative pain, and behavioral recovery in young children undergoing surgery. Pediatrics, 118(2), 651-658.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Hypnosis and Healing
Hypnosis and Healing
Hypnosis helps healing:Surgical wounds mend faster
By William J. Cromie Harvard University Gazette
Marie McBrown was invited to test whether or not hypnosis would help heal the scars from her breast surgery. Marie (not her real name) and 17 other women underwent surgery to reduce their breast size.
It's a common operation for women whose breasts are large enough to cause back and shoulder strain, interfere with routine tasks, or prompt social and psychological problems. The pain and course of healing from such surgery is well-known, and a team of researchers headed by Carol Ginandes of Harvard Medical School and Patricia Brooks of the Union Institute in Cincinnati wanted to determine if hypnosis could speed wound healing and recovery.
"Hypnosis has been used in Western medicine for more than 150 years to treat everything from anxiety to pain, from easing the nausea of cancer chemotherapy to enhancing sports performance," Ginandes says. A list of applications she provides includes treatment of phobias, panic, low self-esteem, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, stress, smoking, colitis, warts, headaches, and high blood pressure.
"All these functional uses may help a person feel better," Ginandes continues. "I am also interested in using hypnosis to help people get better physically. That means using the mind to make structural changes in the body, to accelerate healing at the tissue level."
Four years ago, Ginandes and Daniel Rosenthal, professor of radiology at the Harvard Medical School, published a report on their study of hypnosis to speed up the mending of broken bones. They recruited 12 people with broken ankles who did not require surgery and who received the usual treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In addition, Ginandes hypnotized half of them once a week for 12 weeks, while the other half received only normal treatment. The same doctor applied the casts and other care, and the same radiologists took regular X-rays to monitor how well they healed. A radiologist who evaluated the X-rays did not know which patients underwent hypnosis.
The result stood out like a sore ankle. Those who were hypnotized healed faster than those who were not. Six weeks after the fracture, those in the hypnosis group showed the equivalent of eight and a half weeks of healing.
How to hypnotize
Not everyone is convinced by the results. Some experts claim that the differences can be explained by the extra attention - the increased psychological support - given to the hypnotized patients. So when she was ready to try hypnosis again on 18 breast surgery patients, Ginandes randomly separated them into three groups. All got the same surgical care by the same doctors. Six received standard care only, six also received attention and support and from a psychologist, and six underwent hypnosis before and after their surgery.
Hypnosis sessions occurred once a week for eight weeks. Psychological soothing took place on the same schedule.
Ginandes did not put the patients to sleep by swinging a watch like a pendulum while the patients lay on a couch. "That only happens in the movies," she laughs. "In hypnosis, people don't lose control and go into a zombie-like state where they can be made to do things against their will. They don't have to lie down, you can enter a state of hypnosis standing up, even standing on your head. Patients don't even go to sleep, rather, they enter a state of absorbed awareness, not unlike losing oneself in a good book or favorite piece of music."
While in this state, Ginandes offered suggestions that were custom-tailored to different stages of surgery and healing, Before surgery, the suggestions emphasized lessening pain and anxiety. "You can even suggest to a patient that she can reduce bleeding during surgery by controlling her blood flow," Ginandes notes. Overall, the suggestions focused on things such as expectation of comfort, decreased inflammation, diminished scar tissue, accelerated wound healing, return to normal activities, and adjustments to self-image.
The women received audio tapes of these sessions so they could practice at home.
At one week and seven weeks after surgery, nurses and doctors participating in the study visibly assessed and measured the wounds of all three groups without knowing which group the women were in. They took digital photographs for three physicians to review. Each patient also rated her own healing progress and how much pain she felt on scales of zero to 10.
The result was clear. Marie McBrown and the women who had undergone hypnosis healed significantly faster than the others. Those who received supportive attention came in second.
From hooey to hurrah
The researchers reported these results in the April issue of the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. This report, of course, doesn't prove conclusively that hypnosis will accelerate the healing of wounds. The biggest limitation of the study involves the small number of patients, which makes it difficult to generalize the results to other types of wounds. Then there is the possible effect of expectation, the belief of some patients that hypnotism will work. It's the same effect seen when people who take a sugar pill for a backache do as well as people who take medicine. It's going to require more studies involving many more people to get the majority of doctors to shout hurrah instead of hooey.
Ginandes agrees. "Our study underscores the need for further scientific testing of hypnosis," she says. "Subsequent studies might clarify unresolved speculations about the mechanisms by which hypnotic suggestion can trigger the physical and psychological effects that we see."
She and her colleagues suggest future experiments to compare the effects of simple hypnotic relaxation versus "targeted suggestions for tissue healing." They would also like to see more work done using hypnosis for people suffering from other kinds of wounds, such as foot ulcers caused by diabetes.
Nevertheless, Ginandes believes that the study of healing after breast surgery "breaks the ground for studying a broad and exciting range of new adjunctive treatments. Since clinical hypnosis is a noninvasive, nondrug treatment, finding that it can speed healing of wounds and other conditions could lead to fewer visits to doctors' offices and faster return to normal activities. Also, further investigation might confirm our supposition that the mind can influence healing of the body."
Hypnosis helps healing:Surgical wounds mend faster
By William J. Cromie Harvard University Gazette
Marie McBrown was invited to test whether or not hypnosis would help heal the scars from her breast surgery. Marie (not her real name) and 17 other women underwent surgery to reduce their breast size.
It's a common operation for women whose breasts are large enough to cause back and shoulder strain, interfere with routine tasks, or prompt social and psychological problems. The pain and course of healing from such surgery is well-known, and a team of researchers headed by Carol Ginandes of Harvard Medical School and Patricia Brooks of the Union Institute in Cincinnati wanted to determine if hypnosis could speed wound healing and recovery.
"Hypnosis has been used in Western medicine for more than 150 years to treat everything from anxiety to pain, from easing the nausea of cancer chemotherapy to enhancing sports performance," Ginandes says. A list of applications she provides includes treatment of phobias, panic, low self-esteem, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, stress, smoking, colitis, warts, headaches, and high blood pressure.
"All these functional uses may help a person feel better," Ginandes continues. "I am also interested in using hypnosis to help people get better physically. That means using the mind to make structural changes in the body, to accelerate healing at the tissue level."
Four years ago, Ginandes and Daniel Rosenthal, professor of radiology at the Harvard Medical School, published a report on their study of hypnosis to speed up the mending of broken bones. They recruited 12 people with broken ankles who did not require surgery and who received the usual treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In addition, Ginandes hypnotized half of them once a week for 12 weeks, while the other half received only normal treatment. The same doctor applied the casts and other care, and the same radiologists took regular X-rays to monitor how well they healed. A radiologist who evaluated the X-rays did not know which patients underwent hypnosis.
The result stood out like a sore ankle. Those who were hypnotized healed faster than those who were not. Six weeks after the fracture, those in the hypnosis group showed the equivalent of eight and a half weeks of healing.
How to hypnotize
Not everyone is convinced by the results. Some experts claim that the differences can be explained by the extra attention - the increased psychological support - given to the hypnotized patients. So when she was ready to try hypnosis again on 18 breast surgery patients, Ginandes randomly separated them into three groups. All got the same surgical care by the same doctors. Six received standard care only, six also received attention and support and from a psychologist, and six underwent hypnosis before and after their surgery.
Hypnosis sessions occurred once a week for eight weeks. Psychological soothing took place on the same schedule.
Ginandes did not put the patients to sleep by swinging a watch like a pendulum while the patients lay on a couch. "That only happens in the movies," she laughs. "In hypnosis, people don't lose control and go into a zombie-like state where they can be made to do things against their will. They don't have to lie down, you can enter a state of hypnosis standing up, even standing on your head. Patients don't even go to sleep, rather, they enter a state of absorbed awareness, not unlike losing oneself in a good book or favorite piece of music."
While in this state, Ginandes offered suggestions that were custom-tailored to different stages of surgery and healing, Before surgery, the suggestions emphasized lessening pain and anxiety. "You can even suggest to a patient that she can reduce bleeding during surgery by controlling her blood flow," Ginandes notes. Overall, the suggestions focused on things such as expectation of comfort, decreased inflammation, diminished scar tissue, accelerated wound healing, return to normal activities, and adjustments to self-image.
The women received audio tapes of these sessions so they could practice at home.
At one week and seven weeks after surgery, nurses and doctors participating in the study visibly assessed and measured the wounds of all three groups without knowing which group the women were in. They took digital photographs for three physicians to review. Each patient also rated her own healing progress and how much pain she felt on scales of zero to 10.
The result was clear. Marie McBrown and the women who had undergone hypnosis healed significantly faster than the others. Those who received supportive attention came in second.
From hooey to hurrah
The researchers reported these results in the April issue of the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. This report, of course, doesn't prove conclusively that hypnosis will accelerate the healing of wounds. The biggest limitation of the study involves the small number of patients, which makes it difficult to generalize the results to other types of wounds. Then there is the possible effect of expectation, the belief of some patients that hypnotism will work. It's the same effect seen when people who take a sugar pill for a backache do as well as people who take medicine. It's going to require more studies involving many more people to get the majority of doctors to shout hurrah instead of hooey.
Ginandes agrees. "Our study underscores the need for further scientific testing of hypnosis," she says. "Subsequent studies might clarify unresolved speculations about the mechanisms by which hypnotic suggestion can trigger the physical and psychological effects that we see."
She and her colleagues suggest future experiments to compare the effects of simple hypnotic relaxation versus "targeted suggestions for tissue healing." They would also like to see more work done using hypnosis for people suffering from other kinds of wounds, such as foot ulcers caused by diabetes.
Nevertheless, Ginandes believes that the study of healing after breast surgery "breaks the ground for studying a broad and exciting range of new adjunctive treatments. Since clinical hypnosis is a noninvasive, nondrug treatment, finding that it can speed healing of wounds and other conditions could lead to fewer visits to doctors' offices and faster return to normal activities. Also, further investigation might confirm our supposition that the mind can influence healing of the body."
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Past Life Regression - A Firsthand Report
From George Ure - www.urbansurvival.com - a great site
Lots of readers were asking me for more details about past life regressions, so I prevailed on a friend who underwent one on Friday to write up a detailed report on the experience. Here’s the report…long but worth the time, I think…
“I just did what a relatively small minority of people ever decide to do: have a qualified psychotherapist lead me through a ‘past life regression’.
A past life regression is generally done by a professional with extensive experience in personal counseling and a thorough understanding of personality profiling, general history and reincarnation. The professional does extensive preparation by interviewing you, puts you in a receptive state and then gently ‘backs’ you into lives that you lived before this incarnation for the purpose of finding the experience-based reasons for the quirks, phobias, recurring problems and even recurring relationships you are having in this one. It is well established by those who study reincarnation that whole groups of people tend to ‘travel together’ through successive lifetimes. Your mate in one lifetime may have been a parent in another. A friend in one lifetime very likely has been your friend or family member in many.
A key principal in reincarnation is that traumas experienced in one life can and often are carried forward into succeeding lives. It’s as if the trauma is imprinted onto our etheric being like a dent on the body of a car, and shows up in each lifetime we enter into until we have the will/fortitude/understanding/guidance to fully assimilate and integrate it
More people are interested in this than ever before in history, for a variety of reasons, but I’ll start with my own.
THE BACKGROUND…what lead me to do this?
I’ve been a student of the paranormal for most of my life. I’m adventurous by nature and have always had a keen interest in the mysterious, exotic and extraordinary, possibly because I’ve had so very many extraordinary personal experiences that defied conventional explanation. A number of incidents in which I miraculously avoided death in spectacular ways prodded me into becoming a true ’seeker of wisdom’ from an early age.
In an attempt to understand and come to terms with a quite challenging early childhood, I studied with determination traditional avenues of philosophy and religion. When those failed to satisfy my questions, I went on to study the whole range of more fringe-associated subjects, encouraged by some of my more granola-munching, tin-foil hat wearing 70’s associates. I by no means swallowed all or even any of it whole cloth, but rather tucked all the information in my personal ‘Funk and Wagnel’s’ for careful observation and comparison to ‘real’ life as I moved through it.
A lot of trial and experimentation and plenty of error later, I was able to validate using direct personal experience a number of the occult sciences like astrology and numerology. I learned that when taken seriously and carefully prepared, guidance from these disciplines really can do a good job of providing personal road maps to our lives. It was a great source of comfort that we can get ‘owner’s manuals’ for our frail human vehicles and a little help from our metaphysical friends in learning how to deal more productively with those who were a little different from us, or even so different from us we wished them a swift and uncomfortable demise.
After some years of study along these lines, you can’t help but stumble headlong into the concepts of eternal soul, higher selves, karma, life after death, and of course, reincarnation. If you’ve absorbed and accepted these concepts as real (until proven otherwise), then your focus shifts onto elevating and refining your spirit in order to lead an ever more successful and creative, less painful and strife-filled life. And what typically happens next is you grow frustrated when you appear to keep falling into the same personal traps: unsuccessful relationships with the same personality types, repeatedly making the same mistakes, falling into despair because you just keep making the same choices that lead to the same old unhappy consequences. More dedicated study ensues.
I’m a peculiar mix of fanciful dreamer and pragmatic skeptic. I want to believe, but I also want sticks-and-stones ‘proof’. I’ll try anything once in the quest to squeeze an ounce of real knowledge out of the experience. I knelt at the feet of Swami Muktananda, ‘got it’ in est seminars from Werner Erhart, attended zen ashrams and dined with Sufis. I took classes from a Hawaiian Kahuna and did sweats with an Apache Shaman. After all this, my favorite gurus are the likes of Bucky Fuller, Greg Braden and Bruce Lipton.
I can honestly report that much of this effort did in fact clear up many issues I was repeatedly experiencing in my life.
I became far more at ease, comfortable with myself and others, able to communicate, play and relax without drugs or alcohol or more subtle props.
So why did I now feel the need to try and peek into my former lives?
The short answer is, I was dealt a life problem none of my prior studies was able to address and clear up. After a lifetime of being health conscious, exercising regularly, eating right, etc. etc. and being well, healthy as a horse, never in the hospital and rarely in a doctors office, I was diagnosed with a mysterious, rare genetic disease that the medical establishment has deemed incurable. One that will lead to a very uncomfortable, earlier than normal death if left uncontested. This disorder, which is sourced in the liver but affects the lungs, creates breathlessness, chronic bronchitis and asthma, and leads to the gradual loss of ability to breathe. It was severely effecting my formerly highly active, physical life, and there was absolutely no help for it from any quarter in this lifetime.
Ten years of applying all my gathered holistic health knowledge and intense research into areas I’d not studied before, all my the spiritual instruction I’d gathered over the years and a fresh push into more, doing a tremendous amount of emotional work using all the best methods of the day did improve my condition somewhat, allowed me to let go of the more obnoxious drugs that had been prescribed to manage symptoms, but ultimately did not budge the reality of the disease. Could this be inexorable karma at work?
Several of my ’sensitive’ friends had remarked to me that they felt my condition had its roots in former lives. Having done a tremendous amount of work on unraveling the effects of traumas experienced in THIS life, I felt the only stones left unturned could be the ones in lifetimes past. I had no idea what an apropos term that was…
When some retired friends of mine told me they had both gone to have ‘life regressions’ and reported amazing experiences and the clearing up of some personal issues afterwards, I was skeptical but intrigued.
Months later, another friend revealed she had done the same and it had changed her life very much for the better. Now hooked, I asked for and received the contact information of the professional who had done this for her. I called her, was favorably impressed by her credentials, experience and warm intelligence, and made an appointment for the following week.
Synchronistically, I happened to hear two very interesting programs on Coast to Coast on this very subject. One was on a very scientific study the reality of reincarnation that had been undertaken over a period of years, the Reincarnation Experiment conducted by Paul Von Ward. He recently published a book of his findings, called ‘Soul Genome’. It was the first study of its type that we know of, and Mr. Ward, who started out a skeptic himself, had transformed into a true believer.
THE REGRESSION
I arrived at my guide’s lovely, well appointed home early and she made me comfortable in an over-stuffed chair and ottoman. Her home was a marvel of refined beauty and serenity. She went over her own background again, which was quite extensive. A certified psychotherapist, hypnotist and counselor, she had spent a large part of her career as a corporate trainer before going back to school and getting her advanced degree in alternative therapies. She travels all over the U.S. and needs no advertising for a thriving private business.
The next two hours were spent interviewing me about my current life. She had used a computer to draw up my astrological chart to aid her own interview of me. She confirmed the details she saw in the chart with my answers to her questions, which were quite accurate to my history. I already knew a lot about my own astro-chart, but was impressed by the depth of her knowledge and interpretation of it.
She then asked for a complete description of the current health challenge and how it felt to me both physically and emotionally. She explained that, on a spiritual level (which I already knew intellectually from my own studies) that lung troubles were a symptom grief, probably unexpressed. And since the disorder’s source was actually the liver, that liver dysfunction meant I was overwhelmed by great ANGER. I received this information with a certain amount of weariness–the brunt of a lot anger directed at me over a lifetime from my family of origin, I’d read so many books on anger management and done so much training in interpersonal communications I could teach a college level course on the subject.
So why should I now contract a disease over it?
Since it was my goal to find the roots of my current health challenge, her interview probed me for all incidents of ill health. Finding none of these, she then looked for incidents of high anxiety or acute emotional stress or trauma that can later manifest as disease. She explained to me that this was necessary, as these incidents provide ‘gateways or insertion points’ into the past life. She then warned me that many people were unable to get very far into the regression on the first try.
I chose a highly charged, pivotal experience in my life when I was about 18 years old. She had me describe it in detail, and kept asking me to try to relive my emotional state and physical sensations. As I told her the memory, I felt a great heaviness on my chest. She asked me to focus on this heaviness, to center my mind right in my chest. A moment of pure fear enveloped me and I gasped. She gently lead me to refocus on that point on my chest where there was the greatest pain/constriction/heaviness.
Then she asked me to ‘go backwards into a life previous to this one when you felt just LIKE this’….’on the count of 3 - 2 - 1, you are in this previous life where your chest felt just like this….what are you seeing?’
ME: “I see a field of freshly plowed, rich black dirt” ringed by grass and further out, trees.”
HER: “Look down at your feet: what are you wearing?”
ME: “I’m barefoot. My feet are dirty and half buried in the soft ground.” I have on a long, full cotton skirt with a small, flowery print on it and what looks like a dirty white apron on top of it”.
HER: “You seem to be female. How old are you?”
ME: “I don’t know–young, 14 maybe? I have small hands and thin, bony arms.”
HER: “What are you doing?”
ME: “I’m leaned up against a log fence, the kind they made in the 1800’s without nails. I can feel the log pressing up against my butt and shoulders.”
HER: “Can you see anyone else in the scene?”
ME: “No….wait, yes, there is a man plowing out in the field behind a team of horses. He’s struggling with a plowshare. He’s wearing a big floppy hat and is heavy-set.” (He fades in and out of the scene quickly, though).
HER: “What is to your right?”
ME: “Nothing…more fence, more field and woods beyond. Looks wild and uninhabited.”
HER: “Look to your left. Is anything there?”
ME: (I turn my gaze) “I see part of a log house.” I only see one end of it, It is rough and primitive.”
HER: “Is anyone in the house?”
ME: (Suddenly I am in the house). I see a small child on a rustic cot made of logs. She is laying on her stomach, looking at a book with pictures in it. She is dressed in overalls. I describe this to her.
HER: “Is this you?”
ME: “I don’t know…I seem to be floating above her”.
HER: “How old are you?”
ME: “I’m not sure, 8-10, maybe? I don’t have on the same costume as when I was out near the fence, but I have the same skinny arms and small hands. My hair is in pigtails.”
HER: “Is anyone else in the house?”
ME: “No…” All at once I seem to be looking from the girl’s perspective towards the door to the main room. It is ajar. I sense ‘him’ in the adjoining room rather than hear him. I feel a shiver of fear. I report this.
HER: “Is there a woman in the house as well?” (No). “Tell me more about this man.” (I had all at once pulled out of the scene and was only seeing grey behind my closed lids. She had me focus on my fear and feeling in my chest and go back).
ME: Suddenly I’m in the ‘main’ room, which is a combination living-dining-kitchen, sitting at a log table. Everything seems to be made of logs. My vision is that of someone peering through a hole in a dark paper. Only small bits of scene come into my field of vision. She asks me to describe my bodily sensations, and things jerk into greater clarity.
“I’m sitting on a log bench. The bench and the table I’m resting my arms on are smooth and cool, as if polished and varnished. I’m looking down at the table in front of me and can only see the edge of dishes and utensils. Suddenly, I hear arms slam down on the table in front and to the right of me, and hear dishes and utensils rattle with the impact. (she asks me what I’m feeling/thinking, and I tell her ‘nothing’, but when the man slammed his arms down that way, I flinch).
HER: “What’s the man doing now?”
ME: I look up slightly, just enough to see his arms and upper torso. He’s very heavy. He’s wearing cover-alls and a dirty white shirt underneath. His big belly is big and round and his arms are fleshy. I look up just enough to see a jowly chin. (I report this)
HER: “Now what is happening?”
ME: “He just swept the plates and utensils in front of him off of the table with his right arm in a fit of rage, but said nothing. I quickly looked back down at the empty spot on the table in front of me.
He swung his left arm and backhanded me so that I was knocked off the bench and fell against the wall that was behind me. I’ve landed with my feet still on the bench, but I’m crunched into the corner with my head cocked up against the wall.”
HER: “Are you bleeding?”
ME: “The back of my head feels moist, but I don’t feel any pain.”
HER: “What happens next?” (again the whole scene fades to grey, and she prompts me to focus on my bodily sensations).
ME: “He’s scooped me up, carries me to the cot I was on earlier and lays me on it. He sits heavily, almost falling on it, on the edge of the bed. I feel his weight coming down bouncing the bed under me.” Again, the scene goes grey.
HER: “Open your eyes. What do you see?”
ME: “I’m back outside. I’m hovering (a point of consciousness) above the young girl who is laying face up in loose, black dirt, still in her shirt and overalls. She’s partially submerged in the dirt.” Suddenly, I see two arms on either side of a fairly large, heavy stone slam the stone down on the young girl’s chest. I feel a crushing weight and and I physically jerk and let out a big gasp, trying to suck in air. I jerk my eyes open and look around. Pain welled up around my heart/chest area and I fought down an urge to cry.
She tried to get me to go back a couple of times, but this session was over. I could or would not go back.
We discussed the session for some time. She told me she had hoped to get me a little farther in this session and that she was aware that I was keeping a ‘leg in both worlds’ in this session…meaning I had remained fully conscious of this life while just peeking through the gauze at the other. She’d hoped to get me to go relive the other life more fully.
Naturally, my first question was, ‘was this really real?’ and, ‘how do we know I wasn’t just manufacturing the whole thing out of a desire to perform for her and come up with something plausible (and also so I wouldn’t feel like a big dufus for spending a lot of money doing this). I had to get reassurance/validation. I already knew I was a dreadful liar that got busted regularly by my parents and every authority thereafter on every lie I ever tried to tell so I just stopped trying. I feared I might have been vainly and not very convincingly coming up with an improvised lie, but I feared even more that I hadn’t, but couldn’t muster the courage to go the whole nine yards. My obvious question, which she intuited (or maybe just was an FAQ for her) ‘did you catch me lying?”
She told me she’d been highly trained for this and has had many, many clients. She was taught how to read body language and track eye movements. ‘You were really there, you just wouldn’t allow yourself to go deeper into the experience’.
She remarked that it sounded like a Civil War era life time. She told me that in an era when there was no contraception and life was very harsh, men and women would sometimes abandon or even kill children they couldn’t care for. She told me she had had clients who described lifetimes in which unwanted children were left in the woods to die of starvation or be eaten by wild animals. She said it sounded as if I had been in a situation where the mother had left or died and the husband was left to raise a child that was of little use to him and a burden to care for. We were both isolated, uneducated and had limited vocabulary. He had probably abused me to the point that I was mutely disassociated from my feelings. When I was injured, he may have thought he’d killed me already, or when I was knocked unconscious when I hit my head on the wall, he may have taken the opportunity to get rid of me.
She told me that my early life experiences had rendered me a very analytical person who tended to remain only lightly connected to my emotions, and that the emotions were the key to instituting healing of trauma. She said that when the emotional baggage gets ‘fully unpacked’, she is able to lead her clients into the ‘healing frequencies’. This is when old injuries can suddenly disappear and spontaneous remissions of serious diseases occur.
But we had just begun working on it together, and trust had to be established. She went on to share in general terms some other regressions.
She told me to expect to be exhausted and to sleep deeply that night, but to be sure to pay close attention to my dreams and start keeping a personal journal because bits and pieces of my former life/lives would start to leak out, now that I had opened the door, and clues to old mysteries would be revealed.
When I left her home I felt both deflated…and inexplicably lighter.
THE AFTERMATH
I wondered to myself if the loss of the mother and betrayal and murder at the hands of my father did not set the stage for a difficult relationship with the parents in the next life? I’d always heard you ‘get the life you expect’–could that mean that traumas like that tend to echo throughout time until, like ripples on a pond, they finally fade out?
I stopped on my way home to visit a friend, who strangely enough, had herself that very day gone to a therapist to try and get relief from her own near irrational fear of snakes. And this friend seemed to run into snakes more than is reasonably to be expected. She didn’t get a regression per se, but was lead back to experiences she may have buried in her memories about snakes. She said it helped a little she thought, but the person trying to help her with it wasn’t as well versed as the person I’d gone to see.
That night I got home and was genuinely exhausted. I woke once in the middle of the night but laid back down. In all I slept nearly 10 hours, which is unusual for me.
Every morning for as long as I can remember, the first thing I have to do is relieve my immediate shortness of breath by using my nebulizer.
This morning, I didn’t need to immediately use the nebulizer. I was breathing easier. I got up, made coffee, worked some and felt really calm all day.
Am I going back? I can’t say right now. My thoughts are, since all these traumas that are not completely dealt with WILL show up in your current life, no matter what life they originated in, you seem to be given chances over and over again, like the movie, ‘Ground Hog Day’, to respond to the experience in the best possible way for the good of yourself and all concerned. All you have to do is stay alert to when those key incidents roll around again.
But I can say absolutely that having a well educated, experienced guide along on your ride is very definitely an advantage that will get you through it faster and better. “
Lots of readers were asking me for more details about past life regressions, so I prevailed on a friend who underwent one on Friday to write up a detailed report on the experience. Here’s the report…long but worth the time, I think…
“I just did what a relatively small minority of people ever decide to do: have a qualified psychotherapist lead me through a ‘past life regression’.
A past life regression is generally done by a professional with extensive experience in personal counseling and a thorough understanding of personality profiling, general history and reincarnation. The professional does extensive preparation by interviewing you, puts you in a receptive state and then gently ‘backs’ you into lives that you lived before this incarnation for the purpose of finding the experience-based reasons for the quirks, phobias, recurring problems and even recurring relationships you are having in this one. It is well established by those who study reincarnation that whole groups of people tend to ‘travel together’ through successive lifetimes. Your mate in one lifetime may have been a parent in another. A friend in one lifetime very likely has been your friend or family member in many.
A key principal in reincarnation is that traumas experienced in one life can and often are carried forward into succeeding lives. It’s as if the trauma is imprinted onto our etheric being like a dent on the body of a car, and shows up in each lifetime we enter into until we have the will/fortitude/understanding/guidance to fully assimilate and integrate it
More people are interested in this than ever before in history, for a variety of reasons, but I’ll start with my own.
THE BACKGROUND…what lead me to do this?
I’ve been a student of the paranormal for most of my life. I’m adventurous by nature and have always had a keen interest in the mysterious, exotic and extraordinary, possibly because I’ve had so very many extraordinary personal experiences that defied conventional explanation. A number of incidents in which I miraculously avoided death in spectacular ways prodded me into becoming a true ’seeker of wisdom’ from an early age.
In an attempt to understand and come to terms with a quite challenging early childhood, I studied with determination traditional avenues of philosophy and religion. When those failed to satisfy my questions, I went on to study the whole range of more fringe-associated subjects, encouraged by some of my more granola-munching, tin-foil hat wearing 70’s associates. I by no means swallowed all or even any of it whole cloth, but rather tucked all the information in my personal ‘Funk and Wagnel’s’ for careful observation and comparison to ‘real’ life as I moved through it.
A lot of trial and experimentation and plenty of error later, I was able to validate using direct personal experience a number of the occult sciences like astrology and numerology. I learned that when taken seriously and carefully prepared, guidance from these disciplines really can do a good job of providing personal road maps to our lives. It was a great source of comfort that we can get ‘owner’s manuals’ for our frail human vehicles and a little help from our metaphysical friends in learning how to deal more productively with those who were a little different from us, or even so different from us we wished them a swift and uncomfortable demise.
After some years of study along these lines, you can’t help but stumble headlong into the concepts of eternal soul, higher selves, karma, life after death, and of course, reincarnation. If you’ve absorbed and accepted these concepts as real (until proven otherwise), then your focus shifts onto elevating and refining your spirit in order to lead an ever more successful and creative, less painful and strife-filled life. And what typically happens next is you grow frustrated when you appear to keep falling into the same personal traps: unsuccessful relationships with the same personality types, repeatedly making the same mistakes, falling into despair because you just keep making the same choices that lead to the same old unhappy consequences. More dedicated study ensues.
I’m a peculiar mix of fanciful dreamer and pragmatic skeptic. I want to believe, but I also want sticks-and-stones ‘proof’. I’ll try anything once in the quest to squeeze an ounce of real knowledge out of the experience. I knelt at the feet of Swami Muktananda, ‘got it’ in est seminars from Werner Erhart, attended zen ashrams and dined with Sufis. I took classes from a Hawaiian Kahuna and did sweats with an Apache Shaman. After all this, my favorite gurus are the likes of Bucky Fuller, Greg Braden and Bruce Lipton.
I can honestly report that much of this effort did in fact clear up many issues I was repeatedly experiencing in my life.
I became far more at ease, comfortable with myself and others, able to communicate, play and relax without drugs or alcohol or more subtle props.
So why did I now feel the need to try and peek into my former lives?
The short answer is, I was dealt a life problem none of my prior studies was able to address and clear up. After a lifetime of being health conscious, exercising regularly, eating right, etc. etc. and being well, healthy as a horse, never in the hospital and rarely in a doctors office, I was diagnosed with a mysterious, rare genetic disease that the medical establishment has deemed incurable. One that will lead to a very uncomfortable, earlier than normal death if left uncontested. This disorder, which is sourced in the liver but affects the lungs, creates breathlessness, chronic bronchitis and asthma, and leads to the gradual loss of ability to breathe. It was severely effecting my formerly highly active, physical life, and there was absolutely no help for it from any quarter in this lifetime.
Ten years of applying all my gathered holistic health knowledge and intense research into areas I’d not studied before, all my the spiritual instruction I’d gathered over the years and a fresh push into more, doing a tremendous amount of emotional work using all the best methods of the day did improve my condition somewhat, allowed me to let go of the more obnoxious drugs that had been prescribed to manage symptoms, but ultimately did not budge the reality of the disease. Could this be inexorable karma at work?
Several of my ’sensitive’ friends had remarked to me that they felt my condition had its roots in former lives. Having done a tremendous amount of work on unraveling the effects of traumas experienced in THIS life, I felt the only stones left unturned could be the ones in lifetimes past. I had no idea what an apropos term that was…
When some retired friends of mine told me they had both gone to have ‘life regressions’ and reported amazing experiences and the clearing up of some personal issues afterwards, I was skeptical but intrigued.
Months later, another friend revealed she had done the same and it had changed her life very much for the better. Now hooked, I asked for and received the contact information of the professional who had done this for her. I called her, was favorably impressed by her credentials, experience and warm intelligence, and made an appointment for the following week.
Synchronistically, I happened to hear two very interesting programs on Coast to Coast on this very subject. One was on a very scientific study the reality of reincarnation that had been undertaken over a period of years, the Reincarnation Experiment conducted by Paul Von Ward. He recently published a book of his findings, called ‘Soul Genome’. It was the first study of its type that we know of, and Mr. Ward, who started out a skeptic himself, had transformed into a true believer.
THE REGRESSION
I arrived at my guide’s lovely, well appointed home early and she made me comfortable in an over-stuffed chair and ottoman. Her home was a marvel of refined beauty and serenity. She went over her own background again, which was quite extensive. A certified psychotherapist, hypnotist and counselor, she had spent a large part of her career as a corporate trainer before going back to school and getting her advanced degree in alternative therapies. She travels all over the U.S. and needs no advertising for a thriving private business.
The next two hours were spent interviewing me about my current life. She had used a computer to draw up my astrological chart to aid her own interview of me. She confirmed the details she saw in the chart with my answers to her questions, which were quite accurate to my history. I already knew a lot about my own astro-chart, but was impressed by the depth of her knowledge and interpretation of it.
She then asked for a complete description of the current health challenge and how it felt to me both physically and emotionally. She explained that, on a spiritual level (which I already knew intellectually from my own studies) that lung troubles were a symptom grief, probably unexpressed. And since the disorder’s source was actually the liver, that liver dysfunction meant I was overwhelmed by great ANGER. I received this information with a certain amount of weariness–the brunt of a lot anger directed at me over a lifetime from my family of origin, I’d read so many books on anger management and done so much training in interpersonal communications I could teach a college level course on the subject.
So why should I now contract a disease over it?
Since it was my goal to find the roots of my current health challenge, her interview probed me for all incidents of ill health. Finding none of these, she then looked for incidents of high anxiety or acute emotional stress or trauma that can later manifest as disease. She explained to me that this was necessary, as these incidents provide ‘gateways or insertion points’ into the past life. She then warned me that many people were unable to get very far into the regression on the first try.
I chose a highly charged, pivotal experience in my life when I was about 18 years old. She had me describe it in detail, and kept asking me to try to relive my emotional state and physical sensations. As I told her the memory, I felt a great heaviness on my chest. She asked me to focus on this heaviness, to center my mind right in my chest. A moment of pure fear enveloped me and I gasped. She gently lead me to refocus on that point on my chest where there was the greatest pain/constriction/heaviness.
Then she asked me to ‘go backwards into a life previous to this one when you felt just LIKE this’….’on the count of 3 - 2 - 1, you are in this previous life where your chest felt just like this….what are you seeing?’
ME: “I see a field of freshly plowed, rich black dirt” ringed by grass and further out, trees.”
HER: “Look down at your feet: what are you wearing?”
ME: “I’m barefoot. My feet are dirty and half buried in the soft ground.” I have on a long, full cotton skirt with a small, flowery print on it and what looks like a dirty white apron on top of it”.
HER: “You seem to be female. How old are you?”
ME: “I don’t know–young, 14 maybe? I have small hands and thin, bony arms.”
HER: “What are you doing?”
ME: “I’m leaned up against a log fence, the kind they made in the 1800’s without nails. I can feel the log pressing up against my butt and shoulders.”
HER: “Can you see anyone else in the scene?”
ME: “No….wait, yes, there is a man plowing out in the field behind a team of horses. He’s struggling with a plowshare. He’s wearing a big floppy hat and is heavy-set.” (He fades in and out of the scene quickly, though).
HER: “What is to your right?”
ME: “Nothing…more fence, more field and woods beyond. Looks wild and uninhabited.”
HER: “Look to your left. Is anything there?”
ME: (I turn my gaze) “I see part of a log house.” I only see one end of it, It is rough and primitive.”
HER: “Is anyone in the house?”
ME: (Suddenly I am in the house). I see a small child on a rustic cot made of logs. She is laying on her stomach, looking at a book with pictures in it. She is dressed in overalls. I describe this to her.
HER: “Is this you?”
ME: “I don’t know…I seem to be floating above her”.
HER: “How old are you?”
ME: “I’m not sure, 8-10, maybe? I don’t have on the same costume as when I was out near the fence, but I have the same skinny arms and small hands. My hair is in pigtails.”
HER: “Is anyone else in the house?”
ME: “No…” All at once I seem to be looking from the girl’s perspective towards the door to the main room. It is ajar. I sense ‘him’ in the adjoining room rather than hear him. I feel a shiver of fear. I report this.
HER: “Is there a woman in the house as well?” (No). “Tell me more about this man.” (I had all at once pulled out of the scene and was only seeing grey behind my closed lids. She had me focus on my fear and feeling in my chest and go back).
ME: Suddenly I’m in the ‘main’ room, which is a combination living-dining-kitchen, sitting at a log table. Everything seems to be made of logs. My vision is that of someone peering through a hole in a dark paper. Only small bits of scene come into my field of vision. She asks me to describe my bodily sensations, and things jerk into greater clarity.
“I’m sitting on a log bench. The bench and the table I’m resting my arms on are smooth and cool, as if polished and varnished. I’m looking down at the table in front of me and can only see the edge of dishes and utensils. Suddenly, I hear arms slam down on the table in front and to the right of me, and hear dishes and utensils rattle with the impact. (she asks me what I’m feeling/thinking, and I tell her ‘nothing’, but when the man slammed his arms down that way, I flinch).
HER: “What’s the man doing now?”
ME: I look up slightly, just enough to see his arms and upper torso. He’s very heavy. He’s wearing cover-alls and a dirty white shirt underneath. His big belly is big and round and his arms are fleshy. I look up just enough to see a jowly chin. (I report this)
HER: “Now what is happening?”
ME: “He just swept the plates and utensils in front of him off of the table with his right arm in a fit of rage, but said nothing. I quickly looked back down at the empty spot on the table in front of me.
He swung his left arm and backhanded me so that I was knocked off the bench and fell against the wall that was behind me. I’ve landed with my feet still on the bench, but I’m crunched into the corner with my head cocked up against the wall.”
HER: “Are you bleeding?”
ME: “The back of my head feels moist, but I don’t feel any pain.”
HER: “What happens next?” (again the whole scene fades to grey, and she prompts me to focus on my bodily sensations).
ME: “He’s scooped me up, carries me to the cot I was on earlier and lays me on it. He sits heavily, almost falling on it, on the edge of the bed. I feel his weight coming down bouncing the bed under me.” Again, the scene goes grey.
HER: “Open your eyes. What do you see?”
ME: “I’m back outside. I’m hovering (a point of consciousness) above the young girl who is laying face up in loose, black dirt, still in her shirt and overalls. She’s partially submerged in the dirt.” Suddenly, I see two arms on either side of a fairly large, heavy stone slam the stone down on the young girl’s chest. I feel a crushing weight and and I physically jerk and let out a big gasp, trying to suck in air. I jerk my eyes open and look around. Pain welled up around my heart/chest area and I fought down an urge to cry.
She tried to get me to go back a couple of times, but this session was over. I could or would not go back.
We discussed the session for some time. She told me she had hoped to get me a little farther in this session and that she was aware that I was keeping a ‘leg in both worlds’ in this session…meaning I had remained fully conscious of this life while just peeking through the gauze at the other. She’d hoped to get me to go relive the other life more fully.
Naturally, my first question was, ‘was this really real?’ and, ‘how do we know I wasn’t just manufacturing the whole thing out of a desire to perform for her and come up with something plausible (and also so I wouldn’t feel like a big dufus for spending a lot of money doing this). I had to get reassurance/validation. I already knew I was a dreadful liar that got busted regularly by my parents and every authority thereafter on every lie I ever tried to tell so I just stopped trying. I feared I might have been vainly and not very convincingly coming up with an improvised lie, but I feared even more that I hadn’t, but couldn’t muster the courage to go the whole nine yards. My obvious question, which she intuited (or maybe just was an FAQ for her) ‘did you catch me lying?”
She told me she’d been highly trained for this and has had many, many clients. She was taught how to read body language and track eye movements. ‘You were really there, you just wouldn’t allow yourself to go deeper into the experience’.
She remarked that it sounded like a Civil War era life time. She told me that in an era when there was no contraception and life was very harsh, men and women would sometimes abandon or even kill children they couldn’t care for. She told me she had had clients who described lifetimes in which unwanted children were left in the woods to die of starvation or be eaten by wild animals. She said it sounded as if I had been in a situation where the mother had left or died and the husband was left to raise a child that was of little use to him and a burden to care for. We were both isolated, uneducated and had limited vocabulary. He had probably abused me to the point that I was mutely disassociated from my feelings. When I was injured, he may have thought he’d killed me already, or when I was knocked unconscious when I hit my head on the wall, he may have taken the opportunity to get rid of me.
She told me that my early life experiences had rendered me a very analytical person who tended to remain only lightly connected to my emotions, and that the emotions were the key to instituting healing of trauma. She said that when the emotional baggage gets ‘fully unpacked’, she is able to lead her clients into the ‘healing frequencies’. This is when old injuries can suddenly disappear and spontaneous remissions of serious diseases occur.
But we had just begun working on it together, and trust had to be established. She went on to share in general terms some other regressions.
She told me to expect to be exhausted and to sleep deeply that night, but to be sure to pay close attention to my dreams and start keeping a personal journal because bits and pieces of my former life/lives would start to leak out, now that I had opened the door, and clues to old mysteries would be revealed.
When I left her home I felt both deflated…and inexplicably lighter.
THE AFTERMATH
I wondered to myself if the loss of the mother and betrayal and murder at the hands of my father did not set the stage for a difficult relationship with the parents in the next life? I’d always heard you ‘get the life you expect’–could that mean that traumas like that tend to echo throughout time until, like ripples on a pond, they finally fade out?
I stopped on my way home to visit a friend, who strangely enough, had herself that very day gone to a therapist to try and get relief from her own near irrational fear of snakes. And this friend seemed to run into snakes more than is reasonably to be expected. She didn’t get a regression per se, but was lead back to experiences she may have buried in her memories about snakes. She said it helped a little she thought, but the person trying to help her with it wasn’t as well versed as the person I’d gone to see.
That night I got home and was genuinely exhausted. I woke once in the middle of the night but laid back down. In all I slept nearly 10 hours, which is unusual for me.
Every morning for as long as I can remember, the first thing I have to do is relieve my immediate shortness of breath by using my nebulizer.
This morning, I didn’t need to immediately use the nebulizer. I was breathing easier. I got up, made coffee, worked some and felt really calm all day.
Am I going back? I can’t say right now. My thoughts are, since all these traumas that are not completely dealt with WILL show up in your current life, no matter what life they originated in, you seem to be given chances over and over again, like the movie, ‘Ground Hog Day’, to respond to the experience in the best possible way for the good of yourself and all concerned. All you have to do is stay alert to when those key incidents roll around again.
But I can say absolutely that having a well educated, experienced guide along on your ride is very definitely an advantage that will get you through it faster and better. “
Hypnotise your patient, doctors told
From The Guardian - UK
Hypnotise your patient, surgeons told
Technique seen as alternative to general anaesthetic for certain operations
Amelia Hill, social affairs correspondent
Sunday June 7 2009
The Observer
Doctors should be taught to hypnotise patients not to feel pain instead of using general anaesthetics during some operations, the Royal Society of Medicine will be told today.
In what he has described as a "clarion call to the British medical profession", Professor David Spiegel, of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University in the US, will also call on the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) to add hypnotherapy to its list of approved therapeutic techniques for the treatment of conditions ranging from allergies and high blood pressure to the pain associated with bone marrow transplantation, cancer treatment and anaesthesia for liver biopsy.
Nice has already approved the technique for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome."It is time for hypnosis to work its way into the mainstream of British medicine,"
Spiegel will say at the joint conference of the Royal Society of Medicine, the British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis and the British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis.
"There is solid science behind what sounds like mysticism and we need to get that message across to the bodies that influence this area. Hypnosis has no negative side-effects. It makes operations quicker, as the patient is able to talk to the surgeon as the operation proceeds, and it is cheaper than conventional pain relief.
Since it does not interfere with the workings of the body, the patient recovers faster, too."It is also extremely powerful as a means of pain relief.
Hypnosis has been accepted and rejected because people are nervous of it. They think it's either too powerful or not powerful enough, but, although the public are sceptical, the hardest part of the procedure is getting other doctors to accept it."
Professor Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville, head of the Pain Clinic at Liege University Hospital in Belgium, who has operated on more than 6,000 patients using hypnosis combined with a light local anaesthetic, said: "The local anaesthetic is used only to deaden the surface of the skin while a scalpel slices through it. It has no effect inside the body. "The patient is conscious throughout the operation and this helps the doctor and patient work together. The patient may have to move during an operation and it's simple to get them to do so if they remain conscious. We've even done a hysterectomy using the procedure."
The theory behind medical hypnosis is that the body's brain and nervous system can't always distinguish an imagined situation from a real occurrence. This means the brain can act on any image or verbal suggestion as if it were reality.
Hypnosis puts patients into a state of deep relaxation that is very susceptible to imagery. The more vivid this imagery, the greater the effect on the body.
Dr Martin Wall, president of the Section Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine at the Royal Society of Medicine, said hypnosis fundamentally alters a subject's state of mind.
Hypnosis is not, he said, simply a matter of suggestibility and relaxation.
Nice said it would welcome submissions for hypnotherapy to be considered as an approved therapeutic technique on the NHS if it could be cost-effective, and consistent delivery could be guaranteed.
Hypnotise your patient, surgeons told
Technique seen as alternative to general anaesthetic for certain operations
Amelia Hill, social affairs correspondent
Sunday June 7 2009
The Observer
Doctors should be taught to hypnotise patients not to feel pain instead of using general anaesthetics during some operations, the Royal Society of Medicine will be told today.
In what he has described as a "clarion call to the British medical profession", Professor David Spiegel, of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University in the US, will also call on the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) to add hypnotherapy to its list of approved therapeutic techniques for the treatment of conditions ranging from allergies and high blood pressure to the pain associated with bone marrow transplantation, cancer treatment and anaesthesia for liver biopsy.
Nice has already approved the technique for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome."It is time for hypnosis to work its way into the mainstream of British medicine,"
Spiegel will say at the joint conference of the Royal Society of Medicine, the British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis and the British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis.
"There is solid science behind what sounds like mysticism and we need to get that message across to the bodies that influence this area. Hypnosis has no negative side-effects. It makes operations quicker, as the patient is able to talk to the surgeon as the operation proceeds, and it is cheaper than conventional pain relief.
Since it does not interfere with the workings of the body, the patient recovers faster, too."It is also extremely powerful as a means of pain relief.
Hypnosis has been accepted and rejected because people are nervous of it. They think it's either too powerful or not powerful enough, but, although the public are sceptical, the hardest part of the procedure is getting other doctors to accept it."
Professor Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville, head of the Pain Clinic at Liege University Hospital in Belgium, who has operated on more than 6,000 patients using hypnosis combined with a light local anaesthetic, said: "The local anaesthetic is used only to deaden the surface of the skin while a scalpel slices through it. It has no effect inside the body. "The patient is conscious throughout the operation and this helps the doctor and patient work together. The patient may have to move during an operation and it's simple to get them to do so if they remain conscious. We've even done a hysterectomy using the procedure."
The theory behind medical hypnosis is that the body's brain and nervous system can't always distinguish an imagined situation from a real occurrence. This means the brain can act on any image or verbal suggestion as if it were reality.
Hypnosis puts patients into a state of deep relaxation that is very susceptible to imagery. The more vivid this imagery, the greater the effect on the body.
Dr Martin Wall, president of the Section Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine at the Royal Society of Medicine, said hypnosis fundamentally alters a subject's state of mind.
Hypnosis is not, he said, simply a matter of suggestibility and relaxation.
Nice said it would welcome submissions for hypnotherapy to be considered as an approved therapeutic technique on the NHS if it could be cost-effective, and consistent delivery could be guaranteed.
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In this blog, I will post information that I think would be interesting to you. It also serves my purpose of being an archive for all the information I come across that I want to keep for further research.
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