Marie Element DipCH MAHA (Fellow) HCA, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counsellor and EFT Practitioner.
Breast cancer surgery is associated with side effects, including postsurgical pain, nausea, and fatigue. In this study, a randomized clinical trial involving 200 patients undergoing breast surgery tested the hypotheses that a brief presurgery hypnosis intervention would decrease intraoperative anesthesia and analgesic use and side effects associated with breast cancer surgery and that it would…
Research has shown that fertility can be affected by mind-body therapies such as hypnosis. Dr. Ernest Rossi, who specialises in psychobiology, the relationship between mind and psychical body states, has done extensive research which suggest that human genes must be in a state of readiness for conception to take place, and that hypnotic type suggestions…
This study*, published the medical journal Lancet in 2000, explored how hypnosis used in preparation for surgery might affect outcomes, in particular subsequent pain and anxiety levels. As you can see from the graphs, the results were dramatic to say the least. Where hypnosis was used, patients were far less anxious and experienced far less…
Within the realm of medicine, the method of hypnoanalgesia can be adapted for various situations. In most cases, the intervention consists of four main stages (Chaves, 1994). The first stage involves preparation of the patient. As can be expected, most patients come into hypnosis with various expectations. In order to obtain the maximum gain, the…
Irritable Bowel Syndrome, (IBS) is, according to Peter Whorwell, Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterology in the University’s Medical School and Director of the South Manchester Functional Bowel Service, “ideal for treatment with hypnosis, as there is no structural damage to the body. During the hypnotherapy, sufferers learn how to influence and gain control of their gut…
In this remarkable article published by the Harvard Medical School, the way in which our skin often reflects our emotional state is explored. Blushing is shown as an example of how this connection between our emotions and our skin exists. This link has proven to be so strong that it has led to a new…
Allergic or hypersensitivity reactions usually are not believed to be psychosomatic and thus are generally considered as unable to be influenced by suggestion. These highly complex reactions involve IgE antibodies, activation of mast cells and basophils, and release of chemical mediators of inflammatory and immune responses. Some early literature suggested that many allergies might have an emotional basis and thus be treatable…
What is Vaginismus? Vaginismus is a fairly common problem in which the muscles at the entrance to the vagina tighten-up and make penetration almost impossible and certainly painful. Medical Research records that is almost invariably (but not in all cases, there are physical causes too) due to psychological issues, often occurring after some sort of…
In dermatology, hypnosis may help decrease pain and pruritus in the skin; intervene in psychosomatic aspects of skin diseases; and lead to the resolution of some skin diseases, including verruca vulgaris. Suggestion without formal trance induction may be effective in some cases. Sulzberger and Wolf reported on the use of suggestion to treat verrucae. Hypnosis can…
Doctors and scientists from all over the world are proving the effectiveness of hypnosis for fertility and other reproductive challenges. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) –Women who are hypnotized before undergoing the transfer of an embryo by in-vitro fertilization (IVF), may be more likely to become pregnant, Israeli researchers report. Dr. Eliahu Levitas of Soroka University Medical Center…