Hypnosis in the Media
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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