The Benifits of Stoping Smoking Hypnosis for Pain Management 1 (1)

1 Mar 2022 General Pain Info, Scripts, Smoking Cessation

 

The Benefits of Stopping Smoking with Hypnosis

Within 8 hours

  • carbon monoxide level drops in your body oxygen level in your blood increases to normal

Within 48 hours

  • your chances of having a heart attack start to go down
  • the sense of smell and taste begin to improve

Within 72 hours

  • bronchial tubes relax, making breathing easier
  • lung capacity increases

Within 2 weeks to 3 months

  • circulation improves
  • lung functioning increases up to 30 percent

Within 6 months

  • coughing, sinus congestion, tiredness, and shortness of breath improve

Within 1 year

  • risk of smoking-related heart attack is cut in half

Within 10 years

  • risk of dying from lung cancer is cut in half

Within 15 years

  • risk of dying from a heart attack is equal to a person who never smoked.

 You get 300 times more carbon monoxide from one cigarette than you do from breathing car exhaust for 5 minutes.

 

An example of creating a hypnosis pain management script using the benifits of quiting smoking information

Ron Eslinger

Pain management, like an onion, involves multiple layers of contributing factors. And like thinking about eating a lemon, thinking about pain can produce some unpleasant responses.

You must feel proud of yourself knowing that you had your last cigarette today at ______.

Did you know that your carbon monoxide levels began to drop when you had your last cigarette, and the carbon monoxide is out of your system within eight hours? Hemoglobin transports oxygen in the blood; however, carbon monoxide can take the place of oxygen, which means without oxygen, the tissues are in pain. Now that you had your last cigarette, more oxygen, which is healing, relaxing, and necessary for life, enters your tissues, creating comfort. You may be surprised at how much more comfortable you become since you quit smoking and more oxygen enters your body.

I was amazed when I learned that within 48 hours of quitting smoking, the chances of having a heart attack start to go down.

You might be pleased to know that when within 48 hours of quitting smoking, your smell and taste begin to improve. This means your food will taste better, and you will enjoy your food more. My clients report that they now eat less, enjoy it more, and are more active.

I wonder if you will enjoy noticing that within 72 hours, as your bronchial tubes relax, making breathing easier as your lung capacity increases, so does your comfort even more with every breath you take.

I think you will be surprised to notice how much more comfortable you become as your circulation and your lung functioning increase up to 30 percent in the next two weeks to three months.

By decreasing the amount of nicotine and carbon monoxide in the body, you control your comfort.

Ron Eslinger, MA, CRNA, BCH, CMI, FNGH

 

Clinical Hypnosis and Its Benefit for Pain Management 0 (0)

11 Dec 2019 Pain

Ron Eslinger, RN, CRNA, APN, MA, BCH, CMI

Modern Hypnosis and Its Benefit for Pain Management

 We are not a patient society. We all want everything right now. We’re instant oatmeal, instant grits, instant coffee and instant pudding! We’re instant everything, aren’t we? And one of the things that I’ve noticed about pain management is that it actually can be instant.  Just turn off the pain without surgery and without pills.  It sounds like magic, but it isn’t. It’s based on scientific methods and the body’s ability to heal itself quickly while working with the subconscious mind.

What grabbed my attention most about hypnosis in my early career were the positive dramatic effects I observed with chronic pain patients.  The majority of people observed noticeable pain relief right away.  Many patients experienced total relief from pain.

How does it work so fast and so well? Imagine you are injured. Your nervous system sends a signal to your brain communicating the message that an injury has taken place. The brain takes the electrical impulse and relays it to the endocrine system where hormones and neurotransmitters come into play. At that point, cells begin communicating with one another and your brain formulates how to proceed. The most important part of this scenario is that the process begins with a simple electrochemical message.

Until that electrochemical message reaches the brain, there is no pain!

 The beauty of hypnosis for pain management is the ability to interrupt that electrochemical message before it reaches the brain. Experiencing hypnosis is a natural ability that exists to some degree within every human being.  That means we have the ability to reduce the use of medications or even eliminate them completely by utilizing hypnosis. Unlike medications, hypnosis has no side effects nor is it addictive. Discomfort is reduced to different degrees in different people and the result is obtained safely and naturally.

Hypnosis permits a higher level of functioning and enhances the healing process while allowing people to remain active. Progress is greatly influenced by the expectation of wellness for a positive outcome.  It advances the experience of comfort and lessens anxiety and fear, which are very important factors in facilitating recovery or at least in minimizing a decline in health.

The Challenge of Individual Pain Management

This article explores how hypnosis is used effectively for the relief of chronic pain.  The pain experience is multifactorial, affecting individuals physically, psychologically, sociologically, and spiritually. Through the exploration of pain and its many facets, I touch on the basic principles behind why hypnosis is effective.

There are four elements of the pain experience. Physical, Psychological, Sociological, Spiritual.

Michael Yapko states that hypnosis is a fascinating domain of clinical research and practice.  It involves the study of how seemingly ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things by using their minds.  The mind is used to focus on mental images, thoughts, and ideas that influence the human body’s response in very special ways.

From Mesmer’s studies and Braid’s practices, we know there is a great deal of flexibility in what the mind experiences.   Individuals become so deeply absorbed in their daily life experiences that they permit their bodies to become more comfortable, even in the presence of injury.  This is the foundation of hypnotic analgesia and hypnotic anesthesia.  The ability to make the body more comfortable represents the most sophisticated use of hypnosis.

Hypnotic analgesia is the use of hypnosis to reduce or diminish bodily sensations. It allows for a decrease in the pain sensation.  A more powerful tool for pain management is hypnotic anesthesia, which refers to the total elimination of sensations and pain, allowing for complete relief of symptoms.  This complete relief of pain leads to a common misconception about pain management through hypnosis:  People assume that if pain exists and the pain is reduced through hypnosis, then the pain is psychological; in other works, the pain is in your head. Therefore the pain is not real.

Nothing is further from the truth.  Hypnotic anesthesia eliminates real pain.  For example, hypnosis has been reported as the sole anesthetic in major surgical procedures (hypnotic anesthesia). Resent research also advocates the use of hypnosis prior to surgery to lessen pain, shorten hospital stays, and reduce subsequent nausea and vomiting. The incision and physical effects of surgery are obviously quite real and often dramatic.  The elimination of the sensations and pain of surgery through the use of hypnosis is equally real.  Regardless of the situation, the application of hypnosis is routine. The same principles used to apply hypnotic anesthesia for surgical patients are also used in numerous situations to help people manage chronic pain, end addictions, and eliminate fears.  These useful applications of hypnosis are discussed in more detail later in this book.

Hypnosis as an adjunct to medicine and surgery allows one to decrease pain and enhance healing.  Often, a person with chronic pain may feel victimized and helpless.  Hypnosis gives the person greater self-control.  This self-control decreases the fight-or-flight response.  Self-control also decreases the level of stress hormones.  Both the reduction in fight-or-flight and the decrease in stress hormones can lead to a significant decrease in pain.

If you have experienced hypnosis, you know that hypnosis is nothing more than focus and concentration.  Hypnosis allows one to comfortably and easily set aside all of the demands and pressures of everyday life.  If you have never experienced hypnosis before, I can safely say you will truly enjoy the experience.  It feels good and more important, it opens the doors to a new perspective for making healthy changes in your life. In my early career during the late 1970s, many of my clients compared their feelings while under hypnosis with the sensations they had when they were smoking marijuana.  You can decide for yourself.

CRPS and Children 0 (0)

11 Dec 2019 Children, CRPS, Pain

My comments to a mother who has a child diagnosed with CRPS.  (Notice I said DIAGNOSED not has CRPS)

Some things about working with children that we need to discuss which has to be considered:

  • How much her condition is being reinforced by family, friends and physicians
  • Children love attention and subconsciously may not be able to tell negative from positive attention – it is just attention
  • There is always a reward involved with every behavior – finding her reward or discovering a bigger reward is a big part of recovery.
  • CRPS is called complex because there is no reason for it so it is complexing to the medical mind that can’t see beyond physical treatment.

A simple statement from you, asking, “are you in pain?” Hurting or how do you feel today is a trigger for the brain to create and be reinforced with a learned response.

I leave you with this thought – There is no pain until the electrical impulse reaches the brain. In the brain the emotions of past experiences are filtered by the Thalamus gland and relayed to other glands that then determine the response. In your daughters case “pain”.

Here is a comment from a past CRPS diagnosed client

Hi Lena and Ron,

I hope you are both doing well. I wanted to follow up with what has happened sense I have been home. First of all thank you so very much for the Hung by the Tongue book. I love it and have enjoyed reading it. I am doing great! I have started tapering off my medications. I am completely off of narcotic pain medication and that feels so good. I have also started physical therapy and that is going great as well. My life is completely different from before I came to Clinton. I feel like I got my life back and I am so excited and optimistic about my future.  I am settling into my new routine well.  I do relaxation/hypnosis 2-4 hours a day and I love it. It keeps getting better everyday. I have been able to share what I have learned with so many people close to me. Sorry if you get a lot of injuries. Many were amazed by the results, like I still am. Many of my friends and family have started using your apps and love it. I am hoping to come back in April to get trained let me know if it is sooner. Thank you for all you do! I can never explain just how thankful and appreciate My family and I are for all that you have done. I feel so blessed and forever thankful! Coming to Healthy Visions saved my life!

 

Meeting the Pain Client’s Needs – Clinical Hypnosis and HypnoAnesthesia for Pain Management Part 1 of 2 0 (0)

11 Dec 2019 Captain’s Blog, General Pain Info

Hypnosis and HypnoAnesthesia for pain Management Part 1 of 2
M. Ron Eslinger, RN, CRNA, APN, MA, BCH, CMI, OB, FNGH

Meeting the Client’s Needs – Personalizing the Pain Treatment Plan.

Clinical hypnosis and HypnoAnathesia are key components for pain management and control. This article is about personalizing direct suggestions, metaphors, and stories to the client’s history and expectations. The intake sheet, NGH BASIC, NGH GOAL and what the client tells you is critical in developing a personalized session that has lasting effect. If you are a script reader, you will be surprised at how much better your clients will do when you listen during the interview or actually do an interview. Doing so will allow you to create a script that is personal and life-changing for your client.

When I retired from the Navy and opened my hypnosis practice in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (the Secret City). One of the first things I did was call and make an appointment with two hypnotists listed in Knoxville, Tennessee. My first appointment was with a registered nurse with a degree in psychology. It took me three phone calls to find her home office. Once I arrived at her home, I could not get out of the car because two German Shepherds would now let me out of the car. She, the hypnotist, came and escorted me, to what she called the mother-in-law’s room, which had an outside entrance. Her interview consisted of two questions. One, what is your name? Two, what do you want hypnosis for? I told her my name and that I had just retired and did not want to procrastinate in finding a job.

She said lay down over there and look at the flowers on the wall. What she told me to lie down on, was a short and narrow bench that she called the couch. The flowers look like 30-year-old dried-up roses, probably from her wedding. I did not ask. She sit down in a squeaky, wooden, antique desk chair. And pulled out her book (which I own) and said let me see what I can find for you. The title of the book is Hypnotherapy Scripts: a Neo – Ericksonian Approach to Persuasive Healing by Ronald A. Havens and Catherine Walters. A book I highly recommend.

Halfway through the hypnosis, as I continue to be concerned about falling off of that small couch, those two large German Shepherds broke through the French doors and were staring me in the face! It was an interesting session. I did survive both the hypnosis and the dogs.
I learned a lot that day. I learned about what other hypnotists in the area were doing which if you haven’t done that you truly should integrate investment in your education and in your own well-being.

My major take away was the fact that there was no interview. She knew nothing about me. And that there was absolutely nothing in her hypnosis that was personal for me.

Second hypnosis session in the beginning:
It only took me two phone calls to find my second hypnotist, a Yoga Master. My fault, I was looking for a hypnotist office. The room he did hypnosis in was very sterile with a simple straight-backed chair across the room from a picture which I still too this day cannot describe, other than to say that it was a black and white geometric something. I was told to sit in the chair and to stare at the picture.
For the second time, I was only asked, what is your name, and what are you here for? I gave him the same answer. He did at least give a good explanation of what hypnosis was and how it worked, and what I could expect, almost. For the next hour, I sat very uncomfortably throughout the longest progressive relaxation induction in my entire life. It was painful. Again I learned a lot about how I was going to work with my clients both interactively and personally.

Did hypnosis work? Of course, I retired in December. I had two sessions of hypnosis in December. I open my practice in December two weeks before Christmas. That was in 2003.

Are you ready to personalize your sessions for client success? Only you can make the decision to study, train and learn how to be a successful clinical hypnotist personalizing the client’s sessions to their personality type.
Here is an example of an August 2015 graduate using client personalization skills. “I just wanted to thank you for putting on a great course. I learned a lot from you especially in the application of techniques. I was pleasantly surprised to be working with a weight loss client the other night and after I emerged her she gave me a great piece of info to use so I quickly re-induced her and developed a metaphor that I am confident was very powerful for her as it was so personal.” Nick Hill
He used a great technique of using what is learned in the debrief or post-hypnosis interview to simply let the client re-enter hypnosis at which time he gave her a metaphor with suggestions specific to what she was willing to share because of hypnosis. Do not let these opportunities get lost.

The following is a follow-up email from my July 2015 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) client who I saw for a sixteen-hour intensive treatment over a five day period.

“I wanted to follow up with what has happen since I have been home. First of all, thank you so very much for the Hung by the Tongue book. I love it and have enjoyed reading it.” (I spend time every session teaching the importance of positive self-talk. Hung by the Tongue was chosen because of her faith to personalize to her lifestyle.) “I am doing great! I have started tapering off my medications. I am completely off of narcotic pain medication and that feels so good. I have also started physical therapy and that is going great as well. My life is completely different from before I came to Clinton. I feel like I got my life back and I am so excited and optimistic about my future. I am settling into my new routine well. I do relaxation/hypnosis 2-4 hours a day and I love it. It keeps getting better every day. I have been able to share what I have learned with so many people close to me. Sorry, if you get a lot of inquiries. Many were amazed by the results like I still am. Many of my friends and family have started using your apps and love it. I am hoping to come back in April to get trained let me know if it is sooner. Thank you for all you do! I can never explain just how thankful and appreciative my family and I are for all that you have done. I feel so blessed and forever thankful! Coming to Healthy Visions saved my life!”

You can also visit my blog https://roneslinger.com/category/hypnosiscasereports/ to read an article written by another client diagnosed with CRPS, which was published in the Journal of Hypnotism.

Hypnosis resolves a number of different ailments, including problems developed from past experiences, trauma, or habits. This large spectrum results in a wide variety of clients as well. While the application of hypnosis may be similar, the needs of a client or a patient may vary greatly. While you gather information on the client’s problems and motivations during the initial visit or encounter, also listen for hints regarding their personal needs. We have one fiscal needs which is for survival, and for psychological needs which include love, power, fun, and freedom. A good hypnotist is always paying attention to how the client’s pain effects each of these five needs.
Clients possess a variety of religious and spiritual needs as was displayed in the CRPS client above and my reason for not only giving her a book based on biblical quotes, but also actually reading quotes from the book and then explaining how those quotes related to her personally. How did I know what to say? I conducted a good interview and listened to what the client said.

The client’s religious, psychological and personal needs are used during hypnosis to help them cope with stress, fear and anxiety. Their personal needs also solidify their motivation and expectation toward making life changes. For you, the hypnotist, it is important that you do not pass judgment on an individual’s belief system, regardless of what that system is.

I use a number of techniques to personalize the hypnosis session to the client. I will list a few and how I use them:
A technique I starting using 3 years ago is one I learned at the NGH conference from Ruth Schneider and David Prudhomme, in their Stressed to Best training. I later completed the certification training. The value is learning the personality type of the client with a quick and easy survey. In the course I learned which words are key words to the client, this makes it easy for me to develop direct suggestions and metaphors related to the client’s personality type.

Examples of key words of a recent client. Spontaneous, possibilities, noticeable and expected, and limitless are only a few of that client’s personality type key word list.

I may suggest to the client. I wonder if you have ever been spontaneous. Meaning, did you do something without making plans or even wondering what the outcome may be? Would you be willing to be spontaneous now by changing your thinking from how you are, to how you would like to be? Just forgetting about the past and letting a healing present happen. Your healing thoughts create a healing response.
Think of all the limitless possibilities that are available to you, and each day as you become more and more comfortable those possibilities become more noticeable those possibilities that are actually limitless are there waiting for you. Sometimes those possibilities can be spontaneous other times they can be planned but most of all they are determined by your willingness to expect to achieve those limitless possibilities of comfortable competence.

There is a TV show called Big Brother and its motto is to, Expect the Unexpected. Isn’t it amazing though, how your doctors have continuously created your expectation of having to live with your pain? You will have it for the rest of your life. They created your expectation, and because they are the authority we accept that suggestion. Are you willing now to change their expectation of you to that which is unexpected by them. Consider your possibilities which are limitless in your ability to spontaneously and comfortably create a new expectation by simply changing your thoughts, rewiring your brain, and creating the expectation of comfort for the rest of your life.
Simple metaphorical techniques for changing pain to comfort can be found in movies, fairy tales, and quotes. How would you personalize the following examples for your clients?

Quote from Abraham Lincoln – “You are only as happy as you make up your mind to be.”

Quote from Howard Hilton Hill, radio commentator – “Every day is a brand-new day, it is a day that has never been lived before. It is a blank canvas. You can create your masterpiece.”

Movie – the Wizard of Oz. Do you know the story? Do you know the moral? This is one of the most powerful stories that I use to change your clients thinking in order to rewire the brain say no to the pain.

Aesop’s Fables, Have you ever read them? You may be surprised at the metaphors available that you can personalize for your clients.
All of my pain clients and most other clients watch certain scenes from the video, What in the Bleep… do We Know?
Go to www.healthy visions.com and click on the resources tab to learn more about scripts, metaphors, and pain management.

Pain to Comfort Script by Ron Eslinger 5 (3)

11 Dec 2019 Hypnosis Scripts, Pain

By Ron Eslinger

After your induction:

With every breath that you take in allow yourself to relax more deeply and as you continue to focus on the sound of my voice you can also focus on getting a sense of control over yourself… your thoughts… your feelings… your body…

Let me remind you that what matters most right now is getting your thoughts together and and letting go of past events… and focus on a thought of  calmness and what changes in your life as comfortable becomes of who you are. There have been times in your life when yoiu were comfortable and it is OK to be comfortable now.  Only you can make that choice.

I wonder if you’ll decide to create this coolness throughout your body or if your decision will be to just allow yourself to be comfortably calm.  In all probability you will determine what you create and what you feel within your body.

One of the first things you can become aware of… is the fact that only you are aware at this time of what your comfort level is… but as I speak and as you create within your mind different thoughts and different images of how you want to feel… I would like you to appreciate the fact that through your thoughts you are in control of your mind and of your body.  Therefore, the more you focus your thoughts on my voice… the more you will have control over how comfortable you choose to be.

I wonder if you’ll be reminded of a time… a time in your past when you were aware… of how comfortable your body could be.  Perhaps even now you’re beginning to notice either heaviness or a lightness of your body… and I wonder just how you will experience the coolness and the calmness that I mentioned earlier.

I wonder if you have begun to notice yet… that your body is becoming more relaxed… and I wonder which is more relaxed your left side or your right side… your left side over there your right side over here… and that area which in the past was uncomfortable… is it there, is it here… is it close?  Is it far?

I can remember looking through binoculars and seeing how large things would become. I wonder if you noticed that when you think of that place of discomfort that it is like looking through binoculars.  It gets so big… so close… almost as if it is right up on you… yet… I wonder how surprised you will be when you discover that if you turn those binoculars around… how distant… how far away… how tiny… what you’re looking at becomes.

I wonder if you can imagine or just pretend… maybe even… role-play as if you are a child… turning the binoculars around looking through the big end and seeing how distant… how tiny that area of discomfort becomes when you look at it in a totally and completely different way.

I would like for you to imagine now that your feet are like vacuums… and they begin to suck up into your body… starting at the ankles and the lower part of your legs… then up into your knees… and into your thighs… every cell is filling with this cool orange colored magnetic liquid… now moving into your hips… into your pelvic area and into your abdomen… all the organs all the cells of your abdomen… and now it flows into your lungs and into your chest and I wonder how surprised you will be to discover how easily it is to breathe with your lungs filled with this cool orange colored magnetic liquid.

Now I know and I know that you know… that there are areas of your body that something warm would be more pleasing than coolness… therefore, it is OK to replace the coolness in those areas with a sense of warmth… that’s right… you’re doing so very well allowing every breath to continue to allow you to drift gently and peacefully into this wonderful state of hypnotic rest.

And now as the chest continues to feel that warm or cool orange colored liquid… that  magnetic liquid… it begins to flow over into your arms… from your fingertips all the way up to your shoulders… every cell, every vessel, every part of your body now from your neck down fills with this warm or cool orange colored liquid… this magnetic liquid.

I wonder what you will discover… as this cool orange colored magnetic liquid fills your head… all of your head… your ears… your eyes… your sinuses… and even your brain.

It may be that you are already aware… of how this coolness… of how this orange colored magnetic liquid… has already begun creating comfort and calmness.

I am sure that you are aware of what magnets do… and I think you’re going to enjoy being surprised to discover that it’s OK …to allow that magnetic orange liquid… to pull from every cell… the anxiety… the tension… and the discomforts that are located there… YOU… are worthy of allowing yourself the comfort that comes from letting this amazing orange colored magnetic liquid… this cool and soothing liquid… to pull from every cell of your body anxiety, tension and discomfort.

You have the right to be comfortable… allow every cell now to remember what normal feels like… I wonder how surprised you will be… when you think back to a time… a time in your past… when you can remember being able to do the things you like to do…

I wonder just what that thing may be… only you know if it’s a sport…a hobby or even your job.  It really doesn’t matter what it is … all that matters is that you allow your thoughts… allow your memories to focus on that time in your past.  I’ll give you a few moments now to focus on that time… that happy memory… that comfortable memory…

So that you can imprint that memory on every cell of your body and… and as you do so feel that cool or warm orange colored magnetic liquid which continues to pull from every cell… the anxiety… the tension… and the discomfort so that you can replace those uncomfortable memories with the memories of comfort… serenity…and  tranquility in every cell.

Do that now while I’m silent as you go deeper and deeper… (just a few moments of silences).

Wonderful… I am so proud of how well you’re doing… now allow your fingers and your toes to be like water faucets… open them up and allow that cool or warm orange colored magnetic

liquid to drain from your body… leaving behind cells that are restored with comfortable… relaxed… calm… and peaceful feelings.

Now each and every cell of your body knows what normal is. I wonder how surprised you are to discover how wonderful it feels to remember what normal is… what comfort is.

It is OK now to let go and to enjoy the fact that you have the right and that you are worthy of feeling your best.

It is OK to let go of guilt…just let it go.

Allow yourself to have forgiveness for yourself and others.

(And Continue with the suggestions for self-hypnosis at home and emerge now in whatever method you as the hypnotist prefer to use)

Emerge debrief and then:

Do second induction (Let this be a Self-Induction using the anchor from above)

This hypnosis induction as session will be short using the following:

×          Add Guided imagery to see self, as free and comfortable

×          Imagining a day with healthy eating and water drinking with comfortable physical activity

×          Metaphor – In the past you have seen this discomfort like looking through a pair of binoculars so close… so big… so in the way…Turn the binoculars around and look through the big ends. Isn’t it amazing at how far away…how small… how insignificant the discomfort is…  Now turn the binoculars around again and see how big the comfort is how wonderful you feel.

Discuss what will change in their life when their discomfort is 2-4 points less on average.

Teach second step in self-hypnosis and give them handout listed below.

Have them practice self-hypnosis while you complete paper work.

Dr. Herb Spiegel on Cancer 0 (0)

11 Dec 2019 Pain

By Ron Eslinger www.healthyvisionshypnosis.com

During his years as a cancer surgeon, Dr. Herb Siegel realized he saw only the disease, and never saw the patient. Now Dr. Siegel does more talking than he does surgery, teaching cancer patients how to think and how to view themselves.

He uses hypnosis in the form of guided imagery and he guides the patient through particular thought processes, dealing with their perceptions of the disease and their emotions.

During his lectures, he discusses the miraculous changes that he sees in working with cancer patients in this manner and the successful regression of their disease.

Recently, I worked with a young lady to relieve her of headaches associated with Glioblastoma (terminal brain cancer, typically nonresponsive to chemotherapy and surgery). Glioblastoma tumors are quick and very active. Her doctor told her she had three weeks to live. Her husband insisted she try hypnosis. Over the first eight months, her MRIs and PT Scans showed that her tumor had shrunk after the hypnosis sessions. She was healthier, smiling when she came in for her sessions. She was happy and she laughed often. Her sessions changed her whole attitude about her illness and her treatments. Hypnosis helped her developed an attitude of wellbeing. She did not report anymore headaches or pain after the second session and her edema (swelling) disappeared. In fact, her hypnosis and self hypnosis helped her successfully undergo chemotherapy, which is rare for Glioblastoma.

Her three-week prognosis for death became an additional three years of life for her. Unfortunately, major stresses caused her cancer to return after three years of remission and she died.

Another woman I treated had lung cancer. By the time the cancer was diagnosed, she was already at the terminal stage. She was in terrible pain and surgery was not an option for her. Hypnosis helped control her pain and made her chemotherapy treatments easy. She never lost her hair, nor did she feel nauseous. Hypnosis helped her through the difficult stages of fighting her cancer. As her anesthetist, her mindset was essential in using hypnosis as the anesthetic. Just a few years ago, physicians and medical professionals believed no relationship existed between the immune system and the psychological processes of the body. It was ascertained that the immune system was not connected to the endocrine system at all.

Today, we understand the connection between mind and body down to the molecular level. In fact, researchers classify Psychoneuroimmunology as the study of the interaction between psychological processes and the nervous and immune systems. A great example of this is reflexology, the practice of applying pressure to specific parts of the feet to affect organs throughout the body. No one is certain how massaging feet benefits someone’s mind or any other part of the body. However, it works because everything is connected. The nature of Psychoneuroimmunology is in a relationship between the organs of the immune system and the sympathetic nervous system.

Catecholamine neurotransmitter receptors work together with the body and its organs: the thymus, the bone marrow, the spleen and lymph nodes.

The resulting effect is that our thoughts make a difference.

If we take those thoughts and simultaneously enter an alpha or theta brain wave frequency, we can bypass our critical state. It is how one talks to the subconscious autonomic nervous system, changing old experiences and perceptions through what is said.

The sympathetic nerve endings in the immune system’s organs make contact with lymphocytes thus, the brain is physically connected to the immune system. When I work with people that have immune system problems, I show them a 15-minute animated video of how the immune system works. Afterward, when I talk to them about bringing their immune system in to focus or bringing in armies to demolish the cancer cell, they can visualize the functions of the immune system.

They visualize the cancer cell as a tiny individual cell that they have control over. They can mentally close off the blood supply to that cell, stopping its growth. The cell is visually cut off from its own lifeline and disintegrates as a result. There are many reports of successful recoveries using visualization techniques and hypnosis. I do not consider these miracles, as hypnosis does not create miracles. But certainly, I have seen miraculous things happen through the use of hypnosis.

The central nervous system is involved in the mediation of feelings. It is connected to the immune system through the brain and the mind.

Think of the mind in two parts: the conscious (cognitive) mind and the subconscious (automatic) mind. The two minds must work together to create health and happiness. Stress activates both the conscious and the subconscious mind. Later, I will discuss in greater detail, the roll stress plays relative to pain and other diseases. Cortisol is a stress fight or flight hormone designed for release in short bursts. It is an essential hormone for survival that is responsible for producing and maintaining high levels of glucose necessary for our response to stress. Abnormally high levels of cortisol are released in response to high stress, or fight or flight reactions. These high levels of cortisol increase gluconeogenesis, resulting in the breakdown of muscle proteins, among other problems.

The result contributes to numerous pain syndromes, including fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and lupus. Often, these syndromes do not present in patients absent of other ailments.

I see a great deal of individuals suffering from fibromyalgia. Patients with fibromyalgia also have other co-morbidities that can include chronic fatigue syndrome, migraine headaches, chemical sensitivities, or temporal mandibular joint (TMJ). There are always at least two other co-morbidities involved when a person is diagnosed with fibromyalgia.

Lupus is an autoimmune disease caused by an abnormal increase in the immune system that causes pain in skin, joints, muscles, kidneys and other organs. It is as though the body is fighting against itself and its own immune system. Psychoneuroimmunology demonstrates the relationship between the immune system and the psychological process. Hypnosis works well with Lupus patients because hypnosis makes it possible to communicate with the Hypothalamus to help with auto-regulation.

Remember, everything is connected. By using hypnosis to work with the Hypothalamus, we change the stress response. Hypnosis allows a focused concentration and relaxation, resulting in an increase in oxygen throughout the body’s cells. This increase in oxygen has a major influence on decreasing a patient’s pain levels. As an example, a muscle cramp is the direct result of squeezing blood and oxygen out of muscle cells. The lack of oxygen in muscle cells causes the cramping pain, just as a lack of oxygen in any cell results in pain. Replenishing cells with oxygen through hypnosis reduces pain just as stretching muscle cells increases blood flow (i.e. oxygen) and reduces pain.

“Ouch! Pain Cost Employers $80 Billion Annually” Summarized from a Reuters Health/ABC News Story, August 21, 2002.

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Fibromyalgia Question 0 (0)

11 Dec 2019 Pain, Fibromyalgia

Question:

I have taken your Pain Management course and I am currently working my way through the Medical/Surgical course.

I have worked with a few pain clients with good results; however, I have my first Fibromyalgia client. She seems to be a bag of problems like you talked about in the courseware. Fibro, depression, CFS, immune system problems, RA, stress, anxiety and the
list goes on. Her primary concern is the constant pain from the Fibro but she
is a ball of stress with sexual abuse issues from her childhood. I know the stress
is the source of most of her problems (I think).

Where do I start?

Thanks

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Response to question:

You may want to start by reviewing the section in the pain course on Fibromyalgia.

You should remember from the pain course that I stated that all chronic pain has an underlying stress component of around 85%. Therefore, I weave stress and comfort into every suggestion, metaphor, deepening and guided imagery starting with the induction. I do not compartmentalize my sessions. Everything is weaved together with each creating
synergy, pyramiding and fractionation to the next.

Tell her you will start with her stress. You can imbed suggestions for comfort, letting go of the burdens she carries on her shoulders, removing the chip from her shoulders. Allow the stress in each tender or trigger point to melt away in the same way the flickering flame melts away the wax of a candle. Replacing stress with comfort as you feel blood and
oxygen and nourishment flowing into those areas freeing them and allowing the
comfort to enter.

She will want to spend a lot fo time talking about all the problems of her past. That is for psychologist. Watch the videos you have of me working with clients. Guide her into living in the present. Every thought of her past is seen by her brain as not a memory but as real life.  An example would be thinking of eating a lemon and the body responding as if you are actually eating a lemon.  She is doing the same thing.

Your answer is in the Tips and Techniques DVD. You have all you need to help this lady be successful.

Ron

From Harvard Medical School Hypnosis Pain Relief 0 (0)

11 Dec 2019 Pain

” Pain Relief Without Drugs or Surgery”

http://www.health.harvard.edu/special_health_reports/pain-relief-without-drugs-and-surgery

Clinical Hypnosis Therapy

Clinical hypnosis is a procedure in which a trained clinician or therapist gives a patient a series of verbal instructions with the goal of helping the patient enter a state of deep relaxation. In this relaxed state, the patient is aware of everything that is going on, but at the same time, becomes increasingly absorbed in using his or her imagination as directed by the therapist. Therapists use a variety of techniques to help their patients acquire the self-control and confidence to visualize, realize, and achieve goals such as reducing sensations of pain. Therapists often teach their patients self-hypnosis methods that they can employ on their own to reinforce and continue the process at home.

Hypnosis Relives Pain

Hypnosis has been used to relieve pain and influence behavior for more than 150 years. Evidence-based research on the use of hypnosis to relieve pain is limited, but a large, well-designed study did boost its credibility as a useful and cost-saving pain relief method for hospital procedure rooms.

Published in:

The Lancet in 2000, the study evaluated the effectiveness of hypnosis—termed “nonpharmacologic analgesia”— in easing pain and anxiety in people who were having minimally invasive surgical therapies such as angiograms, angioplasty, simple kidney procedures, or liver biopsies, during which they remain conscious.

Self Hypnosis Less Pain Medication

Patients participated in a self-hypnosis relaxation session that involved deep-breathing and concentration techniques. The researchers found that these patients required less than half the amount of painkilling drugs used by those receiving standard treatments. Procedures also took less time for the hypnosis group, and they had lower levels of anxiety and pain at both one hour and four hours into the procedure.

In addition, a review of 13 studies of chronic pain published in the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnotherapy in 2007 found that hypnosis consistently reduced pain and was more effective than physical therapy and educational efforts. Clinical research shows that hypnosis can be effective in treating fibromyalgia and migraine headaches.

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The Limbic System and Memory 0 (0)

11 Dec 2019 Mindfullness, Back Pain, Fibromyalgia, Pain

By Ron Eslinger www.healthyvisionshypnosis.com, www.mycecredit.com,www.hypnosiscertification.com

The hippocampus, which controls memory, is another player within the Limbic System.

There are three types of memory: working memory, declarative memory, and procedural memory.

The hippocampus is critical in cementing declarative memory, which can be compared to the memory in the hard drive of a computer.

Types of Memory
Working Memory Completes short-term functions like adding, speaking, and following directions. Does not become permanent memory.
Declarative Memory Composed of facts, figures, and names. This information is stored by the hippocampus.
Procedural Memory Composed of actions, habits, and skills. This information becomes reflexive.

 

Three types of memory exist, but only declarative memory impacts our perception of reality.  

The working memory is similar to the RAM of a computer or a temporary file. The information stored is used as needed.  Then the cache is deleted to make room for more temporary files. So you wonder why you run to the store intending to buy a loaf of bread, but when you return home you wife asks, “Okay. Where’s that loaf of bread?” You just forgot it, because you started thinking about other things and the temporary file was deleted.

My wife always reminds me to write down more details when asking for directions.  Although I listen to the directions, I fail to create a picture image with their words or I do not write the instructions.  The details vanish before I am able to even use the information.  Other examples of short-term memory include addition of numbers and composing sentences. You use the information and then erase it.  There is no need to remember it anymore.

Declarative memory is similar to the hard drive of a computer; composed of all the facts, figures and names you learn throughout your life.  For example, I have a difficult time with names.  I recall my experiences with someone long before I can recall their name.  As an acquaintance approaches, I start thinking to myself, “Oh no. I can’t remember their name. What’s their name? What’s their name?” and finally out loud to my wife, “Honey, what’s their name?” My own self-talk activates my Amygdala System, creating fear and producing stress hormones that degrade and suppress my memory. I have such a difficult time that I depend on my wife to remember names for me.  When we see someone we recently met, she speaks first and says their name.  It is so helpful and then all of my memories about that person start flowing.

In the Navy I was in a position where I had to remember 50 names and give all of those names to my commanding officer during an inspection. I could have actually written them down, but I wanted to make an impression.  I established a system.  Every time I introduced myself to one of the people in my platoon, they gave me their name and I repeated it back to them.  On inspection day, my commanding officer asked,  “Well, where’s your list?” I answered, “It’s in my head.” She was not too confident, but I did remember each name.  There is solid proof that I can remember names, I just need the right self talk.

The details you have learned in the past are present in your memory today. You can bring them back by relaxing your mind and focusing your attention.  All your experiences are in your memory as well.  Unfortunately some experiences are negative.  Recalling those moments sends shivers up and down the spine.  Other memories are happy and make you smile.

For example, a mother can recall a really funny thing her toddler said years ago.  Recently, I attended the 75th anniversary celebration of my hospital’s nursing school.  A classmate and I sat chatting about college and careers when a memory from 35 years earlier popped into my head. I recalled a child who refused to drink her milk. I stood next to the child trying to coax her into drinking her milk. All of a sudden the intercom system blared,  “This is the Lord speaking. Drink your milk.”  The kid’s eyes got really big and she grabbed her milk and started to drink.  My former classmate even remembered the little girl’s name, Jenny.  I had not thought of Jenny for 35 years, but sitting next to my classmate brought back the memory and the humor of that moment.

All of our memories are stored and there is no way to know when a memory will be triggered, or while that memory may be.  However, we do not know where the hippocampus stores all of these memories. We do know cortisol, a stress hormone can degrade memory.  Memories, which can be activated with electrical impulses tile so stimulate hormones and neurotransmitters. Cortisol can degrade this activation which is demonstrated in the video, What in and the bleep… do we know.  As a result, the memory as a single unit or file is fragmented.

During recall, we fit together a piece of the puzzle here and a piece of the puzzle there and put it back together as a complete memory.  Hypnotic processes help reconstruct the pieces of a puzzle. Hypnosis helps one to remember how they are supposed to feel, replacing the memory of pain or stress with a new memory of comfort.  Hypnosis brings memories back together completing the picture.   However, memories can be as false as they can be true. All members were based on perception and perception becomes the reality.

Procedural memory is stored as conditioned responses for reflexes. Reflexes are actions, habits or skills that are learned simply through repetition.   We all develop procedural memories.

One of the first procedural memories you may remember was learning to drive a car.  I learned to drive on a standard shift or standard transmission. Do you remember the first time you were sitting in the car?  You may have been thinking, “Okay I’ve got my right foot on the brake. I’ve got my left foot on the clutch. I’ve got to take my right foot, put it on the gas and lift my left foot up at the same time.”  The next thing we hear is ‘thump, thump, thump’ and the car stalls in the driveway.  You go for a drive. You are driving down the street and you see a red traffic light. “Oh no, there’s a red light. I have to take my right foot off the gas and put it on the brake. I have to put my left foot on the clutch.  Oh please don’t stall. Please don’t stall.” That is the first week.  What happens during the second week? Well guys, you have one arm around your girlfriend and you say, “Here, change the gears for me.” The process becomes natural, a reflex condition.

Great athletes become great athletes by developing reflex conditions that put them in the zone for their sport.  One afternoon I listened to a broadcast of National Public Radio (NPR).  The host interviewed a gentleman in his sixties. This man holds the Guinness Book of World Records for the most consecutive free throw shots in basketball. How many free throws do you think he made? What did you guess? He made ten thousand consecutive free throws without missing one. As the story went, this record holder stopped because a basketball team scheduled a ball game on the court and he could no longer continue his shots. Some athletes make millions of dollars a year if they can make five out of ten free throws.  During the interview, the Guinness Book of World Record’s narrator asked, “Sir, what are you thinking about when you’re shooting?” He replies, “Young man, you can’t think. If you think, you’ll miss.”  That is really the truth of it.

How many golfers, when teeing off at a water hole, automatically take out the water ball?  You guessed it. Their expectation is to hit the ball into the water.  Sure enough, it goes in the water.

In a similar manner, individuals with chronic pain may have created a reflex condition or trigger that activates the pain. Chronic pain patients actualize the pain reflex response. They expect to wakeup each morning with back pain, leg pain or even a migraine.  Has that ever happened to you?  Have you ever waked up in the morning thinking “I hurt all over?” So I emphasize to my clients, that the first thing to do when you wake in the morning is to say to yourself, “I feel better today. I feel better today.” Although, I certainly care if the person is in pain, the idea is to recreate in the procedural memory, a reinforcement and repetition of a healing memory.

Words make a difference because words and thoughts affect the Limbic System that affects the perception and response to pain.  Positive repetitions enforce new neuro networking which decreases the pain.  Conversely, negative thoughts and even the fear of pain can increase pain.

Pain Relief Without Medication 0 (0)

11 Dec 2019 Mindfullness, Miscellaneous, Pain

There Is No Pain Until It Reaches the Brain

Hypnosis and self-hypnosis can take the hurt out of pain.  Hypnosis – for pain management is an amazing tool that when used, produces measurable results in pain relief. The reason for this phenomenon of success is explained in research done at such universities as Yale, Stanford, and Harvard.  The success is in the ability of suggestions to by-pass the cortex, the thinking, and reasoning part of the brain, and goes directly to the Limbic endocrine system of the brain.  The Limbic system is that part of the brain that deals with fear, memory, homeostasis (maintaining a base line for the body) and stress.  What was unknown until recently is that the Limbic system takes its orders through perceptions given to it by the cortex, but even more astounding is that the suggestions can go directly to the Limbic system from external sources and suggestions.  Hypnosis is the most dramatic of the external sources.

Chronic pain is that pain that has lasted for over six months and by medical standards has no purpose.  Phantom limb pain, Fibromyalgia, headaches, and back pain can fall into this category.  Because cells actually have their own consciousness and respond to messages sent to them by the Limbic system hormones (neuro-chemical transmitters), these cells can through thought and hypnotic suggestion recreate their base line feelings of comfort which changes how we physically feel. There is evidence (empirical data) suggesting these cells when given directions by the Limbic system to decrease Cortisol respond favorably.  Cortisol is the stress hormone when received in small amounts protects, however in large amounts over time it can cause arthritis, and other chronic pain syndromes.  The beauty of hypnosis is that it decreases Cortisol levels.

There is nothing mystical or magical about hypnosis.  Hypnosis is simply a state of concentration and focused attention.  It is actually a state of consciousness that we enter naturally, but we usually don’t call it hypnosis.  For example, how many times have we pulled into the parking lot at work with no recollections of what we passed on the way.  We are so focused on our thoughts that we don’t consciously notice what we are driving past.

How does hypnosis work?  We all have a conscious and subconscious mind.  The conscious mind is like the RAM on your computer.  It is the program that acts and reacts to what is in front of you.  The subconscious mind has two basic responsibilities:  to keep all internal systems functioning properly, and to record everything seen, heard, or felt with no distinction of good or bad.  The subconscious is therefore like the hard drive on your computer.  Everything you have seen, heard, or felt either good or bad is recorded within the subconscious mind.  The professionally trained hypnotist uses relaxing techniques with the client so that the conscious mind is relaxed or distracted in order for the subconscious mind to be open and receptive to specific suggestions as it relates to the clients needs to alter their negative habits.

In a nutshell, Change your mind (change how you think about your pain) – Change your brain (rewire your brain to send signals of comfort not pain) – Change the pain (if it is sharp make it dull, if burning make it cool).  The brain is an amazing thing and can be triggered by our thoughts, our emotions, our memories and our rewards.  You are in control of your thoughts so watch want you think, what you say and what/who you listen to.

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