Marie Element DipCH MAHA (Fellow) HCA, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counsellor and EFT Practitioner.
Breast cancer takes a huge toll on a woman’s emotional and psychological health. The uncertainty of a diagnosis and punishing rounds of chemotherapy and radiation often result in chronic fatigue and anxiety. Most cancer centers provide talk therapy and more traditional forms of psychological counseling to help women in treatment manage the emotional impact of…
This article*, written by Mike Bundrant appeared in Natural News in April 2013. It describes the ways hypnosis influences the various frequency waves produced in the human brain and talks about a range of empirical evidence showing the positive physiological effects of hypnosis. The validity of therapeutic hypnosis as a complementary modality is becoming recognized,…
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…
Premature ejaculation is one of the most common sexual problems. Men with this condition may find that they cannot withhold ejaculation long enough to satisfy a sexual partner. Additionally, stress associated with this problem may make sex less enjoyable for the patients themselves. This is usually considered a lifelong problem unless adequate treatment is sought.…
How effective is Hypnosis? It’s an important question, especially for anybody considering using hypnosis to address one of the many problems where it can be of real benefit. Over the last hundred years, there has been a huge amount of research, including well designed clinical studies, provingt hypnotherapy’s efficacy. Below is a review of just…
With the risk of the federal government rescinding laws aimed at helping problem gamblers, the need for effective solutions to this problem has never been more urgent. An article, entitled Problem Gambling: Treatment Strategies and Rationale For the Use of Hypnosis as a Treatment Adjunct, published several years ago in the Australian Journal of Clinical…
Hypnosis can improve your skills and performance. Hypnosis has long been used to help athletes, musicians, performers, and others to achieve greater results by improving their skills. Henry Ford said, “If you believe you can, or believe you can’t…you’re right.” By using medical hypnosis and clinical hypnotherapy you will discover the power of mentally rehearsing…
Tim Brunson Phd, writing for the International Hypnosis Research Center, has this to say about Trichotillomania: “Trichotillomania is a learned behavior that is programmed into the patient’s brain during a period in their life when that organ does not have sufficient neo-cortical resources to understand and deal with threats. Therefore, it is somewhat of a defensive…
Hypnotizability in eating disordered populations can be viewed as a personality trait as well as ability. In addition to hypnotic performance, in the literature hypnotizability correlates with eating disorders. In eating disordered populations, bulimics are significantly more hypnotizable than anorexics; anorexics of the purging subtype generally are more hypnotizable than restricting anorexics. In one study,…
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…