How can hypnosis help me while I'm undergoing a medical procedure?
Some people wonder how hypnosis can help with medical procedures and of course there's so many different medical procedures, there's no pat answer to it. However, it has been clinically proven that for instance with surgery, hypnosis is very beneficial both in the preparation for and the recovery from surgery. As far as preparation, we can reduce stress and get the patient in a physical and psychological frame of mind to do what we can get the mind and body working together and that's very important because the mind and body are inextricably related. Post surgical hypnotherapy deals with accelerated healing and again clinical studies have shown that in the cases of surgery there is less trauma to the body, often less blood loss, and quicker and faster recovery times. And that has been proven to be the case for other medical treatments like with cancer patients, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, hynotherapy can be very helpful in helping a cancer patient cope with the side effects, the pain, the nausea and the discomfort associated with those therapies and so it makes it a much more bearable process and of course it can help with the healing, so it can be a very powerful thing, the mind controls the body.
