Hypnosis can help with insomnia

How Hypnosis Helped Me Sleep

A few hypnosis sessions helped one writer finally remedy her insomnia

by Linda Yellin

Photograph: Illustration By Aad Goudappel

My brown eyes are one of my most identifying traits. So are the dark circles underneath. If you, too, have insomnia, I don’t need to tell you why they’re there. You’re probably reading this at 3 am.

Over the years I’ve tried warm milk, warm baths, valerian tea, eye masks, no reading in bed, no TV in bed, sex before bed, no sex before bed. Nothing worked, so I tried Ambien, which did work, but I didn’t want to keep taking drugs. It was time to think outside the box springs. Especially after my buddy Mike in Chicago told me he’d quit a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit with hypnosis. Insomnia is a habit, right? I decided to see if hypnosis would break it.

Women are twice as likely as men to get insomnia, say researchers. “When we sleep, we actually sleep better than men, but we wake up more often,” says Kelly Glazer Baron, PhD, a clinical psychologist and behavioral sleep medicine specialist at Northwestern University in Chicago, whom I contacted for more information. “Insomnia relief takes effort. Hypnosis can be part of the arsenal.”

New York City certified hypnotherapist Melissa Tiers explained to me how it all works: “Being in a hypnotic state is close to how you feel in a movie theater. When you become absorbed in a film, you don’t say, ‘Hey! There’s an actor! And I can hear the dialogue over all the shooting—nice work, sound crew!’ ” Once you suspend your disbelief, you bypass your tendency to stop and evaluate what’s going on. You can become so engaged in a scary scene that you jump—even if the plot is ridiculous.

When you are hypnotized, you enter a similar kind of mental state. You are more suggestible than usual, and that provides an opportunity for you to rewire unconscious patterns, like that annoying one that keeps you up all night worrying you’re going to be up all night. A hypnosis session plays out in three steps, Tiers told me: induction, the focusing of attention, which puts you into a trance, which in turn leaves you open to a suggestion based on an image or phrase relating to something you’d like to change.

So was I a good candidate for hypnosis? Well, I can certainly get lost in a book or film, which is a very good sign. But Baron brought up another factor: “Do you have good visual imagery? Are you able to envisage something in your mind and re-experience emotions based on that picture? Some people don’t dream in pictures, but those who do have the imagination to respond to visual suggestions.”

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Where did Hypnosis come from?

Hypnosis is a technique to direct person’s innate capabilities like imagination, imagery, attention and perception. During this process attention and imagination are increased and peripheral sensation and perception decreases. This can be induced by controlling trance from its beginning, Hypnotist is a knowledgeable person about this technique and all these induction methods. The subject’s ability of getting hypnotized is measured in Hypnotizability (Varies person to person)

HISTORY

1. Anton Franz first discovered Hypnosis as a therapy.
2. James Braid discovered Eye-fixation method to induce Hypnosis.
3. Bernheim stated Hypnosis as a normal brain function.
4. Dr. Sigmund Freud used hypnosis in his Psychoanalysis therapy to give relief to his patients under traumatic events.

TODAY

We use Hypnosis to Help people overcome their inner conflicts, we can use hypnosis to locate the root cause of an issue and deal with it effectively.
We can now use it in medical settings such as during Birth, Dentist chair and even during operations.

Hypnosis was once looked upon as something that was "out there" and something to be feared, only because not many people knew enough about it to be able to make an educated decision.

With  Acupuncture / Chiropractor and other "alternative" treatments out there we are pretty much able to move away from the pharmaceutical world we now find ourselves living in.

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We all feel down at times when things don't go to plan. we always worry about the future, will we have money, will we be ok?

For some this is just temporary, for others it is something that looms and sometimes can stay for long periods of time.

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Do you worry about your networking skills?

We know that times are hard, and the way we do business has changed, but also we need to change the way we conduct ourselves in the business world.

Networking has become the fastest way of increasing business, this however can be a daunting task and can leave us feeling anxious and like a fish out of water.

Going to the meeting is one thing and mingling among the other members, but having to stand up and say a one minute talk about your business and what you are looking for can seem like the hardest thing you have ever been asked to do.

For many of us it takes us right back to being a child at school and being asked to stand up and say something in class.

Being able to be comfortable, clear and relaxed can make all the difference in the message you are getting across.

One on one meetings are also incredibly important, don't forget, when you join a new group, it will take some time for the group to learn to trust you, they need to get to know you, if all they ever heard was your one minute they won't always have a clear understanding of how you work, what you need and why you are asking for a certain lead/referral.

So a one on one meeting is very important, it shows the other member you respect them and you want to know about their business, Remember networking is all about what you can do for others, although you want business, networking is a two way street, you need to give first and receive later.

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So when thinking about your business and how you are going to promote it, are you emotionally ready? Are you able to stand with confidence, speak clearly and relax, do you have a clear one minute that will educate the group on what you are looking for.

Remember you are not selling to the group you are selling to the people THEY know.

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Hypno Anesthesia?

Integrating Hypnosis Into Pre-Operative Anesthesia: Q&A With Lynette Bear, CRNA, of the Laser Spine Institute

Written by Heather Linder | September 21, 2012

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Lynette Bear is a certified registered nurse anesthetist at the Laser Spine Institute ambulatory surgery center in Philadelphia, where she provides anesthesia for minimally invasive spine surgery. Ms. Bear is also a trained hypnotist and creator of "Integration of Hypnosis into Anesthesia Care," a program adopted by the Laser Spine Institute across all of its facilities.

Dr. Bear has had an interest in hypnosis for many years, and her hypnosis work met requirements for her doctoral dissertation from Rush University in Chicago. Dr. Bear says her findings were comparable to other hypnosis leaders and cited a 2000 study conducted by Elvira Lang, MD, and a 2002 study by Guy Montgomery, PhD, who used "live hypnosis" rather than a recording.

Question: What exactly is hypnosis and how do you hypnotize patients before surgery?

Lynette Bear: Basically the formal definition most people in hypnosis accept is that hypnosis bypasses the critical factor. The critical factor is your conscious thought. We focus the patient's attention on something other than what is going on.

We are offering patients a recording for the pre-operative area for stress relief. Their focus is on a relaxing recording combined with music rather than everything going on around them. I developed the recording so patients could leave stress behind. Listening to it pre-operatively and in recovery is very relaxing. We have found that when a patient's blood pressure or heart rate is high, hypnosis helps. If you are using the hypnosis recording while starting an IV, the patient is focused on imagery and different things other than a needle going in their arm.

A surgery-specific hypnosis recording is used with anesthesia during surgery. Medication helps to put patients in a trance. The recording gives patients powerful suggestions for healing and well-being. The suggestions are focused in the "positive." For example, [the recording may say], "You'll have a nice appetite after surgery," rather than, "You won’t throw up."

With medication advances, anesthesia providers don't use hypnosis as often as they used to. Even as advances occur, there is growing population of patients asking for complementary adjuncts along with medication.

Q: Why did you look into implementing hypnosis at the Laser Spine Institute in Scottsdale, Ariz.?

LB: At Laser Spine Institute, we were faced with how we could do two things at once — improve patient satisfaction and minimize costs. I had always wanted to do hypnosis research, and I was working at a progressive company that strongly supported an idea to improve patient satisfaction and overall care. In addition, we were facing a propofol shortage and needed a way to conserve medication without sacrificing patient comfort. In my doctoral research, I found 35 percent of patients were requesting complimentary medicine in addition to anesthesia and patients were open to the idea of hypnosis.

A researcher in 2000 used hypnosis [in conjunction with anesthesia] and found that patients had decreased pain and anxiety, increased hemodynamic stability and required less medication. A similar study in 2007 found patients were ready for surgery more quickly with hypnosis and found a cost savings of $772 per patient. Once patients were more comfortable, they could start surgery more quickly and use less operating room time. A meta-analysis also showed 89 percent of patients could benefit with combined hypnosis and anesthesia.

Hypnosis in conjunction with anesthesia seemed like a win-win situation. We had a way that, according to research, could decrease our cost, would be effective for most patients and that any anesthesia provider could implement. Anesthesia providers were able to effectively use hypnosis with minimal hypnosis training.

Q: As a trained hypnotist, you conducted your own study on hypnosis with anesthesia. What was your process and findings?

LB: My hypnosis study was done on patients at Laser Spine Institute having minimally invasive spine surgery in our ASC in Arizona. I studied 123 patients in a control group and compared them to 130 patients in the hypnosis group. My study results showed that postoperative nausea and vomiting was statistically reduced with hypnosis; the rate of 1.5 percent while the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association reported rate was 2.5 percent in 2010.

In addition, my results showed a statistically significant decrease in recovery room time. Recovery time was reduced by 11.7 percent with hypnosis. Patients were more alert after anesthesia and recovered more quickly. Ninety-three percent of patients said that they would request hypnosis for future surgeries. Recovery room staff reported using less pain medication and anti-emetics, resulting in a cost savings. Recovery room staff overtime decreased due to quicker recovery and discharge of patients.

Q: How did you implement your findings once the study concluded?

LB: I relocated to the Laser Spine Institute in Philadelphia and started the program here. Our key emphasis is patient satisfaction. We have found that hypnosis decreases pain and anxiety during their surgical process and patients are comfortable when they are discharged.

Since we started using [hypnosis] in Philadelphia, our average patient satisfaction is 95 percent throughout all of our ambulatory surgery facilities. Ninety-seven percent of Philadelphia patients would recommend Laser Spine Institute to others, and our Philadelphia anesthesia satisfaction rates are consistently 96 percent or greater. Our high satisfaction rates are similar throughout most of our facilities. Our satisfaction surveys are performed by EdgeSurvey and compared to other ambulatory surgery centers.

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How Stage Hypnosis has changed the view of Hypnotherapy

Interesting Article

Hypnosis has a public relations problem. For all its health benefits, it is like an outstanding public official who has gotten smeared by his evil twin. The image problem of clinical hypnosis is a result of years of hurtful comparison to stage hypnosis. A vaudeville act gone bad, stage hypnosis gives a black eye to the therapeutic practice of hypnosis.
For more than 100 years, while medical hypnosis languished in relative obscurity, stage hypnosis blossomed into an attractive and audience-appealing form of entertainment. Celebrities like Charles Dickens held house parties and toyed with hypnosis as entertainment. Hypnosis was very much in the public eye for its ability to impress audiences with what was often amusing results. Misused hypnosis was soon a theater event, giving rise to one modern-day catch-phrase: It will make you “cluck like a chicken”!

Worse for medical hypnosis was the publicity that came from an extremely popular novel of the late 19th century, titled “Trilby.” In the book, hypnotist Svengali turns Trilby into a brilliant singer, and in the process discovers that he can exploit her as his love slave. It’s like the Phantom of the Opera, himself, becomes sexual abuser. You can see why the very characterization, “Svengali” makes people shudder when they link this manipulation to the concept of hypnosis. Moreover, at that time, the power of hypnosis was generally thought to rely entirely on the hypnotist himself, rather than on the cooperation of the subject. It prompted a long-lived misconception of how hypnosis really worked.
Stage hypnosis today, following on this checkered history, relies on an eager, expectant audience, who give unspoken consent to cooperating in foolish ways, and being entertained by the foolishness of others. A good stage hypnotist, if he is not a total fraud, knows how to select the members of his audience for their suggestibility. He then brings those, who may already be in a self-willed trance, onto the stage, where he continues the selection process close-up. After he has his “best” subjects, he can impressively put them through their paces, to laughter of the audience. The great Kreskin himself dabbled in this kind of practice for a while in his career. In Denmark and Israel today, the performance of stage hypnosis is against the law.

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