Oprah Mentions Using Hypnosis for the Stress of the Economy

Oprah.com mentions in her article about how to deal with the money anxiety that is happening from the stress of the downturn in the economy, As a matter of fact, it is the first thing that is mentioned !!

"Get hypnotized. For years people have turned to hypnosis for help quitting smoking and losing weight, but the technique is also becoming popular among business types desperate to overcome financial stress, according to a November report in The Wall Street Journal. Generally, in hypnosis, a therapist uses verbal cues to put clients into a deeply relaxed state, where they become absorbed in their inner thoughts, then offers suggestions to shift an attitude so they can better tackle a problem. In this case, the suggestions might be "Money is energy that comes and goes" or "Your net worth doesn't equal your personal worth," to deflect the paralysis and insecurity that financial panic can cause. Ideally, clients learn the process on their own.

"Hypnosis is very similar to meditation," explains Dwight Damon, president of the National Guild of Hypnotists, who recommends trying a professional session before using the method on yourself. "While it won't make you richer, it will help you handle, and feel better about, the money you do have." "

The good thing about hypnosis is that it can be done on the telephone with a headset that has a microphone right in front of the mouth since volume of the voice is lower when in trance. This allow the hypnotist to hear the sound of your breathing as a way to judge your level of trance and also to ask questions and hear the responses.

Feel free to contact me at sethdeborah@HynotherapyforHealth.com to set up a telephone session.

Interesting Pain Research that Hypnosists Have Known

research carried out by G Lorimer Moseley.

The secret to solving physical aches may lie in using a pair of binoculars the wrong way round, claims research performed at Oxford University.

The study, published in Current Biology, reveals how powerfully pain and even swelling can be a product of our mental attitude.

Researchers asked ten people who suffered chronic pain in one arm to move the limb around while looking at it through a pair of binoculars that were either the right or wrong way round;

When they saw their arm magnified to double its size, the patients reported that their levels of pain increased, but when they exercised the arm while watching a minimised image of it through
inverted binoculars, their pain levels were cut significantly.

Their levels of physical swelling in the affected areas were also reduced through using the backwards binocular trick.

Moseley says he is not sure how this phenomenon works in terms of specific neurons firing, but he believes that The brain changes its protective responses according to its perception of danger levels. if it looks bigger, it looks sorer, therefore the brain acts to protect it,” he explains.

In effect, the binocular trick offers a much simpler and cheaper version of a pain-lowering brain-scan.

We as hypnotists, have always known about the power of our mind to make physical real changes.

Moseley hopes that the optical-trick discovery will lead to a practical method for lowering pain and trauma levels in hospitals.