Can you cure cancer using just your mind?
One of the most important things that can improve cancer treatment outcomes is addressing the patient's fears and trauma as a part of the overall approach to treatment. As someone who has studied both medicine and psychology, I can say that both the physical and emotional aspects of this disease are important if you really want to cure cancer. After years of working as a health coach for stage 4 cancer patients, I can say that patients absolutely need to address trauma as a part of their treatment in order to rebalance the autonomic nervous system and heal physically. Unfortunately, the thinking mind (as opposed to the feeling mind) literally runs away and dissociates from whatever has traumatized it in the past and from whatever threatens to traumatize it in the future. Once a person dissociates (which is often a very quick, reflexive thought that goes something like, "I don't need to read this...this is stupid...I don't believe this..." etc.), it's hard to help them. It's usually only after people have decided that they hate feeling like they are in conflict all the time or that they dislike waking in the middle of the night feeling disoriented and/or terrified, or that they aren't willing to continue feeling like a zombie anymore that they finally realize that they need some kind of non-traditional help for cancer and mental health issues that develop alongside cancer. Talk therapy won't usually help unless the talk therapy is a form of integrative psychotherapy for psilocybin, Sapito, or Ayahuasca. Hypnotherapy is not a form of talk therapy, but rather, a trauma-informed treatment that connects the language of the body and the feeling mind with the language of the thinking mind.
In the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the newly dead spirit must go through a series bardos in which there are fierce demons threatening to kill them (it seems). The spirit must confront each of these spirits without fear and The Tibetan Book of the Dead was designed to be read over the body shortly after death to remind the spirit not to be afraid. Confronting these evil demons without fear turns the demons into helpful angels essentially which is exactly what trauma-informed therapies are designed to do as well. Our minds naturally dissociate from or run away from scary feelings that we feel in our bodies. But when we allow the thinking mind to confront the feeling body/mind, the yucky feelings, heaviness, lethargy, exhaustion, inability to heal, and inability to solve relationship problems, financial problems, etc. dissolve.
Dr. Richard Schwartz developed a special model that he uses to help people overcome trauma naturally. This model is known as Internal Family Systems Therapy. Though it is not a form of hypnotherapy, it requires that patients achieve a certain state of mind in order to access other "parts" of themselves that are dissociating in order to avoid feeling the terror, anger, sadness, etc. that was caused by trauma in the past.
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Hypnotherapy is used in a variety of health situations to help patients cope with pain, but it can, in fact, do so much more. Indeed, most cancer patients have some kind of trauma underlying their disease. Trauma is not what most people think that it is. In order to understand the value of hypnotherapy for cancer, it's important to understand trauma first. So let's talk about trauma and how trance states for healing can be used to treat cancer using the mind. In this article we'll also discuss some therapeutic tools to get rid of trauma at home using brain entrainment to induce trance states. These include:
- Guided Meditation (which is a form of hypnotherapy that can be self-administered) such as the DreamLight.app for cancer
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Pulsed Electromagnetic Frequencies (PEMF) devices that use brain entrainment
- Microdosing and Macrodosing Psilocybin Mushrooms to induce an altered state conducive to the release of trauma
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Does Trauma Cause Cancer?
Trauma: A Definition
One of the examples that I like to use from my own life to demonstrate how something fairly something mundane can be experienced as "trauma" is a dental treatment that went as planned according to schedule. My family and I were moving to Mexico and on the way, we stopped at a holistic dental clinic just across the border to have our amalgam fillings removed. I had four fillings, one on the top and bottom of both sides of my jaw. This meant that I would have to have my entire lower face numbed. The dentist recommended two appointments to have the work done, but gave me the option to do have all of the fillings removed in just one visit. He recommended sedation, but I declined it thinking that I could get through it.I had never had a rubber dam in my mouth, but this was the first thing that the dentist did after numbing my entire lower face with a very long needle that he injected into the upper and lower area in the back of my throat during my appointment. Everyone in the room spoke only Spanish, I couldn't speak or breathe through my mouth, my lower face was numb, and the chair was tilted such that I was nearly upside down. I panicked, sat up in the chair, and motioned to the Spanish-speaking dental assistant that I needed a pen. She scrambled to find one in a drawer and handed it to me. I wrote, "sedation" on my hand and held it up for the dentist to read. He shook his head. It was too late for sedation. The entire room full of people including several people who had gathered outside the door due to the commotion was very tense.
I took a moment, and then sat back. I calmed my breathing and focused on a dot on the ceiling throughout the remainder of the appointment which was painful and scary.
Within a few months after settling into our new home in Mexico, Lydi and I started studying under a curandera. We did Sapito, a frog venom that causes hallucinogenic experiences. Afterward for about 2 weeks, I had nightmares that I had my tongue cut out of my head and then I was thrown over a dam into a large, dark body of water. I would always wake up with a jolt just before suffocating to death. These nightmares stopped and I forgot about them until a few months later when John and I got in the car to go back up to the states to put on a Halloween event. Just minutes after we got into the car, I started having a panic attack. I have master's in psychology so I knew what was happening to me, but it didn't really make the experience less terrifying or awful. I was like, "what the hell is going on?" I had no idea what might be causing these panic attacks. I thought, perhaps that I was stressed about the upcoming event that was in fact, always a bit dangerous and anxiety-provoking to say the least. But the panic attacks continued until the day before our arrival back at our house in the states. We put on the event with no issues and no panic attacks and then, it was time to go home.
All was well, until we got close to the border with Mexico. Then, I started having panic attacks again.
What I didn't realize then was that trauma causes something similar to a "bug in the code", or at least this is one way to look at it. The technical definition of trauma is that it is something that causes a person to feel as though their life is in danger. A key point to remember is that what constitutes a "trauma" is not something that you "think" is life-threatening, but rather something that causes your body to go into a fight-or-flight mode. If the trauma is scary enough that you wish you could run away (just as my body wished it could run away from the dentist chair even though my mind kept me there through the entire treatment), then this constitutes a trauma. Trauma can include scary interactions that took place decades ago on the playground or in the home. And when something traumatic happens, it causes a "split" in a person's consciousness. Essentially, the feeling of the traumatic experience is stored in the body, in the autonomic nervous system while the memory of the traumatic event is stored in a separate and disconnected place. The fight-or-flight feeling that your body didn't act on, shake off, or work out, stays in the autonomic nervous system until it can be properly released. Our minds often resist releasing these traumatic fight-or-flight moments which means that we're doomed to relive them over and over again in one way or another because our bodies "replay" them until the body stops resisting the fight and flight.
When I took the Sapito, I opened the Pandora's box of trauma and got just a glimpse of this dental treatment, but didn't work it out all the way. I believe now, that I didn't work it out in its entirety through that one Sapito session because instead, I was allowed to really observe and study my own "bug in the code" which was something that was very important to me later in my life. But for anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer, I tell this story to emphasize how trauma can be something as simple and non-threatening as a loud, harmless BANG! at the right moment and in the right context.
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Are Cancer and Trauma Related?
Yes. Most people who develop cancer have an overload of trauma that needs to be released from the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system is the interface between our mind and our body as well as between our bodies and the natural environment (it plays a role in circadian rhythms, for example). This system has 3 branches:- Fight-or-Flight Branch (Sympathetic Nervous System)
- Rest-and-Digest Branch (Parasympathetic Branch #1)
- Play-Dead / Freeze Branch (Parasympathetic Branch #2)
If the autonomic nervous system begins to malfunction, you won't be able to sleep and you may also have trouble feeling alive and wakeful. You may have mood issues, mental health problems (including psychosis) but also issues with the gut. The immune system will start to malfunction. If this downward spiral continues, patients eventually develop cancer or autoimmune disease. To make matters worse, conventional medicine treatments for cancer are like torture and many patients are retraumatized during treatment which throws their autonomic nervous system further out of balance.
What's sad is that trauma is fairly easy to release. Most patients don't even have to know what happened to them in terms of memories in order to release trauma because the trauma itself is technically just a feeling that was never acted upon -- specifically feelings of terror, anger / rage, extreme sadness or grief, etc.
There are a number of trauma-informed therapies that work very well to release trauma quickly in order to rebalance the autonomic nervous system. Unfortunately, few people use hypnotherapy to induce a trance to heal cancer directly because most westerners simply don't believe that the mind heals the body. We've been taught to believe that the mind is the brain and what we "think" (as words and "thoughts") as opposed to the mind also being composed of what we feel in the body. Dr. Peter Levine, a trauma expert, calls this second mind the "felt sense". Most people today in the developed world have completely lost touch with their "felt sense" and they no longer reference the "felt sense" as a tool or a source of wisdom. Indeed, even as I write these words, I know that most people who are ill have only a vague sense of what this "felt sense" consists of. That's okay though. If you work with the trauma-informed therapies to release the feelings that have built up in the autonomic nervous system like heavy stones that you carry every day on your back, the therapy will allow you to put down those stones one-by-one and restore balance after cancer.
For cancer, hypnotherapy allows patients to achieve a rest-and digest state wherein the body can release bits of trauma that have been stored in the body. Cancer guided meditations achieve the same goal. They function to reduce stress levels and change brainwave states to allow trauma to be released safely. There is little fanfare when trauma is released. Usually, in real life, trauma release looks like a quick blip of a memory or a symbolic presentation of how it felt to experience that trauma that may have occurred decades prior. Trauma treatment is not complex, but it can do a lot of good in a short period of time. Hypnotherapy can be administered by a hypnotherapist or people can work with something like the DreamLight.app, a guided meditation for cancer and other diseases that uses brain entrainment technology to make it easier for people who have been overwhelmed by trauma to find a healing rest-and-digest state of trance at home.
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Can Hypnotherapy Heal Cancer?
Yes. Most people in today's toxic world need more than just hypnotherapy to heal cancer, but when I work as a cancer health coach, I recommend that my clients seek out some form of trauma-informed therapy such as hypnotherapy and/or guided meditation for cancer. Trance states are healing states because when you successfully induce a trance, your autonomic nervous system goes into a rest-and-digest state that is conducive to the release of trauma.Most people who have been diagnosed with cancer are physically in a state of fight-or-flight most of the time. They're on edge. They avoid transition states (like changing activities, moving from room to room, going from work to home, etc.) when ugly thoughts pop into their conscious minds from the unconscious. People with cancer often have trouble relaxing because when they are not in a fight-or-flight mode, they immediately fall asleep (play-dead / freeze mode). Unfortunately though, if a cancer patient is not able to go into a rest-and-digest state, it will be hard for him or her to fully recover. In fact, after being diagnosed with cancer (which is, itself, traumatic), many people need a lot more rest-and-digest states to catch up on restorative brainwave states and states of physical healing in which our bodies are properly digesting and assimilating food and then resting in order to recuperate. When a cancer patient is not in a fight-or-flight state, they are in the "play-dead" state wherein they feel exhausted, depleted, unmotivated, hopeless, and depressed. Obviously, this isn't a state of being conducive to healing. A person who is alternately going between fight-or-flight and "play-dead" without spending a lot of time in "rest-and-digest mode" will have a hard time healing from cancer unless they address the fact that their "felt sense" has been hijacked by trauma. It doesn't matter what the trauma is or was. Once trauma is lodged in the autonomic nervous system it is a burden that must be released. It is a "bug in the code" like a computer virus that hijacks the whole system and sucks up all the RAM in the computer. Trauma is something that must be released like a heavy stone in a backpack that you carry with you day-by-day. When you release the heavy stone, your body feels lighter and you have more energy to do other things like heal from cancer.
Hypnotherapy for Cancer Pain
Of course, hypnotherapy can also be used to treat cancer pain naturally too. Find a hypnotherapist who specializes in cancer pain treatment as the treatment of pain using hypnotherapy is a specialized skill. Pain treatment isn't something that all hypnotherapists learn, so seek out someone who has taken the extra requisite courses and has experience working with hypnotherapy for pain control.Hypnotherapy for Cancer Anxiety
People who have been diagnosed with cancer or who have had a loved one who was diagnosed with cancer can develop cancer anxiety or anxiety about potentially developing cancer in the future. Hypnotherapy for cancer anxiety works by addressing the unconscious or subconscious artifacts that are hijacking your conscious mind to cause rumination on cancer, fear, and other forms of emotional discomfort.Hypnotherapy for Death Anxiety
Many cancer patients experience a great deal of death anxiety along with their diagnosis. Hypnotherapy for death anxiety works by releasing unconscious fears about death and dying that come to the surface as a result of being diagnosed with a scary disease. If you are struggling with cancer death anxiety, hypnotherapy can be a useful tool, but there are a number of other treatments that work very well too including sacred indigenous medicines like Ayahuasca, Sapito, and psilocybin to name a few.Detailed Information
Why isn't hypnotherapy for cancer something that's more widely used if it's so helpful? Though hypnotherapy has not been studied directly in terms of its ability to treat cancer, there are many anecdotal accounts of patients whose cancer went into remission following hypnotherapy sessions. This healing effect is likely due to the fact that many cancer patients desperately need treatment to restore balance to the autonomic nervous system. If you don't restore balance to the autonomic nervous system following a cancer diagnosis and surgery plus chemo and radiation treatments, your body will simply have a hard time syncing up with the world, the seasons, night and daytime, social situations, and anything involving the here-and-now. There are hundreds of trauma therapies from mindfulness and Internal Family Systems Therapy to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), PEMF, and hypnotherapy / guided meditation. Personally, in my opinion, the treatment that works the best and the fastest to help people overcome trauma and reorient their autonomic nervous system to the here-and-now is psilocybin mushroom macrodosing and microdosing, but not everyone is able or willing to work with magic mushroom therapy for cancer. Some hospitals offer hypnotherapy to patients to accomplish a variety of healing goals including natural pain control using hypnosis / hypnotherapy, anxiety treatment, and more [1].
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Hypnotherapy is the use of focused, relaxed attention to therapeutically guide patients into a healing trance state for cancer and other diseases and mental health issues. The patient remains fully alert, but physically relaxed. The thinking mind becomes curious and open to suggestion instead of following the usual cultural rules and norms that cause inner conflict and upheaval. While hypnotherapy is widely used in Europe and trance states are part of healing rituals throughout the world in nearly all cultures, Americans have not been educated about the virtues of this healing science in terms of its ability to cure cancer.
Hypnotherapy is a mind-body intervention that has become popular because of its low-risk and ease of integration into a variety of cancer protocols. Research has shown that cancer patients can find relief from pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbance through the use of clinical hypnosis [3].
Most healthy people experience trance states several times during the course of a normal day without realizing it. These trance states are characterized by certain brain wave frequencies that correspond to rest-and-digest states. Patients experience hypnotic states as calm and inward-focused states of mind. Trained hypnotherapists can help patients achieve a calm state of mind in order to reduce pain, develop insight, conquer fear, or achieve other goals. It is even possible for hypnotherapists to train patients on how to hypnotize themselves, as needed, to reduce pain or experience less fear [1].
Today, there are some high-tech tools that use brainwave entrainment to help patients more easily access healing trance states for cancer. One of my favorites is the NeoRhythm Pulsed Electromagnetic Frequency (PEMF) headband, mat, and "tube". This PEMF device is used by cancer patients to induce sleep, trance, and to improve energy levels and vitality as well. Not only does it induce trance states for healing from cancer, but it also opens up microcirculation in the body as a natural physical treatment for cancer.
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Safety and Effectiveness
Research has demonstrated that hypnotherapy can be effective at:- Decreasing the side-effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatments
- Reducing pain
- Reducing stress
- Reducing anxiety
- Improving overall mood and mental state—providing patients with a sense of control and acceptance
- Improving the patient’s post-surgical response in terms of the amount of medication required to manage pain, diminishing fatigue, and hastening the healing process from surgery [1]
Studies on pain control have demonstrated that 75% of end-stage cancer patients who used hypnotherapy experienced less pain compared to control groups [4]. Additionally, patients who used hypnotherapy experienced less anxiety, diminished pain, and less blood loss during surgery. Post-operatively, these patients also experienced less nausea and vomiting in comparison with the control group [1].
Hypnotherapy is often used to boost the immune system and spur detoxification of the body to help patients fight cancer in addition to the other effects that we've noted above. Often, cancer patients who use hypnotherapy experience improved health outcomes as well as financial savings in relation to their cancer care which is just another reason to consider working with hypnotherapy and guided meditations for cancer. One well-known study examined the effects of clinical hypnosis on female patients undergoing biopsy. The study demonstrated that patients experienced less anxiety and pain during the procedure and they also experienced less pain and irritation after the biopsy [1][5].
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How Hypnotherapy Is Administered to Cancer Patients
Newly diagnosed cancer patients may choose to see a hypnotherapist to help them access other states of consciousness to make difficult decisions that seem hard to confront in a normal, conscious state of mind. Cancer patients who are in midst of treatment may choose to see a hypnotherapist to alleviate stress and achieve trance states that will help their minds and bodies glean the most value from the treatment protocol. Other cancer patients who are nearing death may opt to see a hypnotherapist to make peace with their situation, find acceptance, and experience relief from fear.Hypnotherapy is administered privately, typically over the course of 1 to 2 hours, though there are some therapeutic situations where patients remain hypnotized for up to 4 hours. The hypnotherapist may use Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), music or sound, or other techniques to guide the patient into trance. Patients often sit in a reclining chair while the hypnotherapist guides the patient through the remainder of their session.
Patients who wish to work with hypnotherapy at home on a daily basis can use guided meditations for cancer healing to produce a trance and release trauma. The DreamLight.app works well with the NeoRhythm brain entrainment PEMF device set to a theta or delta brainwave frequencies using the advanced mode. Patients may also benefit from working with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) either before or after using the DreamLight.app for best results.
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Possible Negative Effects
There are no known side effects and no reported negative consequences to the use of hypnotherapy [1].Other Important Information
Patients who are seeking hypnotherapy to relieve pain should seek out a therapist who has experience working with pain control.Resources:
• [1] Marcus, T. (2017). Hypnosis and Its Use in Cancer Treatment. Retrieved June 6, 2018 from https://www.oncologynurseadvisor.com/general-oncology/uses-of-hypnosis-to-treat-cancer-patients/article/631055/
• [2] Elkins, G., Fisher, W., Sliwinsky, J. (2012). Clinical hypnosis for the palliative care of cancer patients. Retrieved June 6, 2018 from http://www.cancernetwork.com/oncology-nursing/clinical-hypnosis-palliative-care-cancer-patients
One of the most important things that can improve cancer treatment outcomes is addressing the patient's fears and trauma as a part of the overall approach to treatment. As someone who has studied both medicine and psychology, I can say that both the physical and emotional aspects of this disease are important if you really want to cure cancer. After years of working as a health coach for stage 4 cancer patients, I can say that patients absolutely need to address trauma as a part of their treatment in order to rebalance the autonomic nervous system and heal physically. Unfortunately, the thinking mind (as opposed to the feeling mind) literally runs away and dissociates from whatever has traumatized it in the past and from whatever threatens to traumatize it in the future. Once a person dissociates (which is often a very quick, reflexive thought that goes something like, "I don't need to read this...this is stupid...I don't believe this..." etc.), it's hard to help them. It's usually only after people have decided that they hate feeling like they are in conflict all the time or that they dislike waking in the middle of the night feeling disoriented and/or terrified, or that they aren't willing to continue feeling like a zombie anymore that they finally realize that they need some kind of non-traditional help for cancer and mental health issues that develop alongside cancer. Talk therapy won't usually help unless the talk therapy is a form of integrative psychotherapy for psilocybin, Sapito, or Ayahuasca. Hypnotherapy is not a form of talk therapy, but rather, a trauma-informed treatment that connects the language of the body and the feeling mind with the language of the thinking mind.
In the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the newly dead spirit must go through a series bardos in which there are fierce demons threatening to kill them (it seems). The spirit must confront each of these spirits without fear and The Tibetan Book of the Dead was designed to be read over the body shortly after death to remind the spirit not to be afraid. Confronting these evil demons without fear turns the demons into helpful angels essentially which is exactly what trauma-informed therapies are designed to do as well. Our minds naturally dissociate from or run away from scary feelings that we feel in our bodies. But when we allow the thinking mind to confront the feeling body/mind, the yucky feelings, heaviness, lethargy, exhaustion, inability to heal, and inability to solve relationship problems, financial problems, etc. dissolve.
Dr. Richard Schwartz developed a special model that he uses to help people overcome trauma naturally. This model is known as Internal Family Systems Therapy. Though it is not a form of hypnotherapy, it requires that patients achieve a certain state of mind in order to access other "parts" of themselves that are dissociating in order to avoid feeling the terror, anger, sadness, etc. that was caused by trauma in the past.
Hypnotherapy is used in a variety of health situations to help patients cope with pain, but it can, in fact, do so much more. Indeed, most cancer patients have some kind of trauma underlying their disease. Trauma is not what most people think that it is. In order to understand the value of hypnotherapy for cancer, it's important to understand trauma first. So let's talk about trauma and how trance states for healing can be used to treat cancer using the mind. In this article we'll also discuss some therapeutic tools to get rid of trauma at home using brain entrainment to induce trance states. These include:
I had never had a rubber dam in my mouth, but this was the first thing that the dentist did after numbing my entire lower face with a very long needle that he injected into the upper and lower area in the back of my throat during my appointment. Everyone in the room spoke only Spanish, I couldn't speak or breathe through my mouth, my lower face was numb, and the chair was tilted such that I was nearly upside down. I panicked, sat up in the chair, and motioned to the Spanish-speaking dental assistant that I needed a pen. She scrambled to find one in a drawer and handed it to me. I wrote, "sedation" on my hand and held it up for the dentist to read. He shook his head. It was too late for sedation. The entire room full of people including several people who had gathered outside the door due to the commotion was very tense.
I took a moment, and then sat back. I calmed my breathing and focused on a dot on the ceiling throughout the remainder of the appointment which was painful and scary.
Within a few months after settling into our new home in Mexico, Lydi and I started studying under a curandera. We did Sapito, a frog venom that causes hallucinogenic experiences. Afterward for about 2 weeks, I had nightmares that I had my tongue cut out of my head and then I was thrown over a dam into a large, dark body of water. I would always wake up with a jolt just before suffocating to death. These nightmares stopped and I forgot about them until a few months later when John and I got in the car to go back up to the states to put on a Halloween event. Just minutes after we got into the car, I started having a panic attack. I have master's in psychology so I knew what was happening to me, but it didn't really make the experience less terrifying or awful. I was like, "what the hell is going on?" I had no idea what might be causing these panic attacks. I thought, perhaps that I was stressed about the upcoming event that was in fact, always a bit dangerous and anxiety-provoking to say the least. But the panic attacks continued until the day before our arrival back at our house in the states. We put on the event with no issues and no panic attacks and then, it was time to go home.
All was well, until we got close to the border with Mexico. Then, I started having panic attacks again.
What I didn't realize then was that trauma causes something similar to a "bug in the code", or at least this is one way to look at it. The technical definition of trauma is that it is something that causes a person to feel as though their life is in danger. A key point to remember is that what constitutes a "trauma" is not something that you "think" is life-threatening, but rather something that causes your body to go into a fight-or-flight mode. If the trauma is scary enough that you wish you could run away (just as my body wished it could run away from the dentist chair even though my mind kept me there through the entire treatment), then this constitutes a trauma. Trauma can include scary interactions that took place decades ago on the playground or in the home. And when something traumatic happens, it causes a "split" in a person's consciousness. Essentially, the feeling of the traumatic experience is stored in the body, in the autonomic nervous system while the memory of the traumatic event is stored in a separate and disconnected place. The fight-or-flight feeling that your body didn't act on, shake off, or work out, stays in the autonomic nervous system until it can be properly released. Our minds often resist releasing these traumatic fight-or-flight moments which means that we're doomed to relive them over and over again in one way or another because our bodies "replay" them until the body stops resisting the fight and flight.
When I took the Sapito, I opened the Pandora's box of trauma and got just a glimpse of this dental treatment, but didn't work it out all the way. I believe now, that I didn't work it out in its entirety through that one Sapito session because instead, I was allowed to really observe and study my own "bug in the code" which was something that was very important to me later in my life. But for anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer, I tell this story to emphasize how trauma can be something as simple and non-threatening as a loud, harmless BANG! at the right moment and in the right context.
If the autonomic nervous system begins to malfunction, you won't be able to sleep and you may also have trouble feeling alive and wakeful. You may have mood issues, mental health problems (including psychosis) but also issues with the gut. The immune system will start to malfunction. If this downward spiral continues, patients eventually develop cancer or autoimmune disease. To make matters worse, conventional medicine treatments for cancer are like torture and many patients are retraumatized during treatment which throws their autonomic nervous system further out of balance.
What's sad is that trauma is fairly easy to release. Most patients don't even have to know what happened to them in terms of memories in order to release trauma because the trauma itself is technically just a feeling that was never acted upon -- specifically feelings of terror, anger / rage, extreme sadness or grief, etc.
There are a number of trauma-informed therapies that work very well to release trauma quickly in order to rebalance the autonomic nervous system. Unfortunately, few people use hypnotherapy to induce a trance to heal cancer directly because most westerners simply don't believe that the mind heals the body. We've been taught to believe that the mind is the brain and what we "think" (as words and "thoughts") as opposed to the mind also being composed of what we feel in the body. Dr. Peter Levine, a trauma expert, calls this second mind the "felt sense". Most people today in the developed world have completely lost touch with their "felt sense" and they no longer reference the "felt sense" as a tool or a source of wisdom. Indeed, even as I write these words, I know that most people who are ill have only a vague sense of what this "felt sense" consists of. That's okay though. If you work with the trauma-informed therapies to release the feelings that have built up in the autonomic nervous system like heavy stones that you carry every day on your back, the therapy will allow you to put down those stones one-by-one and restore balance after cancer.
For cancer, hypnotherapy allows patients to achieve a rest-and digest state wherein the body can release bits of trauma that have been stored in the body. Cancer guided meditations achieve the same goal. They function to reduce stress levels and change brainwave states to allow trauma to be released safely. There is little fanfare when trauma is released. Usually, in real life, trauma release looks like a quick blip of a memory or a symbolic presentation of how it felt to experience that trauma that may have occurred decades prior. Trauma treatment is not complex, but it can do a lot of good in a short period of time. Hypnotherapy can be administered by a hypnotherapist or people can work with something like the DreamLight.app, a guided meditation for cancer and other diseases that uses brain entrainment technology to make it easier for people who have been overwhelmed by trauma to find a healing rest-and-digest state of trance at home.
Most people who have been diagnosed with cancer are physically in a state of fight-or-flight most of the time. They're on edge. They avoid transition states (like changing activities, moving from room to room, going from work to home, etc.) when ugly thoughts pop into their conscious minds from the unconscious. People with cancer often have trouble relaxing because when they are not in a fight-or-flight mode, they immediately fall asleep (play-dead / freeze mode). Unfortunately though, if a cancer patient is not able to go into a rest-and-digest state, it will be hard for him or her to fully recover. In fact, after being diagnosed with cancer (which is, itself, traumatic), many people need a lot more rest-and-digest states to catch up on restorative brainwave states and states of physical healing in which our bodies are properly digesting and assimilating food and then resting in order to recuperate. When a cancer patient is not in a fight-or-flight state, they are in the "play-dead" state wherein they feel exhausted, depleted, unmotivated, hopeless, and depressed. Obviously, this isn't a state of being conducive to healing. A person who is alternately going between fight-or-flight and "play-dead" without spending a lot of time in "rest-and-digest mode" will have a hard time healing from cancer unless they address the fact that their "felt sense" has been hijacked by trauma. It doesn't matter what the trauma is or was. Once trauma is lodged in the autonomic nervous system it is a burden that must be released. It is a "bug in the code" like a computer virus that hijacks the whole system and sucks up all the RAM in the computer. Trauma is something that must be released like a heavy stone in a backpack that you carry with you day-by-day. When you release the heavy stone, your body feels lighter and you have more energy to do other things like heal from cancer.
Hypnotherapy is the use of focused, relaxed attention to therapeutically guide patients into a healing trance state for cancer and other diseases and mental health issues. The patient remains fully alert, but physically relaxed. The thinking mind becomes curious and open to suggestion instead of following the usual cultural rules and norms that cause inner conflict and upheaval. While hypnotherapy is widely used in Europe and trance states are part of healing rituals throughout the world in nearly all cultures, Americans have not been educated about the virtues of this healing science in terms of its ability to cure cancer.
Hypnotherapy is a mind-body intervention that has become popular because of its low-risk and ease of integration into a variety of cancer protocols. Research has shown that cancer patients can find relief from pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbance through the use of clinical hypnosis [3].
Most healthy people experience trance states several times during the course of a normal day without realizing it. These trance states are characterized by certain brain wave frequencies that correspond to rest-and-digest states. Patients experience hypnotic states as calm and inward-focused states of mind. Trained hypnotherapists can help patients achieve a calm state of mind in order to reduce pain, develop insight, conquer fear, or achieve other goals. It is even possible for hypnotherapists to train patients on how to hypnotize themselves, as needed, to reduce pain or experience less fear [1].
Today, there are some high-tech tools that use brainwave entrainment to help patients more easily access healing trance states for cancer. One of my favorites is the NeoRhythm Pulsed Electromagnetic Frequency (PEMF) headband, mat, and "tube". This PEMF device is used by cancer patients to induce sleep, trance, and to improve energy levels and vitality as well. Not only does it induce trance states for healing from cancer, but it also opens up microcirculation in the body as a natural physical treatment for cancer.
Click here to learn more about how PEMF can be used to treat cancer naturally at home.
Studies on pain control have demonstrated that 75% of end-stage cancer patients who used hypnotherapy experienced less pain compared to control groups [4]. Additionally, patients who used hypnotherapy experienced less anxiety, diminished pain, and less blood loss during surgery. Post-operatively, these patients also experienced less nausea and vomiting in comparison with the control group [1].
Hypnotherapy is often used to boost the immune system and spur detoxification of the body to help patients fight cancer in addition to the other effects that we've noted above. Often, cancer patients who use hypnotherapy experience improved health outcomes as well as financial savings in relation to their cancer care which is just another reason to consider working with hypnotherapy and guided meditations for cancer. One well-known study examined the effects of clinical hypnosis on female patients undergoing biopsy. The study demonstrated that patients experienced less anxiety and pain during the procedure and they also experienced less pain and irritation after the biopsy [1][5].
Hypnotherapy is administered privately, typically over the course of 1 to 2 hours, though there are some therapeutic situations where patients remain hypnotized for up to 4 hours. The hypnotherapist may use Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), music or sound, or other techniques to guide the patient into trance. Patients often sit in a reclining chair while the hypnotherapist guides the patient through the remainder of their session.
Patients who wish to work with hypnotherapy at home on a daily basis can use guided meditations for cancer healing to produce a trance and release trauma. The DreamLight.app works well with the NeoRhythm brain entrainment PEMF device set to a theta or delta brainwave frequencies using the advanced mode. Patients may also benefit from working with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) either before or after using the DreamLight.app for best results.
Resources:
• [3] Kwekkeboom, K., Cherwin, C., Lee, J. W., Wanta, B. (2010). Mind-body treatments for the pain-fatigue sleep disturbance cluster in persons with cancer. Retrieved June 6, 2018 from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19900778
• [4] Simonton, C. O., Creighton, J., Simonton, S. M. (1992). Getting Well Again: The Bestselling Classic About the Simonton’s Revolutionary Lifesaving Self-Awareness Techniques. Bantam.
• [5] Montgomery, G. H., Schnur, J. B., Kravits, K. (2013). Hypnosis for Cancer Care: Over 200 Years Young. Retrieved June 6, 2018 from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3755455/
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Can you cure cancer using just your mind?
One of the most important things that can improve cancer treatment outcomes is addressing the patient's fears and trauma as a part of the overall approach to treatment. As someone who has studied both medicine and psychology, I can say that both the physical and emotional aspects of this disease are important if you really want to cure cancer. After years of working as a health coach for stage 4 cancer patients, I can say that patients absolutely need to address trauma as a part of their treatment in order to rebalance the autonomic nervous system and heal physically. Unfortunately, the thinking mind (as opposed to the feeling mind) literally runs away and dissociates from whatever has traumatized it in the past and from whatever threatens to traumatize it in the future. Once a person dissociates (which is often a very quick, reflexive thought that goes something like, "I don't need to read this...this is stupid...I don't believe this..." etc.), it's hard to help them. It's usually only after people have decided that they hate feeling like they are in conflict all the time or that they dislike waking in the middle of the night feeling disoriented and/or terrified, or that they aren't willing to continue feeling like a zombie anymore that they finally realize that they need some kind of non-traditional help for cancer and mental health issues that develop alongside cancer. Talk therapy won't usually help unless the talk therapy is a form of integrative psychotherapy for psilocybin, Sapito, or Ayahuasca. Hypnotherapy is not a form of talk therapy, but rather, a trauma-informed treatment that connects the language of the body and the feeling mind with the language of the thinking mind.
In the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the newly dead spirit must go through a series bardos in which there are fierce demons threatening to kill them (it seems). The spirit must confront each of these spirits without fear and The Tibetan Book of the Dead was designed to be read over the body shortly after death to remind the spirit not to be afraid. Confronting these evil demons without fear turns the demons into helpful angels essentially which is exactly what trauma-informed therapies are designed to do as well. Our minds naturally dissociate from or run away from scary feelings that we feel in our bodies. But when we allow the thinking mind to confront the feeling body/mind, the yucky feelings, heaviness, lethargy, exhaustion, inability to heal, and inability to solve relationship problems, financial problems, etc. dissolve.
Dr. Richard Schwartz developed a special model that he uses to help people overcome trauma naturally. This model is known as Internal Family Systems Therapy. Though it is not a form of hypnotherapy, it requires that patients achieve a certain state of mind in order to access other "parts" of themselves that are dissociating in order to avoid feeling the terror, anger, sadness, etc. that was caused by trauma in the past.
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Hypnotherapy is used in a variety of health situations to help patients cope with pain, but it can, in fact, do so much more. Indeed, most cancer patients have some kind of trauma underlying their disease. Trauma is not what most people think that it is. In order to understand the value of hypnotherapy for cancer, it's important to understand trauma first. So let's talk about trauma and how trance states for healing can be used to treat cancer using the mind. In this article we'll also discuss some therapeutic tools to get rid of trauma at home using brain entrainment to induce trance states. These include:
- Guided Meditation (which is a form of hypnotherapy that can be self-administered) such as the DreamLight.app for cancer
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Pulsed Electromagnetic Frequencies (PEMF) devices that use brain entrainment
- Microdosing and Macrodosing Psilocybin Mushrooms to induce an altered state conducive to the release of trauma
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Does Trauma Cause Cancer?
Trauma: A Definition
One of the examples that I like to use from my own life to demonstrate how something fairly something mundane can be experienced as "trauma" is a dental treatment that went as planned according to schedule. My family and I were moving to Mexico and on the way, we stopped at a holistic dental clinic just across the border to have our amalgam fillings removed. I had four fillings, one on the top and bottom of both sides of my jaw. This meant that I would have to have my entire lower face numbed. The dentist recommended two appointments to have the work done, but gave me the option to do have all of the fillings removed in just one visit. He recommended sedation, but I declined it thinking that I could get through it.I had never had a rubber dam in my mouth, but this was the first thing that the dentist did after numbing my entire lower face with a very long needle that he injected into the upper and lower area in the back of my throat during my appointment. Everyone in the room spoke only Spanish, I couldn't speak or breathe through my mouth, my lower face was numb, and the chair was tilted such that I was nearly upside down. I panicked, sat up in the chair, and motioned to the Spanish-speaking dental assistant that I needed a pen. She scrambled to find one in a drawer and handed it to me. I wrote, "sedation" on my hand and held it up for the dentist to read. He shook his head. It was too late for sedation. The entire room full of people including several people who had gathered outside the door due to the commotion was very tense.
I took a moment, and then sat back. I calmed my breathing and focused on a dot on the ceiling throughout the remainder of the appointment which was painful and scary.
Within a few months after settling into our new home in Mexico, Lydi and I started studying under a curandera. We did Sapito, a frog venom that causes hallucinogenic experiences. Afterward for about 2 weeks, I had nightmares that I had my tongue cut out of my head and then I was thrown over a dam into a large, dark body of water. I would always wake up with a jolt just before suffocating to death. These nightmares stopped and I forgot about them until a few months later when John and I got in the car to go back up to the states to put on a Halloween event. Just minutes after we got into the car, I started having a panic attack. I have master's in psychology so I knew what was happening to me, but it didn't really make the experience less terrifying or awful. I was like, "what the hell is going on?" I had no idea what might be causing these panic attacks. I thought, perhaps that I was stressed about the upcoming event that was in fact, always a bit dangerous and anxiety-provoking to say the least. But the panic attacks continued until the day before our arrival back at our house in the states. We put on the event with no issues and no panic attacks and then, it was time to go home.
All was well, until we got close to the border with Mexico. Then, I started having panic attacks again.
What I didn't realize then was that trauma causes something similar to a "bug in the code", or at least this is one way to look at it. The technical definition of trauma is that it is something that causes a person to feel as though their life is in danger. A key point to remember is that what constitutes a "trauma" is not something that you "think" is life-threatening, but rather something that causes your body to go into a fight-or-flight mode. If the trauma is scary enough that you wish you could run away (just as my body wished it could run away from the dentist chair even though my mind kept me there through the entire treatment), then this constitutes a trauma. Trauma can include scary interactions that took place decades ago on the playground or in the home. And when something traumatic happens, it causes a "split" in a person's consciousness. Essentially, the feeling of the traumatic experience is stored in the body, in the autonomic nervous system while the memory of the traumatic event is stored in a separate and disconnected place. The fight-or-flight feeling that your body didn't act on, shake off, or work out, stays in the autonomic nervous system until it can be properly released. Our minds often resist releasing these traumatic fight-or-flight moments which means that we're doomed to relive them over and over again in one way or another because our bodies "replay" them until the body stops resisting the fight and flight.
When I took the Sapito, I opened the Pandora's box of trauma and got just a glimpse of this dental treatment, but didn't work it out all the way. I believe now, that I didn't work it out in its entirety through that one Sapito session because instead, I was allowed to really observe and study my own "bug in the code" which was something that was very important to me later in my life. But for anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer, I tell this story to emphasize how trauma can be something as simple and non-threatening as a loud, harmless BANG! at the right moment and in the right context.
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Are Cancer and Trauma Related?
Yes. Most people who develop cancer have an overload of trauma that needs to be released from the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system is the interface between our mind and our body as well as between our bodies and the natural environment (it plays a role in circadian rhythms, for example). This system has 3 branches:- Fight-or-Flight Branch (Sympathetic Nervous System)
- Rest-and-Digest Branch (Parasympathetic Branch #1)
- Play-Dead / Freeze Branch (Parasympathetic Branch #2)
If the autonomic nervous system begins to malfunction, you won't be able to sleep and you may also have trouble feeling alive and wakeful. You may have mood issues, mental health problems (including psychosis) but also issues with the gut. The immune system will start to malfunction. If this downward spiral continues, patients eventually develop cancer or autoimmune disease. To make matters worse, conventional medicine treatments for cancer are like torture and many patients are retraumatized during treatment which throws their autonomic nervous system further out of balance.
What's sad is that trauma is fairly easy to release. Most patients don't even have to know what happened to them in terms of memories in order to release trauma because the trauma itself is technically just a feeling that was never acted upon -- specifically feelings of terror, anger / rage, extreme sadness or grief, etc.
There are a number of trauma-informed therapies that work very well to release trauma quickly in order to rebalance the autonomic nervous system. Unfortunately, few people use hypnotherapy to induce a trance to heal cancer directly because most westerners simply don't believe that the mind heals the body. We've been taught to believe that the mind is the brain and what we "think" (as words and "thoughts") as opposed to the mind also being composed of what we feel in the body. Dr. Peter Levine, a trauma expert, calls this second mind the "felt sense". Most people today in the developed world have completely lost touch with their "felt sense" and they no longer reference the "felt sense" as a tool or a source of wisdom. Indeed, even as I write these words, I know that most people who are ill have only a vague sense of what this "felt sense" consists of. That's okay though. If you work with the trauma-informed therapies to release the feelings that have built up in the autonomic nervous system like heavy stones that you carry every day on your back, the therapy will allow you to put down those stones one-by-one and restore balance after cancer.
For cancer, hypnotherapy allows patients to achieve a rest-and digest state wherein the body can release bits of trauma that have been stored in the body. Cancer guided meditations achieve the same goal. They function to reduce stress levels and change brainwave states to allow trauma to be released safely. There is little fanfare when trauma is released. Usually, in real life, trauma release looks like a quick blip of a memory or a symbolic presentation of how it felt to experience that trauma that may have occurred decades prior. Trauma treatment is not complex, but it can do a lot of good in a short period of time. Hypnotherapy can be administered by a hypnotherapist or people can work with something like the DreamLight.app, a guided meditation for cancer and other diseases that uses brain entrainment technology to make it easier for people who have been overwhelmed by trauma to find a healing rest-and-digest state of trance at home.
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Can Hypnotherapy Heal Cancer?
Yes. Most people in today's toxic world need more than just hypnotherapy to heal cancer, but when I work as a cancer health coach, I recommend that my clients seek out some form of trauma-informed therapy such as hypnotherapy and/or guided meditation for cancer. Trance states are healing states because when you successfully induce a trance, your autonomic nervous system goes into a rest-and-digest state that is conducive to the release of trauma.Most people who have been diagnosed with cancer are physically in a state of fight-or-flight most of the time. They're on edge. They avoid transition states (like changing activities, moving from room to room, going from work to home, etc.) when ugly thoughts pop into their conscious minds from the unconscious. People with cancer often have trouble relaxing because when they are not in a fight-or-flight mode, they immediately fall asleep (play-dead / freeze mode). Unfortunately though, if a cancer patient is not able to go into a rest-and-digest state, it will be hard for him or her to fully recover. In fact, after being diagnosed with cancer (which is, itself, traumatic), many people need a lot more rest-and-digest states to catch up on restorative brainwave states and states of physical healing in which our bodies are properly digesting and assimilating food and then resting in order to recuperate. When a cancer patient is not in a fight-or-flight state, they are in the "play-dead" state wherein they feel exhausted, depleted, unmotivated, hopeless, and depressed. Obviously, this isn't a state of being conducive to healing. A person who is alternately going between fight-or-flight and "play-dead" without spending a lot of time in "rest-and-digest mode" will have a hard time healing from cancer unless they address the fact that their "felt sense" has been hijacked by trauma. It doesn't matter what the trauma is or was. Once trauma is lodged in the autonomic nervous system it is a burden that must be released. It is a "bug in the code" like a computer virus that hijacks the whole system and sucks up all the RAM in the computer. Trauma is something that must be released like a heavy stone in a backpack that you carry with you day-by-day. When you release the heavy stone, your body feels lighter and you have more energy to do other things like heal from cancer.
Hypnotherapy for Cancer Pain
Of course, hypnotherapy can also be used to treat cancer pain naturally too. Find a hypnotherapist who specializes in cancer pain treatment as the treatment of pain using hypnotherapy is a specialized skill. Pain treatment isn't something that all hypnotherapists learn, so seek out someone who has taken the extra requisite courses and has experience working with hypnotherapy for pain control.Hypnotherapy for Cancer Anxiety
People who have been diagnosed with cancer or who have had a loved one who was diagnosed with cancer can develop cancer anxiety or anxiety about potentially developing cancer in the future. Hypnotherapy for cancer anxiety works by addressing the unconscious or subconscious artifacts that are hijacking your conscious mind to cause rumination on cancer, fear, and other forms of emotional discomfort.Hypnotherapy for Death Anxiety
Many cancer patients experience a great deal of death anxiety along with their diagnosis. Hypnotherapy for death anxiety works by releasing unconscious fears about death and dying that come to the surface as a result of being diagnosed with a scary disease. If you are struggling with cancer death anxiety, hypnotherapy can be a useful tool, but there are a number of other treatments that work very well too including sacred indigenous medicines like Ayahuasca, Sapito, and psilocybin to name a few.Detailed Information
Why isn't hypnotherapy for cancer something that's more widely used if it's so helpful? Though hypnotherapy has not been studied directly in terms of its ability to treat cancer, there are many anecdotal accounts of patients whose cancer went into remission following hypnotherapy sessions. This healing effect is likely due to the fact that many cancer patients desperately need treatment to restore balance to the autonomic nervous system. If you don't restore balance to the autonomic nervous system following a cancer diagnosis and surgery plus chemo and radiation treatments, your body will simply have a hard time syncing up with the world, the seasons, night and daytime, social situations, and anything involving the here-and-now. There are hundreds of trauma therapies from mindfulness and Internal Family Systems Therapy to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), PEMF, and hypnotherapy / guided meditation. Personally, in my opinion, the treatment that works the best and the fastest to help people overcome trauma and reorient their autonomic nervous system to the here-and-now is psilocybin mushroom macrodosing and microdosing, but not everyone is able or willing to work with magic mushroom therapy for cancer. Some hospitals offer hypnotherapy to patients to accomplish a variety of healing goals including natural pain control using hypnosis / hypnotherapy, anxiety treatment, and more [1].
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Hypnotherapy is the use of focused, relaxed attention to therapeutically guide patients into a healing trance state for cancer and other diseases and mental health issues. The patient remains fully alert, but physically relaxed. The thinking mind becomes curious and open to suggestion instead of following the usual cultural rules and norms that cause inner conflict and upheaval. While hypnotherapy is widely used in Europe and trance states are part of healing rituals throughout the world in nearly all cultures, Americans have not been educated about the virtues of this healing science in terms of its ability to cure cancer.
Hypnotherapy is a mind-body intervention that has become popular because of its low-risk and ease of integration into a variety of cancer protocols. Research has shown that cancer patients can find relief from pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbance through the use of clinical hypnosis [3].
Most healthy people experience trance states several times during the course of a normal day without realizing it. These trance states are characterized by certain brain wave frequencies that correspond to rest-and-digest states. Patients experience hypnotic states as calm and inward-focused states of mind. Trained hypnotherapists can help patients achieve a calm state of mind in order to reduce pain, develop insight, conquer fear, or achieve other goals. It is even possible for hypnotherapists to train patients on how to hypnotize themselves, as needed, to reduce pain or experience less fear [1].
Today, there are some high-tech tools that use brainwave entrainment to help patients more easily access healing trance states for cancer. One of my favorites is the NeoRhythm Pulsed Electromagnetic Frequency (PEMF) headband, mat, and "tube". This PEMF device is used by cancer patients to induce sleep, trance, and to improve energy levels and vitality as well. Not only does it induce trance states for healing from cancer, but it also opens up microcirculation in the body as a natural physical treatment for cancer.
Click here to learn more about how PEMF can be used to treat cancer naturally at home.
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Safety and Effectiveness
Research has demonstrated that hypnotherapy can be effective at:- Decreasing the side-effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatments
- Reducing pain
- Reducing stress
- Reducing anxiety
- Improving overall mood and mental state—providing patients with a sense of control and acceptance
- Improving the patient’s post-surgical response in terms of the amount of medication required to manage pain, diminishing fatigue, and hastening the healing process from surgery [1]
Studies on pain control have demonstrated that 75% of end-stage cancer patients who used hypnotherapy experienced less pain compared to control groups [4]. Additionally, patients who used hypnotherapy experienced less anxiety, diminished pain, and less blood loss during surgery. Post-operatively, these patients also experienced less nausea and vomiting in comparison with the control group [1].
Hypnotherapy is often used to boost the immune system and spur detoxification of the body to help patients fight cancer in addition to the other effects that we've noted above. Often, cancer patients who use hypnotherapy experience improved health outcomes as well as financial savings in relation to their cancer care which is just another reason to consider working with hypnotherapy and guided meditations for cancer. One well-known study examined the effects of clinical hypnosis on female patients undergoing biopsy. The study demonstrated that patients experienced less anxiety and pain during the procedure and they also experienced less pain and irritation after the biopsy [1][5].
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How Hypnotherapy Is Administered to Cancer Patients
Newly diagnosed cancer patients may choose to see a hypnotherapist to help them access other states of consciousness to make difficult decisions that seem hard to confront in a normal, conscious state of mind. Cancer patients who are in midst of treatment may choose to see a hypnotherapist to alleviate stress and achieve trance states that will help their minds and bodies glean the most value from the treatment protocol. Other cancer patients who are nearing death may opt to see a hypnotherapist to make peace with their situation, find acceptance, and experience relief from fear.Hypnotherapy is administered privately, typically over the course of 1 to 2 hours, though there are some therapeutic situations where patients remain hypnotized for up to 4 hours. The hypnotherapist may use Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), music or sound, or other techniques to guide the patient into trance. Patients often sit in a reclining chair while the hypnotherapist guides the patient through the remainder of their session.
Patients who wish to work with hypnotherapy at home on a daily basis can use guided meditations for cancer healing to produce a trance and release trauma. The DreamLight.app works well with the NeoRhythm brain entrainment PEMF device set to a theta or delta brainwave frequencies using the advanced mode. Patients may also benefit from working with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) either before or after using the DreamLight.app for best results.
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Possible Negative Effects
There are no known side effects and no reported negative consequences to the use of hypnotherapy [1].Other Important Information
Patients who are seeking hypnotherapy to relieve pain should seek out a therapist who has experience working with pain control.Resources:
• [1] Marcus, T. (2017). Hypnosis and Its Use in Cancer Treatment. Retrieved June 6, 2018 from https://www.oncologynurseadvisor.com/general-oncology/uses-of-hypnosis-to-treat-cancer-patients/article/631055/
• [2] Elkins, G., Fisher, W., Sliwinsky, J. (2012). Clinical hypnosis for the palliative care of cancer patients. Retrieved June 6, 2018 from http://www.cancernetwork.com/oncology-nursing/clinical-hypnosis-palliative-care-cancer-patients
• [3] Kwekkeboom, K., Cherwin, C., Lee, J. W., Wanta, B. (2010). Mind-body treatments for the pain-fatigue sleep disturbance cluster in persons with cancer. Retrieved June 6, 2018 from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19900778
• [4] Simonton, C. O., Creighton, J., Simonton, S. M. (1992). Getting Well Again: The Bestselling Classic About the Simonton’s Revolutionary Lifesaving Self-Awareness Techniques. Bantam.
• [5] Montgomery, G. H., Schnur, J. B., Kravits, K. (2013). Hypnosis for Cancer Care: Over 200 Years Young. Retrieved June 6, 2018 from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3755455/
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