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Can Hypnosis help you THRIVE?

The real key to creating the person you want to become is to visualize yourself that way (when mind and body are relaxed) which creates a positive self-image.

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Success Rate for healing faster from fracture

Healed significantly faster from surgery. Two studies from Harvard Medical School show hypnosis significantly reduces the time it takes to heal. Study One: Six weeks after an ankle fracture, those in the hypnosis group showed the equivalent of eight and a half weeks of healing. Study Two: Three groups of people studied after breast reduction surgery. Hypnosis group healed “significantly faster” than supportive attention group and control group. Harvard Medical School, Carol Ginandes and Union Institute in Cincinnati, Patricia Brooks, Harvard University Gazette

Success Rate for Drug Addiction

Treatment has been used with 18 clients over the last 7 years and has shown a 77 percent success rate for at least a 1-year follow-up. 15 were being seen for alcoholism or alcohol abuse, 2 clients were being seen for cocaine addiction, and 1 client had a marijuana addiction. Intensive Therapy: Utilizing Hypnosis in the Treatment of Substance Abuse Disorders. Potter, Greg, American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, Jul 2004.

Success Rate for Smoking Cessation Using Hypnosis

Of 43 consecutive patients undergoing this treatment protocol, 39 reported remaining abstinent from tobacco use at follow-up (6 months to 3 years post-treatment). This represents a 90.6% success rate using hypnosis. University of Washington School of Medicine, Depts. of Anesthesiology and Rehabilitation Medicine, Int J Clin Exp Hypn. 2001 Jul;49(3):257-66. Barber J.

Hypnosis and Smoking Cessation

A clinical Hypnotist will generally treat two different types of clients when it comes to smoking cessation. The first type of client is one that intellectually realizes that stopping smoking is a good idea and as would like to be a non-smoker. This type of client generally takes longer to stop smoking and will need more sessions than the second type. The second type of client is one that has a heart felt desire to become a non-smoker. This type of client wants nothing more to do with smoking and just needs some help to break the subconscious habit. This type of client will find it far easier to stop smoking and will generally stop in a single direct suggestion hypnosis session.

Smoking cessation for the first type of client is more difficult as it’s still intellectual. It’s still part of the conscious mind process and when there is a conflict between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind, the subconscious mind always wins. The hypnotist will help the client to make this a subconscious desire. This process may take a couple of sessions. Once the subconscious mind is fully on board, the client is adequately motivated to stop smoking and it’s then a simple matter to break the habit in direct suggestion in a hypnosis session. For the client to try to shortcut this process is not advised. It’s not possible to withhold information from your own subconscious mind, and this will lead to further costs or failure. When there’s a struggle or dispute between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind, the subconscious mind always wins. Hypnotherapy is a completely non-invasive therapy and has no side effects other than relaxation. Because hypnotherapy works so quickly it’s relatively inexpensive. Hypnotherapy strives to help clients achieve independence and self mastery quickly instead of working to make clients life-long repeat customers.

Hospitalized patients who smoke may be more likely to quit smoking through the use of hypnotherapy than patients using other smoking cessation methods. A new study* shows that smoking patients who participated in one hypnotherapy session were more likely to be nonsmokers at 6 months compared with patients using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) alone or patients who quit “cold turkey”. The study also shows that patients admitted to the hospital with a cardiac diagnosis are three times more likely to quit smoking at 6 months than patients admitted with a pulmonary diagnosis.

“Our results showed that hypnotherapy resulted in higher quit rates compared with NRT alone,” said Faysal Hasan, MD, FCCP, North Shore Medical Center, Salem, MA. “Hypnotherapy appears to be quite effective and a good modality to incorporate into a smoking cessation program after hospital discharge.”

Dr. Hasan and colleagues from North Shore Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital compared the quit rates of 67 smoking patients hospitalized with a cardiopulmonary diagnosis. All patients were approached about smoking cessation and all included in the study were patients who expressed a desire to quit smoking.

At discharge, patients were divided into four groups based on their preferred method of smoking cessation treatment: hypnotherapy (n=14), NRT (n=19), NRT and hypnotherapy (n=18), and a group of controls who preferred to quit “cold turkey” (n=16). All patients received self-help brochures. The control group received brief counselling, but other groups received intensive counselling, free supply of NRT and/or a free hypnotherapy session within 7 days of discharge, as well as follow up telephone calls at 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, and 26 weeks after discharge. Patients receiving hypnotherapy also were taught to do self-hypnosis and were given tapes to play at the end of the session.

At 26 weeks after discharge, 50 percent of patients treated with hypnotherapy alone were nonsmokers, compared with 50 percent in the NRT/hypnotherapy group, 25 percent in the control group, and 15.78 percent in the NRT group. Patients admitted with a cardiac diagnosis were more likely to quit smoking at 26 weeks (45.5 percent) than patients admitted with a pulmonary diagnosis (15.63 percent).

“Patients admitted with coronary symptoms may have experienced ‘fear and doom’ and decided to alter a major health risk to their disease when approached about smoking cessation,” said Dr. Hasan. “In contrast, pulmonary patients admitted for another exacerbation may not have felt the same threat. They likely felt they can live for another day and continue the smoking habit.”

The researchers note that hospitalization is an important opportunity to intervene among patients who smoke.

“Doctors and other health personnel should use this occasion to firmly recommend smoking cessation and emphasize the impact of smoking on their disease process and hospital admission,” said Dr. Hasan. “Pulmonologists, in particular, should make a stronger case and more passionate message to their patients, and efforts should be coordinated with counselling.”

“As physicians, we are constantly reviewing new approaches for smoking cessation and revisiting existing approaches to confirm their effectiveness,” said Alvin V. Thomas, MD, FCCP, President of the American College of Chest Physicians. “The results of this study and many others confirm that using a multimodality approach to smoking cessation is optimal for success.”

This study was presented at Chest 2007, the 73rd annual international scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians.

Source: www.sciencedaily.com, American College of Chest Physicians

Welcome to my new website!

“Hypnosis is not mind control, it’s a naturally occurring state of concentration: it’s actually a means of enhancing control over both your mind and body”

– Dr.David Spiegel, Chair of Psychiatric
Stanford University School of Medicine

Hypnosis is a powerful and gentle way to bring about the positive changes you want to make in your life. What’s more, the changes will occur in a way that feels natural and that ends that constant internal battle that seems to go on whenever you’ve tried to change before.

Hello everyone, my name is Korey Snider. I am 27 years old and currently live in Plattsville Ontario. I am a Certified Hypnotist and NLP Practitioner graduating in the summer of 2015 from the Ontario Hypnosis Centre School in Toronto. This is my first blog post and I wanted to create this blog to inform readers on the real mechanics of hypnosis and how it works.

I  am going to be blogging about the latest research, stories, items appearing in the news, related books I’ve read and about how the various tools and techniques I use in therapy work. I also like to pass on any tips that could help you succeed in making any of those changes you’ve been thinking of. I hope at least some of what I write makes you think — that’s always a good way to kick off a change of some sort!