Hypnotherapy Potential

$$$ Money Stress and Hypnosis
Greetings from Doc Judie  
                                    
I thought I would just say it lilke it is....ouch! Not enough money to make ends meet, losing the house, medical bills etc.etc 
This is the common theme in my practice, and I have been there myself.  So what do you do when you are drowning in debt? 
Look for a rope to pull you out of the water.
This is not meant to give you financial advice, but I can help with your attitude and help you to delevop a plan, short of a Ernie Madoff blow in your life, there is hope and a way to turn this financial crisis in your life around.
 

 Glove anesthesia for pain control

Greetings from Doc Judie
 
I recently fell on a slippery spa floor and tore my rotor cuff, owie!  I am using  glove anesthesia hypnosis technique for my pain control.
I have helped so many people with  acute and  chronic injuries by using this suggestion, and it was very useful for me help with my own pain control.  There have been recent studies showing that touching an injured part and softly rubbing it can turn off the pain centers and help with healilng. This is basically the theory behind pain relief hypnosis scripts.

This technique has been used since World War 1 when the troops in the field were injured and there was not enough pain-killer medication on the site.  The  medics, nurses and doctors would often use self-hypnosis for pain control until they could move their injured soldiers off the field.

Today, hypnosis has become an invaluable medical adjunct.  It helps mothers to have painless childbirth experiences,and allows physicians to administer a fraction of the usual chemical anesthetics used in surgical procedures. It is also a way to control every day localized pain from a burnt finger to a bruised knee.

The  technique is not to be used in every instance.  Common sense of checking with your physician to see what "your pain is telling you" should be your first instinct.  in my case, surgery was not necessary,and the pain will go away with time, anti-inflammatories, exercise or a little help from my own self-hypnosis.  Here is now it works:

Hypnotic suggestions actually alter the way the brain interprets messages of pain.  The brain manufactures morphine-like
 chemicals called endorphins. These chemicals are a major part of the body's natural defense system and hypnosis is used to allow endorphins to be released producing a natural  narcotic.  It is done through a direct communication with the subconscious mind where healing and pain relief can take place. 

There are several scripts that you can look up, but the common one is called Glove anesthesia.  
When my client is in trance, I put my hand over their hand.  I tell them that in a few minutes they will feel their hand getting very warm.  I keep repeating this and give my client the suggestion that they can feel the intense heat from my own hand going into theirs.  I wait for a couple of minutes, and I can usually feel their hand warming up.(many therapists use the reverse and have the hand feel icy cold-I like heat better)  When the temperature has changed in the hand they can put it over the injured part of their body if they can reach it or if it is appropriate. (nobody wants to grab their butt in our out of trance!). They can just imagine the part they would like to numb or feel th leaving the body.
" Imagine that the nerves that connect to (injured part) are controlled by switches in your brain. Now see your hand turn the switch that controls those nerves that cause pain to the "off position." Your warm hand is so soothing, it is pulling the pain away from your (body part) .  You will feel your pain slowly leaving you.  Perhaps some of the pain will leave, and perhaps as you repeat this technique most of the pain will completely go away and you will feel relief."  I am helping with the pain, feel my warm hand on top of yours, and together we are directing the pain centers to turn off as we pull it away from your body through our healing hands." 
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Another suggestion that I use: You can also direct the pain "through colors" such as when you feel relief, the pain will go from burning red to a neutral yellow to a cool blue. Let me know what color you can tolerate and what color you are feeling right now! You can use an ideomotor response or ask them to use their voice.

Try this technique yourself for headaches, bruises, sprains etc. that just take time to heal, but hurt like.......!  Use self hypnosis techniques breathe deeply, long and slow.  When you feel relaxed, put both of your hands (if possible) over the injured part, or just imagine that you are doing this.  Direct a temperature change that works for you, either warm and soothing, or cool and numbing the spot like a bag of ice.  Keep concentrating on the injury and ask for a change in the pain centers or see your hands like a sponge pulling out the pain.

So here is to your "owies" little and large
Doc Judie
judie@docjudie.com
775 7823889

Posthypnotic Suggestion
"A suggestion made to a hypnotized person that specifies an action to be performed after awakening, often in response to a cue.".

Greetings from Doc Judie
Many of you have asked about posthypnotic suggestion and how it works. It is often connected to show hypnosis where the hypnotist tells a patron that every time someone orders a beer, they will cluck like a chicken!  That usually wears off with the evening's festivity and "sobering up!"  It does have a  very useful clinical use as well.

It is often used for people who want to change a certain behavior and request  a tag, or mental suggestion to remind them of their change order.  For example, a person who wants to quit smoking.   A recent client said, "I do fine when I am here with you and I feel motivated and I am not thinking about smoking, but after a few days,  the old habit returns,  and I find myself with a cigarette in my hand, and I don't even know how it got there!  We are all creatures of habit, change comes quickly to some, but not to everyone. People change when they are ready.   This particular client kept her cigarettes on a little table with her cigarette lighter and ash tray.  She would "unconsciously" light up when she was watching T.V. The obvious suggestion was that she would no longer smoke while watching her programs.. She would not keep cigarettes on her little table, but on a high shelf in the kitchen where she would have to use a step stool to reach them.  The posthypnotic suggestion was that every time she found her self on the step stool reaching for her cigarettes, she would notice that she was really thirsty.  As a mater of fact, she wanted a dink of water more than she wanted a cigarette.  this seemed to work for her, she would go to the kitchen (on a TV commercial of course) and she would pull out her stool to reach for the cigarette pack, but she found that she could not light it, she was so thirsty for a drink  of water instead of a cigarette.  By the time she finished her glass of water, the urge to smoke has passed.  Now obviously I could have given her the suggestion "not to smoke in the house" but each client is different, and she wanted to go slow.   This woman  wanted a program of baby steps and this worked for her. She was amazed that in the next few sessions, the posthypnotic suggestions were changed once again.  As long as the subconscious is approached in a positive manner, suggestions for change can take place a lot quicker than the conscious critical portion of the mind thinks they can! Obviously the posthypnotic suggestion was " notice the terrible smell of smoke in your house which is not pleasing to you." Better to take it outside.  The suggestions continued after the session.  Soon she became so aware of smoke on her clothes, in her hair, in her mouth, in her car that she said cigarettes did not taste good anymore and did not want to smoke. Four sessions and she was done!  You might ask how long do post hypnotic suggestions last? It is individual.  I know that when I was pregnant with my daughter (37 years ago) I was boiling cabbage and corned beef for a St. Patty's Day celebration. The smells and the pregnancy were not a good mix and to this day I still can't stand the smell of cabbage and corned beef.  A subconscious trigger, a posthypnotic suggestion can last for a long time.
Here is to your mental and physical health
Doc Judie
judie@docjudie.com 775 782-3889