HM317 Physical Effects of Hypnosis

Dr. Liz talks about the potential physical effects of hypnosis both positive and negative in this mini-episode.

        

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Winner of numerous awards including Top 100 Moms in Business, Dr. Liz provides psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, and hypnosis to people wanting a fast, easy way to transform all around the world. She has a PhD in Clinical Psychology, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and has special certification in Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy. Specialty areas include Anxiety, Insomnia, and Deeper Emotional Healing.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello listeners, I hope you're doing okay.
We are doing a mini here today while I
prepare a longer podcast, another one from
A Path Through the Jungle by Professor
Steve Peters on depression.
So I've done a series on anxiety three of

(00:21):
them.
Well, the first one is really prep.
Series on anxiety.
Three of them Well, the first one is really
prep and then two on anxiety and a
depression.
One is coming, so hold your horses, it's
coming.
Today I thought I would talk about hypnosis
and the physical effects of it.
Again, this is a mini, so it's going to be
pretty short.

(00:42):
Hypnosis has physical effects.
That's why we do it.
It's for physical effects.
That's why we do.
It is for physical effects.
That's why we do any therapy, so that our
bodies feel better.
When our minds feel better, our bodies feel
better.
But hypnosis there's actually a lot of
research about all the different systems in
the body.
It can affect Meaning, your autonomic

(01:03):
nervous system, your central nervous system,
tissues.
There's a lot of research on the GI system
and they actually took samples of the
tissue from the bowel and the tissue
changed in the hypnosis group.
People bleed less during surgery.
This is physical effects on the body and

(01:27):
you know they use all kinds of statistical
techniques to figure out whether this is a
real effect or whether it's placebo.
Not that placebo isn't anything to sneeze
at, right Like placebo is a fantastic
effect.
You get a placebo effect going on that's to
your benefit, absolutely.
But they do statistical analysis to see was

(01:48):
this a waste of time for us and all that
research money, or did this actually have
some benefit to the person?
So hypnosis has all kinds of benefits.
When they do fMRIs on it, it looks very
similar to pain medication in the brain
Incredible, like incredible.
I've definitely experienced this myself

(02:09):
when I twist my ankles.
You guys, I have hypermobile ankles and I
twist them quite frequently.
In fact, I was super happy when I went a
year and a half without twisting an ankle
and then I twisted my right ankle and
immediately I did hypnosis to bring the
pain down.
It was a pretty painful twist that one.

(02:31):
I was looking at an iguana instead of like
looking where I was stepping.
Big mistake Look where you're stepping,
don't look at the iguana.
I don't know.
Probably my hindbrain took over and was
thinking oh my god, what's the bigger
safety concern here, the iguana or the
stepping?

(02:51):
Now, this was a friendly iguana named
Millie that lived outside of our house in
South Florida.
So probably safety, looking where I was
stepping, was a larger priority.
But you know, your hindbrain doesn't always
know that.
It probably just sees the iguana and is
like, oh no, keep your eyes on the threat,
who knows?
Anyway, I've used it multiple times in my

(03:12):
life to bring down pain, to bring down
inflammation in the body, when I was having
eye surgeries and complications in my right
eye.
Like it's not just about habit change.
I mean habit change is huge, by the way,
like people use it to lose weight all the
time.
But that is habit change in terms of eating
patterns.
To stop smoking, that's habit change.

(03:33):
But talk about physical effects in the body.
Really stop smoking, all kinds of things
improve in your body.
But that's not really what we're talking
about.
Like that's a side effect, what I call that
from hypnosis versus like this is a direct
effect from it.
That's more like the fMRI studies and the
tissue samples that they take and all kinds

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of stuff.
Like that Direct effect.
Now sometimes people will have a physical
effect right after the hypnosis and usually
they feel fantastic.
That's a physical effect.
They feel very floaty, sort of like the end
of a yoga class, when you've had a really
good savasana.

(04:16):
Savasana was always really hard for me, but
when you've had a good savasana and you're
like, oh, I have the yoga glue 95% of the
time people have that they feel really good
after hypnosis.
But occasionally someone has something that
doesn't feel so good, like nausea or some
dizziness, and it's like, yeah, because

(04:38):
hypnosis has an effect on your nervous
system.
Now, typically that will pass within a
couple of hours and what I've done in the
past when that happens with somebody is
give them vagus, nerve soothing exercises,
like the bumblebee breath, where you're
doing that sort of with your lips like a

(04:59):
bumblebee would, or tapping in different
parts of the body, some very gentle
breathing, so we're calming down the
nervous system.
That had a reaction.
So it's just something to know as you move
forward in your journey with hypnosis.
We're going to end here.

(05:19):
It's a mini.
Keep your eyes open for the episode coming
up about depression.
I hope you're healthy and safe Peace.