Hypnosis can help treat asthma by teaching patients how to calm themselves or use healing metaphors in the face of an asthma episode. The use of hypnosis in this setting can help asthma symptoms improve or even resolve.Unfortunately, there is no cure for asthma. Asthma is one of the most common chronic childhood disorders, affecting over seven million children under 18 years old. Mind and therapies like relaxation and hypnosis can have a profound effect on the severity of asthma.
Improvement of Chronic Asthma With Hypnotherapy
There are many recent studies on mind-body therapies for asthma focus on hypnotic relaxation techniques and self-hypnosis. Therapy with hypnosis can help improve asthma by teaching patients how to better deal with their emotional triggers before an attack. Hypnosis is the induction of a deeply relaxed state, with increased suggestibility and suspension of critical faculties. Once in this state, sometimes called a hypnotic trance, patients are given therapeutic suggestions to encourage changes in behavior or relief of symptoms.
How To Hypnotize Yourself to Relax
Everyone has the ability to hypnotize themselves. In a way, all hypnosis is self-hypnosis, because the subject’s own mind is always doing the work. It’s a real practice just like meditation, your hypnotherapist will teach you the skill.
Self-Hypnosis Technique
- Find a quiet and comfortable place to relax, where you won’t be disturbed.
- Begin to relax your body by tensing and then releasing each muscle group.
- Set your goal.
- Focus your gaze.
- Breathe slowly and deeply, letting your eyes rest on your focus point.
Psychological Factors in Asthma
The question is does stress precede severe attacks of asthma? Common traits in children who suffer from asthma are high anxiety, dependence on others, low confidence, and suppression of their emotions. Often the psychosomatic part of asthma is fear or anxiety over asthma. Symptoms of an asthma attack are wheezing, a cough, a tight chest, and trouble breathing. Wheezing is the classic symptom. Wheezing is a high-pitched whistling or purring sound. You can hear it best when your child is breathing out. These symptoms frighten children. Children may be concerned about having an asthma attack at school or around friends. They may fear that they will not be able to breathe during an attack. If symptoms are controlled daily, children will have fewer, less severe asthma attacks, this is where the relaxation of self-hypnosis technique can help. Instead of calling attention to breathing, suggestions should be given to reinforce a sense of being protected and to give positive reassurance that relaxation can occur.
Hypnosis is used in the treatment of children for many of the so-called bad habits of childhood, thumb-sucking, bed wetting, and nail-biting, All have been treated with hypnotherapy with significant success. Hypnotherapy with children is not only feasible but offered no extreme difficulties. If you are patient and devote enough time to the preliminaries of its use, the treatment of asthma in childhood as well as adulthood can help.
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Caroline can help you lose weight, sleep better, relax, perform at your peak, and much more! Hypnosis is a powerful natural, safe, effective and proven method to relieve long-standing problematic habits that keep you suffering. Caroline has been helping people since 2005. She loves watching people transform and get their lives back on track.
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