Bowers Hypnosis

GROVETOWN, Ga. – Imagine a pain free child birth without the help of medication. One Grovetown woman is instructing expectant mothers on a technique she says can offer that and more.

“It was really painful. I felt really out of control. I couldn’t deal with the contractions towards the end especially,” Kristie Press said.

After one painful childbirth, Press was terrified of what was to come when she heard she was expecting again.

“When I first got pregnant in the first couple of months even the thought of going to the hospital just really made me want to cry,” Press said.

Then she found a video of a woman using hypnosis during childbirth on the Internet.

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The Journal of Oncology discussed a study on chemotherapy patients who experienced nausea and vomiting and the effects of hypnotherapy as an adjunctive treatment. The results were positive and showed that Hypnotherapy had a positive effect on patients suffering from anticipatory nausea, which comes prior to chemotherapy treatment.

Having cancer is never an easy thing. It goes without saying that many cancer patients go through the same worry and distress as others when it comes to the healing processes. The processes, which are slow and painful, can often come with other worries that can stifle or completely stop it.

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More people are choosing the soothing sounds of a hypnotist’s voice to block out the dire din of Wall street news.

“In the last month or so, I began getting calls from people having anxiety. Anxiety and stress or anxiety and depression,” Hypnotist Phillip Dickerson said.

He uses hypnosis to convince clients to focus their thoughts on the positive things in their life to regain control.The TV news business is pretty stressful, so I let him try his craft on a cynical reporter.

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My husband, Richard, smoked cigarettes for 50 years, having failed several attempts to quit on his own. When a friend told him in August 1994 that hypnosis had enabled her to quit, he decided to give it a try.

“It didn’t work; I wasn’t hypnotized,” he declared after his one and only session. But it did work; since that day, he has not taken one puff of a cigarette.

Gloria Kanter of Boynton Beach, Fla., thought her attempt in 1985 to use hypnosis to overcome her fear of flying had failed. “When the therapist brought me out, I said it didn’t work,” she recalled in an interview. “I told her, ‘I heard everything you said.’ ”

Nonetheless, the next time she and her husband headed for the airport, she was not drenched in sweat and paralyzed with fear. “I was just fine,” she said, “and I’ve been fine ever since.”

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