In Letting it all out might increase chances of cancer survivorship, we shared that finding techniques to minimize stress is an effective way to better health. Our focus in that post was journaling and talk therapy as a means to expressing thoughts and feelings, rather than stuffing your emotions and keeping it all inside. According to the experts featured in that post, "It's about the link between the mind and the body and how your mind state can affect the disease state in the body."In addition to journaling and talk therapy, cancer centers are offering cancer patients and caregivers self hypnosis techniques to help reduce stress as a part of an overall cancer treatment program. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's social work supervisor Aida Molano, who has taught hypnosis and self-hypnosis classes at the center for the last 16 years, is offering a 30-minute self-hypnosis CD online as a free download.
According to Molano, hypnosis can help patients and caregivers offset sleeping difficulties, fear of medical procedures, problems concentrating, pain and fatigue using hypnosis techniques. If interested, by clicking on this link, you can download the free 30-minute self-hypnosis CD.
1. As a medical professional and a certified clinical hypnotherapist, I have seen the many positive benefits of hypnosis for cancer patients. Of course there are the regular benefits of hypnotherapy to be used for chemo's reduction of the side effects such as nausea and accompanying hair loss, but also for the benefits of pain management with hypnosis. The not so talked about benefits are the letting go of the decision to take on disease at the subconsious level and changeing ones reactions to life. It is part of the process of emotional healing that can and ofent leads to physical healing in combination with regualra medical therapies. Last and not least of all is the effect of getting better sleep. You may want to read my blog totally developed towards the subject of hypnosis and health at www.hypnotichealth.blogspot.com
Posted at 12:15AM on Dec 21st 2006 by Seth-Deborah Roth CRNA, CCHt