Hypnosis for Stress, Anxiety and Worry
Anxiety and Stress Relief You can activate the body’s natural healing ability and re-program your subconscious mind by utilizing the tools and technology of clinical hypnotherapy, one of the fastest growing fields that facilitates and promotes human change and improvement, and enhances control, over perceptions such as pain, anxiety, habits, and stress. The objective of hypnotherapy is to help patients unlock “the most powerful pharmacy of all: our own nervous systems.”
Hypnotherapy teaches people how to control their own minds, so as to give their bodies some calm and peace. It is the most powerful self-help tool known to humanity. Hypnosis is just a natural state of deep relaxation, not unlike meditation or savasana at the end of a yoga class. Hypnotherapy is a tool set for breaking cognitive and emotional cycles, and retraining the mind to create health and well-being.
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RESEARCH
HYPNOSIS AS MENTAL HEALTH THERAPY
Harvard Medical School’s – Mental Health Newsletter
“Hypnosis also helps to alleviate anxiety. It has been studied most as a treatment for anxiety related to surgery. Many studies have reported that hypnosis reduced anxiety levels and lowered blood pressure in patients before surgery, and enhanced recovery afterward by shortening hospital stays and reducing complications like nausea and vomiting.
“In a 2006 study, for example, patients who underwent hypnosis received suggestions of well-being before surgery. Upon entering the operating room, they reported anxiety levels 56% lower than anxiety levels before hypnosis. Patients in a comparison group, who received the normal presurgical standard of care, reported a 47% increase in anxiety.”
HYPNOSIS IN THE TREATMENT OF ANXIETY
National Institutes for Health (NIH)
“Hypnotherapy and training in self-hypnosis can help persons achieve remarkable success in alleviating anxiety, not only in anxiety disorders, but also in any problem involving anxiety.
“The author describes the role of hypnosis in the treatment of several disorders and provides clinical examples illustrating treatment of generalized anxiety, phobias, and posttraumatic stress disorders.
“He concludes that because hypnosis exploits the intimate connection between mind and body, it provides relief through improved self-regulation and also beneficially affects cognition and the experience of self-mastery.”
HYPNOSIS IN THE TREATMENT OF ANXIETY AND STRESS RELATED DISORDERS
National Institutes for Health (NIH)
“Self-hypnosis training represents a rapid, cost-effective, nonaddictive and safe alternative to medication for the treatment of anxiety-related conditions.
“Here we provide a review of the experimental literature on the use of self-hypnosis in the treatment of anxiety and stress-related disorders, including anxiety associated with cancer, surgery, burns and medical/dental procedures.
“An overview of research is also provided with regard to self-hypnotic treatment of anxiety-related disorders, such as tension headaches, migraines and irritable bowel syndrome. The tremendous volume of research provides compelling evidence that hypnosis is an efficacious treatment for state anxiety (e.g., prior to tests, surgery and medical procedures) and anxiety-related disorders, such as headaches and irritable bowel syndrome.”
HYPNOSIS TODAY
Monitor on Psychology
A monthly publication of the American Psychological Association
“Hypnosis continues to show promise in reducing pain and soothing anxiety.
“A growing body of scientific research supports hypnosis’ benefits in treating a wide range of conditions, including pain, depression, anxiety and phobias.
“Hypnosis works and the empirical support is unequivocal in that regard. It really does help people,” says Michael Yapko, PhD, a psychologist and fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.
QUOTES FROM LEADING MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS & PSCHOLOGISTS
“I found that many complaints – smoking, overeating, test anxiety, public speaking phobia, and chronic physical pain – responded more dramatically to hypnosis than to other forms of psychotherapy I was using.”
Dr. Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D., Psychologist
Faculty at Harvard Medical School
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“I’ve recommended hypnotherapy to help ease chronic pain, lessen the side effects of chemotherapy, alleviate symptoms of autoimmune disease, and counteract anxiety and sleep disorders.
“Hypnotherapy can also be used to improve performance skills, as a form of analgesia or sedation for medical and dental procedures – even to stop hemorrhaging in accident victims.
“In general, I believe that no condition is out of bounds for trying hypnotherapy on.”
Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Director Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the
University of Arizona College of Medicine
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“People think hypnosis is a means of taking away control, but it is actually a means of enhancing control, over perceptions such as pain, anxiety, habits, stress. I teach my patients to use it for themselves to address the problem they are dealing with. It is a powerful treatment extender.”
Dr. David Spiegel, M.D.
Medical Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at
Stanford University School of Medicine
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“The critical mind part of us is often formed at a young age without adult wisdom and maturity. Therefore, many things that we might think about ourselves could be long outdated and based on outdated childhood thinking.
“After the critical filter is softened, suggestions are given to the client, guiding them to focus on positive input and their desired outcome. This ”rewires” their thinking and subsequent behavior which becomes automatically driven by the subconscious mind after the hypnosis session is over.
“The old thinking patterns are updated with new information, with the wisdom and intellect of our sensible adult reasoning mind. Therefore old, limiting beliefs and habits are replaced with new positive and healthy beliefs and habits.”
Dr. Clifford N. Lazarus, Ph.D., Psychologist
writing for Psychology Today
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“Clinical hypnosis can be utilized as a powerful adjunct for the treatment of mind-body conditions, including cancer.
“Unlike customary medical regimens that treat diseases of the body and psychotherapies that address disorders of the psyche, hypnosis is a uniquely customizable multi-tool that can augment the treatment of both physical and emotional disorders as well as their complex interactions.”
Dr. Carol Ginandes
Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School
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