It is thought Colchester Hospital Trust will be only the second in the UK to offer classes on the practice.

Starting later this spring at Colchester Hospital, as well as at Clacton and Harwich hospitals, they will be given by midwives specially trained to be hypnobirthing practitioners.

Teri Gavin-Jones, one of the three who have just completed their training, said: “Hypnobirthing is going to make a remarkable difference to women and their experience of labour, whatever type of birth they have.

“If you’re going to run a marathon, you prepare for it mentally and physically, and hypnobirthing is a way to help couples prepare mentally and physically for labour and childbirth.

“Pregnancy is not an illness, but labour and childbirth have in many ways become over-medicalised and I firmly believe that hypnobirthing will help to redress the balance.

“I am confident it will in the future benefit thousands of women and their partners and, as a forward-thinking trust, we are keen to embrace it.”

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So the news that she needed brain surgery again was hardly welcome. Determined to make her second operation a better — or at least less traumatic — experience, Ms. Ritchie, an insurance marketing representative in Cleveland, turned to an unusual treatment.
At the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Integrative Medicine, she had four hypnosis sessions in the month before her procedure, during which she addressed her fear of the coming surgery. She also practiced self-hypnosis every day.
Eventually, she said, “I got to a place where I felt a sense of trust instead of fear.”
In February, doctors removed a plum-sized tumor from her brain. But there the similarity to her previous experience ended. Ms. Ritchie woke up from the procedure, she said, feeling “alert and awesome.” She ate a full dinner that night and went home in two days.
“My neurosurgeon was stunned at how little medication I required before and after surgery, and how quickly I bounced back,” she said.
Ms. Ritchie attributes her speedy recovery and calm state to her hypnosis sessions. Used for more than two centuries to treat a host of medical problems, particularly pain management and anxiety, hypnosis is now available to patients at some of the most respected medical institutions in the country, including Stanford Hospital, the Cleveland Clinic, Mount Sinai Medical Center and Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.
Some critics find the research into mind-body therapies unconvincing, but their skepticism has not deterred patients like Ms. Ritchie. And there are researchers who say they believe that by helping patients feel in better control of their symptoms, hypnosis can reduce the need for medication and lower costs.
“It is an effective and inexpensive way to manage medical care,” said Dr. David Spiegel, director of the Center on Stress and Health at Stanford University School of Medicine and a leading authority on hypnosis.
A study by radiologists at Harvard Medical School, published in 2000, found that patients who received hypnosis during surgery required less medication, had fewer complications and shorter procedures than patients who did not have hypnosis. In a follow-up study in 2002, the radiologists concluded that if every patient undergoing catheterization were to receive hypnosis, the cost savings would amount to $338 per patient.
“When patients are groggy from anesthesia drugs, it costs more to recover them,” said Dr. Elvira Lang, an associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and a lead author of both studies. “Hypnosis calms patients.”
If you have a medical condition for which conventional medicine is not working, or you’d like to try a gentle mind-body alternative, hypnosis may be worth considering. Here are some things to keep in mind.
THE THERAPIST There is no uniformly accepted definition of hypnosis, but most experts generally agree that it is an altered mental state in which a patient becomes highly focused and more receptive to social cues.
During a session, the practitioner guides the subject into a relaxed state and then makes specific suggestions to help change a behavior, a perception or a physiological condition. Someone who is trying to quit smoking, for instance, might be told under hypnosis that cigarettes are poisons and that it’s important to care for and respect his body.
Some patients find that hypnosis is a helpful adjunct to traditional psychotherapy.
“Talk therapy engages the conscious mind, which is overwhelmingly facile at creating blocks to avoid hurtful problems,” said Dr. Tanya Edwards, director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. “In hypnosis, the therapist is dealing with the subconscious mind and can get at core problems more quickly.”
Whatever the approach, it’s important to find a highly skilled practitioner.
“Hypnosis is like a surgeon’s knife,” said Edward Frischholz, a clinical psychologist in Chicago who has written more than 50 papers on clinical and experimental hypnosis. “In the right hands it can be life-saving, but in the wrong it could cause harm.”
There is no universal licensing process for practitioners who do hypnosis, so look for a licensed health professional — for instance, a psychologist, medical doctor or social worker — who has been trained in hypnosis. Ask your doctors and therapists for recommendations, or go to the Societies of Hypnosis Web site, which allows you to search by ZIP code and specialty.
THE SESSION At your first session, the practitioner will discuss your condition and may administer a short test to assess how hypnotizable you are.
Most people are susceptible to hypnosis. But if someone is clearly not, then the therapist or doctor may try another technique or suggest a different approach to the patient’s problem. Most sessions last about 50 minutes.
Specific conditions — like smoking, a fear of dogs or flying or temporary insomnia — may require just one session. In 2008, the personal health columnist Jane E. Brody recalled in this newspaper that her husband was able to stop smoking after just one session of hypnosis.
“For very circumscribed disorders, hypnosis works very quickly or not at all,” said Dr. Frischholz.
If your problem is more complex, like post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, it may require multiple sessions. “I might spend the first two sessions taking a history and learning about someone’s background,” said Carol Ginandes, an assistant clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School who uses hypnosis in her private practice. “Then I would work with the patient in a very individualized way.”
A session costs between $75 and $200, depending on where you live and the credentials of the practitioner. If the therapist or doctor is in your insurance network, then you may pay only a standard co-payment. Insurers do not cover hypnosis itself, however; it will have to be billed as a part of your counseling, or as an office visit.
THE DO-IT-YOURSELF APPROACH If the thought of someone putting you in a trancelike state makes you uncomfortable, hypnosis with tape or CD at home may be a practical alternative.
CDs made for a general audience, available at Web sites like HypnosisNetwork.com or HealthJourneys.com, may not be able to help you with a particular or complicated condition, like a lifelong struggle with depression, but they may help train you to calm down before a big test or surgical procedure.
Some practitioners may send you home with a custom-made CD or tape that you can use on your own.
Your therapist or doctor may also teach you self-hypnosis, as Ms. Ritchie’s therapist did. You learn how to put yourself in a deeply relaxed, receptive state in which you repeat statements such as “My body is strong and can handle this surgery,” or “I feel calm and relaxed.”
“People think hypnosis is about giving up control,” said Dr. Spiegel. “But it’s actually giving control back to the patients.”

Emily Z, Australia

It is my pleasure to share my experience from our sessions as they achieved some
really wonderful results!!

I currently feel a profound shift in the way I feel and envisage both sexuality
and masculinity. I feel a deep sense of confidence and trust in my capabilities and potential as
a man, a lover and a human being. I have a much deeper and more beautiful appreciation of the feminine
in her many forms and this fills me with an amazing sense of gratitude for the divine gift of my life.

In regards to my experience immediately after the session; At first I felt quite frustrated with my first session which, at first, I perceived to be frustratingly ineffective due to my conscious interference – however, over the next few days I realised that I had just begun to open to realms of experience to which I had closed myself. Leading up to the second session, I felt strongly that I would be able to transform my subconscious and thus conscious relationships with sexuality and masculinity. Although the hypnosis process was still quite difficult for me, the results of this session were tremendous and I immediately felt a profound shift within my being after the session.

Thanks again Eugen for your wonderful presence and guidance on my path,
I am truly grateful for the grace I have been given in order to evolve spiritually within such an amazing community,

Chris A.
USA

The Juliana children’s hospital in The Hague is to start using hypnosis in an effort to reduce pain, stress and fear among patients, the AD reports on Monday.

Hypnosis will only be used if children and parents agree to the treatment but doctor Madelon Ruige told the paper children are receptive to the idea.

Amsterdam’s Slotervaart hospital occasionally uses hypnosis, which led to questions in parliament last year.

The paper says hospital research carried out in 2007 showed that 85% of children with mysterious stomach pains saw their symptoms clear up with hypnosis. But only 25% of children given medicine got better.

© DutchNews.nl

That is why, I am often asked the question if past lives are a real thing or they are imagined, created by our own mind.

As hypnotherapists, our main purpose is to discover the cause of the issue and help the client attain the goal he came in for. It matters less if the cause is to be found in present life or in what seems to be a past life.
That is why, the answer to the question if past lifes are real or not, is actually a more ellaborate one.

There are a few possiblities and I will list them for a better understanding.

1) The main job of the Subconscious mind of the client is to protect him/her. Hence, sometimes it can create a scenario or a situation that is perceived to be in a different time and space and a different person, so that the person does not identify him/herself with the problem too much. This way, the client is protected from suffering.

2) In some circles it is believed that there exists an “Universal Library”. This “Library” contains all the thoughts and ideas of the universe. In some cases, people can access it and experience what others have experienced in the past. In the hypnotic state, there is no such thing as “real” or “imagined” and whatever the client experiences, is REAL for him. In some cases, people in a hypnotic state have a very good chance at accessing this “Library” and therefore accessing information from it.

3) In some cases, the client can get real accurate information about his past life, with lots of details and particularities. Rarely can this data be verified but there are cases where people who had such experiences went this extra mile and followed the thread revealed in the hypnotic session. Some of them managed to get confirmation of the informations revealed through hypnosis.

4) The Subconsious mind is trying to convey a message to the Cosncious mind of the client in a form of a lesson or an experience. This is different from what we covered at No 1 because in this case, the Subconscious mind is not creating a story to protect the client but rather to instruct, to teach him.

5) For those who come precisely to find out what they were and where they were in past life, the question if it is real or not is without a point. They KNOW that such thing exists and they just want to discover things about themselves.
5.1 There can be another category of people. Those who say: I want to try, I am curious if there is such thing. They usually get their wish fulfilled. Simply because the mind tends to give us that which we are focused upon.

I hope that this article clarified some of the questions on this topic. If you want to want more, you can comment to this article and I will reply on it.

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After just one session I felt a significant change. After two, I feel free of garbage that had been in my way for decades. Who knew it could be so easy to let go?

Eugen is masterly and creates a safe space for you to do the work you need to create the changes you want.

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