Texoma Hypnosis Center

Have you ever had a headache while busy only to realize hours later that you had forgotten that you had a headache?

Often times people with chronic pain anticipate the upcoming bout with pain.  They spend hours, days, their entire lifetime agonizing over how they will feel in the future.  Many become depressed and quite frankly, pain has been allowed to control their lives.

By using hypnosis in order to control pain, careful consideration must be taken in order to fully assess the correct order in which the client needs help with overcoming.

I am finding that there is a simple technique that I have learned and can teach in a matter of minutes.  Building on that technique, many wonderful things can happen.  Application of an additional technique allows the person to become very loose, relaxed, and finds that once the tension is released, so much of the anticipated pain continues to go along with it.

I recently traveled to Austin Texas to learn the methods of HypnoBirthing.  I found myself learning wonderful coping skills that can be taught on a broader basis.  HypnoBirthing is moulded after Dr.Grantly Dick-Read's method of having a natural child birth.  His theory, "Fear + Tension + Pain" (Failure to Progress), is relevant in the resolution of chronic pain as well.   In my opinion, any relief that can be used effectively to aid the laboring mother, is proof enough to believe that it can be used for chronic pain.

I am finding in my practice that this is true.

Here is a link to the Toronto Daily News about using hypnosis as a means to help with pain.

http://www.torontodailynews.com/index.php/HealthNews/2007040503Hypnotism

This is excerpted from an article on a controversial case regarding placement of an african-american child with an adoptive caucasian family.  The information can prove useful.

To read the full length artiticle click here: http://education.umn.edu/ceed/publications/briefsandreports/factfind/ff1991c.htm

What are the Long-term Effects of the Attachment Relationship?

We know that the kind of attachment a child has formed by age one can predict some future behavior. Longitudinal research of a group of children for more than twelve years provides clear evidence about what these children are like at age twelve.

Interesting differences exist between children who had secure versus anxious attachments. Children with secure early attachments are more likely in later years to:

• be better problem-solvers
• form friendships and be leaders with peers - be more empathic and less aggressive
• engage their world with confidence
• have higher self-esteem
• be better at resolving conflict
• be more self-reliant and adaptable

In contrast, children with anxious attachments are more likely in later years to:

• be socially withdrawn from peers
• be overly dependent on adults, (e.g., teachers) - have lower self-confidence
• victimize or be victimized by peers
• form fewer friendships
• be less emotionally healthy

These behaviors, predicted earlier, fit theories of attachment well. Attachment theory and preliminary research also supports predictions about a person's ability to provide high or low quality parenting.

Theories of attachment related to later outcomes are, however, not cast in stone. Anxiously attached children are not doomed to fail and securely attached children are not guaranteed success. Certainly, if the quality of care is consistent (a responsive mother remains responsive or a child whose needs have been ignored continues to receive insensitive responses) the patterns will persist. However, a child's world can change; life can get better or can get worse, thereby changing the course of the child's development and ability to cope with ordinary and extraordinary stress. For example, separation from an important caregiver can influence the way a child interprets future relationships and experiences.