How can Medical Hypnosis work for you?

Using hypnosis to achieve a state of deep relaxation helps stimulate the release of serotonin in the blood and helps reduce stress, anxiety, and promote pain relief.  One of the first tools you learn during our hypnotherapy sessions is to tap into your deep relaxation response.  With practice, you will be able to call upon your skills almost automatically, whenever you feel discomfort.   This "deep relaxation state" can be utilized to tap into your inner power for the following situations, and many more:

• Prepare for surgery:  A review of medical literature documents that people who prepare for an operation using hypnosis have less pain, fewer complications and recover sooner.  You can feel less anxious about your procedure and strengthen your immune system by using hypnotic techniques!
• Manage Chronic Pain:  Hypnosis is a viable alternative to traditional pain medication for many people.  Preventing, alleviating and minimizing pain is accomplished by coupling hypnotic techniques with relaxation.  Hypnotic techniques allow the subconscious mind to interpret the pain signal either, as something other than pain (pressure) or eliminate it (as often happens with psychogenic pain).  Alleviating the fear, tension and anxiety that often accompanies chronic pain creates a relaxed state, which allows our own natural opiate endorphins to flow, lessening the experience of pain.
• Coping with Fibromyalgia:  Learn skills to regain control over your life again.  Reduce and remove pain, feel more relaxed, and experience a better night's sleep.  Using hypnosis can lower anxiety and reduce your depression by reminding your body to release serotonin into your blood and encourage your muscles to relax.
• Natural Childbirth:  Create a relaxed and joyful childbirth experience feeling confident and in control.  Hypnosis can help throughout pregnancy and childbirth relieving morning sickness and other discomfort from body changes.  Extreme pain is not a natural part of childbirth.  Using hypnosis one in four mothers can achieve complete anesthesia during delivery.  Other benefits include better control of uterine contractions, less fatigue, rise in pain threshold, decreased reliance on medication leaving mom and baby more alert and a speedier recovery.  Six sessions teach mom-to-be:  anesthesia, self hypnosis, deep relaxation breathing techniques and include powerful end-result suggestions and imagery to enhance your whole experience.
• Coping with Cancer:  Guided Imagery can help reverse some of the adverse side effects of chemotherapy such as nausea and fatigue.  The process can boost the immune response, minimize fear and encourage hope.  Imagine going under treatment, being calm and confident.
• Tension and Migraine Headaches:  Both these types of headaches respond to hypnosis.  Oversimplified, either muscle strain (tension headache) or swelling and contracting within the walls of the blood vessels generate headache discomfort.  The release of serotonin in the blood helps blood vessels return back to normal and encourages your muscles to be flexible.  Deep relaxation stimulates release of serotonin and promote pain relief.  With practice you can develop the relaxation response to be used almost automatically whenever you feel discomfort!
• Insomnia:  Whether you are having trouble going to sleep or staying asleep, hypnotherapy can help.  Many times the tension and anxiety carried over from a busy day or the pain and discomfort from a physical issue can help restore normal sleep patterns and allow you to get a good night's sleep.
• Hypertension: Hypnosis can help lower blood pressure and tends to be more stable and long lasting than taking anti-hypertensive medication.  Relaxation and guided imagery can help regulate your heart rate and arterial contraction while lowering your anxiety.