Regular readers here know that I am big on hypnosis and fertility issues (I actually have a special rate for the work) . . so . . . this just in . . . I’ve seen it posted on a few sites related to hypnosis and hadn’t gotten around to posting it here quite yet so beat to the puch but here it goes . . . hypnosis may boost in vitro fertilization success. Basically, the study says that more women in the research study who underwent hypnosis prior to in vitro procedure were successful in getting pregnant (almost sixty percent) while only about a bit less than a third of the control group were successful. That is a big difference. Here are some of the relevant passages of interest . . .
Women who are hypnotized before undergoing the transfer of an embryo created by in vitro fertilization (IVF) may be more likely to become pregnant, Israeli researchers report. . . . . . . Dr. Eliahu Levitas of Soroka University Medical Center in Beer Sheva and colleagues found that nearly 60 percent of a group of women who were hypnotized during the procedure became pregnant, versus about 30 percent of a group of women who weren’t hypnotized. . . . . . . Women in the hypnosis group met with a physician certified in hypnosis, who asked them to select a “very pleasant” past experience to think of during embryo transfer. Patients were hypnotized before the transfer, and told to compare the procedure “with the reception of long-awaited and very welcome guests.” After the woman was in a trance state for about 10 minutes, the doctors began the transfer. When the procedure was finished, before patients were taken out of the hypnotized state, they were given instructions intended to help them feel calm, relaxed and optimistic. . . . . . . In the hypnosis group, 52 pregnancies occurred, for a pregnancy rate of 58.4 percent per patient and 53 percent per cycle. In the regular-procedure group, there were 29 pregnancies, for a per patient and per cycle pregnancy rate of 30.2 percent. . . . . . . Levitas and his colleagues hypothesize that hypnosis helped a woman’s uterus to remain relaxed, allowing the embryo to implant more easily. It is also possible, they say, that hypnosis produced changes in immune or hormonal uterine function….
This is a big deal. Now, there are other hypnosis techniques other than a ten minute pleasant place visualization that can help further . . . but the results are very very promising.
Read the entire article here.
If you are in Taipei and interested in pursuing hypnosis for pregnancy and/or for fertility, feel free to check my webpages and contact me to book your first sesson.
All the best,
Brian
STAGE, PERFORMANCE, ENTERTAINMENT HYPNOSIS – June 5-9, 2006
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Brian David Phillips, PhD, CH [phillips@nccu.edu.tw]Certified Hypnotherapist
President, Society of Experiential Trance
Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan
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