Source: telegraph.co.uk Barbara Lantin investigates an unconventional treatment for reducing gut sensitivity Between five and eight million people in the UK suffer from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and many can find no treatment that brings relief. Although the condition is often regarded as minor, the symptoms – including diarrhoea, pain and bloating – can seriously […]

Source: telegraph.co.uk Hypnotherapy is increasingly recognised as a safe and effective way of blocking out pain during operations and helping women in childbirth. Lucie Hoe reports Fearing pain in operations is understandable. So, would you believe it possible to undergo surgery without a general anaesthetic, and not feel a thing? A report in the New

Source: Daily Mail FOR most pupils, half-term break has just ended but already many parents are making plans for the Easter holidays. Perhaps unfortunately for their children, these increasingly involve enrolling them in revision classes in an attempt to improve their exam grades. But a new study suggests pupils working hard over Easter to get

Source: The Times Self-hypnosis can provide a low-risk environment in which to build confidence and develop our optimism by Dr Nick Baylis Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change, said the American psychiatrist Milton Erikson, one of the 20th century’s most inspiring exponents of hypnosis. This is why

Everyone feels their anger is justified when they’re actually angry. Equally, we’ve all looked back and realised we may have overreacted. But for some people, anger can become a problem that needs to be addressed. Understanding anger It’s important to realise several things about anger before you start tackling it. First, anger is a normal

A British woman has undergone major surgery on her foot without an anaesthetic after she hypnotised herself into feeling no pain. Bernadine Coady insists that she could not feel anything as a surgeon cut skin and muscle, sawed through two bones and stretched tendons during the operation on her right foot. The 59-year-old nurse –

Shelley Thomas, 53, was wheeled into an anteroom at London’s Middlesex Hospital in preparation for pelvic surgery. A patient going into that operation is usually given a mix of painkilling narcotics and nerve-quelling tranquilizers. But not Thomas. Instead she rested on a gurney, alert and calm, taking deep breaths at her hypnotherapist’s instruction. Thomas counted

Some doctors use it to treat insomnia, asthma and eczema. Others to calm migraines and irritable bowels, and to reduce anxiety. Yet, even though the use of hypnosis is on the increase across the medical profession, no one understands how it works. Some experts even believe the “trance” induced by hypnosis can happen to us

Source: Times Hypnosis, often thought of as a party piece where suggestible people are made fools of, is being given a new lease of life. Dr Leslie Walker, a lecturer in mental health at the University of Aberdeen, has found it a useful tool for cancer patients suffering from the side-effects of chemotherapy. Although not

Source: The Express Complementary therapies can be free on the NHS for patients recovering from serious illnesses but it’s up to you to find out what’s on offer. Joanne O’Connell reports When Julie Wray was told last June that she had breast cancer, she faced six months of chemotherapy to destroy the cancer cells. “I