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Hypnosis
in the News
Women Turning To Hypnosis To Get Pregnant (CBS Feb. '07)) Hypnosis is
used for smoking, losing weight and even limiting labor pain in the delivery
room, but now some women swear it is helping them get pregnant, reports Dennis
Douda of WCCO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Minneapolis.
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Reality show mastermind Mark Burnett (TMZ.com Sep. '06) who made be ing
stranded on distant islands and being fired by Donald Trump actually seem
appealing – and compelling TV – is aiming to put people quite literally under a
spell on his latest series.
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Hypnotherapy To Tackle Alcohol
(The Press Oct. '06) Word has spread how hypnosis treatment at the York Alcohol Advice
Service (YAAS) is helping drinkers beat the battle with the bottle. Other
organizations are now planning to visit and see how the unusual intervention
works first-hand with a view to setting up their own project.
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Dozing Off Without A Prescription
(L.A.
Times Sep. '06) In analyzing data from 31,000 Americans interviewed 20% reported difficulty sleeping
and 5% used complementary and alternative medicine.
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Hypnosis For Non-Cardiac Chest Pain
(Reuters Health Sep. '06)
Individuals who experience chest pain that is not
caused by a heart condition or heartburn may benefit from hypnotherapy.
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Hypnosurgery Live Live UK
television: In April 06 broadcasted
live surgery with only hypnosis as the anesthetic. You can see the entire
surgery as well as interviews with the patient, surgeon and hypnotherapist on
streaming video.
Power of
Suggestion: Hypnosis (Orange County Register) Researchers recently have
shown what happens in the brains of people who are hypnotized. A
2005 study published in Proceedings of the National Academies
showed that people under hypnosis demonstrated less activity in
the part of the brain called the anterior cingulate cortex –
which is linked to decision-making – than did people who weren't
hypnotized.
Such studies are gradually stripping hypnosis of its showbiz
history and legitimizing it in medical offices and hospitals.
Doctors, nurses and psychologists increasingly use hypnosis to
complement standard treatments. Likewise, an increasing number
of patients seek out hypnosis as an alternative to more invasive
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Hay
Fever
Relief
(BBC News) Hay fever sufferers could
benefit from using self-hypnosis, researchers
say. A Swiss team at Basle University taught 66 people with hay-fever the
art of hypnosis and found it helped them alleviate symptoms such as runny nose.
The volunteers also took their regular anti-hay-fever drugs, but the effect of
hypnosis appeared to be
additive and reduce the doses they needed to take.
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Healthy Weight Loss
(ABC News:
Sep.
‘05) As Americans gain girth, and yo-yo dieting or diet pills rarely
have lasting effects, many are at a loss when it comes to losing weight.
Hypnosis is an age-old technique designed to speak to your subconscious
mind and alter your behavior. Known to work well to quit smoking, can it
re-program your eating habits?
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Down Under (Your
Spirit Magazine) “You decide to relax and what words or images to accept.
The
hypnotist is a tour guide. Success depends on how open the client is to
relaxing, how motivated they are to making positive change and how well the
hypnotist does his or her job. Anyone who wants to be hypnotized can be if they
have reasonable intelligence and the imagination to create the visions supporting their goals.”
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