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Children Can Greatly Reduce Abdominal Pain By Using Their Imagination

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.

Hypnosis used in dental procedure

A dental patient underwent hypnosis to have two rotten teeth removed because he could not afford private treatment.

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.