The study, published in the October issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, uses data from functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging to identify how the areas of the brain associated with executive control and attention tend to have less activity in people who cannot be put into a hypnotic trance. “There’s never been a brain …
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a disorder involving the intestines. Symptoms can be mild to severe and include abdominal cramping, diarrhea, constipation, bloating, and gas. Many people who have IBS are often embarrassed by their symptoms and are uncomfortable talking about it with a doctor. Fortunately there are alternative methods, such as hypnosis, that can …
A Grammy-winning singer turned hypnotherapist, our best known marathon runner serving grain-free bread, sports stars overseeing millions in investment funds. There is life after celebrity and Helen Reddy, Robert de Castella, James Tomkins and Damien Frawley are proving it. De Castella opened Deek’s, a Canberra grain-free bakery in his name six years ago, and hasn’t …
Any kind of burn, whether it is a first, second, or third degree burn, is painful. In addition to the pain felt from the burn, burn victims have to keep their wounds covered to help the healing process and prevent infection. Patients with severe burns have to go through frequent dressing changes to keep the …
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According to the National Cancer Institute, almost 11,000 children (under the age of 15) will be diagnosed with a form of cancer in 2008. Advances in cancer research and cancer treatments have greatly improved since the 1970`s. Before the 1970`s children with cancer had a 50% 5-year survival rate. Now the 5-year survival rate is …
QAA highly critical of St Mary’s University College’s oversight of unique course. Jack Grove reports Serious weaknesses in the provision of the UK’s only undergraduate degree in hypnosis – including listing an undergraduate as an examiner – put academic standards at risk, according to a damning Quality Assurance Agency report. The regulator launched an investigation …
Switzerland’s Roger Federer and Great Britain’s Andy Murray with their trophies. Picture: EMPICS Sport As Andy Murray choked tearfully “I’m getting closer” following his Wimbledon defeat, one Belsize Park hypnotherapist shook his head in disagreement – Britain’s number one is not yet ready to make his mark on history, he believes. Master hypnotherapist Peter Gilmour …
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Self-hypnosis is an easy and useful technique for children to learn. Self-hypnosis is often taught to children by a trained hypnotherapist and it is designed to help them relax in difficult situations. The first step to self-hypnosis is to find a comfortable and quite place to sit or lie down to relax. The second step …
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Hypnosis has been shown as being an increasingly beneficial treatment for helping children with medical illnesses. Studies have shown that children in particular are very suggestible and have a good chance of benefiting from hypnosis. A study was performed in a pediatric pulmonary center from 1998-2000. During this 30 month time period, 303 patients received …
July 12, 2010 — Self-hypnosis taught by using videotaped instruction may help children and adolescents control the tics that characterize Tourette’s syndrome, a new study finds. Researchers at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine enlisted 33 participants ages 6 to 19. After being taught self-hypnosis techniques …