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Medical Hypnotherapy
It's becoming clear that Americans are searching for complimentary healthcare options and don't mind paying out-of-pocket if the treatment of choice is not covered by insurance. The Eisenberg studies of 1991 and 1997 uncovered the startling fact that American's spend as much out-of-pocket for complimentary healthcare as they do for inpatient hospitalizations.
Historically, the model of western medicine has been authoritarian, and we've been taught to look outside of ourselves for healing. We believe that health comes from others and that the physician has all the answers. This approach minimizes the importance or even the consideration of our own self-healing abilities, which leaves us dependent and powerless.
In spite of medical advances there remains the persistent question as to why some clients recover from their illnesses or surgeries while others don't. The healthcare assembly line is rolling faster now than ever, which justifies the growing concern of the client's emotional state, how they view themselves as being ill and what expectations they have for recovery.
How Hypnosis Works
We've all got a conscious and subconscious mind. The conscious mind keeps us in the here and now. It's our short term memory and gate keeper, it analyzes, critiques, judges, accepts or denies information for storage in the subconscious. To use a computer reference, our conscious mind is the random access memory and our subconscious mind is the hard drive, which is where all the programming is.
The subconscious is our long term memory; it's the home of our imagination, values, beliefs, habits and patterns. It's also our control center. It tells our heart when to beat, our lungs when to breath and controls every step we take every day of our life. It's a very powerful place.
Hypnosis isn't magic it's nature. We all routinely go in and out of hypnotic trance. It's often referred to as daydreaming or zoning out. The subconscious mind becomes active during these moments, and the normally active conscious mind takes a break.
How Hypnotherapy Works
Hypnotherapy is the process of enabling clients to access their subconscious minds, adjusting the level of relaxation and then offering positive suggestions, affirmations and creative imagery supporting the desired healthy change. With medical hypnotherapy the suggestions are specific to the health concern such as decreasing inflammation, minimizing pain or reducing anxiety prior to a procedure for example.
Hypnotherapy is not a mystical power nor is it something administered to you. It is the process that leads you to your own natural ability and resources. A hypnotherapist acts as the tour guide helping you tap into your own self-healing mechanisms.
Our bodies routinely fight off illness. We self-heal and repair in spite of how we often disregard our own health. With hypnotherapy we are able to enhance our natural ability to return to improved health. We can manage symptoms with less medication; control our comfort and relaxation and use creative imagery to look forward in time envisioning positive resolution. What our mind conceives our body achieves.
Clinical Applications
There has been growing interest in the medical application of hypnotherapy. Here are some examples of how it can be useful in the clinical setting:
Clients in an Intensive Care setting can benefit with deeper more quality rest speeding up their recovery process. Cardiac clients are better able to balance their blood pressure, regulate their breathing and heart rate. Secretions, bleeding and tolerating procedures can be managed more effectively with hypnotherapy.
It helps Oncology clients to reduce stress and anxiety, altering sensory perception to minimize pain, relieves nausea, vomiting, respiratory distress and even preventing hair loss. In addition, it can offer increased confidence, self-image and to more easily accept the restrictions of a chronic condition, or to even help manage end of life transition.
In the Pediatric setting hypnotherapy can be very helpful. Children have amazing imaginations. What better gift to offer a frightened child than improved control during a time of crisis. What a tremendous advantage it is to be able to melt away fear and explain procedures and treatments in identifiable terms when the child is relaxed, comfortable and able to learn and succeed.
Clients in the Obstetric or Gynecology settings can benefit in the areas of increased fertility, minimizing blood loss, relieving heartburn related to pregnancy, lessening back pain, premenstrual syndrome and supporting a comfortable natural child birth.
Pre-Surgical clients are able to reduce anxiety and stress. Hypnotherapy reduces bleeding, promotes rapid healing with an improved immune response and also helps manage post-op pain and nausea requiring less medication and the side effects that go with it. It can also distort time so the process of pre and post surgery goes by quickly. It can give the surgical client control during a time of vulnerability.
Hypnotherapy helps Internal Medicine clients by improving immune response, diminishing inflammation, relieving tension and migraine headaches. It is also helpful for weight loss, arthritis, raynauds disease, anorexia nervosa, gastrointestinal disorders and stress related issues.
It can support Mental Health clients by relieving stress, anxiety, depression, fears, phobias and addictions. It puts the client in control and they have the opportunity to play an active role in their own recovery, which adds to an increased sense fulfillment ensuring long term success.
Hypnotherapy helps Dentistry clients with pain, anticipatory anxiety, distorting time perception speeding up the procedure, minimizes bleeding, excessive salivation and gagging.
Summary
As medical science pushes forward so does the need to explore complimentary modalities of support. Today's medical clients face an overwhelming array of technology. By also considering our own natural healing abilities and pursuing health and wellness from within, we blend nature and science with dramatically positive results.
Medical hypnotherapy has quietly placed its foot inside the door of mainstream medicine. More and more hypnotherapy is perceived as a complimentary treatment with the capacity to support a wide range of physical, emotional and psychological concerns by empowering the client with an effective technique they can carry through life.
Paul Gustafson RN, BSN, CH runs Healthy Hypnosis of Burlington, Massachusetts. His eleven years of medical experience offer a solid foundation supporting his clinical approach to hypnotherapy. Healthy Hypnosis is www.myhypno.com, email us at info@myhypno.com or give us a call at 781-750-8666.
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