Pilot Project Helps Young Patients Change the Expectation

Here is a link to an interesting article about a pilot project at a Canadian hospital in which hypnosis is employed to ease the stress and tension patients typically experience with common imaging procedures.

 

The positive results are consistent with what I’ve found when sharing the practice of self-hypnosis.  The expectation of pain and discomfort is often as powerful as the actual pain and discomfort.   

Hypnosis empowers a person to change the expectation.  

Montreal Children’s Hospital Uses Medical Hypnosis to Reduce Anxiety, Pain

Canadian Press (December 2019)