Fears and Phobias? Medical Hypnoanalysis Can Set You Free!
One of the most common reasons people visit a Medical Hypnoanalyst is to overcome fears or phobias. Fears are a natural part of life. Everyone fears something such as being robbed, or being hurt in an accident. This type of fear is not necessarily bad; as it may prompt someone to take precautions, such as locking doors or wearing safety belts.
Most fears develop during childhood, but fears can develop during adulthood. Some fears that develop in adulthood are caused by chemical imbalances such as a hypoglycemic reaction; but many are the results of repressed memories. One indication of whether a fear is physical or psychological is the duration of the reaction. Psychological reactions are usually triggered by anticipation, and become less intense once the anticipated event begins. Physical reactions tend to become more intense once the event begins.
If a person experiences a fear strongly and/or frequently, they may begin to fear losing control. They can become afraid to feel the fear; and go out of their way to avoid anything that might trigger it. When this happens, the fear has become a phobia. (A fear may also be considered a phobia an individual can feel the sensation of being afraid without recognizing what triggered the feeling).
Whenever a fear or phobia gets in someone's way, interfering with their life-style, or causing them to avoid something they would like to do, then it should be treated.
In mild cases, where a person recognizes the triggers but would like help controlling their reaction, post-hypnotic suggestions can help them control their breathing, slow their heart, and achieve a relaxed state of mind. This permits them to deal with the problem in a calm and rational manner.
More severe cases are often the result of a traumatic childhood event. Most of the time the event can no longer be recalled by the conscious mind, but is still retained in the subconscious. In these cases, the hypnotherapist will often employ age regression.
Age regression is one of the most powerful tools available to the Medical Hypnoanalysis. With it, s/he can guide the person back in time, and help them reexamine the event thai initially triggered the fear from an objective point of view. Once the cause is revealed, the fear of losing control is eliminated. Control is soon established.
Fear reactions may range from simple "hang-ups" to specific (or non-specific) fears, which affect the activities or enjoyment of life, to full-blown phobias, which may be a part of serious mental illness. Under certain circumstances or in specific situations virtually all people experience a variety of rational or irrational apprehensions. Fears seldom travel alone. One may be dominant, but usually several may be present.
Fears often emanate from apprehension of impending danger. Fear of loss of control is primitive, but also common, especially in phobia cases. Fear of fear itself can be debilitating. Hypnotic suggestions can replace catastrophic thoughts with truthful facts explaining existing problems. Exposing the causes can diminish anxieties and alleviate symptoms, relieving distress.
Once a sense of control established, repeatedly confronting the fear through Medical Hypnoanalysis quickly reduces, and soon eliminates the fear.
Why Fear Physicians and Dentists?
You Can Relax with Medical Hypnoanalysis
Innumerable people let major and even life threatening injury to happen in their bodies merely because of irrational fears of visits to physicians or dentists. Such fears come from false convictions that these visits will entail pain. Some people take the potentially lethal fear that an appointment will generate terrible news, living under the absurd notion that "what you don't know won't hurt you."
It is not likely even to calculate approximately the number of people who have died purely because, while they knew something was in the wrong, they did not wish for the facts confirmed by a physician. Scores of even the most severe disorders can be halted or cured by early detection, acknowledgment and treatment. Eliminating the fears of medical attention can produce cures, cut expenses, speed healing, eradicate needless apprehensions, diminish family difficulty and reduce any disruption of earnings.
Medical Hypnoanalysis is the means of choice for achieving the state of mind indispensable to bring about the diminution or riddance of incapacitating fears.
Dentists
Fear of a dental appointment is nearly instinctive. Children have heard tales of excruciating pain suffered (and embellished) by other children. Stories and comic strips have featured dental offices as chambers of horrors. Some parents have even threatened children with dental appointments as punishment-"If you don't brush your teeth you'll have to go to the dentist!" Dentists appear constantly to get a bum rap. Until now no one seemed to focus on the reality that the supreme expenditure, and the maximum pain if any occurs at all, more often than not results from not going to a dentist.
Preventive dentistry exists and for those who put into practice it the payback are inestimable. But many people, children and adults, plainly don't buy the idea. They see only the mentally visualized "chamber of horrors." Fears of dentists are among the comparatively frequent phobias seen by Medical Hypnoanalysts.
Ever-increasing numbers of dentists are using hypnosis for pain management in place of or in addition to local anesthesia. Extractions and dental surgery under such circumstances are becoming more utilized, with payback to dentist and patient alike. Numerous dentists also are using individual instruction and skills in hypnosis to help patients relax and develop into a more comfortable state of being ahead of any dental work, and to offer post-hypnotic suggestions which can make upcoming visits liberated from fear and even agreeably anticipated. Some dentists even have Medical Hypnoanalysts make office visits to assist.
These measures, nevertheless, are achievable only with the patients who, frightened or not, come to the dental office. For those whose fears are such that they in no way come within reach of the door, Medical Hypnoanalysis offers the hope of removing or reducing the apprehensions and prejudices, achieving relaxation and positive mental attitudes and understanding the benefits of dental care and risks of avoiding it. Hypnosis can motivate me the visit. This is an area for the Medical Hypnoanalyst.
Physicians
Medical Hypnoanalysis is appropriate in so various fields of medicine that whole volumes have been written on the subject matter. One of its most essential functions is modifying attitudes-to the point where a disinclined sufferer will search for medical consultation. One more is the lessening or eradication of pre-surgery anxieties. Patients scheduled for surgery, whether for ingrown toenails or cancer removal, come under enormous stress.
Medical Hypnoanalysis is exceedingly valuable in stress management. Medical Hypnoanalysis further can be a most important factor in pain control and expediting recuperation. Every physician and for the most part members of the general public are aware of cases where continued existence has been attributed purely to a dominant "will to live." Development and employment of the "will to live" is fundamentally a form of self-hypnosis. Similarly, numerous cases are on record in which the lack of the "will to live" has been designated the source of a demise, which physicians deemed should not have occurred.
The remarkable capabilities of hypnosis to augment relaxation, amplify anticipation of success and healing, do away with negative thinking, be in charge of emotions and create imagery are applicable in practically all medical situations. In psychiatric cases the power of the mind to discover causes of troubles, attitudes or circumstances is utilized during hypnosis.
While hypnosis may not be the treatment of choice in many severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia or major depressions, it has been used for practically everything else, from the bedwetting episodes of childhood to the control of pain in the arthritis of the old, from phobias to sexual maladjustments, from habit control to obstetrics and gynecology and from allergy management to reduction of blood pressure or bleeding control.
Following World War II, hypnosis was found highly valuable in treating cases of battle fatigue and post-traumatic stress problems. Harrowing actions, whether associated to wars, crimes, accidents or other causes, can turn out to be incompletely assimilated experiences, which preoccupy sufferers in forms of anxieties, nightmares and unintentional memories.
Hypnosis, as a controlled, voluntary and typically relaxed form of dissociation, allows patients to re-experience distressing events through a procedure called revivification, which involves hypnotic regression. Such re-experience enables the casualty of post-traumatic stress to attain a catharsis accompanied by new understanding and release.
Medical Hypnoanalysis has proved exceedingly effective in emergency room medicine, and in particular in burn therapy where suggestions can be given to diminish fluid and electrolyte loss, enhance comfort, decrease pain and accelerate healing. In dealing with medical and dental apprehensions, Medical Hypnoanalysis provides one of its broadest areas of service.