Literature Review of the Evidence-base for the Effectiveness of Hypnotherapy for Chronic Pain and Anxiety
A stronger evidence base for hypnotherapy has developed over the past decade
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Hypnosis for Obesity
Hypnosis can help you understand unconscious barriers to weight loss and enhance your chances of success via a variety of types of positive suggestion
The Science Behind Hypnosis
Earlier this year a study was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology (published under the American Psychological Association) that found hypnosis can have profound effects on executive function – the cognitive processes that regulate our goals as well as the thought processes and actions oriented towards achieving those goals… Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence in…
Hypnotherapy for Hair Pulling
Recent research in Israel confirms that hypnotherapy is a highly effective, side effect free way of helping the sufferer to stop the behavior. You can read here a recent paper that describes three case studies where trichotillomania was effectively treated with hypnosis. At my practice in Highgate Hill in Brisbane I often see young people…
Hypnotherapy in The Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety occurs in modern societies in almost epidemic numbers. One of the great problems in addressing this is that many of the stressors we encounter in everyday life realistically either cannot be removed, or would require making major, often unacceptable, changes in our lifestyle. An example of this is worrying about losing our jobs to…
Hypnosis for Pain Management
“The empirical support for hypnosis for chronic pain management has flourished over the past two decades. Clinical trials show that hypnosis is effective for reducing chronic pain, although outcomes vary between individuals. The findings from these clinical trials also show that hypnotic treatments have a number of positive effects beyond pain control. Neurophysiological studies reveal…
Foods that Harm our Health
Here is a very good article that explains in a way that you don’t need to be a chemist to understand, the link between certain foods and cancer risk. What I found really disturbing is how food manufacturers use tricks to enable them to poison us without our knowing about it. Well worth a read.…
The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma
“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 Performance Excellence
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…
Tapping – It Changes the Brain
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…