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What the experts say about Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Teeth Grinding, Depression, Medical Hypnosis, Treatment for illnesses with hypnosis and how the brain works using hypnosis:
Medical Conditions can be treated with hypnosis.
Why do medical doctors use hypnosis?
Simply because experience has taught them that some illnesses do not respond well to traditional approaches. Conditions such as chronic pain, anxiety or fears, and persistent habits may be difficult to control with medications. When medicines or surgeries fail, hypnosis can bring the mind and body together to create a powerful tool for natural and effective healing.
Why Consider Hypnosis Treatment for IBS?
by Olafur S. Palsson, Psy.D.
Hypnosis is only one of several approaches to treating irritable bowel syndrome and may not be the most suitable option for all patients. However, hypnosis treatment has some advantages which makes it a good option for many IBS sufferers with chronic and severe symptoms:
Teeth Grinding
by Expert Author: Mike Kay
When you grind your teeth, it is called Bruxism. You do it because your jaw muscle is in the habit of remaining tense. Habits are unconscious patterns and because hypnosis works with your subconscious mind, it can help re-educate your brain to relax the main jaw muscle. One of the newer methods devised to treat teeth grinding is hypnosis. Psychiatrists have long used hypnosis to treat behavioral problems. Now they have found a way to make it work for teeth grinding as well. Teeth grinding can be considered as a behavioral concern, although the person who suffers from it doesn't normally realize that they are actually clenching their teeth as they sleep. Nonetheless, they are doing the action so their subconscious behavior is accountable for it.
Whether hypnosis works for teeth grinding depends upon the person. Scientifically speaking, hypnosis works by guiding you to change your behavior, teeth grinding, which is triggered by stress or other factors. When you submit to hypnosis, the hypnotist re-educates the brain and the subconscious mind. They would instruct the brain not to tighten up the jaw muscles so that teeth grinding won't occur. In response, the brain would relax the muscles of the jaws instead. With that mindset, the person would enjoy an undisturbed sleep and an eased jaw.
The following websites offer information about medical uses of hypnosis, the history of hypnosis and insights into how hypnosis works!
This Is Your Brain Under Hypnosis
by Sandra Blakeslee
Hypnosis, with its long and checkered history in medicine and entertainment, is receiving some new respect from neuroscientists. Recent brain studies of people who are susceptible to suggestion indicate that when they act on the suggestions their brains show profound changes in how they process information. The suggestions, researchers report, literally change what people see, hear, feel and believe to be true.
The new experiments, which used brain imaging, found that people who were hypnotized "saw" colors where there were none. Others lost the ability to make simple decisions. Some people looked at common English words and thought that they were gibberish.
"The idea that perceptions can be manipulated by expectations" is fundamental to the study of cognition, said Michael I. Posner, an emeritus professor of neuroscience at the University of Oregon and expert on attention. "But now we're really getting at the mechanisms."
Even with little understanding of how it works, hypnosis has been used in medicine since the 1950's to treat pain and, more recently, as a treatment for anxiety, depression, trauma, irritable bowel syndrome and eating disorders.
There is, however, still disagreement about what exactly the hypnotic state is or, indeed, whether it is anything more than an effort to please the hypnotist or a natural form of extreme concentration where people become oblivious to their surroundings while lost in thought.
Hypnosis had a false start in the 18th century when a German physician, Dr. Franz Mesmer, devised a miraculous cure for people suffering all manner of unexplained medical problems. Amid dim lights and ethereal music played on a glass harmonica, he infused them with an invisible "magnetic fluid" that only he was able to muster. Thus mesmerized, clients were cured.
Although Dr. Mesmer was eventually discredited, he was the first person to show that the mind could be manipulated by suggestion to affect the body, historians say. This central finding was resurrected by Dr. James Braid, an English ophthalmologist who in 1842 coined the word hypnosis after the Greek word for sleep.
Braid reportedly put people into trances by staring at them intently, but he did not have a clue as to how it worked. In this vacuum, hypnosis was adopted by spiritualists and stage magicians who used dangling gold watches to induce hypnotic states in volunteers from the audience, and make them dance, sing or pretend to be someone else, only to awaken at a hand clap and laughter from the crowd.
In medical hands, hypnosis was no laughing matter. In the 19th century, physicians in India successfully used hypnosis as anesthesia , even for limb amputations. The practice fell from favor only when ether was discovered.....
...According to decades of research, 10 to 15 percent of adults are highly hypnotizable, said Dr. David Spiegel, a psychiatrist at Stanford who studies the clinical uses of hypnosis. Up to age 12, however, before top-down circuits mature, 80 to 85 percent of children are highly hypnotizable.
One adult in five is flat out resistant to hypnosis, Dr. Spiegel said. The rest are in between, he said.
In some of the most recent work, Dr. Amir Raz, an assistant professor of clinical neuroscience at Columbia, chose to study highly hypnotizable people with the help of a standard psychological test that probes conflict in the brain. As a professional magician who became a scientist to understand better the slippery nature of attention, Dr. Raz said that he "wanted to do something really impressive" that other neuroscientists could not ignore.
Past Life Regression
By Dr. Norton Berkowitz PhD
"Past Life Regression, along with Life Memory Recall© and Guided Light Therapy©, makes a powerful healing modality. One that can easily and rapidly improve and eliminate many illnesses and diseases. Our past, in this life and past lives, affects the life we are living today."
"Most of our illnesses, both physical and physiological, are brought on from incidences and trauma which occurred in our past. Once we find the problem from the past that is presently affecting us, and release it through a gentle hypnotic session(s), the illness is resolved and disappears. Does it stay away? Yes, it does."
"As an example, in a small research project with asthma, we found that asthma disappeared in 3 to 6 sessions. Peak flows would go from 200-250 with medication, to 500 and above without medication."
Depression
Depression describes a wide range of conditions ranging from feeling blue, to severe clinical depression and schizophrenia.
Hypnosis has been used successfully for treating mild depression and as a complement to medical treatment for severe depression. Often negative thoughts trigger negative emotions which then triggers negative behaviors. Hypnosis can be effective in helping to change those negative thoughts replacing them with positive ones. Hypnosis is also very effective in reducing stress which also can create feelings of depression. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis, so the negative thoughts you are thinking is a negative hypnosis you have been doing to yourself, creating negative feelings. Learning self-hypnosis techniques can empower you to change your life by changing your thoughts!
It is always important to consult with your medical doctor before using hypnosis for depression as hypnosis can be an effective part of the total treatment for depression.
June 01 2004 Clinical hypnosis can be used to treat depression:
"Dr. Michael Yapko has, for the last thirty years, specialized in the treatment of depression with clinical hypnosis. In a climate where anti-depressant medication is still physicians' first treatment choice, Dr. Yapko's approach to clinical practice still represents cutting-edge work."
"Clinical hypnosis has been directly influenced by the current push for empirically supported treatments, and in recent years substantial high-quality research has assessed the effectiveness of hypnosis and its contribution to improving therapeutic outcome. "
"There is also a growing body of evidence demonstrating that, when hypnosis is part of the treatment process, it catalyzes positive clinical outcomes and generally increases the benefits of established treatments. "
"Hypnosis offers a way to conceptualize how human beings construct their individual realities, and how to interact more effectively with others; in clinical hypnosis hypnotic processes are employed as agents of effective communication and change," says Dr. Yapko, who was chosen to write the sections on Treating Depression and Brief Therapy for the Encyclopedia Britannica Medical and Health Annuals. "Our knowledge of depression has greatly improved in recent years, firmly establishing the essential role of psychotherapy in treatment. Whenever psychotherapy is indicated, so are specific identifiable patterns of hypnotic influence, since the two are fundamentally inseparable."
Pre-Surgical Preparation: Numerous studies in medical journals have shown that people who prepare for surgery using hypnosis generally have fewer complications, heal faster and have less post-operative pain. Hypnosis will help you feel calm, relaxed and positive before, during and after surgery. Usually, the hypnosis therapy is geared toward making positive suggestions to your subconscious regarding your surgery and its outcome, as well as teaching you how to effectively manage pre-surgery stress.
Medical Conditions can be treated with hypnosis.
Why do medical doctors use hypnosis?
Simply because experience has taught them that some illnesses do not respond well to traditional approaches. Conditions such as chronic pain, anxiety or fears, and persistent habits may be difficult to control with medications. When medicines or surgeries fail, hypnosis can bring the mind and body together to create a powerful tool for natural and effective healing.
Why Consider Hypnosis Treatment for IBS?
by Olafur S. Palsson, Psy.D.
Hypnosis is only one of several approaches to treating irritable bowel syndrome and may not be the most suitable option for all patients. However, hypnosis treatment has some advantages which makes it a good option for many IBS sufferers with chronic and severe symptoms:
- It is one of the most successful treatment approaches for chronic IBS. The response rate to treatment is 80% and better in most published studies to date.
- The treatment often helps individuals who have failed to get improvements with other methods.
- It is a uniquely comfortable form of treatment; relaxing, easy and generally enjoyable.
- It utilizes the healing power of the person's own mind, and is generally completely without negative side effects.
- The treatment sometimes results in improvement in other symptoms or problems such as migraine or tension headaches, along with the improvement in IBS symptoms.
- The main theory behind the success of hypnosis for IBS is that the relaxation improves blood flow to the gut - something that stress tends to inhibit - and so improves digestion and the movement of food through the bowel.
Teeth Grinding
by Expert Author: Mike Kay
When you grind your teeth, it is called Bruxism. You do it because your jaw muscle is in the habit of remaining tense. Habits are unconscious patterns and because hypnosis works with your subconscious mind, it can help re-educate your brain to relax the main jaw muscle. One of the newer methods devised to treat teeth grinding is hypnosis. Psychiatrists have long used hypnosis to treat behavioral problems. Now they have found a way to make it work for teeth grinding as well. Teeth grinding can be considered as a behavioral concern, although the person who suffers from it doesn't normally realize that they are actually clenching their teeth as they sleep. Nonetheless, they are doing the action so their subconscious behavior is accountable for it.
Whether hypnosis works for teeth grinding depends upon the person. Scientifically speaking, hypnosis works by guiding you to change your behavior, teeth grinding, which is triggered by stress or other factors. When you submit to hypnosis, the hypnotist re-educates the brain and the subconscious mind. They would instruct the brain not to tighten up the jaw muscles so that teeth grinding won't occur. In response, the brain would relax the muscles of the jaws instead. With that mindset, the person would enjoy an undisturbed sleep and an eased jaw.
The following websites offer information about medical uses of hypnosis, the history of hypnosis and insights into how hypnosis works!
- The science and hype of hypnosis.
- Institute for the Study of Healthcare Organizations & Transactions
- Awesome site for the effectiveness and uses of hypnosis
- Hypnosis at the Mayo Clinic on kicking bad habits with hypnosis
- Hypnosis helps healing from Harvard University
- Insight about how hypnosis works
- A wonderful article about the NIH, National Institute of Health's position on hypnosis, not only about the way it helps cancer patients: The American Cancer Society
- A good look into the brain and hypnosis - (See article below)
This Is Your Brain Under Hypnosis
by Sandra Blakeslee
Hypnosis, with its long and checkered history in medicine and entertainment, is receiving some new respect from neuroscientists. Recent brain studies of people who are susceptible to suggestion indicate that when they act on the suggestions their brains show profound changes in how they process information. The suggestions, researchers report, literally change what people see, hear, feel and believe to be true.
The new experiments, which used brain imaging, found that people who were hypnotized "saw" colors where there were none. Others lost the ability to make simple decisions. Some people looked at common English words and thought that they were gibberish.
"The idea that perceptions can be manipulated by expectations" is fundamental to the study of cognition, said Michael I. Posner, an emeritus professor of neuroscience at the University of Oregon and expert on attention. "But now we're really getting at the mechanisms."
Even with little understanding of how it works, hypnosis has been used in medicine since the 1950's to treat pain and, more recently, as a treatment for anxiety, depression, trauma, irritable bowel syndrome and eating disorders.
There is, however, still disagreement about what exactly the hypnotic state is or, indeed, whether it is anything more than an effort to please the hypnotist or a natural form of extreme concentration where people become oblivious to their surroundings while lost in thought.
Hypnosis had a false start in the 18th century when a German physician, Dr. Franz Mesmer, devised a miraculous cure for people suffering all manner of unexplained medical problems. Amid dim lights and ethereal music played on a glass harmonica, he infused them with an invisible "magnetic fluid" that only he was able to muster. Thus mesmerized, clients were cured.
Although Dr. Mesmer was eventually discredited, he was the first person to show that the mind could be manipulated by suggestion to affect the body, historians say. This central finding was resurrected by Dr. James Braid, an English ophthalmologist who in 1842 coined the word hypnosis after the Greek word for sleep.
Braid reportedly put people into trances by staring at them intently, but he did not have a clue as to how it worked. In this vacuum, hypnosis was adopted by spiritualists and stage magicians who used dangling gold watches to induce hypnotic states in volunteers from the audience, and make them dance, sing or pretend to be someone else, only to awaken at a hand clap and laughter from the crowd.
In medical hands, hypnosis was no laughing matter. In the 19th century, physicians in India successfully used hypnosis as anesthesia , even for limb amputations. The practice fell from favor only when ether was discovered.....
...According to decades of research, 10 to 15 percent of adults are highly hypnotizable, said Dr. David Spiegel, a psychiatrist at Stanford who studies the clinical uses of hypnosis. Up to age 12, however, before top-down circuits mature, 80 to 85 percent of children are highly hypnotizable.
One adult in five is flat out resistant to hypnosis, Dr. Spiegel said. The rest are in between, he said.
In some of the most recent work, Dr. Amir Raz, an assistant professor of clinical neuroscience at Columbia, chose to study highly hypnotizable people with the help of a standard psychological test that probes conflict in the brain. As a professional magician who became a scientist to understand better the slippery nature of attention, Dr. Raz said that he "wanted to do something really impressive" that other neuroscientists could not ignore.
Past Life Regression
By Dr. Norton Berkowitz PhD
"Past Life Regression, along with Life Memory Recall© and Guided Light Therapy©, makes a powerful healing modality. One that can easily and rapidly improve and eliminate many illnesses and diseases. Our past, in this life and past lives, affects the life we are living today."
"Most of our illnesses, both physical and physiological, are brought on from incidences and trauma which occurred in our past. Once we find the problem from the past that is presently affecting us, and release it through a gentle hypnotic session(s), the illness is resolved and disappears. Does it stay away? Yes, it does."
"As an example, in a small research project with asthma, we found that asthma disappeared in 3 to 6 sessions. Peak flows would go from 200-250 with medication, to 500 and above without medication."
Depression
Depression describes a wide range of conditions ranging from feeling blue, to severe clinical depression and schizophrenia.
Hypnosis has been used successfully for treating mild depression and as a complement to medical treatment for severe depression. Often negative thoughts trigger negative emotions which then triggers negative behaviors. Hypnosis can be effective in helping to change those negative thoughts replacing them with positive ones. Hypnosis is also very effective in reducing stress which also can create feelings of depression. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis, so the negative thoughts you are thinking is a negative hypnosis you have been doing to yourself, creating negative feelings. Learning self-hypnosis techniques can empower you to change your life by changing your thoughts!
It is always important to consult with your medical doctor before using hypnosis for depression as hypnosis can be an effective part of the total treatment for depression.
June 01 2004 Clinical hypnosis can be used to treat depression:
"Dr. Michael Yapko has, for the last thirty years, specialized in the treatment of depression with clinical hypnosis. In a climate where anti-depressant medication is still physicians' first treatment choice, Dr. Yapko's approach to clinical practice still represents cutting-edge work."
"Clinical hypnosis has been directly influenced by the current push for empirically supported treatments, and in recent years substantial high-quality research has assessed the effectiveness of hypnosis and its contribution to improving therapeutic outcome. "
"There is also a growing body of evidence demonstrating that, when hypnosis is part of the treatment process, it catalyzes positive clinical outcomes and generally increases the benefits of established treatments. "
"Hypnosis offers a way to conceptualize how human beings construct their individual realities, and how to interact more effectively with others; in clinical hypnosis hypnotic processes are employed as agents of effective communication and change," says Dr. Yapko, who was chosen to write the sections on Treating Depression and Brief Therapy for the Encyclopedia Britannica Medical and Health Annuals. "Our knowledge of depression has greatly improved in recent years, firmly establishing the essential role of psychotherapy in treatment. Whenever psychotherapy is indicated, so are specific identifiable patterns of hypnotic influence, since the two are fundamentally inseparable."
Pre-Surgical Preparation: Numerous studies in medical journals have shown that people who prepare for surgery using hypnosis generally have fewer complications, heal faster and have less post-operative pain. Hypnosis will help you feel calm, relaxed and positive before, during and after surgery. Usually, the hypnosis therapy is geared toward making positive suggestions to your subconscious regarding your surgery and its outcome, as well as teaching you how to effectively manage pre-surgery stress.
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