In 1958 hypnosis was recognized by the American Medical Association as a legitimate, safe approach to medical and psychological problems. Today more people recognize that the mind and body interact. Mind and body are integrated parts of a whole being; a change in one part affects the other.

Medical Hypnosis

Hypnosis allows patients to focus intently on a specific problem and its resolution while maintaining a comfortable state of physical relaxation. It also helps patients to enhance control over their body responses. Hypnosis is an integrated component of a patient's overall medical care.

Hypnosis is a normal state of aroused, attentive and highly focused concentration -- comparable to being so absorbed in a movie or novel that one loses awareness of his or her surroundings.

This program teaches patients self-hypnosis to help them deal with: 

  • Pain and physical symptom control
  • Smoking control
  • Anxiety management
  • Medical treatment side effects such as nausea and vomiting
  • Stress management
  • Phobias
  • Stress-related neurological problems
  • Cancer
  • Fertility
  • High Blood Pressure
  • Pre/Post Surgery
  • Weight problems


Summary of Results of Harvard Study

The Mind Body Medical Institute, associated with Harvard University Medical Centre, have published these results using Mind Body Techniques:

  • Chronic pain patients reduce physician visits by 36%
  • 50% reduction in visits to HMO after a relaxation-response based intervention which resulted in estimated significant cost savings
  • 80%of hypertensive patients have lowered blood pressure and decreased medications. 16% were able to discontinue their medication
  • Open Heart surgery patients haver fewer post-operative complications
  • 100% of insomia patients reported improved sleep and 91% either eliminated or reduced sleeping medication use
  • Infertile women have a 42% conception rate, 38% take home baby rate, and decreased levels of depression, anxiety and anger
  • 57% reduction in women with severe PMS - physical & psychological symptoms
  • Heart Disease - psychosocial interventions reduce the risk of further cardiac events by as much as 75%
  • Chronic Ilness - randomised clinical trial of 1000 patients. When compared with control subjects, individuals participating in self management program exhited significant improvements in outcomes at 6 months (exercise, fatigue, self-reported health, disability and health distress). These patients spend one less day in hospital

Sobel, DS MSJ AMA: Mind Matters, Money Matters: The Cost Effectiveness of MInd/Body Medicine. JAMA: 284, 1705



Medical Hypnosis, Pain Management 
and Healing 


Hypnosis has the potential to help relieve the symptoms of a wide variety of diseases and conditions. It can be used independently or along with other treatments. It is one of several relaxation methods for treating chronic pain that has been approved by an independent panel convened by the National Institutes of Health. 

Hypnosis can support you, and support the work of the medical team. Hypnosis is a complementary therapy that is used as an adjunct to medical treatment.

Hypnotists can be a support to you and be a member of the healing team. Hypnosis can do much to mitigate suffering. Many diseases have been found to have a psychological component: cancer, asthma, allergies, migraines, immune system disorders and more because of the integral connection between the central nervous system and the immune system. Ongoing emotional strain can make a person more vulnerable to disease. Happily, the complex field of connections within the subconscious mind/body are accessible in hypnosis, and there are many hypnosis techniques available to relieve your suffering.


The subconscious mind/body connection

Sometimes illness is a direct result of past trauma and emotion stored in the body.  Emotional blocks and physical trauma can lodge in the tissues and organs of the body and generate illness.

The chronic buildup of stress and unrelieved tension from an ongoing disease situation can be much reduced through this powerful, holistic program. It is well known that the "fear-tension-pain" syndrome may be relieved using hypnotic techniques.

Clients have seen clear benefits in hypnotherapy for pre and post op surgery, back pain, distress from chemotherapy or radiation treatment. Regression hypnosis may also be used to address the emotional dimensions of illness and sometimes clients find that releasing a trigger event not only provides understanding, but can also speed recovery. 


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