More in the news regarding hypnosis in health care . . .

Hypnotism is a powerful tool in health care, says Toronto psychologist Dr. Judy Coldoff, president of the Canadian Federation of Clinical Hypnosis.

“People think of situations where a hypnotist has made someone quack like a duck or bark like a dog. We who practise it really hate the trivializing of what is a powerful technique,” she says. Dr. Coldoff offers hypnotism as part of her psychology practice.

Clinical hypnotism, in and of itself, isn’t a treatment. It’s a tool. Hypnotism puts people in a state – a pleasurable state of focused concentration – in which they are more amenable to therapy. In a hypnotic trance, our parasympathetic nervous system takes over. Unlike the sympathetic nervous system – the fight or flight reaction – this state is the one in which we do things without noticing. “Like when you drive across the city and you get to your destination without remembering crossing the individual intersections. You’re kind of on automatic pilot,” explains Dr. Coldoff.

See http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/healthy-living/hypnotism-and-health-care-not-just-a-party-trick/article2113136/ for the complete article . . . but . . . be wary of their limited endorsement as to whom is qualified to practice hypnosis as the profession is far more robust than they might lead you to believe and sometimes vague generalizations are based upon protecting market share from competing modalities more than protecting consumers.

All the best,
Brian
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