Insomnia: Whether you have trouble going to sleep or staying asleep, hypnotherapy can help. Many times the tension and anxiety carried over the busy day or the pain and discomfort from a physical issue can interfere with sleep. Hypnotic conditioning can help restore normal patterns and allow you to get a good night sleep once again. Prepare for Surgery: A review of medical literature documents that people who prepare for an operation have less pain, fewer complications, and recover sooner. You can feel less anxious about the procedure and strengthen your immune system by using hypnotic techniques. Manage Chronic Pain: Hypnosis is a viable alternative to traditional pain medication for many people. Preventing, alleviating and minimizing pain is accomplished by coupling hypnotic techniques with relaxation. Hypnotic techniques allow the subconscious mind to interpret the pain signal either as something other than pain (pressure), or eliminate it (as often happens with psychogenic pain). Alleviating the fear, tension, and anxiety that often accompanies chronic pain creates a relaxed state, which allows our own natural opiate endorphins to flow, lessening the experience of pain. Natural Child Birth: Create a relaxed and joyful childbirth experience feeling confident and in control. Hypnosis can help throughout pregnancy and childbirth relieving morning sickness and other discomforts from body changes. Extreme pain is not a natural part of childbirth. Using hypnosis, one in four mothers can achieve complete anesthesia during delivery. Other benefits include better control of uterine contractions, less fatigue, rise in pain threshold, decreased reliance on medication leaving mom and baby more alert and speedier recovery. Cancer: Imagery can help reverse some of the adverse effects of chemotherapy such as nausea and fatigue. The process can boost the immune response, minimize fear and encourage hope. Imagine undergoing treatment being calm and confident. Fibromyalgia: Reduce and remove pain, feel more relaxed and better able to sleep at night. Learn the skills that can help you regain control over your life again. Hypertension: Working with your doctor, there is a lot you can do for yourself. Hypnosis can help lower blood pressure and tends to be more stable and long lasting than taking anti-hypertensives. Side effects of hypnosis are beneficial rather than negative. It is inexpensive, non-invasive, and leaves you with a greater sense of control and well-being than medications. Relaxation and pleasant guided visualization can help regulate your heart rate and arterial contraction while lowering your anxiety. You can do something about your high blood pressure. Tension & Migraine Headaches: Both types of headaches respond to hypnosis. Oversimplified, either muscle strain (tension headache) or swelling and contracting within the walls of the blood vessels generate headache discomfort. The release of serotonin in the blood helps blood vessels go back to normal and encourages muscles to be flexible. Deep relaxation stimulates release of serotonin and promotes pain relief. With practice, you can develop the relaxation response to be used almost automatically whenever you feel discomfort.