Category: Skype Hypnotherapy

1. Hypnosis CDs are comparable to Hypnotherapist visits for children with IBS according to a new study

   Posted on 12:00pm Thursday 20th Apr 2017

   Hypnosis CDs are comparable to Hypnotherapist visits for children with IBS 

    A new study into the use of hypnotherapy recordings in helping to deal with IBS symptoms in children has thrown up some interesting results.

   The study has shown that home-based hypnotherapy exercises on a CD were as effective as individual gut-directed hypnotherapy performed by a qualified therapist in children with irritable bowel syndrome or functional abdominal pain syndrome.

   

   The the results of a randomized clinical trial reported that:

   “This study confirms earlier findings that hypnotherapy is highly valuable in treating children with IBS, resulting in a significant decrease in pain scores and significant improvements in anxiety, depression, QOL, and pain beliefs. Therefore, Hypnotherapy should be incorporated in national guidelines on the treatment of paediatric IBS or FAP(S) and become reimbursed by health insurance companies.”

   This study took place in the Netherlands where owing to a shortage of well-trained child hypnotherapists, home-based self-hypnosis exercises could now expand access to this therapy.

    

   How the study was conducted:

   To compare their effectiveness, researchers from the Netherlands randomly assigned 260 children with either IBS or FAP(S) to undergo home-based hypnotherapy via CD (at least five sessions per week for 3 months) or individual hypnotherapy provided by a qualified therapist (six sessions over 3 months).

   Immediately after treatment, 36.8% of those who received home-based therapy achieved treatment success — defined as at least a 50% reduction in pain frequency and intensity scores —compared with 50.1% of those who were treated by a hypnotherapist. After a year, 62.1% of the home-based group achieved treatment success compared with 71% of those treated by a therapist, which was statistically noninferior.

   “The noninferiority of home-based treatment with a hypnosis CD provides a rationale for implementation of this easy-to-use treatment in daily practice,” the investigators concluded. “Because the current generation of children and adolescents rarely uses CDs anymore, it would be preferable to implement the treatment as an application for a smartphone or tablet.” 

   When I work with clients suffering from IBS, one of the things that we always do is make sure that there are recordings that they can listen to repeatedly to help teach them ways to manage the anxiety that can case IBS symptoms to worsen. There have already been many studies into the effectiveness of hypnosis for IBS including those undertaken by Peter Whorwell.

    Professor Peter Whorwell and IBS Hypnotherapy

   Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterology in the School of Medicine and Director of the South Manchester Functional Bowel Service, has discovered a way to treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) using hypnotherapy.

   Professor Whorwell has been researching the use of gut-directed hypnosis for over 20 years. Most recently, 250 patients who have suffered from IBS for over two years were given twelve one-hour sessions, during which they were given an explanation of how the gut works and what causes their symptoms.

   If you would rather try and help your IBS without needing to see me you can now by an IBS Hypnosis MP3 download direct from my online hypnosis recording shop below...

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2. How Does EMDR work? Is it just moving your eyes back and forth?

   Posted on 10:40am Thursday 10th Mar 2016

    

   How Does EMDR work?

   Can I do EMDR on myself?

   If you read the Daily Mail you may have seen an article about EMDR which stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.

   It is a very powerful technique which has been around for a few years. It was created by Francine Shapiro, and is just one of the ways that I can help people who come to see me deal with traumatic incidents in their past that are still having an emotional effect.

   Whilst seeing an article in a mainstream paper is always a bonus you may well start to read it and think “Can I do EMDR on myself? It just seems like waggling my fingers in front of my eyes!”

   As ever the headline and the sensational way that the therapy is reported on really doesn’t do it justice.

   

   Here’s how The Mail headlined the story...

   How you can erase painful memories just by moving your eyes: An increasingly popular type of therapy can diminish negative memories and help your wellbeing
    It might sound like a budget hypnosis session but this strange eye flicking ritual is an increasingly popular therapy called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) which is used for a number of serious conditions, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression and common stress.

   Devotees say simply moving your eyes from left to right between 25 and 30 times can diminish negative memories and, therefore, their impact on your wellbeing.

   
   
    Of course this is a very simplistic way of explaining what happens in an EMDR Session. In reality it is likely to be part of a longer period of therapy and certainly a great deal of fact gathering before someone start moving their fingers back and forth!

   However, it is fair to say that they do go on to give quite a good explanation of how EMDR works.

   So, How does EMDR process your memories for you?

   'Memories are processed according to previous experience and assumption and then assimilated,' explains chartered clinical psychologist and former president of the EMDR Association in UK and Ireland, Dr Robin Logie. We learn from memory: hot items aren't picked up, certain foods avoided. These are all filed away and, on the whole, memories from long ago are vague. But if you have a bad experience, that negative memory is frozen in time. Your brain can't process it and the memory returns in dreams and flashbacks, often with a physical response such as feeling sick or actual pain. Rather than fading, it stays as vivid as the day on which it occurred. It hasn't been correctly processed.'

   

   Brain scans have shown that when a traumatic event occurs, there is increased activity in the part of the brain which stores memories associated with sound, touch and smell, but not in the rational frontal lobes where reasoning occurs.

   So trauma is stored in the brain as vivid images, sensations and sounds. Once lodged, this memory doesn't fade and exerts a disproportionate influence on subsequent behaviour.

   
    This method of helping people deal with trauma was created by Francine Shapiro and is practiced by many people across the world. How it feels to many people can be described as detaching the feeling from the memory. So, you don’t forget that something had happened. It isn’t erased...like the Mail seem to think, it just doesn’t have the same emotive reaction any more.

   If you would like to find out more about how EMDR could help you then do feel free to call me on 07890 233160 or drop me an email via this link EMAIL ME HERE. If you are looking for someone local to you who could help you, my advice would be to check what other training and qualifications they have alongside EMDR so that they have the widest available methods to really help you to get what you want.