Hypnosis has been shown to be an effective method for controlling cancer pain. The techniques most often employed involved physical relaxation coupled with imagery that provides a substitute focus of attention for the painful sensation. !0-years follow-up of a randomised trial involving 86 women with cancer showed that a year of weekly “supportive/expressive” group therapy significantly increased survival duration and time from recurrence to death.  This intervention encourages patients to express and deal with strong emotions and also focuses on clarifying doctor-patient communication. Numerous studies suggest that suppression of negative effect, excessive conformity, severe stress, and lack of social support predict a poorer medical outcome from cancer.

Self-defeating eating has negative effects on the lives of a large number of people in western world. In Australia, obesity and overweight is on the rise, affecting twenty-five percent of children, and between thirty and fifty percent of adults. Both dietary restriction and over-indulgence in high fat, calorie laden foods with little nutrient value have a large negative impact on health of at least one half of the western world. Treatment options are inadequate, in terms of availability and efficacy. Of the programs currently available, cognitive behavioural techniques have the best empirical record and it appears that hypnosis may prove a useful adjunct to the treatment program.

Hypnosis is associated with the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for two reasons: (1) the similarity between hypnotic phenomena and the symptoms of PTSD, and (2) the utility of hypnosis as a tool of treatment. Hypnosis provides controlled access to memories that may otherwise be kept out of consciousness. New uses hypnosis in the psychotherapy of PTSD victims involve coupling access to the dissociated traumatic memories with positive restructuring of those memories. Hypnosis can be used to help patients face and bear a traumatic experience by embedding it in a new context, acknowledging helplessness during the event, and yet linking that experience with demoralizing memories such as effort at self-protection, shared affection with friends who were killed, or the ability to control the environment at other times. In this way, hypnosis can be used to provide controlled access to memories that are then placed into a broader perspective.

A way to put a person in a hypnotized state is through induction, a deeply relaxing and beneficial state to anyone suffering from anxiety. Next, the hypnotherapist will use suggestions for relaxation, such as feeling restful heaviness in the body or the use of imagination.

The ability for a patient to become hypnotized depends on “hypnotizability”—which refers to how hypnotized a person can be. Absorption and “belief” in hypnosis are related to the amount of resistance the person may experience, and how beneficial the hypnosis session will be.

Some people are naturally more hypnotizable than others. Research has found evidence that the ability to be hypnotized is linked with different traits and abilities. For example, people who tend to get more absorbed in their thoughts are more likely to be hypnotizable. Other studies have shown that imagination also plays a role.

Ultimately, those who are more hypnotizable have more efficient use of cognitive resources.

Studies have shown that hypnosis may be related to better concentration and a more efficient use of cognitive resources when dealing with information.

The use of hypnosis with athletes is well- represented in literature. However.,

Much of the existing functionality of hypnotherapy in sports is geared toward performance enhancement of aspects of performance. The use of hypnosis in dealing with develop mental and identity issues of athletes has been minimally represented in the existing literature. Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy (HCH) is a model which utilises the hypnotic process while expanding the focus to address the growth, healing, and transformation of mind, body, emotion, and spirit.


 

Smoking cessation is probably the most frequent reason for consulting a hypnotherapist. Many approaches exist and research identified some of the factors pertinent to success.

Many hypnotherapists in private practice deal with clients trying to overcome their addiction to smoke tobacco products. Methods vary considerably, ranging from the use of direct suggestion hypnotherapy by repetition through to hypnotherapy combined with cognitive behavioural theory.

 

Despite advances in molecular biology and therapeutics, cancer continues to be a major source of morbidity and mortality. The diagnosis and treatment are often stressful, and high levels of psychological and psychiatric disorders have been reported consistently over the last 20 years. However, there is evidence that much of this distress is preventable by providing a support service that is open-access and fully integrated functionally and geographically with other parts of cancer services. One study has a proven evidence that relaxation therapy, guided imaginary and hypnotherapy can be very beneficial in helping patients cope with the diagnosis and treatment. Intriguingly, there is some evidence that they may prolong life, although further studies are required to clarify this. In the meantime, however, it is clear that much can be done to prevent, as well as treat, cancer-related problems.

Helping a client to stop smoking is one of the most difficult challenges for a hypnotherapist. In some cases, an ego state therapeutic structured method should be applied to assist in smoking cessation. Every time a client comes to a hypnotherapist to stop smoking there is at least one ego state wanting to quit, and one ego state wanting to smoke, otherwise the client would be happy either smoking or not smoking.  An internal dissent exists among the states. The goal of the hypnotherapist is to empower the states that can assist the client in not smoking, while at the same time give new roles and meanings to the states that had previously smoked. In this manner, the client can achieve an internal peace in relation to being a non-smoker.

Hypnosis and hypnotherapy in handling Unfinished business in Bereavement.

For many years hypnosis and hypnotherapy are used to help people to overcome their grief and sorrow triggered by the loss of their loved ones.

Kim suffered from complicated bereavement due to her husband’s sudden death in a traffic accident and her mother’s suicide a within a few months. Hypnosis was used with deep relaxation and grief psychotherapy to achieve imaginative involvement, subjective reality, and constrictive memory to help her to complete the unfinished business. After only two hypnotic sessions, there was significant improvement in her emotional distress and fixation. On the grief journey, Kim was able to achieve a psychological closure to the multiple losses. She learned to let go of sorrow and to divert energy to other positive life aspects. (Ho, Salina. Nov.2007)

There are more and more medical institutions and private practises around the world apply hypnosis and hypnotherapy to help its patients to fight their unhealthy habits- “HaysMed, part of The University of Kansas Health System, will offer hypnotherapy programs aimed at tobacco cessation and weight release starting in January.

Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation, intense concentration and focused attention to achieve a heighten state of awareness. In this naturally occurring state, a person may focus his or her attention, with the help of a trained profession, on specific thoughts or tasks such as quitting tobacco or releasing weight.” (Hays Post, 2017)

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