Say Yes to Change with Hypnosis

An NCCAM-funded trial found that women who used self-hypnosis during a type of core needle breast biopsy experienced anxiety relief and reduced pain when compared with standard care.
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I can attest to this personally as being true since I had this procedure done 1 month ago to both of my breasts (thankfully with negative results), and self-hypnosis and the doctor's skill made the process bearable and free from stress and pain. Talk about putting your money where your mouth is, or in this case your health.

In practice, the therapist trained in Past Life Therapy (PLT) and Spirit Releasement Therapy (SRT) will recognize that some of the past life scenarios are not those of the client, but of someone else, an attached spirit of a deceased human being. There are specific methods of differentiating between the two. This condition has historically been labeled spirit possession. A more accurate term is spirit attachment, indicating an interference, a much more common event than possession, which implies complete takeover. Our language reflects an inner knowledge of this condition: "What got into you?" "What possessed me to do that?" "I'm not myself today." Even the comedian, Flip Wilson, expressed the concept with the comic line: "The devil made me do it." The possibility of spirit possession, that is, full or partial takeover of a living human by a discarnate entity, has been recognized, or at least theorized, in every time and in every culture. A disembodied consciousness seems to attach itself and merge fully or partially with the subconscious mind of a living person, exerting some degree of control on the behavior, the mental functioning, and emotions, as well as producing sensations and symptoms in the physical body. Attachment to any given person may be completely random, even accidental. An attachment can be benevolent in nature, self serving to fulfill a personal need of the spirit, malevolent in intention, or completely neutral. Some
investigators in this field estimate that between 70% and 100% of the population are affected or influenced by one or more discarnate entities at some time in their lives. Read the rest of this article

This area of spirit attachment, is an area I know many hypnotherapists are wary of, either because they don't believe in the concept, or are just plain scared of it, however like PLT. whether it's real or only in the client's mind, the results are concrete and significant.  It works!  It took me 2 years to come to embrace this field of hypnotherapy, but I now consider it an invaluable tool.

On reading up on the disorder and in particular seeing the criterion (above) used to diagnose it, I was amazed that as far as I could find, there is nothing published on the use of hypnosis with BPD sufferers. The reason for this amazement was quite simply that each criterion, individually, can be treated with hypnotherapy. The assumption from this being that by starting with a “tick list” of each criterion present and working through each of them, one by one, would surely yield positive results? Read the rest of this article

As I read this article, I am again reminded how many ailments are overlooked as being treatable with hypnosis.  Hypnotherapy is not only for weight loss, smoking cessation or self image, it can be a very valuable tool for patients suffering from serious illnesses, if not to cure, many times to ease symptoms and improve the quality of a life for a person.