Clinical Hypnosis is a non-invasive, non-drug treatment. It speeds up your body's natural ability to heal itself.
Here are some studies from various respectable sources finding that yes, in fact your mind can indeed heal your body through hypnosis.
PREVENTION MAGAZINE
The latest research shows that hypnotherapy eases pain, speeds up healing, increases fertility, and even can fight cancer. (March 2006)
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Numerous scientific studies have emerged in recent years showing that the hypnosis can exert a real and powerful effect on the body. (October 7, 2003)
MAYO CLINIC
Hypnosis ... can be a powerful means of directing your imagination to control physical response to stress and pain, manage certain symptoms of mental illness, and to stop unwanted habits, such as smoking.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Hypnosis is shown to be a real phenomenon with a variety of therapeutic uses - especially in controlling pain. (July 2001)
READERS DIGEST
Dozens of clinical studies have shown that hypnosis can be extremely effective in a variety of situations, often bringing as much relief as medication does. (1998)
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
A review panel appointed by the National Institute of Health found "strong evidence" for the use of hypnosis in alleviating pain associated with cancer. (July 24-31, 1996)
JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY
A controlled study of 32 coronary bypass patients showed that those taught self hypnosis pre-operatively were more relaxed after surgery and had less need for pain medication. (February 1997)
HARVARD -GAZETTE ARTICLE
Hypnosis helps healing:
Surgical wounds mend faster
By William J. Cromie
Gazette Staff
Marie McBrown was invited to test whether or not hypnosis would help heal the scars from her breast surgery. Marie (not her real name) and 17 other women underwent surgery to reduce their breast size.
It's a common operation for women whose breasts are large enough to cause back and shoulder strain, interfere with routine tasks, or prompt social and psychological problems. The pain and course of healing from such surgery is well-known, and a team of researchers headed by Carol Ginandes of Harvard Medical School and Patricia Brooks of the Union Institute in Cincinnati wanted to determine if hypnosis could speed wound healing and recovery.
"Hypnosis has been used in Western medicine for more than 150 years to treat everything from anxiety to pain, from easing the nausea of cancer chemotherapy to enhancing sports performance," Ginandes says. A list of applications she provides includes treatment of phobias, panic, low self-esteem, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, stress, smoking, colitis, warts, headaches, and high blood pressure.
"All these functional uses may help a person feel better," Ginandes continues. "I am also interested in using hypnosis to help people get better physically. That means using the mind to make structural changes in the body, to accelerate healing at the tissue level."
Four years ago, Ginandes and Daniel Rosenthal, professor of radiology at the Harvard Medical School, published a report on their study of hypnosis to speed up the mending of broken bones. They recruited 12 people with broken ankles who did not require surgery and who received the usual treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In addition, Ginandes hypnotized half of them once a week for 12 weeks, while the other half received only normal treatment. The same doctor applied the casts and other care, and the same radiologists took regular X-rays to monitor how well they healed. A radiologist who evaluated the X-rays did not know which patients underwent hypnosis.
The result stood out like a sore ankle. Those who were hypnotized healed faster than those who were not. Six weeks after the fracture, those in the hypnosis group showed the equivalent of eight and a half weeks of healing.
