Physical Diseases cured by Hypnosis

Strange and incredible as it may sound, it is the truth. Hypnosis can help cure or manage many physical diseases. Most problems for any person take a natural path to develop and manifest into a disease. That path is:

Thoughts -> Emotions -> Energy -> Physical Sensation

Every problem starts with a thought which in turn gives rise to emotions; emotions to energy in the body; and finally energy to physical sensation. If the physical sensation occurs long enough and frequent enough it manifests itself into a disease. Hence for every physical disease, there is a thought pattern that is associated with that particular disease. And since hypnotherapy deals with removing or altering the root thoughts and beliefs of a human mind, many diseases are manageable through hypnosis while some can be completely cured.

First let us look at those physical diseases that can be completely cured through Hypnotherapy:

These diseases are called Psychosomatic diseases. Usually all kinds of allergies, certain skin diseases (eczema, psoriasis, acne, ichthyosiform erythroderma, etc), and then there are a host of diseases that range from some kinds of blindness to severe cracks in feet that are entirely psychosomatic diseases in their nature. By psychosomatic, I mean, cases where regular Physicians and specialized doctors cannot find anything physically wrong with the person, yet the person is suffering from the disease. Some people go deaf, blind, develop skin allergies, become extremely obese all because of some problematic past events. They have nothing wrong with their bodies and normal medicines don’t seem to work.

These are the diseases that can usually be cured completely through Hypnotherapy. Because they are completely mind related or stress based issues.

What are the diseases that are managed by Hypnotherapy?

Then there are a host of diseases that are kept under control or reduced significantly through hypnotherapy. The best examples for these diseases are diabetes, blood pressure, heart diseases, respiratory diseases, gout, cancer treatment (pain management), etc. The effect of stress on these diseases causes rapid growth and frequent recurrence in these cases and hypnotherapy helps prevent them.

There have been cases where even these diseases have been completely cured. For that matter, hypnotherapy has helped cure even diseases like cancer in their advanced stages but that does not happen consistently.

Can a parent be the cause for an issue in the child?

Two most common issues that a parent can, unintentionally, cause in a child are poor perfomance in education or other areas, and aggression at home or school.

Some parents exert a lot of unhealthy pressure on their children and eventually the children buckle under such pressure. This leads to avoidance behavior, poor memory, lack of concentration, exam fear, study anxiety, and other such issues.

Aggression in a child can be a direct result of poor parenting. By poor parenting I meanwell-intending parents whose behavior towards their children was never aimed at bringing out aggression in them. But the results are exactly that! There are various reasons why this can happen and they are different in every case.

There is a third common case in which parents bring their children to a therapist. In these cases the children have no issues whatsoever and it is the parents who see issues in their children. These are the cases of unrealistic expectations on their children where the parents often wish to exert too much control on their children. They want their children to obey every single command, to study for long hours, not to cry when beaten, to do this, and to be that! These parent exert too much pressure on their children and when the children reach their breaking point and react, the parents see that as an issue in their children not as poor parenting!

The above are three very common issues, but a parent may be (may be) responsible for the any kind issue in their child. Many issues in a child are a result of his circle of interaction and parents form a big part of that circle.

What to expect when you bring in your child for hypnotherapy?

The first consultation session is usually divided into two parts – first part invovles discussion of the problem between the therapist and the parents. The child is kept out of the room during this discussion. In the second part, the child is called in. The therapist first builds a firm rappot with the child and then slowly discusses the issue with the child. During this part, the parents will be asked to sit out and leave the therapist and the child alone.

In following sessions, when the child is hypnotised, the parents will be asked to sit out. This is a very important condition for child hypnotherapy. The reason for this is the child is allowed the freedom to talk anything he wants without the being bothered about his parents hearing him. Further, in some cases, it is the parents themselves who are the cause of issue in child. In such cases, the child will never open his mouth, under hypnosis or not, when the parents are present in the therapy room.

Almost always, child hypnotherapy involves counselling sessions for parents as well. Here the therapist gives feedback on the sessions and also educates about stages of growth in children and what to expect out of these stages. In case one of the parents is responsible for the issue in the child, the therapist counsels the parents for behavioral changes. The parents are also educated about the working of the mind and how issues are created in the mind. This is very important because the parents would clearly understand how they may, unintentionally, create issues in the child, and it would also give parents the right tools to deal with their child’s minor issues themselves.

Be prepared to change yourselves! Many issues in a child are a result of his circle of interaction and parents form a big part of that circle. So in many cases there will be necessary behavioral changes in the parents as a part of the therapy.

What is the minimum age for a child to be hypnotised?

Any child that can understand and speak a language can be hypnotised. Ideally the child should be 7 or above. But I’ve had children brought to me who were just five years old and if they can understand spoken language and reply with limited vocabulary they can be hypnotised.

However, the induction methods used for child hypnosis are vastly different from classic inductions used for adults. That is because children tend to be distracted easily and induction methods for children take that fact into consideration.

Can a child be hypnotised?

Yes and the results are far more tremendous than you expect out of adults! It is one of the best ages to undergo change through hypnosis. Child Hypnosis is swiftly growing to be one of the most important fields of science today and it has its just reasons.

Childhood is one of the best times to mould personality and character. And it is a lot easier to hypnotise children and resolve their issues quickly. This makes them ideal candidates for remarkable change and this age can be used by their parents to instil lots of confidence; and to correct any fears or phobias their children may have.

Case Study #4: Allergic Cracks on Feet Healed through Hypnosis

This is a case of psychosomatic illness – an allergy in fact! My client was a small girl of about 11 years; she was brought by her father. Her problem was that her feet would develop severe cracks and would bleed profusely whenever she set her feet on ground without any footwear. The cracks would not appear when she was on man-made ground like house floorings, cement floorings, etc; they would come as soon as she set foot on natural ground. And being a very active girl, her parents could not stop her from rushing out to play with her friends as soon as she was back from her school. Her father told me that she was never free from these cracks and that they would pain like hell. She could never place both her feet flat on the ground because of these cracks. If she ran when she had these cracks they would start bleeding heavily again. Her father told me that he had tried both allopathic medicine as well as Ayurveda. He reported that while allopathic medicine proved ineffective, Ayurvedic medicine would heal the cracks but could not prevent recurrence. And she had been suffering from this problem since 8-9 years.

Because of her age, I decided to try direct suggestions first (children are very easy to hypnotise and the issues are resolve very quickly). I used guided imagery along with direct suggestions. I told her dad to observe her cracks for a couple of weeks and then to report to me.

Her father came to me after three weeks. He said that after the session her cracks had healed very quickly but that there was slight recurrence once she went out to play after two weeks. He also told me that he had stopped administering the Ayurvedic medicine to test the effect of Hypnosis.

I called the girl for a second session and I used regression this time. She regressed back to the age of three years. Her mom had let her out for just a few minutes to play with her neighboring children who stay in the same compound. The compound had cement flooring, but her neighbors were having some renovations made to their house and there was a heap of sand for the construction. She went to play in the sand and a piece of glass in the sand cut her tender feet. She cried and ran to her mother. Her mother said she would hurt herself if she went out to play in the sand. It was an unintended hypnotic suggestion – children are naturally in a light to medium hypnotic trance most of the time. So it is very important that adults be very careful about what they tell children.

The incident happened again the next day too. This time she went out and hurt herself over a sharp stone that was lying near some plants in natural earth. This time again her mother unintentionally reinforced her suggestions and since then the girl developed this allergy for natural earth.

I resolved the issue for her and convinced her subconscious to let go of that suggestion and the lessons of those incidents. I then placed positive suggestions about the health of her feet.

Three weeks later her father came in with the girl. Her feet had healed completely and her father reported that she could now go out and play even without her footwear.

How many sessions are needed to remove a problem through Hypnosis?

The number of sessions required to remove a problem through Hypnotism varies from client to client and case to case.

Any issue that a client comes to us for can fall under two major categories – Anxiety Based, Deep Rooted

An anxiety based issue has cropped up out of sheer anxiety on the part of the client and it is very easy to remove. Such issues hardly need more than two to three sessions. In fact, one session is sufficient in some cases. These issues do not have any deep rooted events associated with them and hardly require any regression work to be done. Regression is a process of guiding the client through her/his past memories.

Deep Rooted are those issues which have at least one major traumatic event associated with them. These events could have triggered the issue in the first place (Initial Sensitizing Event ISE) or they could have intensified an existing issue (Subsequent Sensitizing Event SSE).

Deep Rooted issues require more number of sessions depending on the number of events and the intensity of the trauma underwent by the client. First couple of sessions involve regression to find out the root cause of the event and the subsequent sessions deal with the resolution of the events narrated by the client.

Usually I give an average of about 6 sessions for a client depending on the issue. But they largely vary from client to client. And the sessions are usually placed daily but in some cases they may be spaced apart like two sessions per week.

The duration of each session can range anywhere between 40 minutes and 2 hours. The average would be 1 hour 20 minutes. Rarely, some sessions extend to 3 hours.

Create your own happiness with Positive Manifestation

I’ve discussed about the power of manifestation and how we use it to create our own troubles in life. Now let me give you the other side of the coin i.e., how we can use the same power of manifestation to generate positive outcome in our lives and also let us see how we can break old chains of negative manifestation.

There are four major parts to a successful manifestation – believe, give yourself autosuggestion, imagine, and maintain consistency of thought.

Believe: When we are manifesting a certain issue in our life, the first thing that we do is believe in the outcome so strongly that we are subconsciously preparing ourselves for the outcome. Similarly, belief plays a very strong role in creating positive manifestations also. But, how can we bring ourselves to believe in something when we are not certain of the outcome? How can we believe that we will hail an auto driver who would not demand extra fare? The truth is it is difficult or at times even impossible to believe. But a manifestation would not work without belief. Does that sound like a religious argument? You have to believe in God to realize him!

There is a simple alternative. Pretend you believe! Act as if you really believe that you are going to get into an Auto peacefully and pay a fair price. Pretend to believe you will have a pleasant chat with your boss. Slowly as the manifestations come true, you will find it easy to believe in creating situations of your choice.

Give Yourself Autosuggestion: Give yourself an appropriate autosuggestion. We always give ourselves autosuggestions during negative manifestations. They happen at the subconscious level and we are hardly even aware we are thinking negative thoughts. Later, as the manifestation has become a habit, these negative autosuggestions would become neuropathways. So give yourself a positive autosuggestion and repeat it as if you believe it.

Imagine: For the subconscious mind anything ‘known is pleasurable and the unknown is painful’. Which means it is reluctant to tread into the unknown. So make a positive manifestation ‘known’ to the subconscious mind through imagination. Imagine yourself going through the entire scenario in your mind. Combine positive autosuggestions with vivid imagination powerfully until it puts you in a positive frame of mind!

Maintain Consistency of Thought: This is important. You may find it difficult to maintain the same positive frame of mind at all times. But whenever that is happening go through the first three phases of belief (or pretense of it), autosuggestion and imagination. It is important that you maintain consistency of thought. During Negative Manifestations our belief, autosuggestion, and imagination are so consistent that it would be a miracle for the manifestation to fail!

Failure Manifestations: You CANNOT bend the will of others with manifestation. So if you are essentially trying to prevent your boss from giving you extra workload, you create a positive manifestation where your autosuggestion would be ‘I will move by my boss’s cabin peacefully and calmly. I will greet him cheerfully if he sees me.’ What you are doing here is influencing YOUR subconscious mind to take up the right mental expectancy and body language. This in turn will send the right message for your boss.

Give yourself positive sentences for Autosuggestions. If you don’t want to lose your temper at anyone, tell yourself ‘I will remain calm and understanding.’ A manifestation will fail if your autosuggestion is ‘I will not get angry.’

Similarly your imagination should involve mostly your actions and your frame of mind. If you feel somebody is trying to break the queue and go into the ATM machine unfairly, your autosuggestion should be ‘I will enter the ATM and withdraw the money peacefully and fairly.’

Start with smaller positive manifestations first. They are easier to believe and they will give you more confidence.

How we manifest our own troubles!

There are failures or obstacles in our lives that are situational and again there are failures in our lives that are our own doing. And we are responsible for more failures and issues in our lives than we realize. We create our own failures and issues in life without being consciously aware we are doing it. So how do we do it? We do it through the power of manifestation.

When our subconscious believes something it puts all its power to use to make that belief true. For example if your subconscious believes you are forgetful, it makes it true and we become forgetful. Similarly, if our subconscious believes your boss hates you and assigns you extra workload just out of spite, our subconscious will manifest it. It will make your boss hate you and give you more assignments.

But how can your mind influence your boss’s mind?

Let me show you by an example:

You are entering your office and you are passing by your boss’s cubicle. There is a glass partition and your boss is talking on the phone. As soon as you are moving past the cubicle, he happens to catch you out of the corner of his eye. He immediately summons you and assigns more work. How are YOU manifesting this?

Well, if your subconscious believes that your boss gives your work whenever he sees you then whenever you are passing by your boss’s cubicle you will be giving yourself autosuggestions that your boss will turn anytime and assign you more work (with or without you consciously knowing). Your body language automatically turns stealthy like a thief trying to escape. You try not to look at your boss but you watch his movements out of the corner of your eye.

Naturally, your boss’s mind will also notice a passing figure out of the corner of his eye. And when that figure appears to be moving with a thief’s body language, the subconscious becomes alert and your boss turns around. He calls you inside and immediately your body language becomes different. With all the autosuggestions you have given yourself, your shoulders will slump and your head tilts down slightly as if in surrender. Since the subconscious of your boss is telling you were slinking away like a guilty party, he will naturally feel inclined to give you more work thinking you were bunking some assignment.

When similar situations happen over time your boss will start manifesting the situation and it becomes a two-way feeding mechanism. When you are not slinking away, your boss’s subconscious is on lookout for you.

Another example could be our negotiations with Auto drivers, especially in cities like Hyderabad and Chennai. At times we become so frustrated with the cheating auto drivers that when we are hailing an auto, we are mentally prepared to get into an argument. So our subconscious mind tries to choose a guy who looks like a cheater. And after telling the driver our destination, we pause slightly waiting for him to give a price. This invitation is enough for the auto driver to start demanding more money and we have got our change to fight with him. Instead of simply going to our destination we spend our time getting upset and angry!

More serious issues are usually manifestations among family members. Wife subconsciously encouraging her husband to suspect her loyalty just because she believes his disapproval is a sign of his deep affection for her. Similarly, a mother waiting for her young daughter to sit very close to the television so she could admonish her. Manifestations between daughter-in-law and mother-in-law. And the list can go on…

In the next post I shall write about how these manifestations can be changed and how you can even create positive manifestations.

Exam Fear and Study Anxiety

The pressure on students to attain higher ranks and better marks comes from various sources like parents, teachers, peers, relatives and sometimes even neighbors. As the generations are growing more competitive, this pressure has assumed gargantuan proportions and many a student crack under it. The result is the development of various student issues like fear of a particular subject, fear of examination, study anxiety, lack of concentration and poor memory. The roots of these issues are varied yet easy to resolve through Hypnotherapy. Any issue does not usually crop up from a single event; small events over a period of time add to the issue.

It is usually the parents’ responsibility to identify these anxiety issues in the child and address them immediately. But in some cases, it is the parents themselves responsible for the anxiety and are oblivious of it.

Student lifetime is one of the highly suggestible stages and therefore it becomes very easy for a figure of authority to influence them through suggestions. Unfortunately, most of the adults are not aware of this fact and they plant suggestions that undermine the student’s confidence and consecutively her/his concentration.

Hypnotherapy is one of the best methods to very quick and effective to resolve these issues and help the student’s regain her/his confidence back. Under hypnosis, the student can quickly remember the cause of the issues like exam fear, study anxiety, poor memory, and lack of concentration, and with the help of the therapist the student can quickly resolve the issues.

Through hypnosis students not only regain their confidence but can also increase their performance in education, sports and in other areas of interest.