Hypnosis
in the Media
Hypnosis Helps
Man After Job Layoff
(Wall St. Journal)
After Gary Manouelian
was laid off last year as a customer-service representative, he was
anxious about his ability to pay off his mortgage and credit-card debt.
So he sought help through hypnosis.
Thirty sessions and $1,500 later, Mr. Manouelian says he has since landed a government job
and is working to pay off his debts. For this he thanks his hypnotist,
Laura Ryan-Day in Austin, Texas.
As economic worries increase,
a New York hypnotist is finding a new niche. WSJ's Mary Pilon talks with Jacob Bimblich
about how he's using hypnosis to help people cope with financial stress.
(Nov. 11)
"It's definitely made me change my
thinking," says Mr. Manouelian says, of
Pflugerville, Texas. "I'm much more confident and less
stressed."
Read the complete article by clicking on this link.
Hypnosis:
a safe and potent pain reliever.(CR Health)
Clinical trials have also found that hypnosis can help adult patients control
other forms of pain, relieve gastrointestinal problems, stimulate weight loss, clear up skin problems, and
accelerate the healing of bone fractures and surgical wounds. And the
newest guidelines from the U.S. Headache Consortium, a coalition of seven
medical groups, include hypnosis among the nondrug measures most proven to help prevent
headaches.
Consumer
Reports 70.1 (Jan
2005): p49(1).
"I lost weight through hypnosis.". A
woman describes how she finally turned to hypnotism to lose weight. The hypnotist was able
to change the way the woman viewed food, and to stop eating when she was
full.
Fitness 11.6 (July 2001): p76(2).
When
diets fail ... Local hypnosis center proves that losing weight for good is a mind game.(Health Update).
Share
Guide 69 (Sept-Oct
2003): p21(1).
Think
Yourself Healthy - In pain? Overweight? Hypnosis can help!
Self
Magazine (Dec 2006)
Can
hypnosis really help me].(Fitness : Ask the Weight Loss Coach)(lose
weight)
But studies show that combined with diet and exercise,
hypnotherapy could double your weight loss.
Take
Cheryl Secrist, 35. She turned to hypnotherapy
when her weight loss stalled. "It didn't eliminate temptations like
hot-fudge brownie sundaes, but it did make me pause. Often I realized
that what I was really craving was rest," says the career counselor
from Warrenton, VA, who lost a total of 50 pounds with the help of seven
sessions.
Prevention 57.9 (Sept
2005): p124
Listen
up to lose pounds.
The research is mounting: hypnosis can help you lose weight and keep it off longer--without
dieting! According to a reanalysis of six studies, people who underwent hypnosis lost twice as much weight as those who didn't (and, in another study, kept it off
more than two years).
Shape 25.2 (Oct 2005): p34(1).
The
healing power of hypnotism: you are getting sleepy -- not to mention slimmer,
healthier and less
stressed
Reader's
Digest 162.979 (Nov
2003): p194(1).
Can
hypnosis make you healthier?(Medical
Report). Ginny Graves.
Hypnosis has
been proven to be effective, like drugs and surgery, for some medical
problems minus the side effects. Hypnosis allows
the patient to focus his attention on something else, allowing him to
forget about the problem. Smoking cessation, eating disorders, stress, weight loss and pain are some of the problems that can be remedied
through hypnosis.
Glamour v96.n4 (April 1998): pp72(3).
"You
are feeling very thin...".(hypnosis for weight loss). Ira R. Allen.
A man whose weight had hit 232 describes the techniques that hypnotists used
to help him to lose
weight. After four months his weight dropped below 200 pounds
Washingtonian 37.6 (March 2002): p122(2).
Lose
weight in your sleep
For those who feel that sleep alone cannot possibly help you
lose weight, hypnosis
is catching on as a tool in the battle of the bulge. Experts say it can boost
determination and willpower.
ABC News (April 25, 2006)
Lose the
weight...fast.(using hypnosis to increase weight loss).
Self-hypnosis
can be used to alter the way the subconscious mind deals with eating
patterns, increasing the likelihood of successful weight
loss
while reducing stress and boosting immunity.
First
for Women 14.3 (Jan 21,
2002): p40(2).
The
skinny on hypnosis.(Deals)
Glassman,
a leading researcher in and practitioner of the use of self-hypnosis
and neurolinguistic programming to solve weight issues, will demonstrate how anyone can access the mind's
"alpha state" to change subconscious patterns of overeating
Publishers
Weekly 252.47 (Nov
28, 2005): p8(1).
A Worthy
Alternative? Can acupuncture cure your headaches? Can a hypnotist help
you lose weight? Real Simple sorts through the science to find out which
therapies really work.(The
Guide/Body/Alternative Therapies). Sally Wadyka.
WHAT'S
BEEN PROVEN: Several clinical studies, including randomized trials, have
found that hypnosis
can help with the control of habits (like overeating and smoking), as
well as with pain management and stress-related complaints
Real
Simple 7.2 (March 1,
2006): p103.
There's
Entrancing News About Hypnosis; It's gaining credibility as a treatment
for a multitude of troubles, from nicotine addiction to post-traumatic
stress disorder
Although still not well understood, hypnosis has gained credibility in the past
five years because of research using the latest brain-imaging technology.
PET, MRI, and EEG scans show that hypnotized subjects have altered
sensory perception -- and they're not just pushovers, play-acting, or
highly imaginative, as once thought.
Business
Week 3868 (Feb
2, 2004)
Mind
over Medicine: Hypnosis as an alternative to sedation is making a
comeback in the operating room. Here's how it works.(Science/Health).
Since the early 1990s, thousands of patients have opted for hypnosis--either as a substitute for or (more
typically) as a complement to anesthesia--in a wide variety of surgical
procedures, from repairing hernias to removing tumors.
Meanwhile, studies using advanced scanning technology have
shed new light on how hypnosis works
to block pain
Time 167.13 (March 27,
2006): p47
SCIENCE
FINALLY TACKLES HYPNOSIS
The long-controversial practice of inducing a trancelike
state through suggestion is getting a modern makeover by scientists armed
with the latest neuroimaging tools and
techniques. These researchers are beginning to offer evidence that,
neurologically at least, hypnosis is entirely real.
Seed
Magazine Emily Anthes
Posted October 20, 2006
Can
hypnotherapy help you build a better body?
Hypnotism
has been used to elevate athletic performance for quite a while. The
Soviet Olympic team took 11 hypnotists along to the 1956 games in
Melbourne. The Soviet athletes won 98 medals; the unhypnotized
U.S. team scored only 74. Yet, 5 decades later, there is still a stigma
attached to hypnotism. You picture head cases like ARod
on the couch, not champions like M.J.
But
maybe that's why nonbelievers--like me--aren't performing so well in the
clutch. Maybe we should all have a little more mental gymnastics in our
lives.
"The
trend to get the mental edge is happening and will continue," says
Joan S. Ingalls, Ed.D., a sports counselor and the author of The Reframing
of Performance Anxiety.
Men's
Health 21.5 (June
2006): p172
Altered
States; Hypnosis can help with problems from anxiety to pain. How it
works, and what it does in the brain.(Cover
Story).
To
appreciate the therapeutic potential of hypnosis, you
first have to forget about things like swinging watches and hapless
audience members who prance around onstage, crowing like roosters.
"One of the interesting ironies about hypnosis is that
old fantasy that it takes away control," says Dr. David Spiegel,
professor and associate chair of psychiatry at Stanford University School
of Medicine and a leading expert on the practice. "It's actually a
way of enhancing people's control, of teaching them how to control
aspects of their body's function and sensation that they thought they
couldn't."
Newsweek (Sept 27, 2004): p76
"You
are getting sleepy ...": real-life hypnosis
is clinical, not theatrical.(Around Indiana). Steve Kaelble.
The actual process of clinical hypnosis does not involve the theatrics
suggested by pop culture's version of hypnosis. There's no dangling watch, no
spinning spiral. "Most clinical hypnotists today use words and
voice,"
Indiana
Business Magazine 48.4 (April 2004): p8(1).
The Power of Hypnosis by Deirdre Barrett
Studies show that hypnosis can treat everything from chronic
pain to poor study habits. Chances are, it can
work for you.
Psychology
Today, Vol.
34, (January 2001)
Hypnosis
Speeds Fracture Recovery.
The
power of suggestion may mute pain, increase mobility, and promote faster
healing
Will hypnosis
sessions one day join crutches and casts as standard treatment for broken
bones? A small study suggests so. Of a dozen adults with broken ankles,
half had hypnotherapy. Their bones healed quicker, they felt less pain,
used fewer painkillers, and were able to walk farther and bear more
weight on their injured legs than those who used casts, crutches, and
painkillers alone (Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Mar
1999). The hypnosis
group also found it easier to walk down stairs at 6 weeks and had greater
mobility at 9 weeks, says study author Carol Ginandes,
PhD, a clinical psychology instructor at Harvard Medical School.
"The x-rays support this," she adds. "At 6 weeks, the
fractures appeared to be almost 9 weeks healed."
Prevention 52.9 (Sept 2000): p66
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