I believe that one of the obstacles to healing is the sense of helplessness and disempowerment we experience when it comes to physical ailments. We feel we need to take something or have a specialist heal our bodies for us. We’ve been trained since early childhood that the doctor or the medication will make it […]
Is Hypnosis a Placebo?
When people hear about medical hypnosis, they often ask “Is hypnosis is a placebo?” Well, yes and no. The History of Placebo Placebos are assumed by many as ‘fake’ medicine. It can trace its poor reputation back to Franz Anton Mesmer in the late 1700’s. He used trance and magnetism to successfully cure his patients […]
Is there an Initial Sensitizing Event in Chronic Disease?
Many practitioners of hypnotherapy wonder is the cause of chronic disease is in an initial sensitizing event (ISE)? As practitioners, do we just search for it and heal that? Well… sometimes there is, and sometimes there isn’t… and sometimes that’s only one part of what created the mental patterns behind the disease…. So what causes […]
Stop! Pain is Not the Problem
What do you do when a client comes into your office with pain and wants you to get rid of it? Teach them self hypnosis so they can imagine transferring numbness using the “hand in a bucket of ice” technique to the pain area Create a hypnosis recording that dissolves the pain and have them […]
The Psychosocial Factors behind Chronic Disease
The two principal factors in the onset, progression, and recurrence of disease are the physical and the psychosocial factors. The physical factors have been the main focus of modern medicine. The psychosocial factors are not directly addressed by medicine, yet their influence on disease cannot be ignored. Research has now over a century of studies […]