Anyone close to me will know I’ve had a bit of a moan lately about women’s lot. Many of us of a certain age watched Davina McCall’s “Sex, Myths and the Menopause” last week and from the comments I’ve seen on social media women are incensed. For fifty percent of the human population to go through …
In these tricky times, where every aspect of our normal way of life has been suspended and replaced with rules, restrictions and masks, it should be no surprise our mental health can be out of sync too. Many are waking up with a feeling of dread in the pit of their stomach or feeling a …
Welcome back! What’s changed? After a partial summer reprieve from lockdown many are now finding ourselves returning to a state of disconnect. For some the prospect of long nights, reduced sunshine and lack of human contact is causing feelings of panic and anxiety. Fellow hypnotherapists confirm an increase in clients suffering health anxiety, worrying about …
How often have you heard phrases like “stress is a killer” or “ I just want a stress free life”. If there’s nothing else we’ve learned over the past four months, we can’t eliminate stress from life and neither should we try to. As many of us are returning to post lockdown life – some …
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Hypnosis is more than just a party trick, it measurably changes how the brain works, says a UK researcher. Hypnosis significantly affects the activity in a part of the brain responsible for detecting and responding to errors, says John Gruzelier, a psychologist at Imperial College in London. Using functional brain imaging, he also found that …
Once regarded as a cheap stage trick, hypnotism is proven to be a powerful medical treatment – and now it’s available on the NHS. Roger Dobson reports There’s no magic, no swinging pendulums or swaying watches, and no one is counting backwards as they slump into unconsciousness. This is medical rather than stage or movie …
Hypnosis can make people see what they believe, producing changes in the brain that suggest the effects are real, according to a study presented to the world’s largest general science meeting yesterday. About two thirds of the population can be hypnotised and 10 per cent, mostly children, are easily hypnotised. Common medical applications of hypnosis …
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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 …
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 …
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 – …
