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Progressive Relaxation Exercise
Learning to relax deeply is a excellent way to start training yourself in self-hypnosis. You will learn how to relax deeper than ever before by focusing your attention on relaxing each body part and using your breath to enhance this relaxation.
The following video uses binaural beats to guide the brainwave frequencies to a level of deep relaxation guided with relaxation instructions. Use stereo headphones to make the binaural beats work
The following video uses binaural beats to guide the brainwave frequencies to a level of deep relaxation guided with relaxation instructions. Use stereo headphones to make the binaural beats work
From WebMD
"Doctors at Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are tapping into patients' ability to find comfort in the subconscious before tapping into their veins with catheters, and this "new age" approach is winning enthusiasts among both patients and staff.
Elvira V. Lang, MD, associate professor of radiology and medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, reported a study of self-hypnosis techniques at the 85th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. Although her study included only 161 patients who were offered the hypnosis relaxation approach, she says that by early next year, all patients undergoing procedures in the catheterization lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center will have the option of using hypnosis to either replace or supplement traditional conscious sedation. Conscious sedation usually consists of the patient receiving one or more drugs that aid in anxiety and pain relief.
Lang tells WebMD that by using hypnotic relaxation -- basically, using a set script to lead a patient into deep relaxation by suggesting that the patient "concentrate on the sensation of floating and float to some place comfortable" -- her hospital saves more than $100 on each procedure, a potential annual savings of $1 million. The hospital is so enthusiastic that "we are currently training our entire team in the technique." She says that care nurses and technicians require about 32 hours of training. She has worked "five years to develop our standard script, and it hasn't failed us yet."
In her study, the technique was offered to 161 patients undergoing angiography, angioplasty, or kidney drainage, but she says that it can be used with any catheter-based procedure in which conscious sedation is used. "Use of the hypnotic procedure cut procedure time from 78 minutes for our standard care group to an average of 61 minutes for the hypnosis group," she says.
According to Lang, patients who undergo the technique can still receive both pain and anxiety medications and are given a bell to signal when they want to receive medication. Patients who underwent the procedures without hypnosis used "an average of 1.9 units of drugs, compared to an average drug use of 0.9 units for patients using hypnosis."
From article "Relaxation Technique Cuts Time and Cost"
Elvira V. Lang, MD, associate professor of radiology and medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, reported a study of self-hypnosis techniques at the 85th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. Although her study included only 161 patients who were offered the hypnosis relaxation approach, she says that by early next year, all patients undergoing procedures in the catheterization lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center will have the option of using hypnosis to either replace or supplement traditional conscious sedation. Conscious sedation usually consists of the patient receiving one or more drugs that aid in anxiety and pain relief.
Lang tells WebMD that by using hypnotic relaxation -- basically, using a set script to lead a patient into deep relaxation by suggesting that the patient "concentrate on the sensation of floating and float to some place comfortable" -- her hospital saves more than $100 on each procedure, a potential annual savings of $1 million. The hospital is so enthusiastic that "we are currently training our entire team in the technique." She says that care nurses and technicians require about 32 hours of training. She has worked "five years to develop our standard script, and it hasn't failed us yet."
In her study, the technique was offered to 161 patients undergoing angiography, angioplasty, or kidney drainage, but she says that it can be used with any catheter-based procedure in which conscious sedation is used. "Use of the hypnotic procedure cut procedure time from 78 minutes for our standard care group to an average of 61 minutes for the hypnosis group," she says.
According to Lang, patients who undergo the technique can still receive both pain and anxiety medications and are given a bell to signal when they want to receive medication. Patients who underwent the procedures without hypnosis used "an average of 1.9 units of drugs, compared to an average drug use of 0.9 units for patients using hypnosis."
From article "Relaxation Technique Cuts Time and Cost"