Hypnotherapy Treatments Today

Researchers from Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester have found that hypnotherapy can be used to effectively treat irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in 70 per cent of cases.

Irritable bowel syndrome is a functional bowel disorder, which causes abdominal pain, and in some cases, fever, diarrhoea, bloating, constipation and nausea. It is a common ailment, which is thought to affect one in three people at some point in their lives.

The causes of irritable bowel syndrome are unknown, particularly as IBS sufferers show no physical abnormalities in the bowel. Because of this, many specialists believe that stress is a major factor in causing this painful bowel disorder.
Currently, a hypnotherapist at the Manchester hospital is treating more than 60 irritable bowel syndrome sufferers every week. Patients are coming from locations throughout the country to experience this cutting-edge course of 12 hypnotherapy treatments, which means the hospital now has an 18-month waiting list.

Pamela Cruickshanks, who is one of Wythenshawe Hospital’s three clinical hypnotherapists, explains how the treatment works. She said: “We provide patients with 12 sessions of ‘gut-directed hypnotherapy’, which teach patients to take control over their bowel. Due to the success of this treatment, patients are coming from all over the country to access our services, and hypnosis is now considered to be the treatment of choice for moderate to severe IBS.”

One irritable bowel syndrome sufferer from Manchester, Claire Brunton, suffered from painful cramps and other symptoms of the bowel disorder so badly that she stopped wanting to eat, which left her on the verge of anorexia. She also started to suffer from terrifying panic attacks because she was worrying so much about getting ill.

However, as a result of Wythenshawe hospital’s revolutionary hypnotherapy programme, she has learnt some great techniques to stop her panic attacks, control her symptoms and help to cope with the pain. While her illness had once held her back in life, the hypnotherapy treatments have helped her to cope with the stress of her final university exams, as well as giving her enough confidence to enter the world of work and begin a new job as a recruitment consultant.

Claire was quick to praise Wythenshawe Hospital’s hypnotherapy treatment for IBS, she said: “Hypnotherapy is a very strange thing to try to describe, your therapist helps you to relax slowly but you are awake and conscious throughout - it feels like the last few moments before you go to sleep when you still know what is happening around you.”

Before embarking on this treatment, Claire had tried a number of other IBS therapies to no avail. She explained: “IBS was taking over my life. I had started to worry I would not be able to hold down a job and I didn’t want to eat because I felt like everything I ate made me sick, so I’d tried all kinds of herbal remedies and acupuncture before the hypnotherapy.”

As well as having hypnotherapy, Claire was also given a number of blood tests at the hospital that showed she was allergic to dairy and wheat products. She now avoids these foods and finds that her symptoms have eased a great deal.

Source:
Manchester Evening News

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Samantha Srillian is a freelance writer, as well as a naturally gifted psychic medium and tarot card reader. She is interested in alternative therapies, angels and spiritual healing.

Stress, in the form of pressure, can be useful. It can focus the mind, improve motivation and, ultimately, lead to goal attainment. In this positive light it tends to be referred to as ‘ustress’. But, excessive pressure over prolonged periods of time can lead to feelings of distress.

Stress can be result from any number and combination of sources such as work demands, insecurities, change and uncertainties, long-term pain or ill-health, family expectations and financial concerns.

No one person’s cause is quite the same as the next. People interpret and react to things differently; what one person might consider an exciting challenge, another might find altogether overwhelming. Whether a person will react negatively or not to specific situations, people or events, depends largely upon their life experiences; what has happened to them in the past, how they have interpreted those events, and, most importantly of all, the nature of the emotions around the stored memories of those events.

Too much stress experienced over prolonged periods of time can be damaging both physiologically and psychologically. Individual’s body responses to stress (the fight and flight response) tend to vary, but typically people are left feeling physically tense, unable to sleep, out of control, feeling helpless, unable to cope and vulnerable to ill-health. Often emotions, perceptions of self-confidence and feelings of self-worth are also negatively affected, ultimately influencing choices and behaviour.

Christine Woolfenden DCH DHP reg. GHR, clinical hypnotherapist of Echelon Associates Hypnotherapy Practice (Charlbury, Oxfordshire) offers a holistic approach to helping individuals manage stress more effectively; the Stress Hypnotherapy Treatment Programme.

At the outset, the individual’s unique situation is assessed to identify and explore the causes, symptoms and triggers of stress as they are experienced. The physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioural ramifications of that stress are investigated in depth.

The Stress Hypnotherapy Treatment Programme employs deep relaxation hypnosis to lower the physical stress response and counteract the damaging side effects of stress, easing away tension to allow the body the opportunity to rest and repair and so operate optimally. By anchoring the physical and psychological sensations of deep relaxation, people are taught how to re-create those feelings whenever desirable or necessary. Direct positive suggestion and post hypnotic suggestion are used to re-educate the cognitive response to stress, and to instil alternative, more effective ways of dealing with specific stressors as they arise, so extending the ustress comfort zone.

Memories from the past that are interfering with the present are re-visited and re-framed so that the emotional and cognitive influence on the present and future are de-sensitised.

The Stress Hypnotherapy Treatment Programme also applies techniques such as mental rehearsal, creative imagery, future pacing and pseudo-orientation in time to reduce stress, build confidence and boost self-esteem.

At Echelon Associates, Christine Woolfenden www.echelonassociates.co.uk offers a Stress Hypnotherapy treatment programme to promote positive physical and psychological change in response to perceived stress in an individual’s life.

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Christine Woolfenden DCH DHP reg GHR www.echelonassociates.co.uk

Modern day use of hypnosis, or hypnotherapy, has become a popular method for people seeking to improve their lives. Hypnosis offers people the opportunity to try and eliminate bad habits and improve things like their confidence, memory, and even their athletic skills.

One of the best ways that people can use the positive effects of hypnosis to their advantage is to get rid of bad habits, especially those that can affect your health.

Hypnotherapy has been used as an effective way to treat people who are trying to quit smoking. Many experts agree that hypnosis is a superior way to attempt this, because it doesn’t require the use of any medications.

Hypnosis can also be effective for people who are trying to quit smoking without the negative effects of withdrawal or weight gain that can accompany smoking cessation attempts.

Eliminating stress is another way that hypnosis can have a healthy, positive effect. Stress is a common issue among many people, and when it’s severe, it can cause serious mental and physical problems. Hypnotherapy is an option for people looking to break the habits that cause stress in their lives.

Another important issue plaguing people today is the challenge of losing weight. Again, hypnosis has been used widely and effectively to help people manage their weight, learn to focus on and reevaluate their eating habits, and take control of their weight management.

Beyond helping individuals with their bad habits, hypnosis can help to enhance people’s natural abilities. For instance, for those looking to boost their memory, hypnotherapy can be a great option to increase focus and retain information.

For people who want to increase their athletic ability, hypnosis can help you get “in the zone” for focus-based sports. It can also be a great help to endurance athletes that may need help when they “hit the wall.”

For people who are concerned about being dependent upon hypnotists for treatment, there are other options. Self-hypnosis is a great option for people who want to be in complete control of their own hypnotherapy treatment.

Self-hypnosis involves having a trained hypnotist give you the tools to be able to put yourself into hypnosis on your own. This means that when you need to focus, relax, concentrate, or be your absolute best at whatever your goal is, you can do it all on your own.

Hypnosis can be a very effective method for people looking to improve or enhance almost any aspect of their lives. When considering hypnosis or hypnotherapy as an option, make sure you do your research. Hypnosis has become such a popular treatment that you should have no problem finding plenty of good information on the Web.

Also, be sure to check that the hypnotherapy group or individual you choose offers plenty of information and are reputable. Another thing to look for is client testimonials and a money-back guarantee.

Testimonials can give you an idea of how other people responded to hypnosis and a solid guarantee can ease any worries you may have.

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Wendy Moyer writes for search engine marketing company AuthorityDomains.com. BeHyp offers hypnosis and hypnotherapy to individuals looking to quit smoking, lose weight and learn self hypnosis to improve their lives

Hypnotherapy means treating of your unconscious mind or partially sleeping mind. It happens by accessing the mind when it is in unconscious state. Other therapies and counseling will take time to get the result but in case of hypnotherapy treatment you will get the positive result immediately.

Hypnotherapy helps in lose weight, stop smoking, removing of fears and phobias, getting self-confidants and positive attitude and much more. If you want to reduce your weight or want to be slim then take hypnotherapy you will get the result as fast as you need. This therapy treatment will prepare you to lose your weight. Without dieting you can lose your weight. You can enjoy your food and exercise.

If you are a chain smoker or a smoker and want to stop your smoking habit then hypnotherapy will help you. Once you took the decision to stop your smoking habit then this treatment makes your decision easier. Therapy allows you to think the side effects of smoking and enables you to think like a non-smoker thus you can enjoy the life as a non-smoker.

Hypnotherapy also helps you to recover your confidants, determination and motivation. With all these you can achieve a higher position in your life. You can avoid the fear to face the public and can speak to public with confidants and present in seminars or any public parties. Thus you can make your success in your life.

There are lots of hypnotherapy centers and therapists in London. You go only for registered London therapist. Because they can help you more and they are the real therapists.

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It is very well known that stopping smoking tobacco products and remaining as a non smoker is a severely laborious undertaking - physically managing to break the repeated pattern of lighting cigarette after cigarette is a very tough thing to manage and requires a tremendous amount of willpower.

When an individual is addicted to the nicotine from smoking, they become dependent into different and distinct ways - Psychologically as well as Physically. The physical dependency embodies your bodys craving for nicotine. Once you start craving for nicotine your body begins to experience symptoms of withdrawal, sometimes this can make you feel lit is becoming an insurmountable undertaking to convert into a person who doesn’t smoke tobacco. Hypnosis may assist you with these symptoms in two different styles -The first thing it can achieve is it can serve to assure your brain that it does not crave an intake of nicotine from a cigarette. This of course will help but occasionally you may still be experiencing occasional nicotine cravings - The hypnotherapy treatment sessions will give you techniques to aid relaxation as well , these techniques will help fight against the craving for nicotine and the feeling of depression it can leave you with!

Virtually all people who have quit their own smoking habit will readily inform you that the single most difficult aspect of breaching the smoking cycle is getting over the psychological portion of your nicotine dependency - The psychological and mind altering facets of your smoking habit. Best-known as conditional response this will involve making alterations changing to your day-to-day routine. Whether that would normally be sneaking outdoors for a smoke during your lunch break from work or your final cigarette at nighttime prior to being able to unwind sufficiently to go to sleep. These cycles all have to be checked. Frequently tobacco users may discover themselves lighting up a cigarette out of sheer habit more than due to the actual need to smoke. This is one the grounds that a lot of people employing nicotine patches or nicotine gum go wrong as though these assist with the physical nicotine cravings they don’t support you in getting the better of your smoking habit as the act of lighting a cigarette is very often a subconscious decision.

Hypnotherapy as a component part of your stop smoking plan serves in keeping your motivation levels high - The hypnotherapy treatment is able to assist in reinforcing your willpower and the self determination that brought about desire to stop smoking to begin with. Once more relaxation methods which you were shown as a component of your hypnotherapy sessions will also assists with these.

Naturally you can if you wish get in contact with a local hypnotherapy clinic to assist you but don’t forget that there are numerous other choices available to you. For instance there are several compact discs, or digital audio courses that you are able to purchase online that will instruct you with tips for relaxation at home. You’ll likewise discover that there are several downloadable audio products obtainable that can be loaded onto your portable MP3 player, CD player maybe even your mobile phone so that you will be able to play the tips and instructions wherever you may be at your personal convenience.

Perhaps you feel that you are sliding somewhat and you really crave for a smoke. You’ll be able to slip your earphones on and hear some restful and motivational advice - A huge encouragement for your projected aim in becoming an “Ex-Smoker!”

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The underlying causes of most physical habits may be quite varied, and rooted at different psychological levels. Although hypnotherapy has a wide range of uses, the behaviors that are most directly related to physical habits are typically the ones that can be treated with hypnotherapy most immediately and directly. Smoking cessation is the most well known of these, and is one of the most successful and less invasive techniques for reaching its goal. Another common area for hypnotherapy treatment is for weight reduction. Similarly, hypnotherapy is also the best technique for ending a nail biting habit.

The nail biting habit has much in common with smoking. It is a ritualistic, physical habit. Either might be caused by the mechanics of a simple physical routine, or may perhaps be indicative of deeper psychological root causes. And in either case the habit itself can be very effectively halted with hypnotherapy.

Discovering and resolving underlying psychological issues, which are exhibited in nail biting and smoking can be a process that requires numerous sessions with a knowledgeable hypnotherapist. Not all hypnotists and hypnotherapists are capable of working at the deep psychological level. Fortunately, for the purposes of eliminating a smoking or a nail biting habit, they are not required to work below the most direct physical level.

The immediate goal of finding a nail biting cure is far more straightforward. Many of our deeper psychological and emotional states are impacted by our physical state, so in solving the physical symptoms directly, we are also able to have an indirect impact on deeper issues. In addition, not all negative physical behaviors have underlying causes; sometimes it is merely just a physical habit; it just “feels” good for the individual to take part in them.

I have seen that the focused and relaxed state of hypnosis can achieve nearly miraculous results when used in causing simple physical state changes. Whenever I eliminate severe burn pain, remove nausea, and solve other physical symptoms for a client in just a few seconds, it still surprises and amazes me, even though I am supposedly the one with the “power” (although as we know, the true power exists within the client’s unconscious mind). The capabilities exist in each of our minds to block severe pain and nausea; so the ability to prevent one from biting their nails is a modest goal in comparison.

I have found three of the powerful aspects of hypnotherapy to be anchoring, substitution and association. With association, one can link the undesirable behavior to something aversive; with substitution, one can replace the bad habit with an innocuous one; with anchoring, one can connect physical movement triggers with alternative feelings and behaviors.

With association, just like the simple hypnotic phenomenon can make a piece of white bread taste like the most delectable New York Cheesecake to a subject, one can make the feeling and taste of nail biting to be extremely distasteful. If your subject is consistently and repeatedly conditioned that the taste and feel of nail biting is very unpleasant, it will help to cause the habit to cease.

There are chemical products that achieve this goal via foul tasting nail polish. However, with a mental association it is easy to stop nail biting without relying on consistently applying a chemical product. This “aversion” type of therapy generally isn’t very helpful. But it is only reliable when used as an adjunct to eliminating stress that causes one to bite their nails, as well as extinguishing conditioned responses (unconscious associations), which triggers one to bite their nails.

With substitution, it can be effective to replace the nail-biting behavior with a more benign affliction. For instance, it is quite effective to make the suggestion that whenever one feels the impulses that lead them towards nail biting, they will take a deep breath instead, and slowly exhale, achieving all the same feelings and resolution that nail biting used to bring. I have found the deep breathing substitute to be very effective for a wide range of problems.

Similarly, anchoring can be used to subvert one action into another, and works well with association and substitution. It is useful to create the suggestion that each and every time subjects see their fingers coming to their mouth, they vividly remember the unpleasant taste association, and they instead take a deep breath to resolve the tension.

In summary, hypnotherapy has been recognized as one of the most successful methods for negative habit modification. Just as with smoking cessation, the techniques and concepts discussed here prove to be very successful as a long-term nail-biting solution.
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Alan B. Densky, CH has been assisting clients with stress related symptoms since 1978. He’s created a complete 7-session self-hypnosis break the nail biting habit CD based on Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP. Visit his self-hypnosis site for free articles on hypnosis, and advice.

Confidence can be hard to pin down at times! Most people have had the experience of observing someone they know at a party or in a work situation, communicating with ease and naturally, without a hint of self-consciousness and have thought, “Why cant that be me?”

People look to hypnotherapy, Herts for all types of confidence problems. It may be that you lack confidence within specific relationships or situations, you may want to be more assertive or to become a better public speaker. Perhaps you want to be able to share some of the knowledge and ideas that you hold back because of lack of confidence, or you find it difficult to speak up in front of groups of people. Some people feel they lack confidence in all areas of their lives. All these experiences are common and can be helped by hypnotherapy, Herts.

Of course, in life there will always be natural differences among people. Some people just seem to be more introverted, whilst others seem to enjoy the limelight and draw others towards them with ease. Whether confidence is a problem is self-defined by the individual. If it impacts on your life in subtle or more obvious ways and you feel frustrated or held back by lack of confidence, then hypnotherapy may benefit you.

Hypnotherapists use hypnosis to bring about positive therapeutic changes in order to help people solve problems, such as lack of confidence. Hypnosis is an experience characterised by deep relaxation, a concentrated focus and increased sensory alertness. This state of mind occurs spontaneously and people slip in and out of this state, known as ‘trance’, all the time, in everyday life. Examples of trance states include fantasising about someone you are attracted to, becoming deeply immersed in a book, being anxious about an event causing you to re-live what could go wrong over and over in your head and daydreaming. As you may see from the examples given, trance states can be positive or negative, depending on what is being focused on.

Hypnotherapists induce deeply relaxing trance states because when a person is deeply relaxed, access to the unconscious mind is enabled. The hypnotic process is wonderfully pleasant and relaxing, which in itself is beneficial for people who lack confidence and experience stress and worry on a regular basis. Being free of stress and worry, during the hypnotic process, allows the therapists to pack your unconscious mind with positive suggestions of confidence. Whilst in this state you also get to practice situations in which you will act with confidence and conviction, through a process known as visualisation.

Hypnotherapy can also be effective in removing negative associations that you have developed between situations and feeling unconfident and it can also be used to remove and free you from negative emotions from the past. Sometimes self-esteem can be related to childhood experiences and these can be dealt with through at Hypnotherapy, Herts.

During your hypnotherapy treatment, the hypnotherapist will also work with you to achieve confidence through a technique called anchoring, which involves learning to develop an association between an external trigger, and a emotional response. Anchors develop all the time in everyday life as the human mind attempts to understand your environment by looking for patterns between things. Not all anchors are positive. People learn to make negative associations between things, such as feeling anxious or worried when they are required to give a presentation to colleagues. Your hypnotherapist can work with you to remove negative anchors.

If you are fed up with being held back or not being able to do what you dream of doing because of lack of confidence, book your appointment with a hypnotherapist now!

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Karen Hastings is a NHS experienced mental health occupational therapist, Master NLP practitioner and hypnotherapist. Karen uses hypnotherapy in Hertfordshire, along with cognitive therapy approaches. For more information about Hypnotherapy, Herts visit http://www.karenhastings.co.uk