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Hypnotherapy Masterclass Parts 3 – 4 – 5
June 13th, 2011Hypnotherapy Masterclass parts 1 & 2
May 14th, 2011I have been delighted to be engaged on a video project
with my old friend and colleague Gary Lintern.
Here are the first two of a
five part masterclass.
These sections includes: Novel induction, time distortion in hypnosis,
novel application of Vogt’s fractionation method,
deep trance modelling, reframing,
deep trance identification,
advanced hypnoalalysis,
guided imagery,
and more.
The Podcast, which is rocking a small part of the stage hypnosis world.
April 25th, 2011In the words of ‘Hypnosis Journalist’, Antonio Perez from Hawaii:
“This is the podcast that has spread like wildfire!
See why it is threatening the livelihood
of the folks that use scare tactics
trying to get people to buy
hypnotism insurance!”
In his latest Podcast, Antonio, interviews Jon Chase,
A stage hypnotist, who is fairly well known in the
south west of England. The interview is very
revealing, giving a ‘warts and all’ look at
the workings of the mind of one
particular hypnotist.
The interview inevitably touches on the conflict between
rival stage hypnotists, around the 1952 hypnotism act,
and how that effects stage hypnotists,
street performers, and
hypnotherapists.
Jon’s views are different from the views of
some of the other key protagonists
in this particular
petty squabble.
Although no names were mentioned in the interview, the ego of at least one fairly well known english stage hypnotist. (and no we are not talking of people in the league of Paul McKenna. Derren Brown,
or even anyone you have heard of, unless you are in the industry)
was dented enough to start making responses on facebook,
effectively dismissing both Perez, and Chase,
and virtually challenging
all parties to
a duel.
Hypnodiscs at twenty paces?
This podcast is only worth listening to, if you are interested, in hypno-journalism at it’s finest.
Full marks from me to Antonio, for keeping his cool throughout, and steering the interview in a good direction.
Art Therapy On Roker Beach
March 26th, 2011This instant is the only time there is.
March 26th, 2011I have been re reading a book called:
Love is Letting Go of Fear
By Gerald G. Jampolsky.
Yesterday’s chapter was ‘This instant is the only time there is’
I have just come across this review of the book:
Jampolsky proposes living by 12 lessons.
He suggests that each day we choose one to focus on
both in the morning on awakening
and at night when
retiring.
He further suggests writing the lesson on an index card and carrying it with you during the day
to refer to several times, while actively concentrating on and
implementing it during
the day.
When you are finished with each lesson,
you are to repeat the process until
you are thinking of the lessons
without prompting.
Lesson 1: All That I Give is Given to Myself
This lesson is speaking about the more love you give away, the more is returned to you.
The Law of Abundance applies to this principle.
Don’t be stingy and try to save love because that very act is what will deprive you.
It’s similar to the expression, “What goes around; comes around.”
Lesson 2: Forgiveness is the Key to Happiness
Whenever we hold on to past hurts and grievances, we don’t allow ourselves peace of mind or true happiness. We need to learn to let things go and to forgive ourselves and give up our guilt.
Lesson 3: I Am Never Upset for the Reason I Think
This refers to the provocative thought that instead of our perceptions of the world outside of us being the cause and our emotions being the effect, the world outside ourselves is really the effect of the cause of our thinking. In other words, we actually create our reality by the thoughts we think instead of our reality creating our thoughts and feelings.
Lesson 4: I Am Determined to See Things Differently
This lesson speaks to the fact that most of us miss the current moment we are in either worrying about our future or obsessing over our past. Neither one of which is something we can change. Making a conscious effort to stay present in the moment will help to see things differently without the context of the past to color our perceptions.
Lesson 5: I Can Escape the World I See by Giving Up Attack Thoughts
This thought is intricately tied to Lesson 3. If we realize that our external world is created by our thoughts, then whenever we perceive someone as attacking us, we only have to replace that thought with thoughts of love in order to stop the attack. I know this is a deep concept but the field of quantum physics seems to be providing evidence that this concept has some validity.
Lesson 6: I Am Not the Victim of the World I See
Jampolsky tells us, “When we allow ourselves to think we are living in an unfriendly environment where we must fear being hurt or victimized, we can only suffer.” When we understand that the world is a creation of our own mind, then we can simply change our minds about what we see. (Well, maybe not so simply, but it can be done if we are determined.)
Lesson 7: Today I Will Judge Nothing That Occurs
Think about what it would be like to spend one entire day judging nothing and no one, including yourself. Whenever we judge, we are fragmenting a part of the person of which we disapprove and this judgment is a habit from our past that results in nothing but “fear and conditional love.” When we make the decision to love, we become able to focus on people’s strengths and overlook their weaknesses. Can you even imagine what that might be like?
Lesson 8: This Instant Is the Only Time There Is
When we hold onto the negative experiences from our past—the guilt, regrets and complaints—we tend to project the past into the present and the future, imaging that the bad things from the past will simply continue to repeat in our future. This instant is the only time there is pertains to us being fully present in each moment so that we let go of the guilt of the past and the worry about the future.
Lesson 9: The Past Is Over It Can Touch Me Not
So often we allow our experiences from the past to make us fearful of the present and future, we cannot be truly present, nor can we open ourselves up for love. We must realize that the past is over and can hurt us no more. There is no need to protect oneself from things that are over. When you can open yourself up for love, you can release the past and the blame you hold for yourself and others.
Lesson 10: I Could See Peace Instead of This
Jampolsky says that when we are constantly dwelling on our painful pasts and worrying about our anticipated futures, then we lose the ability to experience happiness in the present moment. We are constantly in a state of conflict and cannot be truly happy. Living in the moment is the key to happiness.
Lesson 11: I Can Elect to Change All Thoughts that Hurt
While expecting pain to come into our lives, there is a way to change those thoughts. We can use the power or our minds to imagine a way out of our problems and use visualization to put ourselves in a place that is peaceful. Once we have mastered this skill, we can carry that peace with us wherever we go. There is also wisdom in viewing problems as opportunities. That way we can accept problems as challenges and view their solution as learning that will promote our growth. We are never presented with a problem that we are not ready to handle. Lesson 12: I Am Responsible for What I See
This is how the book ends with Jampolsky reminding us that we have created everything we have in our lives and if we are not satisfied, then we must change our thoughts to attract the love and happiness into our lives that we desire.
Adjectively Possitive
March 26th, 2011Read this list of positive personality adjectives quickly,
it actually makes you feel slightly upbeat.
It’s a subtle form of self hypnosis.
agreeable, alert, alluring, ambitious, amused, boundless, brave, bright,
calm, capable, charming, cheerful, coherent, comfortable, confident,
cooperative, courageous, credible, cultured, dashing, dazzling,
debonair, decisive, decorous, delightful, detailed, determined,
diligent, discreet, dynamic, eager, efficient, elated, eminent,
enchanting, encouraging, endurable, energetic, entertaining,
enthusiastic, excellent, excited, exclusive, exuberant,
fabulous, fair, faithful, fantastic, fearless, fine, frank,
friendly, funny, generous, gentle, glorious, good,
happy, harmonious, helpful, hilarious, honorable,
impartial, industrious, instinctive, jolly, joyous,
kind, kind-hearted, knowledgeable, level,
likeable, lively, lovely, loving, lucky,
mature, modern, nice, obedient,
painstaking, peaceful, perfect,
placid, plausible, pleasant,
plucky, productive,
protective,
proud,
punctual,
quiet, receptive,
reflective, relieved,
resolute, responsible,
rhetorical, righteous, romantic,
sedate, seemly, selective, self-assured,
sensitive, shrewd, silly, sincere, skillful, smiling,
splendid, steadfast, stimulating, successful, succinct,
talented, thoughtful, thrifty, tough, trustworthy, unbiased,
unusual, upbeat, vigorous, vivacious, warm, willing, wise, witty
wonderful, adaptable, adorable, agreeable, alert, alluring, ambitious,
amused, boundless, brave, bright, calm, capable, charming, cheerful,
coherent, comfortable, confident, cooperative, courageous, credible,
cultured, dashing, dazzling, debonair, decisive, decorous, delightful,
detailed, determined, diligent, discreet, dynamic, eager, efficient,
elated, eminent, enchanting, encouraging, endurable, energetic,
entertaining, enthusiastic, excellent, excited, exclusive,
exuberant, fabulous, fair, faithful, fantastic, fearless,
fine, frank, friendly, funny, generous, gentle,
glorious, good, happy, harmonious, helpful,
hilarious, honorable, impartial, industrious,
instinctive, jolly, joyous, kind,
kind-hearted, knowledgeable,
level, likeable, lively, lovely,
loving, lucky, mature,
modern, nice,
obedient,
painstaking,
peaceful, perfect,
placid, plausible, pleasant,
plucky, productive, protective,
proud, punctual, quiet, receptive,
reflective, relieved, resolute,responsible,
rhetorical, righteous, romantic, sedate, seemly,
selective, self-assured, sensitive, shrewd, silly,
sincere, skilful, smiling, splendid, steadfast,
stimulating, successful, succinct, talented,
thoughtful, thrifty, tough, trustworthy,
unbiased, unusual, upbeat, vigorous,
vivacious, warm, willing, wise,
witty, wonderful,
zealous,
zany,
Feels good, doesn’t it?
I find this rather fascinating,
which is also an adjective
that is not on the list,
and describes
some of my
favorite
people.
The Pantomome@The Palace Theatre
February 22nd, 2011Fable’s Palace Theatre.
This years Christmas Pantomime
“Mary Pops in to Fable’s Kitchen”
Staring You!
& a cast of Hypnothinkers
Soundtrack is Mary Poppins
Accompanied by musical saw and Theremin
Time and date of first performance to be anounced
All helpers wanted
Cast involves at least three world famous Hypnotharapists…
Probably a lot more,
A stage hypnotist
(or two who work well as a double act)
some travelling circus folk with ‘Issues’
It’s the coldest winter in living history, and Fable is getting ready for christmas.
There is no central heating in the palace.
Fable is wearing several coats,
one on top of the other
Scene one:
In the palatial kitchen, there is the sound of dripping, and the smell of rice cooking.
Fable has again bee procrastinating about doing the washing up.
He has created many distractions to help him to avoid
This otherwise simple task
There is some sort of ‘plumbed in contraption’ , above the draining surface, beside the sink.
Underneath that a glass is catchting drips at a rate of 35 drips per minute.
At that rate, in an hour the glass would be ‘full whelmed’.
The drips drop exactly into the centre of the glass.
Making concentic waves that ripple out to the
Glass walls , hitting all sides at exactly
The same time, so that the reflected
Waves bounce back to the centre,
Enjoy a few perfect moments.
To settle down, from their
Interference patterns.
Till the next drop
Of what?
There also a sound of dripping from behind the stage.
(Yes there is a stage in fable’s kitchen complete with curtains.)
Behind the stage is the garage.
In the garage is a car with four inches of snow on its bonnet and roof.
The car has not been used in ages.
The garage roof has more (and bigger) holes than….
(well make up your own theatrepeutic inuendos).
He plucks up the courage, and starts playing “A Spoonful of Sugar” on his musical saw
There is the sound of a strange wind.
The door from the garage (behind the stage) blows open,
Blowing open the stage curtains.
Mary Poppins (Played by? …. )
Flys in, with her carpet bag and umbrella.
What happens next?
You decide.
Introduce positive:
Theatrepeutic threads
Characters
Plot lines
Humour etc.
Be prepared to work like a theatre production team.
We have to come up with the show for first night
Mary Poppins – Flys in, with her carpet bag and umbrella.
and is hit by a bus…
Hugs!
The bus has been commandeered by none other than that nefarious do-good-not, that Mad Monk, Rasputin. His cackle of glee at plowing down poor Mary echoes down the snowy lane, sending chills up the spines of street urchins and potatoe vendors alike.
(Close up of Rasputin, who strangely resembles your favorite great Aunt, sans moustache.)
Rasputin struggles to regain control of his stolen vehicle, careening past gawking by-standers who are frozen in a state of shock and awe. And, as the exhaust-spewing bus disappears ’round a corner, the pedestrians emerge from their trance and one stout fellow lets out a great cry, “It’s Mary!” prompting the folk, en masse, to swarm toward the stricken lady.
(Great gobs of citizens slip and slide their way to the small cloaked figure who lies, still, in the middle of the street. No one seems to notice that her carpet bag is abandoned in the gutter, its contents slipping into the slushy water streaming there.)
All attention is on Mary Poppins.
The citizens, of this humble town, have seen nothing like it before.
Mary Pops in, at the begining of what she thought was going to be a piece of cake. (and perhaps a cup of tea).
A simple bit of magic should have sorted all of Fable’s problems out in to time flat.
Instead she finds herself knocked senseless by a passing bus, driven by a mad monk.
On the average day in Sunderland, nobody would have batted an eyelid, or even paused to turn their head and gawk.
Just another sorceress, being knocked down by a mad monk in a stolen bus
But this is no ordinary day.
Scene shifts back to the Kitchen:
Where moments ago, Fable had plucked up the courage to play ‘Spoonful of Sugar’
Who knows what dark depths he must have been through to get to that point.
but it was indeed a turning point.
Nothing was going to get in the way now.
He took his saw playing bow, and waved it three timesWiddershins
And said out loud:
Mary Mary quite contrary,
I wish you back in the room.
Scene switches to street
where the cloaked figure is getting smaller and smaller, untill only the cloak is left lying on the street.
A hand appears from nowhere, and grasps the handle of the carpet bag, which is whisked off from the slushy gutter.
Back in the kitchen,
Fable is fiddling with his bow.
“It needs the hairs loosening” he said to himself, “the last spell I did with it went terribly wrong!”
Having adjusted the tension, he begins to play ‘a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down’ on his favourite musical saw.
And once again, there is the sound of a strange wind.
The door from the garage (behind the stage) blows open,
Blowing open the stage curtains. and in walks Mary poppins (played by Melissa Sweet), her umbrella in one hand, and a dripping wet carpet bag in the other.
“you called?” she said.
Old man Fable wipes the sweat from his brow, and says: “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”
which translated means ‘Atoning for educability through delicate beauty’
“why thank you”, said Mary, and how can I help you.
Scene shifts to February, It rained all day and all night, but now at 11 am the sun has come out!
“Must be somethng to do with that spell we cast last night”, said Mary.
“You mean the late night sing song in the attic?” asked Fable
“Indubitably ” Said Mary.
In the palatial kitchen, there is still the sound of dripping water, from behind the stage curtains.
There is some sort of ‘plumbed in contraption’, above the draining surface, beside the sink.
Underneath that, now a beautiful crystal decanter is catching the
drips at a rate of one drop every 30 minutes.
At that rate, in a few months
the decanter would be
‘full whelmed’.
The drips drop exactly into the centre of the decanter. Making concentic waves that ripple out to the
glass walls , hitting all sides at exactly the same time, so that the
reflected waves bounce back to the centre,
Enjoy a few perfect moments.
To settle down, from their
Interference patterns.
Till the next drop
Of what?
Fable takes a small brown bottle from a shelf, and pours one drop of what looks like water,
carefully into the decanter, so as not to touch the sides. It lands exactly in the centre,
making concentic waves that ripple out to the glass walls ,
hitting all sidesat exactly the same time, so that the
reflected waves bounce back to the centre,
Enjoy a few perfect moments.
To settle down, from their
Interference patterns.
Till the next drop
Of what?
He then takes the decanter and replaces it with another
even more beautiful ornate antique one.
Relpaces the stopper in it,
and carefully carries it
up the winding
stair.
One step at a time, very slowly, he aproaches the small room in the atic which has never
known electricity, In which there is a vaste array of decanters and bottles
of every shape colour and size you could possibly imagine,
containing varying amounts of what looks like water.
There are no labels on the bottles,
but each one is
unique.
http://www.hypnothoughts.com/group/fablesfiresidestorytellingcirclecooperatition/forum/topics/christmas-pantomime?page=1&commentId=716892%3AComment%3A623782&x=1#716892Comment623782
Sports Hypnosis
February 17th, 2011Funny how things happen in cycles.
Over the past few weeks, for some reason,
I have had a few clients for help with their sport.
I have seen two ‘mixed martial arts’ fighters,
A proffessional footballer, and a snooker player.
Looking for help with motivation, focus, fine tuning
or overcoming a mental block to their continued progress
There seems to be no obvious connection between them,
they each found me quite independantly, through the website.
and there is nothing specific on there hypnotherapy for sports.
I’m wondering if there has been an article on television
or in a magazine about it recently, that I have missed out on ?
or is it just one of those coincidences that happen from time to time?
Evidence for use of hypnosis with pain.
February 16th, 2011
Hypnosis Reduces Frequency and Intensity of Migraines
Compared the treatment of migraine by hypnosis and autohypnosis with the treatment of migraine by the drug prochlorperazine (Stemetil). Results show that the number of attacks and the number of people who suffered blinding attacks were significantly lower for the group receiving hypnotherapy than for the group receiving prochlorperazine. For the group on hypnotherapy, these two measures were significantly lower when on hypnotherapy than when on the previous treatment. It is concluded that further trials of hypnotherapy are justified against some other treatment not solely associated with the ingestion of tablets.
Anderson JA, Basker MA, Dalton R, Migraine and hypnotherapy, International Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis 1975; 23(1): 48-58.
Hypnosis Reduces Pain and Speeds up Recovery from Surgery
Since 1992, we have used hypnosis routinely in more than 1400 patients undergoing surgery. We found that hypnosis used with patients as an adjunct to conscious sedation and local anesthesia was associated with improved intraoperative patient comfort, and with reduced anxiety, pain, intraoperative requirements for anxiolytic and analgesic drugs, optimal surgical conditions and a faster recovery of the patient. We reported our clinical experience and our fundamental research.
[Hypnosis and its application in surgery] Faymonville ME, Defechereux T, Joris J, Adant JP, Hamoir E, Meurisse M, Service d’Anesthesie-Reanimation, Universite de Liege, Rev Med Liege. 1998 Jul;53(7):414-8.
Hypnosis Reduces Pain Intensity
Analysis of the simple-simple main effects, holding both group and condition constant, revealed that application of hypnotic analgesia reduced report of pain intensity significantly more than report of pain unpleasantness.
Dahlgren LA, Kurtz RM, Strube MJ, Malone MD, Differential effects of hypnotic suggestion on multiple dimensions of pain.Journal of Pain & Symptom Management. 1995; 10(6): 464-70.
Hypnosis Reduces Pain of Headaches and Anxiety
The improvement was confirmed by the subjective evaluation data gathered with the use of a questionnaire and by a significant reduction in anxiety scores.
Melis PM, Rooimans W, Spierings EL, Hoogduin CA, Treatment of chronic tension-type headache with hypnotherapy: a single-blind time controlled study. Headache 1991; 31(10): 686-9.
Hypnosis Lowered Post-treatment Pain in Burn Injuries
Patients in the hypnosis group reported less post treatment pain than did patients in the control group. The findings are used to replicate earlier studies of burn pain hypnoanalgesia, explain discrepancies in the literature, and highlight the potential importance of motivation with this population.
Patterson DR, Ptacek JT, Baseline pain as a moderator of hypnotic analgesia for burn injury treatment. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology 1997; 65(1): 60-7.
Hypnosis Lowered Phantom Limb Pain
Hypnotic procedures appear to be a useful adjunct to established strategies for the treatment of phantom limb pain and would repay further, more systematic, investigation. Suggestions are provided as to the factors which should be considered for a more systematic research program.
Treatment of phantom limb pain using hypnotic imagery. Oakley DA, Whitman LG, Halligan PW, Department of Psychology, University College, London, UK.
Hypnosis Has a Reliable and Significant Impact on Acute and Chronic Pain
Hypnosis has been demonstrated to reduce analogue pain, and studies on the mechanisms of laboratory pain reduction have provided useful applications to clinical populations. Studies showing central nervous system activity during hypnotic procedures offer preliminary information concerning possible physiological mechanisms of hypnotic analgesia. Randomized controlled studies with clinical populations indicate that hypnosis has a reliable and significant impact on acute procedural pain and chronic pain conditions. Methodological issues of this body of research are discussed, as are methods to better integrate hypnosis into comprehensive pain treatment.
Hypnosis and clinical pain. Patterson DR, Jensen MP, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA USA 98104 Psychol Bull. 2003 Jul;129(4):495-521.
Hypnosis is a Powerful Tool in Pain Therapy and is Biological in Addiction to Psychological
Attempting to elucidate cerebral mechanisms behind hypnotic analgesia, we measured regional cerebral blood flow with positron emission tomography in patients with fibromyalgia, during hypnotically-induced analgesia and resting wakefulness. The patients experienced less pain during hypnosis than at rest. The cerebral blood-flow was bilaterally increased in the orbitofrontal and subcallosial cingulate cortices, the right thalamus, and the left inferior parietal cortex, and was decreased bilaterally in the cingulate cortex. The observed blood-flow pattern supports notions of a multifactorial nature of hypnotic analgesia, with an interplay between cortical and subcortical brain dynamics. Copyright 1999 European Federation of Chapters of the International Association for the Study of Pain.
Functional anatomy of hypnotic analgesia: a PET study of patients with fibromyalgia. Wik G, Fischer H, Bragee B, Finer B, Fredrikson M, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Karolinska Institute and Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Eur J Pain. 1999 Mar;3(1):7-12.
Hypnosis Useful in Hospital Emergency Rooms
Hypnosis can be a useful adjunct in the emergency department setting. Its efficacy in various clinical applications has been replicated in controlled studies. Application to burns, pain, pediatric procedures, surgery, psychiatric presentations (e.g., coma, somatoform disorder, anxiety, and post traumatic stress), and obstetric situations (e.g., hyperemesis, labor, and delivery) are described.
Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2000 May;18(2):327-38, x. The use of hypnosis in emergency medicine. Peebles-Kleiger MJ, Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences, Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS, USA. peeblemj@menninger.edu
Scientific Evidence for Effectiveness of Hypnosis with Weight
February 15th, 2011Hypnosis Over 30 Times as Effective for Weight Loss
Investigated the effects of hypnosis in weight loss for 60 females, at least 20% overweight. Treatment included group hypnosis with metaphors for ego-strengthening, decision making and motivation, ideomotor exploration in individual hypnosis, and group hypnosis with maintenance suggestions. Hypnosis was more effective than a control group: an average of 17 lbs lost by the hypnosis group vs. an average of 0.5 lbs lost by the control group, on follow-up.
Cochrane, Gordon; Friesen, J. (1986). Hypnotherapy in weight loss treatment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 54, 489-492.
Two Years Later: Hypnosis Subjects Continued To Lose Significant Weight
109 people completed a behavioral treatment for weight management either with or without the addition of hypnosis. At the end of the 9-week program, both interventions resulted in significant weight reduction. At 8-month and 2-year follow-ups, the hypnosis subjects were found to have continued to lose significant weight, while those in the behavioral-treatment-only group showed little further change.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (1985)
Hypnosis Subjects Lost More Weight Than 90% of Others and Kept it Off
Researchers analyzed 18 studies comparing a cognitive behavioral therapy such as relaxation training, guided imagery, self monitoring, or goal setting with the same therapy supplemented by hypnosis.
Those who received the hypnosis lost more weight than 90 percent of those not receiving hypnosis and maintained the weight loss two years after treatment ended.
University of Connecticut, Storrs Allison DB, Faith MS. Hypnosis as an adjunct to cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy for obesity: a meta-analytic reappraisal. J Consult Clin Psychol. 1996;64(3):513-516.
Hypnosis More Than Doubled Average Weight Loss
Study of the effect of adding hypnosis to cognitive-behavioral treatments for weight reduction, additional data were obtained from authors of two studies. Analyses indicated that the benefits of hypnosis increased substantially over time.
Kirsch, Irving (1996). Hypnotic enhancement of cognitive-behavioral weight loss treatments–Another meta-reanalysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64 (3), 517-519.
Hypnosis Showed Significantly Lower Post-Treatment Weights
Two studies compared overweight smoking and non-smoking adult women in an hypnosis-based, weight-loss program. Both achieved significant weight losses and decreases in Body Mass Index. Follow-up study replicated significant weight losses and declines in Body Mass Index. The overt aversion and hypnosis program yielded significantly lower post-treatment weights and a greater average number of pounds lost.
Weight loss for women: studies of smokers and nonsmokers using hypnosis and multi-component treatments with and without overt aversion. Johnson DL, Psychology Reprints. 1997 Jun;80(3 Pt 1):931-3.
Hypnotherapy group with stress reduction achieved significantly more weight loss than the other two treatments.
Randomised, controlled, parallel study of two forms of hypnotherapy (directed at stress reduction or energy intake reduction), vsdietary advice alone in 60 obese patients with obstructive sleep apnoea on nasal continuous positive airway pressure treatment.
J Stradling, D Roberts, A Wilson and F Lovelock, Chest Unit, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7LJ, UK
Hypnosis can more than double the effects of traditional weight loss approaches
An analysis of five weight loss studies reported in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology in 1996 showed that the “… weight loss reported in the five studies indicates that hypnosis can more than double the effects” of traditional weight loss approaches.
University of Connecticut, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology in 1996 (Vol. 64, No. 3, pgs 517-519).
Weight loss is greater where hypnosis is utilized
Research into cognitive-behavioral weight loss treatments established that weight loss is greater where hypnosis is utilized. It was also established that the benefits of hypnosis increase over time.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (1996)
Showed Hypnosis As “An Effective Way To Lose Weight”
A study of 60 females who were at least 20% overweight and not involved in other treatment showed hypnosis is an effective way to lose weight.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (1986)