There used to be a time where the association of memory loss was connected to the elderly population. Quick! Please name at least ten of your friends and families phone numbers without looking at your cell phone.
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One of the major issues that people deal with today with regards to obsessive-compulsive disorders revolves around feelings of guilt. These issues can be associated when an individual feels and emotion, whether real or unreal, where they feel that there may have been a slight or violation that they cannot overcome. Remorse is also associated with this feeling. This article will look at how clinical hypnotherapy can be used to overcome feelings of guilt.
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Many people look forward to fun activities such as the upcoming Super Bowl or watching the ball drop on New Year’s Eve in the middle of New York City. Others like to avoid these type of activities like the plague since they would rather not feel like they are confined to a place without an escape.
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An intimate connection between the sleep state and the hypnotic state has been a popular theory.
The most common use of tobacco is in cigarette products which include hundreds of additives that modify the properties of tobacco and the experience of smoking tobacco. In recent decades, cigarette manufacturers have progressively been adding more additives to their products, including flavors, preservatives and agents to retain moisture, as well as a large range of other chemicals. The number of additives contained in cigarettes is so large that measuring the effects of individual additives is cost prohibitive and difficult, and most of the research conducted is confined to the tobacco industry.
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This research seeks to identify the relationship between the brain and the gut. We will be looking at two case studies based on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), both of which surrounds the central subject of the mind’s capacity to affect bodily functions, otherwise known as mind-body interventions (MBI).
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There have been various descriptions given to define the phenomenon of hypnosis. In the medical sense, medical hypnosis has been referred to hypnotherapy or hypnotic suggestion performed by a therapist upon a subject, and it is usually characterized by the subject entering into a trance-like state in which he/she possesses a heightened sense of focus and concentration.
It has also been described as a social interaction between a designated subject and a designated experimenter, involving which the designated subject responds to suggestions offered by the designated experimenter on the basis of acquiring imaginative experiences such as alterations in perception, memory and the voluntary control of action.
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Written By
Graeme Harvey CHt, DipPLR, DipFLP.
Graeme Harvey
Some six decades ago medical scientists in Australia identified the correlation between stress and damage to the immune system along with self-esteem, confidence etc. To this day there are regular reports by American universities that they have “discovered” that stress causes this or that illness or is a factor in various diseases, behaviors et al.
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Cystic fibrosis deals with the inability to move water and salt across various organs throughout the body. As a result, people with cystic fibrosis also have symptoms related to lung disease and premature death. While this disease affects people across all cultural backgrounds, it specifically affects over one-thousand people of North European descent each and every year. It can also be diagnosed at different points in a person’s life. While some adults are diagnosed, some children as young as five months old have also been treated for this disease.
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