Hypnotherapy can supplement and assist with conditions listed below.  It is important to note that we do not treat symptoms, diagnose, or prescribe drugs or treatments.  We do reduce anxiety which reduces stress hormones.  This minimises inflammation in the body and brings about a state or condition where the mind and body can access its own inherent healing capabilities.  

All conditions are helped through an understanding of how the mind works and how depression, anxiety and anger related disorders are created.  The stress response is also universally acknowledged as the prime culprit in the production of our long list of diseases and disorders.  Particularly when stress is chronic and we are not able to relax, heal and sleep effectively.  Essentially, we need energy, our adrenals release cortisol, and cortisol is the key to producing a stress response.  The stress response is only negative if we can not turn it off.  This is when chronic stress takes over and causes problems.

(ref:http://adrenalfatigue.org/cortisol-adrenal-function/)

Pain management

We all have pain at some point in our lives.  Chronic pain is something that hypnotherapy can help to control.  Generally, chronic pain often leads to depression and anxiety.  This can cause a steady decline in the quality of our lives, and chronic pain leads to a cycle of being more sensitive to pain.  We can understand that the sensation of pain is contextual and subjective, but that all pain is a signal that something is not right.  Part of the problem with pain is that it sometimes does not switch off, it causes muscles to tense, and this naturally leads to higher anxiety, anger and depression – another cycle of increasing difficulty and negativity.

How hypnotherapy works is to provide soothing images, suggestions and utilising our innate ability to regulate and have control over the perception of pain.  We also reduce stress and anxiety, which all collude to bring about a more positive cycle of upward momentum.  We gradually bring about the conditions where solutions flow, and healing can take place.

Psoriasis

The scaly skin and patches of irritated pink skin are all manifestations of inflammation. When we have too much stress in our lives, we are not able to relax, and consequently the symptoms called psoriasis form on various parts of the body. These are a cause of stress and concern in themselves. We know that reducing anxiety and lowering stress through hypnotherapy and Solution Focused work can have a positive effect on psoriasis.

The way this is done is through reducing stress. Stress is not always easy to detect and for this reason it has been labeled the silent killer. Solution focused hypnotherapy directs our attention to things we can change, and by acting, thinking and interacting positively we can produce fundamental and profound changes in our minds and bodies. We use hypnotherapy – much like deep relaxation or meditation, to bring about a state of mind where we can sooth and relax the mind, nervous and muscular system. The power of positive reinforcement experienced whilst deeply relaxed, or in hypnotherapy allows for immense change for the better. We emphasise the importance of sleeping well and we have a solid strategy for this end. 

Eczema

In a similar way to psoriasis, eczema is an inflammatory skin condition.  We know that excessive inflammation is a precursor to eczema.  If we are chronically stressed through all of life’s demands, we are more likely to develop eczema.  When we are free from excess stress, we can access healing and solutions.  Hypnotherapy in Harrow’s Solution Focused Therapy teaches you how to access those tools.

Acne

It is noted that acne can worsen when deadlines and stressful demands are placed before us.  At the core of any inflammatory response (acne is one such response) is the presence of stress.  We know that stress and anxiety produce cortisol and adrenaline, which if chronic result in hormonal imbalance and a cascade of other types of disorders.  The negative feedback loop is such that the stress from acne can cause even more stress.  As hypnotherapy in Harrow uses an effective method of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy to reduce stress, focusing on the positive things in life, and by relaxing deeply and sleeping effectively.  All these combine to get anyone reducing the overload of stress hormones and that can only have a healthy balancing effect on acne.   (source:http://www.calmclinic.com/anxiety/symptoms/acne)

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

This condition effects the large colon or bowel.  It is accompanied by bloating, gas, diarrhoea, stomach cramping and constipation.  The link with stress, anxiety disorders and IBS is accepted amongst medical professionals.  What Solution Focused Hypnotherapy does is to reduce stress, anxiety and depression.  It works by getting you to focus on the positive things in your life and minimising our focus on the negative.  Our hypnotherapy sessions work by allowing you to deeply relax, whilst building your positive and happy reality; a reality that fills us with happy and beneficial neurotransmitters such as serotonin.

Since IBS is an inflammatory condition, we know that the principles of relaxation, getting quality sleep and focusing on the positive things in life can help enormously.  Mentally rehearsing positive scenarios whilst in a deeply relaxed state also helps to rebuild our lives, and reduce stress whilst building confidence.  This only helps to manage IBS.

Insomnia

What could be worse than needing to sleep but being awoken because of the sound of our mind going overtime.  Or being stressed and anxious where the slightest noise causes us to wake up…  We need good restorative sleep to sooth our nervous system, rebalance our physical bodies and get good REM – rapid eye movement sleep.  Research shows that REM is responsible for literally burning off stressful experiences and memories.  When we are overly stressed, we need more REM, but this phase is very energy intensive.

With Solution Focused Hypnotherapy in Harrow we work within the limits of what is positive and excellent in our lives.  What we need to do is to generally reduce our stress and anxiety.  We need to focus on the positive things in our lives and to build up positive associations and thought patterns.  Naturally, when we rebuild our positive selves, we function more optimally and access better deeper, more natural sleep.

Migraine

High blood pressure is a result of stress and migraine is one of many symptoms.  Stress is caused when we experience something unpleasant and threatening, but we also produce stress through thinking about such negative experiences.  At times it is not so easy to relax and let go of tension and stress.  The great thing about Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is that it calms negative thought patterns, builds positivity, helps access full restorative sleep and reduces our stress levels.

Having headaches or migraines are debilitating.  Stress in general wrecks our mind, life and body.  We have control over how to manage stress and how we perceive stress.  Living life free from headaches and migraines is a huge boon for all sufferers, and Hypnotherapy in Harrow can help.

ref https://migraine.com/migraine-types/stress-migraine/

Weight Management

Any goal can be achieved, and managing weight to healthy levels is certainly achievable.  We know that food is one of the most difficult things to manage.  This is owing to how social food is, how easy it is to snack, and that few of us stop eating when we are full.  We are generally over fed, and malnourished and the overabundance of poor quality and useless food attests to this.  The mechanism that comes into play with overeating, is another terrible negative spiral.  The more we eat, the better we feel, and dopamine is released, which makes us feel great.  The next time we get a fix of pleasure, or dopamine, we need more food; this makes our adipose tissue, swell.  It is not that we gain more fat cells, but that the existing ones swell and become enlarged.  When fat cells are in this condition, they become resistant to insulin (Type 2 diabetes – the inability to deal with glucose and fat) and produce more systemic inflammation.  This leads to disease and lower life expectancy.  Overeating and enlarged adipose (fat cells) tissue results in a key satiety signal – leptin.

With solution Focused Hypnotherapy, we look at ways to increase momentum towards becoming more positive and active.  We instinctively know what is right.  When we are less stressed and are able to function more intellectually, solutions flow and we are more creative.  To take twelve or more stable steps towards a desirable goal, we become more able to make better life choices.  The difference between eating based on stress and anxiety, and eating within normal boundaries is immense.  To be free from the little habits that form poor eating choices is also more possible when we are free from stress, depression and anxiety.  With Hypnotherapy in Harrow, we aim to give you every possible opportunity to get you more happy, confident and successful.

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Anxiety Disorders

To feel anxious is normal when we are in genuine real time danger.  If this is the case, we are rightfully in a ready state to fight or run.  This self preservation mechanism is fused into our most fundamental core primal self.  But if we want to function creatively and intellectually, we have to build our lives based on being able to intellectualise events in our lives and process things in context.  A toot of a horn is not a threat, nor is any number of little things that we encounter that truly have no impact on our basic survival.

How Hypnotherapy works is throughIn calming the nervous system, the body and mind.  We also need to reduce our stress levels and build up our creative intellectual selves.  This reduces a general fixation on anxious thoughts, conversations and other stress producing preoccupations.  Solution Focused Hypnotherapy helps to minimise the internal negative mind chatter and provides the environment where you can access your best.

Anger Disorders

We know that anger is part of a normal mechanism.  If we are in extreme danger, we gain the ability to move very quick, run, or access enormous energy and strength.  Problems arise when those stressful conditions become revived and relived out of context.  So if we have anger towards a person, we think of that person, we become angry.  The actual person may not be alive or near us anymore, but we still produce a great deal of anger regardless.  We can apply this idea to any memory that produces the potential for anger.

We can get caught in a mode of angry expression, since through the laws of ‘what we repeatedly do, we become’ it is clear that repetition solidifies any reality.  By applying the principles of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy, we can develop an awareness of the real context of anger, and begin to focus on building profound connections to other parts of our being.  It can not be understated, we become entrenched in a reality by visiting it repeatedly.  By exercising our creativity, our sense of envisaging a better tomorrow, and mobilising our positivity, we gain access to insight, solutions and healing.

Depression

Depression has its basis in a need to lay low and let moments of danger or scarcity run their course.  Seasonal depression is a clear example of this, and when winter ends, spring comes, we feel exhilarated.  Depression and feeling low ties in with the laws of momentum and therefor, the more you feel low and stay down in the dumps, the more you are likely to stay there.  Regardless of this, if you practice the principles of acting positively, thinking positively and socialising positively, we can begin to rebuild our lives and become more happy.  That is what we aim for.

Neuroscience shows that when we are depressed, we produce no serotonin.  However, with Hypnotherapy in Harrow, we use Solution Focused Hypnotherapy.  So, by activating our innate positivity (and producing more serotonin), we use deep relaxation where we can burn off stress and visualise and rehearse what it is like to become more joyful and successful.  we get your sleeping patterns back on track.  All of these techniques bring about the possibility of getting back on track and feeling happy, successful and joyful.

Stress Conditions

Stress is the state of mind and body that elevates cortisol.  This raises blood pressure, energy release and the ability to fight or run from danger.  The context of this mechanism is brilliant for immediate survival, but problems form when our minds replay stressful memories.  These memories are no different than the actual real time threat, according to our mind, so the stress response can be triggered numerous times a day. Consequently, many of us are chronically stressed.  The mechanisms of stress means that there is an excess of cortisol, and cortisol in a balanced situation regulates inflammation.  When stressed, our immune system’s function becomes ineffective and compromised, and it is also unable to effectively respond to cortisol.

We know that at the core of many physical ailments is inflammation; asthma, acne, psoriasis, arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome, heart attack, stroke, cancer…  So how do we keep stress in check?  The way we work as Solution Focused Hypnotherapists is by using deep relaxation, getting quality sleep, and looking at life through a positive mindset.  The result is a calmer, happier and healthier you.

Reference https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120402162546.htm

From Kasem, Hypnotherapist in Harrow – solutions for life

from Hypnotherapy in Harrow, Servicing surrounding areas – London, UK