HYPNOTHERAPY HYPNOSIS
Definition
“An Altered state of consciousness usually artificially induced, in which there is a focusing of attention and heightened responsiveness to suggestions and commands. Contrary to popular belief, hypnosis is not sleep but rather intense concentration, something like the familiar experience of being engrossed in a book to the extent of shutting the outside world.”
“Nursing intervention defined as assisting a patient to induce an altered state of consciousness to create accurate awareness and a direct focus experience.”
Milller-Keane encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. 2003 by Saunders.
Hypnosis is simply a trance like state that relaxes your conscious mind, the analytical part of your brain, so that the desires that you want is impressed into your subconscious mind.
At all times you are in control as your subconscious mind wants the best for you.
Maybe your desire is to loss weight for a healthier body. Your internal dialogue is saying “your fat,” or “go on, eat that piece of cake, you will feel better because it’s comfort food.”
During hypnosis the conscious mind is quietened to allow your subconscious mind to take in the information of what you really want and, that is a healthy, trim body! It’s simple and efficient and all it takes is a desire to be what you want to be!
Why make changes with hypnosis?
Simply. Hypnosis is effective simple, natural and the results have been researched. Science has proven the benefits. Medical hypnosis has been effectively use for well over 50 years.
Statistics on effectiveness of hypnosis.
• Psychoanalysis: 38% recovery after 600 sessions
• Behaviour therapy: 72% recovery after 22 sessions
• Hypnotherapy: 93% after 6 sessions
A survey of psychotherapy literature by Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D. revealed the following recovery rates: Source: American Health Magazine
87% Reported Abstinence From Tobacco Use With Hypnosis.
A field study of 93 male and 93 female CMHC outpatients examined the facilitation of smoking cessation by using hypnosis. At 3-month follow-up, 86% of the men and 87% of the women reported continued abstinence from the use of tobacco using hypnosis.
Performance by gender in a stop-smoking program combining hypnosis and aversion. Johnson DL, Karkut RT. Adkar Associates, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana. Psychol Rep. 1994 Oct;75(2):851-7. PMID: 7862796 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Hypnosis Most Effective Says Largest Study Ever: 3 Times as Effective as Patch and 15 Times as Effective as Willpower.
Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit. A meta-analysis, statistically combining results of more than 600 studies of 72,000 people from America and Europe to compare various methods of quitting. On average, hypnosis was over three times as effective as nicotine replacement methods and 15 times as effective as trying to quit alone.
University of Iowa, Journal of Applied Psychology, How One in Five Give Up Smoking. October 1992. (Also New Scientist, October 10, 1992.)
Hypnosis can more than double the effects of traditional weight loss approaches.
An analysis of five weight loss studies reported in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology in 1996 showed that the “… weight loss reported in the five studies indicates that hypnosis can more than double the effects” of traditional weight loss approaches.
University of Connecticut, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology in 1996 (Vol. 64, No. 3, pgs 517-519).
Significantly More Methadone Addicts Quit with Hypnosis.
94% Remained Narcotic Free Significant differences were found on all measures. The experimental group had significantly less discomfort and illicit drug use, and a significantly greater amount of cessation. At six month follow up, 94% of the subjects in the experimental group who had achieved cessation remained narcotic free. A comparative study of hypnotherapy and psychotherapy in the treatment of methadone addicts.
Manganiello AJ, American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 1984; 26(4): 273-9.
Two studies from Harvard Medical School show hypnosis significantly reduces the time it takes to heal.
Healed 41% faster from fracture.
Study One: Six weeks after an ankle fracture, those in the hypnosis group showed the equivalent of eight and a half weeks of healing.
Healed significantly faster from surgery.
Study Two: Three groups of people studied after breast reduction surgery. Hypnosis group healed “significantly faster” than supportive attention group and control group.
Harvard Medical School, Carol Ginandes and Union Institute in Cincinnati, Patricia Brooks, Harvard University Gazette Online at http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/05.08/01-hypnosis.html.