Marie Element DipCH MAHA (Fellow) HCA, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counsellor and EFT Practitioner.
Driving anxiety is a very common form of anxiety that can range in severity from a hesitation to drive, where anxiety is always present, all the way up to a total refusal to drive at all, in which case it becomes driving phobia. A phobia is a fear that is paralyzing but irrational. Driving phobia…
Health anxiety refers to the experience of thinking that there may be a threat to your health, which consequently triggers your health anxiety response. While we may think and worry about any number of health related issues, some of the more common health anxietyrelated fears include having or developing cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, a mental illness…
In a randomized controlled trial testing the use of hypnosis as a sole treatment for social phobia. In early attempts to view the potential of hypnosis to treat social anxiety, Stanton [65] randomized 60 adults seeking help for handling their anxiety. Anxiety levels were assessed by the Willoughby Questionnaire. The author compared a hypnotic procedure consisting of positive suggestions…
The physical symptoms of anxiety and stress can be quite detrimental to one’s health. Unfortunately, many people may be so stressed that they do not realize the extent of it or the impact the stress and anxiety is having on their health. In some cases, the more stress or anxiety an individual experiences the less…
As we can see below, Hypnotherapy, or hypnosis, is a well researched, safe, side effect free way of treating Bulimia Nervosa. Griffiths treated bulimic patients with 4 weeks of behavioral therapy highlighting self-monitoring to establish healthy eating patterns, followed by 4 weeks of hypnotherapy to enhance self-control of bingeing and vomiting episodes. There was a…
Hypnotherapy or hypnosis has a long and successful history in treating anorexia nervosa. According to Baker and Nash (1987) and Nash and Baker (1993) hypnosis was introduced to anorectic patients as a means of gaining enhanced self-control associated with various opportunities for increased security and mastery. The induction techniques used were structured and permissive. Hypnotic…
Imagine all that goes into a great golf shot; how you stand with your feet a certain distance apart, how you pivot your foot, turn your hips, the angle of the club, where you focus your eyes, the length of arm extension and the arc of the swing, and finally the moment the club makes contact…
In an article in the IAIABC Journal Michael Ellner and Robert Aurbach report: “Hypnosis is an excellent intervention tool for the treatment of injured and ill workers with respect to learned helplessness, disability behavior and many of the physical and emotional symptoms experienced by injured workers. Assistance with stress and coping with external stressors, chronic…
Hypnosis for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has been studied extensively. A 1984 study in England showed significant benefits from hypnosis. Thirty patients with refractory IBS and severe symptoms were randomly assigned to 7 individual sessions of hypnotherapy or psychotherapy plus placebo pills. Although the psychotherapy group showed a small but significant improvement in some characteristics,…
The 1988 report of the US Surgeon General identified cigarette smoking as nicotine addiction. · The UK Royal College of Physicians also concluded that “nicotine is an addictive drug on par with heroin and cocaine, and that the primary purpose of smoking tobacco is to deliver a dose of nicotine rapidly to the brain.” * The…