ScienceDaily (Oct. 13, 2009) — Children with functional abdominal pain who used audio recordings of guided imagery at home in addition to standard medical treatment were almost three times as likely to improve their pain problem, compared to children who received standard treatment alone.
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Hypnotherapy Boosts Quality Of Life And Health For Ulcerative Colitis Patients
ScienceDaily (May 15, 2009) — One of Laurie Keefer’s patients was afraid to be a bridesmaid in a friend’s wedding, others worried about traveling with the boss or even going to parties in peoples’ homes.
People Are More Suggestible Under Laughing Gas
ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2009) — The pain-relieving effects of nitrous oxide – laughing gas – may be enhanced by suggestion or hypnosis, according to a new study by UCL (University College London). The study’s findings – that people are more suggestible under the gas – mean that dental patients may benefit from being coached to relax while undergoing sedation.
Hypnosis used in dental procedure
A dental patient underwent hypnosis to have two rotten teeth removed because he could not afford private treatment.
Hypnosis ‘eases cancer op pain’
Breast cancer patients need less anaesthetic during operations if they have been relaxed by hypnosis beforehand, US research suggests.
Hypnosis Benefits the Immune System
The flu is expected to reach more people this year compared to the average flu season. There are many uncertainties this year due to the H1N1 influenza virus. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says that the H1N1 virus has caused the first pandemic (global outbreak) of influenza in 40 years. The World Health Organization (WHO) believes that H1N1 is going to cause more people to get sick, more hospitalizations, and more deaths than the average flu season. Research has shown that hypnosis can improve the immune system and improve the body`s functioning.
Hypnosis for the Great American Smokeout 2009
Smoking can be triggered by many things, peer influence, as an avenue for letting out negative emotions resulting from loss due to death, divorce/ separation, exam failure or job etc. The relaxation one thinks one gets at that moment makes them forget about their present problems. What starts as a puff, turns to two, three and before you know it, you are totally hooked to the substance. Your body learns to associate certain occurrences with the need for a smoke. After smoking for sometime, you realize how embarrassing it is, especially when you develop an urge to smoke at your sister’s wedding where you are the best man and they are ready to take their vows, the urge is so strong that you feel like dying, or when dinner is served at your in-laws house or a public place clearly designated as a ‘no smoking zone’ etc. or better still, when your doctor gives you an ultimatum.
NCH Press release about “The Fourth Kind” movie
Films are often, deliberately, pretending to portray a truth that is stranger than fiction. But the largest hypnotherapy association in the UK, the National Council for Hypnotherapy, has come out against the recently-released The Fourth Kind as giving an inaccurate, unrealistic and unhelpful portrayal of hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
Hypnosis has ‘real’ brain effect
Hypnosis has a “very real” effect that can be picked up on brain scans, say Hull University researchers.
An imaging study of hypnotised participants showed decreased activity in the parts of the brain linked with daydreaming or letting the mind wander.
Wife loses four stone after therapist convinces her she’s got a gastric band
Dieting can often depend on an element of mind over matter.
For Marion Corns, it involved nothing else.
The mother of three has lost four stone after allowing herself to be hypnotised – and told she had been fitted with a gastric band.
Believing her stomach has shrunk to the size of a golf ball under a surgeon’s knife, the 35-year-old is now able to eat only tiny portions of food.
