How can hypnosis help me manage chronic conditions?

How can hypnosis help me manage chronic conditions?

John McGrail, C.Ht. (Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist) gives expert video advice on: Do medical health care professionals commonly use hypnosis?; How can hypnosis help me during a routine doctor visit?; How can hypnosis help me handle pain? and more...

It has been clinically proven that we can have some really profound effects. These diseases and conditions often don't fall into the classic Western model of medicine where, "Here's a pill, you take it and it goes away." These chronic conditions are not caused by a germ such as irritable bowel. There's been quite a bit of research done, particularly in Great Britain, on this particular condition. There is a stress component to any of these; fibromyalgia, chronic pain, irritable bowel, chronic fatigue syndrome, and because hypnosis is a wonderful tool for managing and alleviating stress, we can help the person calm down. And then we can have them visualize, for instance, their digestive system working smoothly, creating smooth and rhythmic peristalsis, which is the movement of the intestines as food passes through. The mind controls the body, and there's no secret to that anymore. So we're basically tapping into the mind's power to send different signals to those areas of the body that are not functioning the way we'd like them to, to help them function better.