Marie Element DipCH MAHA (Fellow) HCA, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counsellor and EFT Practitioner.
“A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity,”William James asserted in his revolutionary 1884 theory of how our bodies affect our feelings. Two generations later, Rilke wrote in a beautiful letter of advice to a young woman: “I am not one of those who neglect the body in order to make of it a sacrificial offering for the…
Hypnotherapy for Sports Excellence, as the name suggests, is simply hypnotism directed towards improving sports performance. It’s used by all levels of sportspeople, from amateurs to top level professionals, and it’s successfully used to get better results in just about every type of sport. But how does hypnosis, which is concerned with the mind, help…
I thought I would share with you an email I received recently, which – very exciting – explains how brain imaging techniques have shown that (EFT) Tapping actually changes the brain. We’ve known for a long time that Tapping is highly effective. We’re now a major step closer to understanding the exact process, thanks to work being…
Huffington Post has a report of huge meta study covering 70,000 patients world wide, conducted by Australian researchers, It shows that moderate exercise reduced cancer-specific mortality by up to 44 percent, all-cause mortality by up to 48 percent and cancer recurrence by up to 35 percent. This is both remarkable and exciting. Here we have a low…
Scienmag is reporting that a new study by researchers at UCLA has revealed two key findings for people with irritable bowel syndrome about the relationship between the microorganisms that live in the gut and the brain. For people with IBS research shows for the first time that there is an association between the gut microbiota…
Here ** is a link to a study of using Hypnosis with Children that describes the long history of using hypnosis to achieve highly successful outcomes with children. Kids today really have a lot to deal with. There are pressures to perform at school, in after school activities such as sports and arts, in the area of…
* Gerrard Sunnan MD has written an extremely comprehensive paper covering various aspects of how the mind relates to skin health and how hypnosis can help with skin disorders. . . Psyche and skin are connected, and in this relationship, mental stressors can aggravate and even give rise to skin pathologies. On the other…
Here is an extract from an article published by Olafur S. Palsson, Psy.D. Associate Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill, explaining why hypnosis is so effective in the treatment of even long standing gut pain problems. [1]. . . In recent years, the effects of gastrointestinal functioning and GI symptoms have been studied extensively.…
Here is an abstract describing a study published in the International Journal of Obesity Related Metabolic Disorders showing how effective hypnotherapy is in supporting and maintaining weight loss efforts. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 1998 Mar;22(3):278-81. Controlled trial of hypnotherapy for weight loss in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea. Stradling J1, Roberts D, Wilson A, Lovelock…
Here is an excerpt from an article published in ACTA Paediatrica Hypnotherapy: an effective treatment modality for trichotillomania* This study describes a non-pharmacological treatment modality for children with trichotillomania. Three children with trichotillomania were treated using a hypnotherapy technique. All patients were observed in the outpatient clinic for 8 consecutive weeks and subsequently followed for…