Get Well! Hypnosis and Healing

Obviously, this is significant for understanding the role of hypnosis and positive suggestions in pain management, healing and recovery. When we really grapple with the implications of such brain interpretations, however, you know this has to effect what we believe reality to be. This top-down phenomenon is, furthermore, revolutionary in its implications for how we all "agree" to social customs, wide-spread conditioning, political propaganda, and commercial advertising.But I digress.

Hypnosis acts in many profound ways in healing, whether we are using hypnotic trances and suggestions actively or simply encouraging certain positive attitudes in patients, friends and family, passively. Although scientists and doctors do not know how placebos work, it is my belief that they are hypnotic suggestions. The Associated Press gave us some food for thought with their release, "A New Spin on the Placebo Effect":

Your medicine really could work better if your doctor talks it up before handing over the prescription.
Research is showing the power of expectations, that they have physical -- not just psychological -- effects on your health. Scientists can measure the resulting changes in the brain, from the release of natural painkilling chemicals to alterations in how neurons fire.

'Your expectations can have profound impacts on your brain and your health,' says Columbia University neuroscientist Tor Wager.
... scientists are amassing the first direct evidence that the placebo effect actually is physical, and that expecting benefit can trigger the same neurological pathways of healing as real medication does.

'Our brain really is on drugs when we get a placebo,' says co-researcher Christian Stohler, now at the University of Maryland. More remarkable, some especially strong placebo responders suggest 'many brains can actually stimulate that (pain-relief) system more.'
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'The bigger question is how do we capitalize on the placebo effect,' said Dr. Helen Mayberg of Emory University, whose studies suggest some antidepressants have a 'placebo-plus' activity in the brain. 'There may be a phenomenon we all have access to.' -

Yes, my good doctor, we do have access to an important tool called hypnosis. Whether used actively or passively, with visualizations, imagination, positive affirmations and placebo type suggestions that our bodies respond to, we can use the power of directed thought for healing. Consider, now, the common statement of good health as a direct and affirmative statement or suggestion: "Get Well!"

Here's to your health!

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