Using hypnosis to effectively control chronic pain.
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.
Hypnobirthing is very effective for pain management during the birthing process.
HypnoBirthing® - The Mongan Method, is a unique method of relaxed, natural childbirth education, enhanced by hypnosis techniques, providing the missing link, that allows women to use their natural instincts to bring about a safer, easier, more comfortable birthing in a way that most mirrors nature. Emphasis is placed on both pregnancy and childbirth as well as on HypnoBirthing®. As a birthing method, HypnoBirthing® is as new as tomorrow and as old as ancient times.
I am attending the annual Hypnobirthing conclave this October in Austin. I will return certified to teach this beautiful class as well as have other certifications. I am very excited!
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hypnosis for pain relief
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
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Cystic fibrosis can be managed through self-hypnosis
Here is a link to an article that describes how cystic fibrosis may be controlled using self-hypnosis
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/76501377/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
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Long term studies about care given in first year
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.
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Why the concern about children?
As both a mother an a hypnotist I see the need for a strong attachment for infants and later on, children. Many issues that I face as a hypnotist are rooted in the care someone recieves within the first few years of life. Often the situation has happened before they were later conscious of the memory and sometimes with no realization from the person causing the event. My goal is to educate so that the number of people seeking counseling, hypnosis, or a combination of both is decreased. This is not to say that I would like to see fewer people get help for the problems that they face because proper mental health is important. However, it would be wonderful if we could as a society do certain things to chidren in their infancy as well as early childhood to ensure that these little people grow up to be very strong adults. My focus on the last few blogs has focused on the "cry it out theory". There are many other factors in raising a sucessful child. Postitive talk is another important factor in raising a child. Always telling your child (and showing it) that you love them and you are always there for them is very important. Everything said to the child until around age 8 goes in to the subconscious. A child constantly told that they are very smart, brilliant, wonderful, and loved will function much more effectively and test higher than a child told that they are stupid, an idiot, hated or told that it was wished that they were never born. A child will only suceed to the level of achievement set forth for them. A wonderful example that I can state off of the top of my head is a wonderful little boy who has constantly been told how smart he is. His mother worked with him to help him learn to read (before school began) and spent massive amounts of quality time with him to ensure his learning was sucessful. He has recently been accepted to the school gifted and talented program. Having known both parents and their intellectual capacities, genetics alone could forsee this happening. However, should he have been raised to believe that he were not worth anything, not loved, not hugged, not read to, etc... his outcome would be different.
Please keep in mind that all child rearing theories are not absolute. I focus on the attachment parenting because again, I have seen people for problems and phobias rooted in infancy.
Another wonderful thing to do for your children is to talk to them in their sleep. It is reported that Tiger Wood's parents spoke to him while he was sleeping. They told him that he could do whatever he wanted in life and be the best at it. Did he live up to what they told him? Everything said to your beautiful beloved child in their sleep goes directly in the subconscious. Your child feeling anxiety about a test? Tell them in their sleep how smart they are and how easy the test will be. Read some of the material they are to be tested on to them. A collegue of mine did this and had great sucess with his children. He told stories of reading algebraic equasions to his children in their sleep.
The main concern with raising a child is to see that they get encouragement, praise, and most importantly, love.
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