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Forging ties that bind</h1>
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One of our most important goals in life is to build a successful and highly rewarding career. The other is to forge happy and successful relationships with those around us.</div>
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For most people their families are their major resources not just in terms of finances but also emotional support and advice. Families also provide role models for the younger generation.</div>
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Having a fulfilling relationship with family members will have a lasting effect on one’s personality, behaviour and self-esteem. For most people this legacy is largely positive, but for some conflicts and disagreements with family members create unresolved confusion and pain.</div>
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Children see parents in positions of power and influence. But it can help to remember that they are also people, each with their own set of emotional and psychological hang ups.</div>
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This new perspective helps create a clearer picture of one’s childhood. Understanding one’s parents is an important first step towards self-forgiveness and acceptance, which in turn reduces the likelihood of repeating the same mistakes with one’s own children.</div>
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Hugs are important. They can help even adults, who missed out on affection when they were younger. Positive emotional exchanges stimulate the growth of cortisol receptors in the brain, which is also important in managing stress.</div>
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Of course, therapy is another way to help rid oneself of unwanted baggage and leave you free to embrace more positive relationships.</div>
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All parents get cross from time to time, and whilst children don’t like this, single outbursts rarely lead to emotional damage. Prolonged anger however, which overshadows everything is harmful because children remain in a high state of alert.</div>
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As adults they may be hyper sensitive or avoid conflict at all costs. People pleasers who are nervous about expressing their own opinions often fall into this group. The good side is that these very skills are helpful in the workplace and are often found among the more supportive and reliable of colleagues. The down side is that bottling up real emotions can lead to stress, loneliness, frustration and sometimes passive-aggressive behaviour.</div>
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When a parent is too controlling, children lack the opportunity to develop confidence in their own opinions. They may even lie to avoid conflict. As adults they find making decisions difficult or stressful.</div>
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Another common behaviour is avoiding criticism at all costs. Of course the positive outcome is that they are often diplomatic, good at considering other people’s feeling and opinions and weigh up the pros and cons before speaking.</div>
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Some parents are so self-absorbed, so focused on work that they are unable to show the empathy necessary for normal parent-child development. At an unhealthy level this is narcissistic and the child is considered only a reflection of the parent. Any request is at best ignored and the child is expected to be both subservient to the parent and at the same time a trophy to display to other envious parents and families.</div>
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Some parents can feel threatened or resentful as they watch their children grow up into young adults with lives of their own. They feel reminded of their own missed opportunities and lack of achievement.</div>
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Previous positive parent-child relationships may sour over time leaving the adolescent vulnerable. It is often hard for young people to understand what is happening and they may blame themselves for the communication breakdown. The uncertainty can lead to deep mistrust of any person whom they allow close.</div>
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Of course there is no such thing as the perfect family. But the Five Ls Guide can help make families the place where you can be yourself and be accepted for who you are. After all it is the first relationship that any of us will have.</div>
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LEARNING: Sharing with each other and learning value, behaviour and skills</div>
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LAUGHTER: The perfect “medicine” for strong family ties</div>
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LOYALTY: The glue that keeps families together</div>
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LOVE: The heart of the family</div>
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LEADERSHIP: The role models who impart shared values and respect</div>
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The London College of Clinical Hypnosis is offering a one-day discover workshop on Family & What To Do About Them at the special rate of RM50 (limited places).</div>
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Call 03 7960 6439 or email <a class="mailto-link" href="mailto:info@hypnosis-malaysia.com" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: content-box; color: #007dbc; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">info@hypnosis-malaysia.com</a> or <span style="box-sizing: content-box; color: blue;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box; font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.lcch.asia/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: content-box; color: blue; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">www.lcch.asia</a> </span></span>to make your bookings.</div>
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Exploring your inner psyche through hypnosis</h1>
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There are times when even the most positive amongst us gets frustrated. Responsibilities seem endless, expenses keeping growing and time is an increasingly scarce commodity.</div>
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There has been a trend in Malaysia and all around the world to get in touch with one’s self. But it can be confusing knowing where to start. Travel is one option because it broadens one’s horizons and allows you to escape for a while. But there are times when it would be nice just to get an insight about what makes us tick.</div>
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Another strategy is to journey inwards, to discover your true nature. And no journey of self-discovery is quite complete without exploring the unconscious mind.</div>
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Sigmund Freud (one of the most eminent psychologists of all time) said that the conscious mind, all that we are aware of, forms the mere tip of the iceberg about who we are as individuals.</div>
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We get glimpses of our true nature when a spontaneous thought or emotion pops into our conscious mind. Freud said that they come from the unconscious mind, which appears to be hidden, but is in fact a large part of one’s psyche.</div>
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The conscious mind works tirelessly behind the scenes solving problems, remembering information and occasionally giving rise to an “aha moment”. Certainly, no journey of self-discovery, can be complete without getting to know your unconscious mind.</div>
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Hypnotherapists often consider the unconscious mind the real mind. This is because it is the seat of emotions and the storehouse of life experiences and memories.</div>
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The conscious mind is considered a sophisticated mechanism for analysing sequential facts or working out details. But it can get completely muddled trying to make sense of emotions. Clearly a new route is needed if you want to know what makes you tick or to make emotional changes.</div>
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Of course not everyone who signs up for personal discovery or hypnosis courses has a problem. Some people are just curious about themselves. Getting in touch with one’s emotions often leads to feelings of completeness, personal confidence and wellbeing. For some people this is enough.</div>
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But others become fascinated and there is a natural progression to learn how to help others through charity work, sharing with friends or even as therapists. So exploring your inner psyche for personal reasons leads to skills, enhances satisfaction and provides invaluable knowledge.</div>
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Learning about hypnosis has several extra advantages for modern living. Hypnosis is a natural form of relaxation. In fact, anyone who has experienced a pleasant daydream knows what hypnosis feels like.</div>
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Regular practice is mentally and physically rejuvenating and can help people manage stress and problems of modern life such as insomnia, chronic pain, frustration and even some gastric problems.</div>
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This is because the unconscious mind is also the gateway between the body and the mind. The more in tune you are with yourself, the more at ease and healthy your body becomes. It is not surprising therefore that hypnosis is also called the oldest Western form of psychotherapy. In Eastern tradition it is the close cousin of meditation.</div>
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The nicest thing about hypnosis is that it is a natural state. There are only positive side effects like improved confidence and feelings of mental calm. Personal discovery using hypnosis is working with your own nature, and many people describe the experience as being connected to their true nature. And it is as simple as having a daydream.</div>
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A simple and safe way to explore hypnosis is to utilise the few moments just before you drift into sleep. This state is called a hypnogogic state and is a naturally occurring state of hypnosis.</div>
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Take a few moments to enjoy the sense of lying on your bed. Then imagine yourself waking up feeling fresh and rejuvenated and full of positive energy. As you create this image, picture yourself waking up with renewed energy or imagine how well and positive you will feel.</div>
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Naturally and without too much effort you will already be in communication with your unconscious mind and through these simple images you inner mind gets the message of how you wish to feel when you wake up.</div>
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While not totally kid’s play, paediatric hypnosis has been successful in transforming the life of children. This is because the language patterns used in clinical hypnosis are very similar to the way children naturally think.</div>
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The three most common techniques used are relaxation, storytelling and imagination while the most important part of the process is building trust with the young person.</div>
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Children have excellent imaginations. The clinical hypnotherapist will generally help the young person get comfortable and then create an interesting story about the problem to be solved. Using special hypnosis techniques the child embarks on a journey of imagination and metaphor, which is consistent with their own worldview. The child is shown how to solve the problems in this fantasy world and how to acquire the skills they need to cope in real life.</div>
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Clinical hypnosis can be helpful for simple behaviour problems such as coping with new environments (like a new school), situations that cause stress like school bullies, a lack of confidence, fear of the dark and bed wetting. It has also proved helpful in dealing with painful illnesses or medical procedures.</div>
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Clinical hypnotherapy can also provide support for children who have become confused about adult situations. Some children can become disturbed by seeing or hearing their parents argue. These children are either more sensitive to complex emotions or they do not have the skills or knowledge to cope with the situation. Rather than place the blame on one or more parent, there is a tendency to assume responsibility for the fight or unpleasant vibe.</div>
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This can give rise to feelings of guilt such as “Mum and dad fight because of me” or “I am bad” or simply “It’s my fault”. Another common response is to become like a sponge absorbing all the negative emotions in the home. An indication that your child is unhappy and needs help is when they start to withdraw, act out or become moody. In very extreme situations they may also think about running away or harming themselves.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In the USA about two-thirds of pediatrists regularly use techniques such as relaxation, storytelling and imagination when dealing with behavioural issues. The key to working with children is to provide the young person with a safe place, the tools to solve the problem and someone whom they feel is completely on their side and will not judge them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In the USA about two-thirds of pediatrists regularly use techniques such as relaxation, storytelling and imagination when dealing with behavioural issues. The key to working with children is to provide the young person with a safe place, the tools to solve the problem and someone whom they feel is completely on their side and will not judge them.</span></div>
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In this way the parents can play an active role in the solution. Sometimes the clinical hypnotherapist will discuss the matter with the parents independently in a separate session. Of course the way these sessions are organised are highly individual and depend on the situation, the problem and the patient.</div>
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Clinical hypnosis can also help children prepare for difficult or painful medical procedures. Evidence suggests clinical hypnosis provides relief for both acute and chronic pain management. It works by addressing two key areas, anxiety about the procedure and management of uncomfortable or painful experiences.</div>
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The first step would be to discuss the matter with the child’s doctor and on their agreement, to include a clinical hypnotherapist as part of the team. Sometimes the clinical hypnotherapist will teach the accompanying parent how to use simple techniques so that they can continue to support their children at home.</div>
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Parents themselves can start the process of contributing to their child’s self-confidence and coping skills by three simple rules i.e. providing consistent boundaries and home rules that are fair and transparent; encouraging good behaviour rather than focusing on disruptive behaviour (the 3:1 rule of three positive to every criticism works); and by being liberal with love and hugs.</div>
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<em>Sheila Menon is Principal of the London College of Clinical Hypnosis (LCCH Asia). You can visit the www.lcch.asia website; email info@hypnosis-malaysia.com; or call 03-7960-6439 for more information.</em></div>
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LCCH Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126887555910806352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125505758516139865.post-60557860392366178562016-11-29T01:15:00.006-08:002016-12-02T01:43:20.436-08:00My Diploma Weekend 4: Insomnia and Smoking Cessation<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">The two main </span><span style="line-height: 15.6933px;">interesting </span>topic that I enjoyed in my Diploma Weekend 4 was Insomnia<span style="line-height: 107%;"> and Smoking Cessation.</span></span><br />
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LCCH Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126887555910806352noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125505758516139865.post-51364364087591710272016-11-17T02:09:00.002-08:002016-12-02T01:40:33.455-08:00MY STUDY EXPERIENCE by Alex Chin (current Diploma Student)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">During the first weekend, we have been taught a very powerful script, which is the ‘Healing White Light’. It is specifically designed to stimulate the body’s own natural ability to heal. It is very useful in therapeutic work as it allows the therapist to install a very powerful suggestion to the patient that the body can find its own resources to speed up the healing process. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It also helps the client to strengthen their own beliefs that they can face their issues confidently and solve them eventually. Self-hypnosis which is a very important tool in helping the patient is also being taught. It is very important for the patient to practice this on their own. This will speed up the healing process and reduce the sessions needed for therapy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After learning each new technique, we practice it with our fellow course mates. I think it is very helpful that we can do some hands-on as it will enhance our learning while also allowing to us experience how is it like while doing our therapy work. Besides, we have the chance to clarify any difficulties we faced while we practice and get some valuable and useful feedback from the lecturer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In fact, I enjoyed my pregnancy right till the time my baby girl was born on 6 July 2011. I did not suffer from morning sickness as bad as some women go through. But I did have my share of experiencing mild morning sickness. How did I manage this? Well, as the saying goes “it’s all in the mind” – I told myself that I will not allow nausea and vomiting to spoil my day, so I practiced self-hypnosis like how I was taught to do so. Think positively and don’t let the feeling of nausea rule your mind. The moment you think you want to vomit, believe me, you will trigger vomit. So tell yourself that “No, I don’t want to vomit today no matter what happens” and you will not vomit – trust me, I did it and it worked for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I followed my therapists’ advice to always stay happy and cheerful. I was also advised to always talk to my unborn baby. I followed their advice and I realized that even during the time my baby was in my womb, whenever she moves around a lot which can cause some kind discomfort to a mother, I used to talk to her to slow down because mummy is feeling uneasy or mummy wants to sleep, she needs to go to work tomorrow – and immediately my baby used to stop her movement - I experienced this many times during my pregnancy. There were also times when my baby did not move for some time and I became worried. So I went to a quiet place in my home and spoke to my baby about my concerns. I told her to move a little bit at least so that I know she’s alright – and she did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> My pregnancy went smoothly and I was hoping to deliver normally but due to my high sugar level, my gynaecologist decided to opt for C-section. I practiced self hypnosis before and after my C-section. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After my C-section when I regained consciousness, I won’t lie to you but it was excruciatingly painful. I fought the pain and did not allow it to ‘rule’ my life – how did I do that? Back to self hypnosis – it played like a broken record in my mind over and over again – “I WILL NOT LET THIS PAIN RUIN MY MOMENT OF JOY WITH MY BABY – THE BABY IS ALL THAT MATTERS TO ME NOW “. I remember my husband saying this to me at one point of time when one of the nurses came to poke me again and again because the saline drip was not functioning as it should. He said “You have a very high resistance to pain – incredible”. It’s true what he said, because I did not have ‘PAIN’ written all over my brains. I fought it with a positive mental attitude or image. The next day after my C-section, I did not wait for my gynaecologist or the nurse to tell me to get off the bed and start walking. I did it on my own without any assistance. I was determined to walk to the restroom and I did it successfully though the pain was really bad. I did not let it deter me from walking. My gynaecologist and family were surprised with my action but they were proud of me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LCCH Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126887555910806352noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125505758516139865.post-52630039759175475192011-06-15T23:34:00.000-07:002011-06-15T23:34:00.052-07:00Psycho-Neuroimmunology (PNI) Mind Body Healing Workshop<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This workshop is presented by Peter Mabbutt, Director of Studies of the LCCH and Dr Gayathri K Kumarasuriar, recipient of the Mahadevan Travelling Fellowship will be offering you a hands-on-tour of what is important in Mind Body Medicine.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The workshop is designed around a sumptuous tea allowing you to spend a relaxing three hours observing new methods, experiencing first hand and even trying out the methods of PNI or Mind Body Medicine.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To celebrate the 5th anniversary of the LCCH, this workshop will be held at the Bukit Kiara Equestrian and Country Resort on 26 June 2011 between 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm. Registration fee is RM55.00 only. Please contact 03-79606439/6449 to register or visit www.hypnosis-malaysia.com to download the brochure and registration form.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These tickets will be offered in a lucky draw to everyone who has registered and paid for the Alumni Gathering before 15 June 2011 by 12 noon.</span><br />
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LCCH Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126887555910806352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125505758516139865.post-42201954280415879092011-05-15T23:15:00.000-07:002011-05-15T23:15:03.153-07:00HYPNO-LEARNING - THE SMARTER WAY OF HELPING CHILDREN SUCCEED, 23 MAY 2011, KUALA LUMPUR<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hi every one!</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Since so many of you are saying that you would like to acquire the hypnotherapy skills to work with children, Darren Roscoe, our U.K. expert on Children is offering a one time only evening workshop to top up your skills. The next time Darren is in town, it would be a full day master class with full day charges.<br />
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Please do take advantage of the 3-hour evening workshop. In KL, the Workshop on Hypno-Learning - The Smarter Way of Helping Children Succeed will be held on 2</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">3</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> May 2011 (</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Monday</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">).<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Our minds can help us heal our bodies. SUSHMA VEERA speaks to hypnotherapist Dr K. Gayathri on harnessing the benefits</div><div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">HAVE you ever tried to go on a diet but failed miserably? Or have you tried to quit smoking, only to end up smoking more?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Raised eyebrows notwithstanding, psychiatrist Dr K. Gayathri of Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital, Sungai Petani, says one can achieve personal goals through hypnotherapy.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Our subconscious mind is protective of our body. So, when you try to stop eating, it will tell you to eat, that your body needs food. Hypnosis can help to overcome unconscious obstacles which prevent you from losing weight and from keeping weight off after a successful diet.” </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The same goes for those who want to quit smoking or overcome a phobia.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“I used hypnosis to help overcome my fear of heights. It is not something I focus on every day as I am no mountain climber but my fear is not as it used to be.”</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">A recipient of the Mahadevan Travelling Fellowship, Dr Gaya, as she is fondly called, explains hypnosis and hypnotherapy.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Hypnosis is the technique when you take a person into a trance state. In hypnotherapy, therapy is used as a method on a person who is in that state. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Hypnotherapists do not posses any special powers. The reality is that people have those powers in themselves. In hypnosis, we help them to access and release their hidden potential.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“During that state, the body becomes relaxed. Your body is given a rest from mental, physical and emotional distress that that has plagued you all day long.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">This “rest” has so many benefits, especially if it is practised daily. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">She adds: “Some have the fear that they may reveal their secrets when they are hypnotised. This is not true. You are in an altered state of consciousness — one where your concentration is improved and your imagination is working for you and not dwelling on all the reasons why you will fail.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“As a branch of Mind Body Medicine, we get our mind to work on helping us heal our body, an adjunct to the medications we take in numerous medical conditions such as auto-immune and heart diseases, and renal and skin problems, and in some situations as sole therapy in palliative care. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><b style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a hypnotherapy session</b></span></div></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The hypnotherapist will take down your case history to become familiar with your mindset and personality. Each hypnotherapy session is specifically designed for the patient. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Then we take the patient into hypnosis and manage the experience so that he is in the right depth of relaxation. The purpose is to use psychological and emotional resources. Using imagery and other techniques, we access the patient’s unconscious mind. The unconscious mind holds all the positive experiences, confident emotions and inner sense of wisdom. It is a useful tool in psychiatry. But it is also useful for mind-body healing since many of the body’s functions take place automatically or unconsciously.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Using hypnosis, we have a method to slow down metabolism, reduce anxiety, improve blood flow and healing conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome and panic disorder.”</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><b style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where her journey began</b></span></div></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Although Dr Gaya admits that psychiatry was not her first choice of posting at the hospital, she has no qualms about it. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“I have always loved children and requested for a posting in the paediatrics ward. I used to take ‘work’ home with me. When the children didn’t get well, I would worry about them at home. This started to affect me and my family life.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Although I have a Master’s in Paediatrics, I realised that I was not cut out for that department,” recalls Dr Gaya, a medical graduate from Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Mangalore. After three years, Dr Gaya requested for a transfer.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><b style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From psychiatry to hypnotherapy</b></span></div></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">When there was an opening in psychiatrics in 1998, Dr Gaya thought, why not? After all, she has always liked topics relating to the mind and body.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“My early years in psychiatry taught me so much about human nature.”</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2003, Dr Gaya was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. “My mother had it and she eventually died of cancer. I decided that was not going to happen to me as I have two young children.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“I knew that medication alone would not be enough. I recalled seeing a book — The Power of the Subconscious Mind — that my father used to read. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“I became interested in hypnosis after reading it. Then, one day, as I was glancing through Medical Tribune magazine, I came across an advertisement about a clinical hypnotherapy course run by the London College of Clinical Hypnosis in Kuala Lumpur.”</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite having to travel to Kuala Lumpur every month for classes, Dr Gaya’s husband encouraged her to join.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“That was four years ago and there has been no turning back since then. After my certificate, I planned to do my diploma so that I can use the learning on my patients. I diligently practised self hypnosis with imagery, and healed my gut.” </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">She says that the course opened her mind to the power of hypnotherapy.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“I continued with my medication for colitis. But before hypnosis, there was constant inflammation. After hypnosis, it disappeared. To be healthy, I need to do hypnosis every day. This is a condition which medicine can control, not cure.” </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><b style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fellowship</b></span></div></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Subsequently, Dr Gaya was awarded the Mahadevan Travelling Fellowship and went to Harvard University to study at the Mind Body Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Dr Gaya was supervised by Dr David Henderson, a psychiatrist and head of the Global Division (Chester Pierce Division) of Psychiatry in MGH. He is also a professor at Harvard University.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“I was shadowing many doctors but two — Professor Emeritus Dr Herbert Benson of the Benson Henry Unit of Mind Body Medicine in MGH and Dr Chester Pierce, a psychiatrist who founded the global division of psychiatry at MGH — have had an impact on my career.” </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Her experience there was an eye-opener on hypnotherapy and its vast benefits.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><b style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At home</b></span></div></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“I have taught my two children what my late father taught me — use our subconscious mind to relax our body and set our goals.”</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Dr Gaya says her boy aged 12 and daughter aged 10 would immediately recognise if she was trying the method on them.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“They ask: ’Amma, are you trying to hypnotise us?” she says, with a laugh.</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Family is important to Dr Gaya and she tries to spend as much time as she can with her husband and children.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">She enjoys gardening, travelling and reading books, including historical romances.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“It’s fictitious and funny, and I get to escape from the real world,” she says, a blush stealing into her cheeks.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><b style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DIY hypnosis guide</b></span></div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">1. Find somewhere you are unlikely to be disturbed.</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">2. Set aside 10 to 15 minutes every day.</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">3. Make yourself comfortable.</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">4. Some people count down from 10 to one while some people focus on their breathing — slow your breathing down.</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">5. Lean back in you chair or bed and start to watch your thoughts come and go.</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">6. Find that moment of peace — provide a suggestion in a special hypnosis way. Hypnosis language uses your whole brain and is fast and effective.</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">7. Imagine yourself achieving your goal even if that is simply a sense of relaxation.</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">8. When you are finished, simply count from one to 10 and open your eyes.</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">9. If anyone disturbs you before then you can come wide awake.</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">10. Visit a qualified clinical hypnotherapist first so that you know exactly what to do.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><img src="http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/Health_Mindyourhealth/pixgal2" /></div></span></div>LCCH Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126887555910806352noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125505758516139865.post-8149757597112962892011-04-10T20:05:00.000-07:002011-04-10T20:05:15.080-07:00THIS WEEK'S ARTICLE<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found this amazing article on the internet and through that you might be interested. There is a reference to so many interesting experts on clinical hypnosis it really is worth a read.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">By Sheila Menon </span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt;">FBAMH FBSCH</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US">, Principal & Director, LCCH (Asia)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HARNESS YOU CHILD'S IMAGINATION FOR HEALING: <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THE REMARKABLE POWER OF HYPNOSIS <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By Michael Castleman <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WHAT IS HYPNOSIS? <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mention hypnosis, and most people think of nightclub performers who swing gold pocket watches and induce people to do silly things. Hypnosis has had a spotty reputation for more than 200 years (see sidebar). But modern hypnosis is a legitimate branch of medicine. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Forget the nightclub acts," says New York psychiatrist Herbert Spiegel, M.D., a professor emeritus at Columbia University who has taught hypnosis for 40 years. "Hypnosis is a state of deeply relaxed, attentive, receptive concentration. The term 'hypnosis' implies sleep. So does the word 'trance.' But hypnosis is actually the opposite of sleep. People under hypnosis are very much awake. In a hypnotic trance, they become highly receptive to suggestions compatible with their personal goals and desires." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hypnosis involves several elements. One is deep relaxation, the kind associated with meditation. Deep relaxation helps control stress and anxiety. This is important because stress and anxiety make pain hurt more, and exacerbate symptoms of many other conditions, among them: asthma, headache, stomachache, and sleep problems. "Deep relaxation is a key component of hypnosis," says Laurence Sugarman, M.D., a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Rochester, who specializes in hypnosis. "Under hypnosis, children's heart rates slow. Their breathing becomes deeper, and more relaxed. You can see them relax." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Deep relaxation also is the doorway into the hypnotic trance. Colloquially, "trance" is a loaded term, implying a loss of control. But in hypnosis, it connotes the mental clarity and focus experienced by people under hypnosis--both children and adults--as a result of the combination of deep relaxation and personally meaningful imagery. "By focusing on comforting images," Dr. Sugarman explains, "children reduce their stress even more."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A third aspect of hypnosis is the way it focuses concentration. Extraneous thoughts slip away, allowing people under hypnosis to focus their attention on their personal treatment goal, whatever it might be. "Studies have shown that hypnosis increases the activity of theta waves in the brain," Dr. Spiegel explains, "which are associated with attention and concentration." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, hypnotic suggestion focuses on the goal, not the problem. "People with medical conditions typically focus on their symptoms: their pain, discomfort, or disability," Dr. Spiegel says. "Focusing on symptoms can make them worse, for example, wheezing in asthma. Under hypnosis, we turn attention away from the symptom toward the goal--easy breathing in the case of asthma, or a dry bed in enuresis, or comfort instead of pain. When the mind concentrates on the goal, the body is more likely to achieve it." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In general, children respond to hypnotic suggestion better than adults because they are more in touch with their imaginations. Most studies of hypnosis have used children no younger than five or six. But some research shows that children as young as three can be hypnotized. "In my experience," says Karen Olness, M.D. a professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, a past president of the American Board of Medical Hypnosis, and coauthor (with Daniel Kohen, M.D.) of the textbook, Hynposis and Hypnotherapy with Children, "the research underestimates children's ability to be hypnotized." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although its various elements are well-known, hypnosis remains something of a mystery. There is still no professional consensus on its definition. "Personally, Dr. Sugarman explains, "I think hyopnosis is simply the facilitation of imagination for personal change, for healing. It's nothing magical. People concentrate to the exclusion of distractions all the time--when engrossed in a movie or a good book. I do it while running."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps the best analogy is that hypnosis is productive daydreaming, daydreaming with a purpose. People, especially kids, go in and out of imaginative daydreaming many times each day. "But in medical hypnosis," says Daniel Kohen, M.D., a professor of pediatrics, director of the behavioral pediatrics program at the University of Minnesota, and co-author (with Karen Olness, M.D.) of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy with Children, "we harness the daydreaming state of mind for a reason--to bring about desired change." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learning hypnosis requires a professional therapist. But it's important to understand that hypnosis is less about how the therapist influences the patient, than how people change themselves. "All hypnosis is ultimately self-hypnosis." Dr. Sugarman insists. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hypnosis is similar to two other self-help therapies, visualization and guided imagery, which typically involve listening to cassette tapes with relaxing music and suggestions of soothing imagery to help manage everything from insomnia to quitting smoking. The differences between hypnosis on the one hand, and visualization and guided imagery on the other, are subtle. Some practitioners use the terms interchangeably. Like hypnosis, visualization and guided imagery both involve deep relaxation, mental focus on imagery, and the intent to make a personal change. But hypnosis involves more personal attention, a therapist instead of a cassette tape. It's like the difference between taking an exercise class and working one-on-one with a personal trainer. "Visualization and guided imagery can help deal with minor problems," Einzig explains, "but with hypnosis, you get specific suggestions tailored to your own individual life, tastes, and needs. As a result, you become more deeply relaxed, and more deeply entranced, so you can accomplish more." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Five years after Rachel McLean's first experience with hypnosis, she broke her arm at summer camp. When her mother arrived, she found her 11-year-old daughter in a great deal of pain, and apprehensive about getting a cast. "I reminded her about Cleo and the cloud car," Gayle recalls. "Rachel remembered how to hypnotize herself, and did it again. It helped."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rachel, now 14, barely remembers her wart treatment. But she recalls how she used self-hypnosis when she broke her arm: "It was easy. I just thought about my old cat purring on my lap. It made me feel calm and peaceful, and I forgot about the pain." As for her hypnotic trance, Rachel compared it to watching a good movie: "I was focused on Cleo, but I was awake. If someone had said, 'Hey, Rachel,' I could have opened my eyes and focused on them." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From eye-rolling skeptic, Gayle McLean has become a believer in hypnosis for children's health problems. "Would I recommend it? Absolutely. Our experience was incredible. Hypnosis worked like magic." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HOW HYPNOSIS CAN HELP CHILDREN <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The medical literature contains dozens of reports demonstrating how beneficial hypnosis can be for children's health problems. Drs. Kohen and Olness tracked 505 children and adolescents they and two colleagues treated during one year for a variety of conditions: anxiety, pain, asthma, habit problems (e.g. thumb sucking), bedwetting, and encopresis (involuntary defecation). Using hypnosis, half (51 percent) were cured. One-third (32 percent) showed significant improvement. Nine percent showed modest improvement. And only 7 percent showed no response. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to it effectiveness, hypnosis typically works quickly. "With Rachel McLean, it took two visits," Einzig says. "That's pretty typical." But McLean's symptom involved straight-forward situational anxiety. For more serious medical conditions, such as asthma, it might take as long as six weeks of hypnosis to produce noticeable improvement. And if a child's symptom is a surface manifestation of underlying psychological problems, treatment might take even longer. "In emotionally complicated cases," Einzig explains, "hypnosis usually begins to relieve the presenting symptom quickly, but it might take extended psychotherapy to deal with the underlying psychological issues." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, hypnosis is no panacea. It can't cure cancer, or diabetes, or help blind children see. But when used for the many conditions it can treat, it is remarkably effective, even in cases where the children have severe psychological problems. "If a child is deeply emotionally disturbed, I hesitate to use hypnosis," Einzig explains, "and when I do, I'm very selective. But I've seen it work with children I considered almost psychotic." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hypnosis is still not all that popular among pediatricians, but it is gaining support even among those who do not practice it. At Johns Hopkins, Barbara Howard, M.D., an assistant professor of pediatrics and codirector of the Center for Promotion of Child Development Through Primary Care, calls it "very valuable" for such conditions as migraines, anxiety problems, bed-wetting, and pain. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heidi Feldman, M.D., a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine agrees: "If I were treating a child for headaches, other pain problems, bad habits, self-esteem issues, or many other conditions, and the parents wanted to include hyponsis in the treatment, I would encourage it. Hypnosis organizes the mind to support the body to heal. We need to capitalize on the mind's ability to help healing. In addition, compared with drug treatments, the risk of harm from hypnosis is low." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Hypnosis can be a powerful treatment for many conditions," says Paul Graham Fisher, M.D., an assistant professor of neurology and pediatrics at Stanford University, "I think it works wonderfully as part of comprehensive medical treatment." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Several studies have shown that hypnosis is often all that's necessary to eliminate common warts on the hands. In a report by a Tulane University researcher on 41 consecutive cases, hypnosis cured 33 of them (80 percent). The researcher, D.M. Ewin, noted: "Prepubertal children respond to hypnosis almost without exception." Dr. Olness also reports considerable success using hypnosis to cure warts. She begins by asking children to name a few things they really enjoy. Then she asks them to relax, think about one of their enjoyable things, and tell her when they feel comfortable. When they do, she says, "Now think of a way to stop feeding that wart so it will get smaller and go away." Many warts, she says, disappear in a week or two.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Researchers at the University of California, at Davis, reviewed 20 studies of hypnosis as a treatment for childhood asthma, in addition to prescribed medication. In 17 of these studies (85 percent), hypnosis produced significant benefits: less wheezing, less need for medication, fewer school absences, and fewer emergency room visits. The researchers concluded: "Children in particular appear to respond well to hypnosis as a tool for improving asthma symptoms." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hypnosis also helps treat the maddening itching and scratching of eczema (atopic dermatitis), according to a study by British researchers, who treated 20 children whose severe eczema had resisted conventional medical treatment with drugs. "All but one showed immediate improvement." After 18 months, 10 of the 2 who could be followed up had maintained the improvement in itching and scratching, and almost as many saw continued improvement in other areas of their lives, for example, less depression, and less disturbed sleep. "Hypnosis," the researchers noted, "is particularly valuable for children. By learning the technique early in the course of this illness, they may avoid the long-term physical and psychological effects of a distressing, disfiguring disease." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is bedwetting an issue for your child? Hypnosis often helps. Indian researchers gave 50 bedwetters either a standard medication, imipramine (Tofranil) or training in self-hypnosis, with instruction to practice daily. After three months, 76 percent of the drug group had consistently dry beds, compared with 72 percent of the hypnosis group. Then the drug was discontinued, but the hypnosis group was instructed to keep practicing. Nine months later, 24 percent of the drug group still had consistently dry beds. But in the hypnosis group, the figure was 68 percent. Regular practice was necessary to maintain the benefit. Relapses occurred when the children could not practice their hypnosis routine for more than two days. "But," the researchers noted, "they regained control by themselves when they returned to regular self-hypnosis practice." The researchers also concluded that part of the reason hypnosis worked so well was that "the children in the hypnosis group played a more active role in their treatment." Instead of simply passively taking medication, they practiced their self-hypnosis routines daily.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Olness and colleagues have found hypnosis effective as a treatment for searingly painful juvenile migraine headaches. For three months, 28 kids, age six to 12, took a placebo (an inactive substance) for their migraines. Then, for another three months, they took propranolol (Inderal), a drug often effective for adult migraines, but less so in children. Finally, all the children were taught self-hypnosis and used it for three months. The participants had an average of 13 migraines while taking the placebo, and 15 on propranolol, but just 6 while using self-hypnosis. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, hypnosis can help children deal with pain and anxiety, for example, Rachel McLean's fear of her dermatologist and the painful wart treatments she had to endure. It has become widely used to break the vicious cycle of anxiety and pain involved in childhood cancer treatment--the endless needle sticks of extended chemotherapy regimens, and more painful procedures, for example, lumbar punctures and removal of bone marrow. Adults are typically sedated for these procedures, but children often react paradoxically to sedatives and become agitated, hence the interest in non-drug alternatives. Two studies--one at the University of Texas, San Antonio, the other, at the University of Sunderland, in Britain--have compared hypnosis with visualization-type exercises to control the pain of bone marrow procedures. In both studies both hypnosis and visualization therapy reduced pain and anxiety. But hypnosis produced greater benefits. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the oncology department of British Columbia Children's Hospital, Leora Kuttner, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, teaches hypnotic pain-relief techniques to the young patients. One of them, five-year-old Shauna combines deep breathing to "blow away pain" with hypnotic imagery ("taking trips") to control the pain of intravenous chemotherapy ("having a poke"): "When I do my blowing and take trips, I don't think about having a poke. I just concentrate, and I don't think about what's happening to me, or even about having a needle in my arm. I forget all about it. It's funny how it works, but it does." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For all of its successes, however, hypnosis continues to be "underutilized" in pediatrics, Dr. Olness laments, because of "misconceptions about it" (see sidebar). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another reason why hypnosis is not more widely used has to do with the fact that how it works, what doctors call its "mechanism of action," has never been adequately explained. The elements of hypnosis have been well described: deep relaxation, imagery that resonates for the individual, increased concentration, and a focus on the goal, not the symptom. But researchers remain unclear on exactly how all these pieces fit together, and without a clearly defined mechanism of action, many doctors remain skeptical. "We can document the many benefits of hypnosis," Dr. Kohen explains. "But all we can do is speculate about how it produces them because no one knows how it works." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Sugarman concurs, but believes that in addition to its other elements, hypnosis also involves the child's relationship with the hypnotist. "In my practice, I've had cases where I believe my rapport with the child was all that was needed to achieve such goals as keeping the bed dry. When a powerful adult expresses faith in a child's ability to make an important change, it helps the child develop that self-regulation skill." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Kohen agrees: "Hypnosis empowers children to believe they can master new skills. It's a confidence booster."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hypnosis also appears to increases communication between the two hemispheres of the brain, according to Ann Webster, Ph.D., an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a health psychologist at Harvard's Mind-Body Medical Institute, one of the nation's foremost centers for research into deep relaxation. "The unusual communication between the hemispheres of the brain seems to open the mind to suggestion and change." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still, a great deal remains to be explained. For example, studies have shown that under hypnosis, pregnant women can turn abnormal breech babies (feet-first) to normal vertex (head first) presentation, and that children can increase the amount of an immune-system protein in their saliva, a compound they are not consciously aware of. Dr. Surgarman hopes that advances in psychophysiology, the study of how the mind affects the body, will solve the mystery of how hypnosis works. The success of hypnosis proves that the mind can exert powerful effects on the body--even over processes once believed to be involuntary. "Nothing is involuntary," Dr. Sugarman says, "once we know how to control it." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HOW KIDS GET HYPNOTIZED <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About 75 percent of adults can be hypnotized, Dr. Spiegel estimates. "But children are much more in touch with their imaginations, so very few kids can't be successfully hypnotized." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paths into a hypnotic trance, known as "induction," are as varied as daydreams. "Children respond to a large number of induction techniques," Dr. Olness explains. "The choice for any given child depends on the child's needs and preferences, and on the creativity of the therapist." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Olness avoids authoritarian messages, such as: "You will do this...." Or: "I want you to do this...." Authoritarian messages interfere with children's sense of mastery over the problems with which they are struggling. "The purpose of hypnosis," Dr. Olness says, "is to increase the child's sense of control." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During a pre-induction interview, the therapist chats with the child, as Einzig did with Rachel McLean, trying to make the child feel comfortable and listening for suggestions of imagery that might be powerful, as Cleo, her deceased cat was for Rachel. For children under age seven, effective imagery often involves a favorite place, a favorite TV show, a cuddly stuffed animal, a sports activity, following a bouncing ball, or anything that the child enjoys doing or thinking about. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"One little boy I treated for bedwetting loved computers," Einzig recalls. "I had him imagine a big dam with gates. When the gates were open, the water flowed. When they were closed, it didn't. I told him that the gates were controlled by a computer, exactly the kind of computer he had at home. I suggested that he use his brain to set his computer controls to keep the gates closed, and then reset them to open the gates in the morning when he woke up. It worked great." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes the image is tailored to the specific problem. In her work with children facing repeated intravenous infusions of chemotherapy medication, Dr. Kuttner often suggests that they cover the affected arm with a "magic glove," that eliminates their pain. Einzig has used a similar technique: "I used to work in a pediatrics department with kids who were afraid of shots. I would say: 'Did you know there's a place in your mind that can make numbing medicine so the shot won't hurt? Would you like to use your mind to make some numbing medicine?'" <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Einzig introduced Rachel McLean to hypnosis, she asked her mother to leave the room. Dr. Sugarman also prefers to work with children alone, without their parents: "Learning self-regulation is an exercise in autonomy. Children tend to do best with hypnosis when their autonomy is respected. Children seven and younger sometimes benefit from having a parent in the room with them during an induction, but it's best for the parent to be uninvolved, as though watching the child play." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But other hypnosis programs involve the parents as well as the children, among them, Dr. Kuttner's Vancouver pediatric cancer program. Parental involvement often helps when the child is under six or seven, or facing a painful medical procedure or a life-threatening illness. "Hypnosis needs to be individualized with children," Dr. Kohen says. "It's not a one-size-fits-all kind of thing. But it should focus on the child's mastery of the technique, otherwise the child can't master the problem."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the Vancouver program, Dr. Kuttner spends about an hour teaching her young patients how to enter a deep hypnotic trance. Then, she tells the parents about the imagery so they can help their child enter and maintain the hypnotic state during medical procedures. When her seven-year-old daughter, Leslie, had painful cancer treatments, her mother, Ann, helped her imagine a big black pain-control switch, and supervised as Leslie turned it down. "She knows what to do," Ann explains. "I'm like a coach. I try to retreat into the background. I try not to suffocate her with attention." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Parental involvement has another benefit as well. "When children are seriously ill," Dr. Kohen explains, "parental involvement in hypnosis not only helps the child cope, it also helps the parents stay calm as well." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For problems such as bedwetting, where the work of hypnosis happens at home, Dr. Sugarman discourages parents from nagging kids to practice their imagery. "Parental reminders or pressure decrease the effectiveness of self-hypnosis because they interfere with the child's feelings of autonomy and mastery." Instead of nagging, Dr. Kohen suggests saying: "You know how to help yourself. Please do what the doctor showed you." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, sometimes kids refuse to practice their self-hypnosis routines, saying, "I forget," or "That doesn't work." Dr. Kohen gives each of his young patients his business card and invites them to call or email him if they have any problems or questions. "That takes the parents off the hook, and allows them to say: 'I'm not your coach. If you're having trouble, contact Dr. Dan.' It also helps parents communicate the message: 'I have faith in you. You can do it.'" <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WHY HYPNOTISM IS PARTICULARLY USEFUL FOR KIDS <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People of all ages can benefit from hypnosis. Pregnant women use it to prevent morning sickness and eliminate labor pain (see sidebar). Einzig has used it to help her fall asleep after all-night shifts at a psychiatric hospital. Dr. Olness even used it in place of anesthesia during surgical repair of a hand injury. But, for several reasons, hypnosis is particularly useful for children. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It works," Dr. Kohen says. "For some problems--pain control, warts, bed-wetting, habit problems--it's the treatment of choice. For many other conditions--such as, asthma--it complements standard treatments." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It uses something children have an abundance of--imagination. "Children have an inherent delight in their imaginations," Dr. Olness says. "Hypnosis shows them what a useful gift this is." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It empowers children," Dr. Kuttner says. "The message is: You have more control than you think you have, and you can use it to help accomplish things you want to do." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's cost-effective. "A few training sessions are all it takes for most kids to gain its benefits," Dr. Spiegel says. Hypnosis generally costs what talk psychotherapy costs, depending on the therapist and location, $70 to $120 per hour, with $100 an hour about average. Many health insurance policies cover it. Check yours. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It doesn't involve drugs or surgery, Dr. Kohen explains, so you don't have to deal with side effects, prescription refills, or surgical recovery time. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It calms parents as well as children. "With hypnosis," Dr. Kohen says, "in conditions like asthma, parents no longer become anxious when wheezing episodes begin. They know that the child has the tools to deal with it." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, hypnosis brings families one step closer to ultimate goal of parenthood--to launch children into the world as competent individuals. "When kids use hypnosis," Einzig explains, "parents see their children gain mastery over problems that pose real challenges. They see their children display confidence and competence, key elements of growing up. That's wonderful to see."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sidebar:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HYPNOSIS FOR LABOR, DELIVERY, AND NURSING <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Janet Listokin, assistant director of therapeutic recreation at the Isabella Geriatric Center in New York City, was pregnant with her first child, her obstetrician urged her to take a self-hypnosis class to help minimize labor pain. "I love the ocean," Listokin explains. "The class taught me how to numb my lower body using an image of walking into the ocean. First my toes became wet and cold and numb, then my ankles, then my calves, knees, and thighs, and all the way up to my waist. During my labor, I 'walked into the ocean,' and maintained my self-hypnotic the whole time. I had no pain at all. My labor was a serene experience. The obstetrician had to tell me when to push." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Six years later, for her second delivery, Listokin had a different obstetrician. "When I said I wanted to use self-hypnosis again during labor, he pooh-poohed the idea," she recalls. "He called it 'voodoo.' He said, 'Try it if you like, but I'll be there with the needle when you need it.'" <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, Listokin "walked into the ocean," and again she felt no pain. The obstetrician couldn't believe it. "He kept bringing other doctors into the delivery room to show them pain-free labor. They asked me questions, but I wouldn't answer. I told them, "Sorry, I'm in the ocean." Listokin enjoyed another serene labor--and by the time her baby was born, her obstetrician was a convert to hypnosis. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Listokin's experience is by no means unique. But it's not very common. While hypnosis has helped some women enjoy medication-free labor with minimal pain, it's not widely used. "It's a shame," Dr. Webster says, "how underutilized hypnosis is."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hypnosis can also be useful earlier in pregnancy and after the baby's arrival. The bane of early pregnancy is morning sickness. Several studies show that hypnosis can relieve it. Suggestions vary depending on the woman. Some involve a "healing ball" that absorbs any feelings of nausea or abdominal tension. The ball rolls up the woman's back and down her arm. When it arrives at her fingertips, a balloon floats down, and attaches to the ball with a string, carrying away all feelings of nausea and leaving the woman feeling fine. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Close to term, breech presentation (feet first) may complicate delivery. At the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, researcher Lewis Mehl studied the medical records of 100 women whose babies were in breech presentation at 37 to 40 weeks gestation. Almost half (48 percent) of them spontaneously converted to vertex presentation (head first) by the time they were born. Mehl then used hypnosis on 100 women with breech presentation at 37 to 40 weeks, asking them to turn their babies around. More than three quarters (81 percent) did. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, some mothers of premature infants have trouble expressing breast milk. At the University of New Mexico, researchers gave mothers of preemies an audio cassette containing relaxation exercises and a guided visualization describing the baby's warm skin against their own and abundant milk flowing from their breasts. Compared with mothers of preemies who did not listen to the cassette, those who did daily expressed 63 percent more milk. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div>LCCH Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126887555910806352noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125505758516139865.post-14723545481698755932011-04-04T18:36:00.000-07:002011-04-04T18:36:05.039-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 1.9pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-MY; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY; text-transform: uppercase;">Health: Overcoming fear of dentists<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">suaziz@nstp.com.my</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-MY; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;"><div style="text-align: justify;">2011/04/05</div></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-MY; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;">Dentist phobia is as common as our love for food. SU AZIZ wonders how our food-obsessed society can overcome its fear and get into oral health</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-MY; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-MY; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;">THE man pacing up and down the five-foot way seems to be perspiring profusely. And it’s an oddly cool, breezy day in Kuala Lumpur. For a long while, the stray cats lazing nearby observe the man with some annoyance — his pacing is interrupting their afternoon slumber.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><br />
</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Still, the man is unaware of the cats’ feral and hostile stares. Every few steps, he looks up to the signage just above a closed glass door. After a few seconds he looks away to continue with his pacing and wiping his forehead with a soaked, crumbly piece of lunch napkin.</div><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, stop for a minute. Could this be you? Would you rather face death than a dentist? Do you cancel your dental appointment a million times before you actually get yourself to one and it’s not because you’re as busy as a squirrel before winter? Any “yes” to the questions show a degree of dentist phobia. And it’s fine. There are many out there who fear dentists. In fact, I’m pretty sure dentists are more feared or disliked than Adolf Hitler ever was! Take comfort in knowing you’re not alone. Apparently, three out of 10 people suffer from dentist or dental phobia.</div><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;">At least, despite beliefs, a dentist is out there for your well-being. And his medical expertise keeps your teeth intact, which in turn allows for food to be chewed and enjoyed.</div><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, let’s admit it, toothless grins are only charming on a 5-year-old but not even a 90-year-old can carry it off. The latter group simply looks rather silly, if not downright eerie.</div><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-MY; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;">According to a website with a reference to DSM IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), dentist phobia is a “marked and persistent fear that is excessive or unreasonable”. It seems a little unsympathetic but it's way better than to think of it as a mental disorder, no? So, let’s get to a few tricks on how to overcome your dentist phobia. As you’d know, the Internet is a wonderful source of information and below are just some lifted from various websites that has helped me in the past.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><br />
</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Find a supportive dentist From bupa.co.uk, it’s been reported that dentists are trained to take your fears seriously and deal with them sensitively. Some dentists specialise in treating nervous patients.</div><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;">One way of finding a supportive dentist is by word of mouth. You may be able to get a recommendation from someone who has been to a dentist who was sympathetic to his or her needs.</div><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Tell your dentist your secrets From the very beginning, be honest. The same website advises honesty in areas of: 1. Timing. Ask your dentist to let you go at your own pace. This way you are facing your fear and gradually overcoming it step by step.</div><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;">2. Control. Talk to your dentist about having some control over the amount of treatment that you’re having done. You may feel more in control if you have a signal (raising your hand, for example) that lets the dentist know that you would like him or her to stop.</div><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;">1. Talking: Have a chat with your partner before the treatment. Or your partner can accompany you during the treatment until it’s no longer possible, but ask your partner or dentist to keep chatting with you about an involving topic.</div><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Practice makes perfect Now, the good thing is, this is the month where you can have trial runs with a few dentists for free, thanks to Colgate’s Oral Health Month (OHM). This is the eighth such annual event created and hosted by Colgate-Palmolive with the support of the Malaysian Dental Association (MDA).</div><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;">It offers free check-ups by dentists, educational displays and demonstrations, oral hygiene product trials, family-friendly activities, promotional offers on toothpaste, toothbrushes, dental floss and mouth rinses, as well as free product samples through a series of OHM marquees.</div><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;">These marquees are held in select major locations in public shopping malls to accommodate the significant number of public visitors each year. Last year, more than 33,000 visitors benefited from educational activities through these major marquees.</div><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In addition, Colgate will partner the MDA to offer free dental check-ups in 711 participating dental clinics this month. For the full list, log onto www.colgate.com.my and click onto the red and white banner on the right of the website that states Our Mission: Zero Cavities. Once there, click onto “Get A FREE Check Up” and you’re on your way! See? You’re first step closer to overcoming your fear. That wasn’t so bad, was it? Now, time to move to the next step. Don’t worry. This is merely a check-up. The dentist is merely going to take a look at your teeth and gums. Keep practising. Go to different dentists on the list or join their marquee for practice. Remember, it gets easier every time. And no, I wouldn’t lie to you.</div><o:p></o:p></span>LCCH Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126887555910806352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125505758516139865.post-5503390777517455702011-03-30T18:50:00.000-07:002011-03-30T18:50:22.050-07:00CBH PIONEER GROUP 2010<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi84ysf_l12xUf8qYw2lC6TD6l92tQgiLAKrUVP0yXcwqOszs4bUWw4hboOnxKMIQ3TK50UNFcUTiSB9IY8j7YoiN-aUiuuC4lDGpqhyWoLuzrZbjlFd1nXCthdwBb_eGq8bA6bH4J4pCo/s1600/DSC_0266.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi84ysf_l12xUf8qYw2lC6TD6l92tQgiLAKrUVP0yXcwqOszs4bUWw4hboOnxKMIQ3TK50UNFcUTiSB9IY8j7YoiN-aUiuuC4lDGpqhyWoLuzrZbjlFd1nXCthdwBb_eGq8bA6bH4J4pCo/s400/DSC_0266.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>We would like to share some feedback/comments from the CBH pioneer group 2010.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> "I like CBH because it is a very structured and useful in going to the root of the problems. I also like this as an elegant model which is based on stoic philosophy that can be followed as a way of life rather than just as a therapeutic intervention"<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">~ Jyothi Chelamcharla<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: right;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“CBH is a refreshing shift from the usual hypnotherapeutic techniques in dealing with problems.</span></i></div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Most psychotherapy focuses on the content of the problem.</span></i></div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">CBH is different because it focuses on the process of the problem.</span></i></div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I find CBH very logical and structured yet very out-of-the-box.</span></i></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Certainly a very powerful tool to include in the arsenal of therapeutic techniques to be used.”</span></i></span></div><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">~ Dr Alan Soh<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: right;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-MY; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;">“LCCH Asia reaching another milestone with its pioneer CBH group in Kuala Lumpur. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;">I love CBH because it has helped me and now I can use CBH to help others.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-MY; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;">CBH will give you skills to work through those thoughts that control the emotional state. It is very powerful stuff’.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-MY; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-MY; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;">A truly integrative endeavour that asks questions about behaviour, cognition, emotions. It was a challenging and exciting course.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-MY; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;">~ Thevi Sinnadurai</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-MY; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">'Learning the CBH was truly enjoyable and life changing for me. Irrational beliefs are the core of psychological distress for us humans. CBH which employs the REBT model with hypnotherapy teaches us to recognise, come up with rational and realistic counterparts, integrate these into our system in numerous interesting methods and maintaining these newly found beliefs by constant practice. Apart from being equipped to help our patients and empower them with lifelong skills to face adversities in their lives, it also had a profound effect on changing my outlook in life. '<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">~ Dr Gayathri <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: right;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The class, lecturers and students were wonderful. Unlike in fundamental Clinical Hypnosis class, we associated an event that made us distress to something normal and in a strange and contradictory way the event lead us closer in achieving our goals. Moving forward, Cognitive Behavioral Hypnotherapy CBH emphasize on the belief rather than the event on why the distress should not bothers us. After all it does not bother others. Having that belief, reprograming thoughts (i.e. from negative and destructive to positive and productive) through hypnosis are much quicker and permanent. I would suggest students completing their Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis to continue pursuing Diploma in Cognitive Behavioral Hypnotherapy.”</span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">~ Ahmad Marzuki Ishak<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: right;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-MY; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-MY;">However, at the back of my mind, I had the notion that one can never ever be "competent", just as one can never have enough learning, because if one were to set "competence" or learning as finite goals, one would stop growing, developing and improving. CBH brought this notion out from the back of my mind and made it tangible, as CBH and the principles of Albert Ellis's REBT which it embodies, provides a model which encourages a lifetime of learning, and provides the tools one needs for a lifetime of improvement, growth and development. I am so pleased I signed up for the course. I totally enjoyed myself, and having successfully challenged my unhealthy beliefs during the course, with the help of my very able course mates, am now a "changed" person! “<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“After the CBH, i can manage my own emotions and thoughts much better, I know I am responsible to make my day either sunny, rainny, shinny or stormy. I can now explain the unreasonable into reasonable. This is not only noticeable by myself, even friends and family notice the "new" me...”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">Ms Thevi Sinnadurai PDCH from the LCCH conducted the first two-day workshop on the ‘Art of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">Changing using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)’ from 26-27 February 2011 in Kuala Lumpur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among the topics presented were on the introduction of NLP, presuppositions of NLP, unconscious filters, your internal world : representation system : VAK, eye accessing cues, body language, changing states, creating achievable outcomes (goals) and introduction to timeline therapy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I am more than satisfied with the aforementioned workshop. I bought the book on NLP by Richard Bandler last year but didn’t quite grasp the gist of it. Ms Thevi's presentation was succinct, pragmatic and thought stimulating. The handout notes are comprehensive and illustrative. She is indeed an excellent lecturer---approachable, confidence inspiring, open minded ----need I elaborate more? </span></i></div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>LCCH Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126887555910806352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125505758516139865.post-83657069108922956592011-03-09T17:11:00.000-08:002011-03-09T17:11:01.703-08:00Can Clinical Hypnosis Help People Living with Arthritis, Rheumatism, Gout and other Related Disorders?<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The purpose of this article is to explain what clinical hypnosis is, how it may benefit people living with arthritis, rheumatism, gout and other related disorders, in particular in managing pain, and in procuring and maintaining lifestyle changes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is clinical hypnosis?<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Historically, hypnosis has been used in religious ceremonies, and has been associated with magic, the occult and the supernatural. Hypnosis still has these associations today. It is no wonder then that the general public, including many professionals, view hypnosis with bemusement, scepticism, suspicion and fear. Some people may also have images of swinging pendulums and stage hypnotism, with volunteers on stage clucking or mooing, when hypnosis is mentioned.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This view of hypnosis is now changing. Due to the encouraging results of numerous scientific studies and research on hypnosis conducted from the 18<sup>th</sup> century and which continue to date, hypnosis has now found its way into mainstream medical and clinical settings. Clinical hypnosis is being used for, inter alia, fractures, cancer, burns, pain relief, gastrointestinal disorders, phobias, childbirth and dentistry. Many hospitals, especially in the United States of America and the United Kingdom, are now staffed with clinical hypnotherapists. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although there is no singular and universally accepted definition of clinical hypnosis, a widely accepted definition is the one offered by the American Psychological Association’s hypnosis division (Yapko, 2003) –<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Hypnosis is a procedure during which a health professional or researcher suggests that a client, patient or subject experience changes in sensations, perceptions, thoughts and behaviour.”<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How Can Clinical Hypnosis Help?<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pain Management<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The most notable symptom of arthritis, rheumatism and/or gout is chronic pain. Hypnosis can be used, as part of a patient’s treatment program, to reduce sensitivity to pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well-controlled experiments have been carried out to test the effectiveness of including hypnosis as part of treatment programs for the relief and control of pain. They have shown hypnosis to be an effective tool. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One such study conducted by David Spiegel, MD, et al, and published in the April 29, 2000, issue of <i>The Lancet</i>, concluded that hypnosis reduced pain, anxiety, and blood pressure complications in patients undergoing invasive medical procedures. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A more recent study (published in the November-December 2004 issue of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine) by researchers at the University of Iowa, IU Carver College of Medicine and the Technical University of Aachen, Germany, used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to find out if hypnosis alters brain activity in a way which may explain pain reduction.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They found a distinctly different pattern of brain activity in volunteers experiencing painful heat under hypnosis than when not under hypnosis. There was reduced brain activity in top levels of the pain network, and increased activity in the left anterior cingulated cortex and the basal ganglia. The researchers speculate that this increased activity in these two regions of the brain may be part of an inhibition pathway which blocks the pain signal from reaching the higher cortical structures responsible for pain perception. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Faulty and negative thought patterns<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Painful arthritis attacks can also have a psychological impact on patients. Patients may often</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"> have feelings of helplessness, sadness and loss, due to a realization that they have lost their good health, mobility and/or independence. There may also be feelings of stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. Such negative emotions may further aggravate the pain, and a vicious circle of pain and negative emotions may develop. Therefore, it is desirable for a pain management to be comprehensive, which includes challenging faulty and negative thought patterns.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Hypnosis can be used to challenge these thought patterns as it includes relaxation techniques to minimize stress and anxiety, positive ego-strengthening suggestions to restore confidence, raise self-esteem and motivation, and other techniques to shift negative thoughts towards a more balanced thought pattern. Patients are also taught self-hypnosis so that they can maintain a more positive outlook, as well as to manage their pain autonomously, after leaving the therapy room. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Hypnosis may also be used to motivate patients towards adopting and maintaining a healthier lifestyle, by encouraging them to incorporate exercise and to adopt a healthier diet as part of their treatment plan. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">The first session will involve taking a thorough case history of the patient, discussing his/her concerns and identifying a concern which the patient would first like to address. A personalized treatment plan will be presented and hypnosis will also be explained to the patient, to dispel any misconceptions. If hypnosis is used, it would include relaxation, pain reframe and ego-strengthening suggestions. Typically, a first session lasts 1½ hours. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">In the second session the patient may be taught pain control techniques and self-hypnosis, which will be reinforced under hypnosis. Typically, a second session lasts 1 hour. Ego-strengthening and motivational suggestions will also be given to the patient under hypnosis to boost his confidence and shift his mind set positively. The patient is encouraged to practise self-hypnosis on a daily basis, so that he/she may gain control and autonomy over his/her concerns.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Patients should inform their medical doctors or specialists of their intention to see a qualified clinical hypnotherapist, before they do so. This is because clinical hypnosis is a complementary treatment, to be incorporated in a patient’s medical treatment plan, and is not an alternate therapy.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Yapko, Michael D., <i>Trancework : an introduction to the practice of clinical hypnosis </i>(3<sup>rd</sup> Edition) (2003) NewYork & Hove, Brunner-Routledge<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Hypnosis for Pain </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">(2001). In WebMD, Inc. Retrieved October 28, 2010 from <a href="http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/hypnosis-for-pain">http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/hypnosis-for-pain</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">University of Iowa (2005). <i>Brain Imaging Studies Investigate Pain Reduction By Hypnosis.</i> In ScienceDaily. Retrieved October 28, 2010, from <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050326100346.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050326100346.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>LCCH Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126887555910806352noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125505758516139865.post-26010110657515661102011-02-28T23:03:00.000-08:002011-02-28T23:03:30.443-08:00Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia Pre-Annual General Meeting Workshop - Clinical Hypnotherapy - Approaches in Healthcare and Medicine, 15 April 2011, Kuala Lumpur<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This workshop is presented by the London College of Clinical Hypnosis (LCCH) in collaboration with the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia (AFPM) and it would present a unique opportunity for General Practitioners, Medical and Allied Healthcare professionals as well as students to explore the contribution that Clinical Hypnosis can make to treatment plans and to patient benefits.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The workshop is hands on and participants will experience clinical hypnosis, learn how to do self-hypnosis and observe the use of clinical hypnotherapy. Discussion on how to create a suitable treatment plan will integrate the expertise from the various disciplines of healthcare delegates and highlight how and when clinical hypnosis can provide benefits to the patient. Participants will gain both useful insight and practical skills to benefit their patients.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The workshop is set in the current context of the worldwide resurgence in the clinical use of hypnosis as the medical community takes a more holistic approach to the management of a wide variety of presenting symptoms and condition. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hands on experience of clinical hypnotherapy</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wider understanding of how patients may benefit through clinical hypnosis</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Creation of treatment plan including clinical hypnosis for hypertension</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Creation of treatment plan including clinical hypnosis for pre- and post-operative care</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How to use clinical hypnosis for self-relaxation</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How to identify a qualified clinical hypnotherapist</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LCCH-AFPM certificate of attendance</span></li>
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</u></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more details, you may download the flyer at www.hypnosis-malaysia.com </span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>By Sheila Menon, Principal & Director</i></span></div></div>LCCH Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126887555910806352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125505758516139865.post-19354646461182128702011-02-27T18:17:00.000-08:002011-02-27T18:17:43.845-08:00New Career on the Horizon by Sheila Menon<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The desire</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> to help others is a natural response in the current climate of stress and stress related illnesses. More students are enrolling onto courses about psychology and many adults are exploring second careers in the caring professions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Clinical Hypnosis is a field of mind body medicine providing new opportunities in both the health-care and corporate sector. Today clinical hypnosis is increasingly available in UK for psychological and medical conditions. In Malaysia, the London College of Clinical Hypnosis (LCCH) working in collaboration with the Academy of Family Physicians has introduced personal and professional training in Clinical Hypnosis. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Rising Demand<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hypnosis is the language of our inner mind. Using clinical hypnosis you have greater access to your true potential. “Patients and clients learn coping strategies, new habits and skills much more easily in hypnosis”, says Thanam Selva, clinical hypnotherapist at the LCCH Center. This therapy is enormously effective with conditions like insomnia, obesity, procrastination, anxiety disorders and depression. In addition, clinical hypnosis facilitates a more optimistic mind set and improves<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>motivation and confidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanam adds that more people are aware of the benefits of clinical hypnosis thus making the demand for qualified clinical hypnotherapists rise.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Colleague Dr Abdul Hanan talks about the wide range of medical conditions that are also assisted by using clinical hypnosis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These include pain management, fertility treatment and even post operative recovery. Dr Hanan who lecturers for the LCCH goes on to say that one of the nicest parts of the clinical hypnotherapy is watching the smiling faces as the patients emerge from the hypnosis state. It is a great feeling when you help someone who has battled with a problem for years”. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">New Profession<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sheila Menon, Principal of the LCCH Asia has been training clinical hypnotherapist for 25 years. “The options are limitless”, she says as clinical hypnosis has applications to medical, emotional and psychological problems. It is called a brief therapy because it helps people towards their goals quickly. Menon says that many clinical hypnotherapists work as independent consultants. “We opened the LCCH Therapy Center with branches in Penang and Johor to provide a safe environment for our graduates to work”. There are many opportunities with LCCH trained clinical hypnotherapists working within government hospitals, a major hotel chain, Banking HR, Universities, other therapy centers and Medical Clinics. The LCCH also work closely with the Academy of Family Medicine and the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis so that standards are of the highest quality. In fact, our Practitioners are amongst the finest trained in Asia.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Formal Training</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Formal training is practical and fun. It starts with a foundation in personal and professional development. Students learn all about the unconscious mind and how to be safe ethical and competent whilst doing hypnosis. The working with patients part is taught during the Diploma level. Students start with simple habits<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- smoking cessation, weight management and phobias and progress to complex conditions which include medical conditions like skin conditions, cancer patients, pregnancy, as well as bereavement, abuse and psycho-sexual dysfunction<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In 2010 the LCCH pioneered the Cognitive Behaviour Hypnotherapy course in Asia. “It is exciting to be part of the team who are introducing clinical hypnosis to Asia”,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>says Thevi Sinnadurai Course Director for the LCCH Asia. Thevi has her own busy practice specializing in trauma work, anxiety and smoking cessation. “We also developed the LCCH corporate arm specializing in training, motivation and goal setting which opened last year”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Learning from the Best<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The LCCH are recipients of the Best College of Clinical Hypnosis Brand awarded by the prestigious Brand Laureate. In Asia all courses receive UK University accreditation and the LCCH is one of the most prestigious training organizations for Clinical Hypnosis in Europe and Asia. Training is available in KL, Penang and Singapore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The LCCH are also custodians for a prestigious Fellowship at Harvard University. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“There are three levels to the International Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis. Level 1 also called the Certificate in Clinical Hypnosis is open for professional and personal development. Clinical supervision and clinical practice are also an essential part of level 2 and level 3 and are designed to ensure that graduates and practitioners are of the highest standards”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The LCCH is now open for enrollment for the International Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis. This part-time course begins on the 26<sup>th</sup> March at University Malaya. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For enquiries call Mildred on 03 79606 439 or visit www.hypnosis-malaysia.com<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>LCCH Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126887555910806352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125505758516139865.post-70254370929361592902011-02-15T18:31:00.000-08:002011-02-15T18:31:21.093-08:00Average of 60 suicides per month in the country<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 21px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">"Two people commit suicide daily in Malaysia and experts believe the figure could be higher with the many undetermined deaths..........................."</span></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;">Read the full story at <a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/2/10/nation/8035599&sec=nation">The Star Online</a></span></span>LCCH Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126887555910806352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125505758516139865.post-1287364221066282432011-01-19T00:35:00.000-08:002011-01-19T00:35:43.105-08:00School Pilot Project to Detect Stress and Depression Amongst Students<div style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education Malaysia will be jointly launching a pilot project in four secondary schools to identify and address the issue of youths suffering from mental health problems, i.e. stress, depression, etc, which is currently on the rise. According to the Health Ministry's National Health Mobility Survey, the number of people seeking medical attention for mental health problems was 10.6% in 1996 but rose to 11.2% in 2006. And the figure was alarmingly high for those aged 16 and 19 years of age. Under this project, students will be asked to take a mental health evaluation test to determine if they are facing any mental health problems and the level of the problem they are facing. The aim of this project is to identify the causes of mental health problems and ways to help these students overcome them.</span></div><div style="color: black;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The full story can be read at <a href="http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/1/19/nation/7828218&sec=nation" target="_blank">The Star Online </a></span></div>LCCH Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126887555910806352noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125505758516139865.post-40244309126598915812011-01-17T01:28:00.000-08:002011-01-17T01:28:18.773-08:00Psychosis from the viewpoint of a very intelligent and self-aware psychotic<style>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">We've studied regressions in hypnosis. We know that as we revisit traumatic events and allow the release of repressed negative energies, healing can take place. We know that the unconscious has possible links to past lives and the <i>collective unconscious</i><span style="font-style: normal;">.<br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">We also know that in acute psychosis (madness), a person may take off his/her clothes, run around naked and defecate and urinate all over the place, and also potentially can become violent towards other people or self-harm.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">But how many of us know that hypnosis and psychosis could be separated by merely just a thin red line - that the two statements above are very connected?<br />
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I'm not saying that we hypnotherapists should start treating psychotics.<br />
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But the insight from an ex-manic "patient" about his psychotic experience is simply mind blowing. Do check out his youtube video:<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1EY6ar0Gvo&feature=related" target="_blank">How the acute psychotic phase of a bipolar disorder can PURIFY YOUR SOUL</a><br />
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If you like his video, you can view the other parts of the series. Simply click on <span class="long-title">the link to the right of the screen entitled "1.The REAL Cause of Bipolar Mania / Bipolar Disorder</span>", and upon finishing, continue clicking on the links which leads to the next part of the video series.<br />
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By Doctor Alan Soh <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Many of us remember that on 9 September 2009 Tan Sri Dr Mahadevan launched the Mahadevan Traveling Fellowship, entitling one candidate versed in medicine and clinical hypnosis to travel to Harvard University and to study at Massachusetts General Hospital. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">One year later the first Mahadevan Fellow, Dr Sharifah Eliza Jamalullial has returned and is working with the custodians, the London College of Clinical Hypnosis (LCCH Malaysia). She is the first Mahadevan Fellow entrusted to walk in Tan Sri Mahadevan foot-steps. A tall order, since Tan Sri was also Malaysia’s first Chief Psychiatrist and is adviser to the London College of Clinical Hypnosis. In fact, Tan Sri Mahadevan himself has been recognized as a Fellow of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis.<span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Mahadevan Fellows are entrusted to share their privileged learning so that everyone involved in medicine and healthcare in Malaysia may benefit. Dr Sharifah’s first task was to work with the LCCH to organize a return visit to Malaysia from Harvard University.<span> </span>The fellows will also work with the LCCH to ensure that the new learning from Harvard is incorporated into the LCCH curriculum making it widely available for healthcare professionals and doctors in Malaysia and worldwide. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The Harvard team visited in March 2010 and the highlight of the visit was a workshop on psychological trauma presented by Dr John Tan from University Malaya, Dr Dave Henderson from Harvard University and Peter Mabbutt FBSCH from the London College of Clinical Hypnosis. It was open to both doctors and allied healthcare professionals and a comprehensive report will appear in European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Peter Mabbutt and Dave Henderson went on to present their work at Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital in Sungai Petani. The North country visit was organized by Dr Gayathri K. Kumarasuriar, second Mahadevan Fellow who is in Harvard this October. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The first Fellows nominated for the Mahadevan Travelling Fellowship were selected by a committee presided upon by Tun Dr Siti Hasmah. It is her express wish that the first candidates selected should all be eligible and the first three successful candidates are Dr Sharifah Eliza Jamalullial, Dr Gayathri K Kumarsuriar and Dr Ng Khian Boon. Each Fellow is selected for out-standing contributions to the community, to medicine and for their active love of psychiatry and clinical hypnosis. Tun Siti Hasmah and our Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib entrusted each candidate to work hard and to share the achievements of Malaysian Medicine with the US doctors.<span> </span>The Prime Minister then signed the coveted Mahadevan Fellowship Award and presented this to Dr Sharifah.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tan Sri Mahadevan, The Prime Minister, Tun Siti Hasmah, Dr Sharifa and Sheila Menon</td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">In accordance with her responsibilities, Dr Sharifah presented a lecture on psychiatric treatment available in Malaysia to leading professors and doctors at Harvard<span style="color: black;">. They were impressed by the work at Tanjung Rambutan, now Hospital Bahagia in Perak.</span> Several commented that <span style="color: black;">the Tanjung Rambutan</span> mental hospital resembled a resort with its flower gardens and parklands. They remarked in USA such facilities are confined to hospitals or clinical buildings. One doctor even joked he “wouldn’t mind being a patient there!” recounts Dr Sharifah. The US psychiatrists were inspired and Dr Dave Henderson requested specifically to visit both the Half-way house and Hospital Bahagia. <span style="color: black;">Dato’ Dr Majumder Madhuri and Dato' Dr Suarn</span> Singh were there to meet the Harvard team. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">For colleagues considering the Mahadevan Fellowship, Dr. Sharifah describes her visit to Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as a jam-packed timetable with clinics, research meetings, ward rounds; child consults visits, acute psychiatry services, grand rounds, lectures and community visits. “It has armed me with an increased knowledge in psychiatry and mental health which I hope to put to good use in Malaysia,” Dr Sharifah continues, indicating why she was such a natural first choice.<span> </span>Dr Sharifah was invited to speak at the historic Ether Dome, at Harvard University. <span style="color: black;">Upon her return, she shared this and other experiences in a presentation </span>to colleagues and students at the LCCH.<span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">In keeping with Tan Sri’s love of clinical hypnosis, Dr Sharifah met Dr Owen Surman, a psychiatrist who practices hypnosis. “He described to me how he used hypnotherapy as a tool with his heart transplant patients to help them recover faster by encouraging them to imagine that the operation was a huge success and they were on the way to complete recovery. Dr Sharifah described that using hypnosis in this way is done in a safe and controlled manner.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">“Dr Surman also published ‘Hypnosis in treating warts’ as hypnotherapy has a general effect on host response to the causative virus.” Dr Sharifah is in constant discussion with the Medical Director for the LCCH Asia, Dr Gayathri, who will travel to Harvard in October 2010. Together they are exploring new ways to increase knowledge and benefits within Malaysian healthcare. This broader approach to medicine is supported by the Academy of Family Physician Malaysia who work collaboratively with the LCCH and accredit the clinical hypnosis training in Malaysia.<span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Another highlight was her visit to the Benson-Henry Institute for mind body medication and meeting the famous Dr Benson. “The Benson-Henry Institute deals with patients with stress related medical conditions by combining conventional medicine with self-care approach that places greater control of health in the patients’ hands. This centre encourages patients to cultivate positive thoughts and mind body healing by turning off stress through new behaviour and attitude. This can be used to treat anxiety, depression, asthma and cancer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Dr Sharifah also pinpoints the PACT Team as a major highpoint of her month long sojourn. PACT stands for Programme for Assertive Community Treatment and is a community based treatment programme for people with severe and persistent mental illness who may have been under-served by traditional levels of care and can require rehospitalisation. PACT is also seen as a hospital without walls. Dr Sharifah was attached to a PACT Team comprising psychiatrist, nurses, vocation specialists, housing specialists, social workers and peer specialists.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">She visited 2 women with bi-polar disorder in their homes in Cambridge learning that PACT kept them out of hospital and helped them pursue productive hobbies like painting, reading, gardening and writing. Dr Sharifah has always been interested in Community Psychiatry stating “Hopefully I can bring what I learned with the PACT Team back to Malaysia. After all, Tan Sri Dr Mahadevan is the pioneer of community mental health in Malaysia and it only seems right a Mahadevan Fellow should follow in his footsteps.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Dr Sharifah was privileged to meet the renowned Dr Chester Pierce who has dominated mainstream American psychiatry for the last three decades as president of American Orthopsychiatry Association and American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. It is through his friendship with Tan Sri Mahadevan that this fellowship is possible. Dr Pierce was unassuming, modest and intelligent. At 82, he is still actively doing research on racism, a subject close to his heart. <span style="color: black;">Our former Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad was intrigued by his work. On his visit to the Antarctica, Tun noticed Pierce Peak named after Dr. Chester Pierce for his research in Antarctica. He requested Tan Sri Mahadevan to obtain a personally autographed copy of the book “Race and Excellence” which was written by the Yale Professor of Psychiatry, Prof Ezra Griffith on the life and work of Professor Pierce. A copy of this book is available for all to read at Tun’s Perdana Putra. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">“After a month at Massachusetts General Hospital, I know why it is ranked #1 in psychiatry for 14 consecutive years in the US News and World Report Survey of ‘America’s Best Hospitals’. The Mahadevan Fellowship allows Malaysian doctors to experience a life-changing experience there,” reports the first Mahadevan Fellow.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">In 1965 Tan Sri Mahadevan saved the life of a road accident victim using clinical hypnosis. It was an act of remarkable courage and skill and it put both Malaysia and clinical hypnosis onto the map. Tan Sri was first acknowledged in Britain and then in the USA for his remarkable work and contributions. The Mahadevan Fellowship is created to provide study for one Mahadevan Fellow each year at Harvard University. But this Fellow is entrusted to return to Malaysia and to work with the LCCH and Harvard colleagues to ensure that their privileged experience and learning is made widely available through the teaching structure of the LCCH.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The Mahadevan Fellowship continues as a living legacy created so that future generations of doctors and healthcare professionals may benefit from the doors and opportunities that Tan Sri Mahadevan has already opened.<span> </span></span>LCCH Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126887555910806352noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125505758516139865.post-3200839625942950142010-10-17T18:33:00.000-07:002010-10-17T19:38:31.163-07:00Our students experience of practicing hypnotherapy<div style="text-align: justify;"><style>
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</style> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">We recently conducted a questionnaire interview via email with the 15 students who graduated. One of the interviewee was a doctor <i>(Dr Alan Soh) </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">who mentioned that he used clinical hypnosis during his consultation and it is usually done informally through rapport building, utilization, metamodel and solution focused questioning with the patients. He had used formal hypnosis practice for cases such as panic attacks, inability to cope following a miscarriage, marital disharmony, work stress, quit smoking, weight management, chronic pain management, post traumatic stress disorder, etc. He had this advice to offer to those who wish to do this course – <i>“The workings of the unconscious mind is a fascinating field to explore. A lot of self discovery can be made, and forward steps can be appreciated as one journey towards peace. The wisdoms acquired may be passed on to help others on their journey as well.”</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Another doctor <i>(Dr Gayathri Kumarasuriar Thirukumar) </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">felt that apart from pharmacotherapy and the traditional psychotherapy, clinical hypnotherapy can also play a positive role in healing patients. She uses hypnotherapy mainly for patients who suffer from mild to moderate depression as well as those having self esteem issues. It worked and patients were able to get back on track with renewed confidence.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">A clinical hypnotherapist with counselling background <i>(Ms Jyothi Chelamcharla) </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">stated that her interest has been in psychology and hypnosis since her childhood. She explored this field with the aim of helping out trauma victims and abused women as well as help people cope with stress. Her advice to those who wish to pursue clinical hypnosis is to have an open mind and strictly follow the ethics to ensure patient’s safety.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">One interviewee <i>(Ms Yi-Ching Ng) </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">chanced upon the LCCH’s certificate course in the local newspaper and she stated that since clinical hypnosis is a relatively new discipline and less known in Malaysia, she was drawn to learn more about this “unusual discipline” as she puts it. After pursuing this course, she uses clinical hypnosis to treat phobias, bruxism, weight management, image enhancement, anxiety and relaxation. She said, <i>“This course is very rewarding, not only for personal development, but the joy and satisfaction felt when a patient reports some positive changes, are immeasurable. I would advise potential students to be patient with the course. The techniques are presented in a very detailed and comprehensive way to ensure that students learn them well and apply them appropriately. In this way, standards in the practice of clinical hypnosis are upheld, ensuring a safe environment for the patient in therapy.”</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">As mentioned earlier, those who pursue the hypnotherapy courses come from various backgrounds and one such person is a personal development trainer and coach <i>(Ms Thevi Sinnadurai) </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">and she wanted to enhance her skill and decided to incorporate clinical hypnosis as part of her therapy work. She found it easy, effortless and the results were quick and more lasting. She uses clinical hypnosis in improving health, performance, to build confidence, enhance relationships, to break or change habits, smoking cessation, weight management, chronic and acute pain control, manage symptoms, addiction, anxiety, fears, phobias, self discovery, stress management, etc. Her advice to those interested in doing this course is as follows : <i>“As the field of hypnotherapy is continuing to expand, it is important for students to have the opportunity to get appropriate training in this field. Once you realize the unlimited potential of hypnotherapy, you will easily want to experience and be aware of how you can help people improve their lives by enrolling in our courses and expand your capabilities beyond. Whether you are looking for hypnotherapy skill to help people bring change to their lives or change within yourself, you will want to get the right kind of training in the right place. At LCCH, the courses are well structured with good support system. Overall the course is easy to follow. Our training will ensure your clients leave your clinic safe and secure in the knowledge that you have facilitated to make a difference to them in their lives. Join a group of well respected professionals.”</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Another interviewee <i>(Dr Bernardine Gomez) </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">who is a General Practitioner with an interest in palliative care mentioned that she has been intrigued by the untapped resources available to each individual within their unconscious mind and therefore decided to acquire the skills required to legitimately practice hypnosis. According to her with the knowledge acquired so far, <i>“I am able to counsel patients and encourage a more holistic approach to disease processes most of which stem from daily stresses, both occupational and personal”. </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Her advice to potential candidates is to do some research pertaining to hypnosis and the subconscious mind and then decide on the purpose of embarking on these courses. Whether it is just a means to enhance their knowledge on this lesser trodden path because that itself is valid enough reason as we widen our scope to assist those who require assistance either physically or emotionally. She was also of the opinion that <i>“as a professional in my field, we touch the lives of various individuals on a daily basis as they come and go from our consultations. Many besides their health issues, want to be reassured that there is hope in all that they do and they venture to do, in their strides and what lies beyond. And we as therapists must be sensitive to these unspoken needs”.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Below is an example of a case study by one of our clinical hypnotherapists, Ms Thevi</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"> Sinnadurai:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><i>“A patient came to me for managing her anxiety and panic attacks. She was having trouble functioning in her work and personal relationship with her partner. This condition had been troubling her for about three years. She had no idea what had triggered it. She had seen her doctor and was given medication to alleviate the symptoms. She was told by a family member that they had seen others experiencing these symptoms and had told her that she had to live with it. This further enhanced her fear, and the panic attacks got more frequent. This created a sense of hopelessness in her and a sense of no control.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><i>During the first session I saw her, she expressed that she was going crazy and wanted to take control of the situation. I did not wish to exacerbate her anxiety by using methods of investigation in the first session. Her motivation to handle the situation made it easy for me to facilitate her into a hypnotic trance. The first session was just introducing her to self-induced relaxation</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><i>During the second session, a trust was already established between my patient and me, so I decided to pursue the deeper causes of her anxiety</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;"><i>. </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><i>However, due to her anxiety level, as we approached the deeper issues, her panic would begin to show up. Therefore, I felt that the best way to proceed with this was to speak to the part of her that was responsible for the panic attacks. I hoped we would uncover a past event that had caused the anxiety, or was exacerbating it. This was called the parts therapy or dissociation therapy. It was important for me to deal with this as soon as possible before her anxiety experiences took over the session again.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><i>Upon isolating the anxious part, and identifying its intention, it revealed that it had been there to warn and remind her of her overpowering father who would beat her up when she was naughty. Upon thanking the part for its positive intention and upon negotiation to now let it go and remain calm and relaxed, I reintegrated the part with good working, beneficial intentions. After this session the following two sessions were around building up her internal resources through ego strengthening. My patient’s anxiety was dramatically alleviated. Now she is confident about returning to work more focused and energetic. Her relationship with her partner has been better.”</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><b>Conclusion</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Hypnotherapy is a new field that has wide potential which is waiting to be explored. Applied in the right manner and according to ethics, clinical hypnosis has many beneficial effects on patients/clients. It is a non invasive and drug free therapy to help people overcome their problems in life. It is not here to replace doctors but to complement them in their practice of medicine and to enhance the Academy of Family Physicians’ approach towards holistic medicine.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">The mind controls everything and if you have control over your mind, everything else will fall into its place, otherwise everything will fall apart. That is exactly what clinical hypnosis does.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><i>“Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind”</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><i>~ Zen proverb quotes</i></span></div>LCCH Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126887555910806352noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125505758516139865.post-2061160647151541402010-10-12T22:32:00.000-07:002010-10-12T22:32:52.041-07:00Hypnotherapy on a burn patient<style>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">A week ago, she was burnt by hot cooking oil. She was only 19 years old, the eldest girl. Her father died three years ago of cancer. She was cooking for the family and forgot about the oil she left on the fire. Without realizing the danger, she threw the food into the sup<span class="textexposedshow">er heated oil and caused a major splash. She got burnt moderately on the left side of her face which thankfully did not damage her eye, however, her left arm, left legs and feet/toes were the worst affected. She is recovering well, but in pain and is given morphine every 4 hours. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">I went to see her at the tail end of her 4 hourly morphine dose. She was quite alert, aware and coherent, although she was talking to me in a baby like voice. I had earlier gone to see her about three hours ago to assess her situation and briefly discussed her case with LCCH CEO/Director of Studies Peter Mabbutt to get some advice. I again explained to her this time about hypnosis and she agreed to try it. Fortunately, no one was in the room with us and I started without induction.<span> </span>I used a story telling method and brought her into her favourite place.<span> </span>As I was counting down, she complained about pain in her left arm, I continued to deepen her to her favourite place. Up to this point, things were going quite well until I mistakenly mentioned warm white instead of healing white light, which she responded to pain in her left arm where the burn was quite severe. I realized that anything to do with heat would provoke her memory. I was worried if I should have used the healing white light script at all, since light can be related to heat and that was not good for this patient. I quickly changed it to healing white light and repeated the words ‘healing white light’ as often as possible until she was relaxed and seem to reduce the pain. I then took a long pause since she was calm and for me to recover from her pain reaction. I then asked her to go to the control room and changed the setting of the pain to bearable. She did it and went into deep sleep for about 20 minutes. She was breathing normally and the shivering of her left hand had stopped. By then her mother had come in to witness this. As she woke up, she said the pain went away for a short while. She then asked her mother to get the nurse for her morphine. While the mother had gone to get the nurse, I again got the patient to go to the control room to control the pain. This time she went very quickly and was in deep sleep again in less than 2 minutes. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">When the mother came back after a while, she was surprised that her daughter was resting well again. She woke up 15 minutes later due to the voice of the nurse and her mother entering the room through a noisy sliding door. However, she did not ask her mother and the nurse for her morphine. I said my goodbyes and left the room soon after, feeling good about myself. On the way down the elevator, looking at my reflection on the shinny door, I said to myself “great job Terence!”</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">April 2010. The LCCH has been awarded the Best College of Clinical Hypnosis by Brand Laureate. This award recognizes the high standard of teaching and research undertaken by the college both locally in Malaysia and internationally. </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">On 4 April 2010, the inaugural convocation ceremony for the first 15 clinical hypnotherapists in Malaysia took place at the new Academy of Family Physicians Malaysia’s (AFPM) hall - Medical Academies of Malaysia located at Jalan Pahang, Kuala Lumpur. Sheila Menon, Principal of LCCH Asia-Australia, acted as Censor and the awards were presented by Dr Frank Tan Eng Huat. It was an historical day for the AFPM, LCCH and the 15 graduating clinical hypnotherapists who received the status of Practitioner of Clinical Hypnosis. These graduates will have their names registered in the International Register of Clinical Hypnotherapists maintained by the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis. They also became the first in Asia to achieve this level of skill and academic achievement.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The AFPM made its own history when these practitioners of Clinical Hypnotherapy formed the bedrock of members of The Hypnotherapy Chapter which has been formed between the AFPM and LCCH. The purpose of this Chapter is to facilitate a wider understanding of the benefits of using clinical hypnosis for patient care. This Chapter was launched recently in July 2010.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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