Changing Peoples Lives
Women undergoing surgery for breast cancer who received a brief hypnosis session before entering the operating room required less anesthesia and pain medication during surgery, and reported less pain, nausea, fatigue, and discomfort after surgery than women who did not receive hypnosis. The overall cost of surgery was also significantly less for women undergoing hypnosis.
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A British man who hypnotized himself before hand surgery last week so he could skip the anesthetic says he was fully awake and pain-free during the 83-minute procedure.
Professional hypno-therapist and psychotherapist Alex Lenkei, 61, put himself into a deep trance so he wouldn’t feel the pain — he says it took him only 30 seconds to put himself under.click here to read more…
The word ‘hypnotist’ brings to mind visions of a starry-eyed freak clucking like a chicken, or an old-fashioned pocket watch swinging to and fro.
With those exact expectations I set off to a hypnotherapy session, only to be shocked out of my ignorance by a truly insightful therapy technique.
Experts agree the 4-time Masters champ tougher mentally than anyone he meets
As the sun set on Augusta National Golf Course three years ago, the greatest golfer of this generation was on the verge of doing something he never had: blowing a major championship. With crowd-stunning back-to-back bogeys on the final two holes, he had slipped into a sudden-death playoff with Chris DiMarco.
Tiger Woods was choking.
But then, as dusk and thousands of fans enveloped the tee box at No. 18, the first playoff hole, Woods quieted his mind, refocused on his game, and hit two near-perfect shots to set up a winning birdie.
It’s a scene that has been repeated thousands of times. Woods, in a trance-like state, shuts out the noise and distractions and pulls off the most difficult shots under the most intense pressure. Ask sports psychologists around the world and they agree: He is the most mentally tough athlete of this era.
But how does he do it? How does he remain unflappable while playing one of the most mind-bending games with the largest and rowdiest galleries just a few feet away? How has he kept from wilting on the way to winning 86 professional tournaments worldwide, including 13 major championships? How does he continually stare down and intimidate opponents, especially in the final rounds of tournaments?
Some point to his late father, Earl, a former Green Beret who played military mind games with his son to toughen him. Others point to his mother, Kutilda, and her strong Buddhist background, which stresses a peaceful mind, meditation and being in the moment.
But others are convinced it’s something else.
“He puts himself in a zone,” sports psychologist and hypnotist Pete Solana said. “With the self-hypnosis he was taught when he was younger, he can clear out his mind of all negative thoughts and distractions and think only about this shot, right now. Self-hypnosis is a major tool, and Tiger has learned how to use it. He is light-years ahead of everyone else.”
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