Hypnotherapy For Asthma

Hypnotherapy For Asthma
By Gemma Bailey

Being a former sufferer myself, I can completely
empathies with those who live in dread the suffocating symptoms
of an attack.

My was induced by dust and aggravated by intense
exercise, however for others, they causes are less easy to
avoid. Pollen, pollution, stress, colds, and cigarette smoke are
just some of the factors that can aggravate asthma. Although
there are many pharmaceutical treatments for asthma, the very
young and very old can be particularly debilitated by the
symptoms of asthma.

When an attack is on its way, it’s important to keep calm, but
when you feel physically unable to get sufficient oxygen into
your body (this is because the airways are constricting), calm
is generally the last thing you are feeling, and no matter how
many times you consciously remind yourself to keep calm, will
power alone is not enough.

The good news is that most suffers have some idea of
when they are going to have an attack, there may not be a
lot of prior warning, but there will be some.

Using hypnosis, an sufferer can be given suggestions
such as remaining calm when they suspect that an attack is going
to happen, visualizing the tubes of their airways as being
relaxed and wide, becoming disassociated from one’s self so that
they are able to look at themselves and how they look at this
time just before the attack comes on. Or notice how a simple
change in their own physiology can release discomfort or what it
is that they are focusing on at that time… are they focusing on
how tight and uncomfortable they feel, or how their socks feel
on their feet? Wherever your attention is, you can expect to
notice more intensely.

Imagining the lungs in a healthy normal state can encourage
them to return to normal function, in fact as well visualizing
the self and how actual changes

can be made to the body and it’s
parts, more covert techniques can be employed. A rubber band
letting go offers suggestions of something taut becoming loose
and limp (such as the airway), a stiff door that is oiled to
that it can swing open easily can also make similar positive
suggestions, or a slide window that allows a breeze to blow
through. Simply the auditory suggestion of a slowing metronome
can encourage a panicked racing heartbeat to slow down.

Hypnosis is one of the most effective ways to achieve a natural
relaxed state. In this state the mind is more open to suggestion
and the state of relaxation alone can ease the anxiety and
stress that can cause an attack. This means that using auto
suggestion, it may be possible for a person to abort the asthma
attack before it begins.

About the Author: Gemma Bailey is a master Hypnotherapist and
NLP Master Practitioner providing hypnotherapy in Hertfordshire,
Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. http://www.gemmabailey.co.uk

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