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 ton
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anyone used hypnotherapy for anything?
to stop smoking, or biting your nails or anything else.

does it work?, you thoughts please.


 
Posted : 06/01/2012 6:53 pm
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I can get on all fours and howlat the full moon

...suppose you could call it therapy

(what's it for Ton? - though I guess it works for some people rather than some things)


 
Posted : 06/01/2012 6:57 pm
 jonk
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Had it to stop smoking 4 years ago. Had one 'blip' where i went back but been fine and it worked. If your thinking about having it to loose weight then you need quite few sessions to target your different habits. I used a lady in rammy called Helen James who is very good.


 
Posted : 06/01/2012 6:59 pm
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my wife used natal hypnotherapy to control pain in birthing both our children.

It's not quite the same as behavioural hypno, more deep relaxation / power of the mind to control and block out the bad and focus on the benefit of why your body is doing what it does. i was sceptical, I'll admit but the first was born unaided and with no pain relief at all; the second needed some gas and air at the end mainly because the doctor who'd stitched her after #1 had bodged it and there was too much scar tissue to allow her to stretch. So she needed gas and air while they cut a v of scar tissue out (nice). I was absolutely converted after that because it wasn't that she was bearing the pain well, just that it was never that intense. Amazing thing, the mind....

She did also use a tens machine but only for part of it, after which i annoyed her by telling her to turn it up. She tore the controller off and threw it at me and that was that for the tens experiment.


 
Posted : 06/01/2012 7:36 pm
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I used it to quit smoking, it worked very well. I had one blip and a top up session. I haven't smoked the 6 years since. It was more of a relaxation session with some mental tools thrown in, to stop that "just one drag" situation. I also came away with a relaxation CD which I have used a few times since, when I've been stressed. I swear I have never managed to listen to the whole thing, I just fall to sleep. I'm fairly confident that I haven't been up to anything during these asleep moments.


 
Posted : 06/01/2012 7:58 pm

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