Months down the line and Debbie’s dream has come true as she now has a beautiful baby boy, whats more, he was not created in a laboratory.

Just after Debbie had made her IVF consultation appointment, she happened to be listening to a radio show interviewing celebrity hypnotist Paul Mckenna.

By chance he was discussing fertility with a women who was having the same problems as Debbie. He explained that the mind has a powerful control over the body. If you tell yourself long enough and often enough that you don’t want a baby, your body will listen.

It is a process that is difficult to reverse, but hypnotism could be the answer and after Paul worked with the woman, she fell pregnant with twins.

After two years of trying for a baby Debbie and her husband decided it was time to see a doctor. When they received their test results they were relieved to see there was nothing medically wrong with ether of them but this also raised questions about why they seemed unable to conceive.

Debbie decided that it was a long shot but she would try writing directly to Paul McKenna to see if he could help. A few days later she received a phone call saying he would love to work with her to try and help her overcome her problem with conceiving.

He explained that often women have a mental block which could be could be fear of the change to lifestyle a baby would bring, the pain of childbirth or a feeling that as a mother the woman would not be able to cope.

Our bodies tend to follow are instructions, even if we send them out subconsciously and we are unaware of whats going on. Debbie’s body believed the baby wasn’t wanted and hypnotherapy is something that could break down that mental barrier.

Paul asked Debbie to visualise the entire process from beginning to end. From the egg, to it’s fertilisation, to the growing foetus and the final mental picture was always Debbie holding her newborn.

Within three weeks of the sessions with Paul the couple were elated to discover they had fallen pregnant.

The couple know it can never be proved 100 per cent that hypnotherapy was what helped them to fall pregnant, but they both firmly believe that they have Paul to thank and that the results speak for themselves.

The story doesn’t end there though, Debbie’s friend had been trying to conceive for seven years and guess what happened when she contacted Paul?…she is now expecting twins.

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She chose to deliver her son Benjamin in a water birth and explained that during her 8 hour labour she experienced no pain and was even feeling well enough to do the dishes the next day.

Bundchen is just one of a growing number of women who now opt for a more natural way of bringing their child into the world. During her pregnancy she undertook yoga, mediation, hypnosis and finally water birth all in a bid to avoid taking medication and an epidural during labor.

Hypnosis doesn’t just have to be used in the instance of water birth, it can be used however or wherever you choose. It works on many aspects of the pregnancy from the anxiety you might feel in the early stages right through to pain relief in whilst in labor. The benefits are countless, mother and baby will experience no side effects and recovery time will be far quicker even for those who have caesarean sections.

Most notably however, is the fact that babies who have fewer drugs are better sleepers, surely a few hours shut eye for new mums is as good a reason as any!

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Hypnosis requires creative visualisation and this comes far more naturally to children than it does to adults. Children are able to let their guard down and relax with more ease than adults and this makes them more susceptible to hypnosis, allowing them to work on a number of issues such as pain and anxiety.

In 1986 a study took place to test the effectiveness of hypnotherapy in a pediatric setting. The results showed that the children who had high expectations of hypnotherapy and had a good relationship with their hypnotherapist found the treatment highly successful, as did those children whose parents had a positive relationship with their pediatrician.

Researchers have examined a number of cases where children have received hypnosis and at one hospital in particular 5% of children were using it to improve their symptoms. There are three specific areas where children have shown a significant improvement, the first being pain control, helping the children to reduce the severity of pain and the frequency of episodes. The second area it can help is anxiety by helping the children to relax and the third is helping eliminate bad habits using suggestibility to replace negative habits with positive.

Self hypnosis has also been found to have benefits as the children can use it whenever they feel they need to control their symptoms in a safe and natural way.

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There are three different types of incontinence, stress, urge and functional. The first is due to insufficient strength of the pelvic floor muscles. It is the loss of small amounts of urine associated with coughing, laughing, sneezing, exercising or other movements that increase intra-abdominal pressure and thus increase pressure on the bladder. The second is involuntary loss of urine occurring for no apparent reason while suddenly feeling the need or urge to urinate and the third occurs when a person recognises the need to urinate, but cannot physically make it to the bathroom in time due to limited mobility.

Hypnosis won’t only help to reduce the incontinence but it will also help the emotional and psychological issues that came alongside. It also has the benefit of no side effects. The way it works is through the process of accessing your subconscious and instructing it to support your intended goals. In this instance your goal is be in control of your bladder and hypnosis will help you to achieve this.

There are many people who have benefited from hypnosis therapy for this problem and the first step towards the road to recovery is to realise you have a problem and seek a medical diagnosis. There is no reason to feel ashamed of this problem and once you have received a confidential diagnosis you will then be able to begin a treatment of your choice.

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Fibromyalgia symptoms are often so strong that they can prevent suffers from going about their everyday lives. There are of course many treatments available intended to ease pain and suffering and generally lesson the severity of the symptoms but it is hypnosis which is is fast emerging as the most successful.

Although it is not certain why hypnosis therapy works so well in this instance, studies have found that the area of the brain responsible for ”feeling” pain had significantly reduced activity levels when the patient was under hypnosis. Suggesting it has a physical effect on the brain.

Many fibromyalgia patients attribute the pain reduction in their symptoms to the power of hypnosis, also finding that it increase their energy and comfort levels. A study conducted by NIH showed that patients undergoing hypnosis treatment reported 80% fewer pain symptoms than those who received no hypnosis treatment.

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The depression usually occurs in women after they have carried a child, often happening within the first few months. Symptoms include sadness, fatigue, insomnia, appetite changes, reduced libido, crying episodes, anxiety, and irritability.

The cause is unclear but it is said that lack of vitamins or a significant change in women’s hormones can bring about the change, although hormonal treatment has been tested and have shown no improvement to the victims. Many women recover because of a support group or counselling.

After a persons level of depression has been treated to a moderate level with the use of anti-depressants, hypnotherapy can be a great help. Medication will be able to treat the patient to a certain level but most will find they still lack control over their feelings and thoughts.

Hypnotherapy works with the subconscious mind which is used to feeling whatever it is we are feeling internally. If a mother is feeling a little better but is still plagued by images of her previous depressed state then she is giving ammunition to her subconscious mind to still feel stressed. However, hypnotherapy can help to retrain the subconscious mind to not feel these thoughts.

Hypnotherapy will also help to restore the self esteem by re-programming the unconscious mind into how the person wants to be and by helping the person to revery back to their former more confident self.

If you are someone you know are suffering with what you think might be postnatal depression please seek advice and support from your GP. If you feel like hypnotherapy is something that could work for you in this instance then you can contact a hypnotherapist using the homepage of this site.

Sometimes we forget that Paul McKenna started in radio at the age of 16. After working in-store for Radio Topshop he went on to present for a variety of stations.

It was only when a hypnotist appeared as a guest on his show that he began to developing an interest in the subject. He continued to work in radio but on the side he would also perform small shows for friends and in pubs and clubs before he begun weekly shows at the Duke of york’s Theatre, which at the time was owned by Capital. His hugely successful shows are what led to his playing in theatres all over the UK and eventually the world.

In 1990 he set up his own training company and joined BBC Radio One. After two years he left the station to focus solely on his career in hypnosis. A decade down the line and he is Britain’s best selling non-fiction author and is published in 30 languages.

On todays show he went back to his entertainment routes and hypnotised Aled with hilarious results (we won’t ruin the surprise for those who did’t tune in). If you missed it you can listen to it here.

Treatment ranges from medication to cognitive behavioural therapy and psychotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy and hypnotherapy have been found to be highly effective in this area. Some types of talk therapies are not very effective in this instance but Cognitive-behavioural techniques were used in a study to improve BDD in a study of 10 patients, all of whom responded favourably to a six-week treatment program.

In another study, hypnotherapy, thought stopping and relaxation resulted in significant clinical improvement in 22 of 27. Hypnotherapy affords quicker results the modern techniques applied assist with correcting the hallucinations of body defects.

To those who are ignorant to this disease, treatment may seem like a simple case of cutting up the credit card, however psychological symptoms are similar to those of alcoholism, eating disorders, drug abuse and gambling, resulting in emotional, social, occupational, and financial consequences.Similar to other compulsive behaviours, sufferers often experience the highs and lows associated with addiction and often the habit starts as a result of low self-esteem, with sufferers thinking that their next purchase will fill a void in their life.

Hypnotherapy is such a versatile treatment and this is just another instance where it can be used. We already know that it is particularly good for building up self-esteem as access to your subconscious will mean negative thoughts, feelings, habits and mood patterns can be adapted and erased. This has been a success in areas of motivation, depression, stress, chronic pain, jaw clenching (TMJ) and a variety of compulsive behaviours. In particular, with respect to compulsive behaviour, hypnosis can give rapid and even immediate relief. We also know that it can break habits, of course this is one of the reasons it is such a success for treating smoking and weight loss, as the subconscious is retrained to react in a different way when we feel like we are about to slip.

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It is thought that the hypnosis works by slowing the decline of their cognitive, physical and social abilities.

Researchers divided a number of dementia patients into three smaller groups. The first group received regular mainstream treatment, the second received group therapy and the third underwent hypnosis therapy.

Those who received the hypnosis therapy showed a huge improvement in areas of concentration, memory, motivation, socialization, relaxation and daily living activities, whereas participants in other groups ether remained the same in those areas or showed a decline.

More in depth research is required to see if hypnosis is effective on a long term basis and for more severe cases of the illness. The researchers have said that it is not yet clear how hypnosis slows the progression of dementia and that more research is needed. However, Dan Nightingale who is co-author of the study has said that he believes hypnosis therapy could be used clinically. 
”Evidence to date has shown that we can enhance the quality of life for people living with dementia through the correct use of hypnosis,” he said.