What is Disease?

A disease or medical condition is an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs bodily functions, associated with specific symptoms and signs. It may be caused by external factors, such as infectious disease, or it may be caused by internal dysfunctions, such as autoimmune diseases.

In holistic medicine and alternative medicine tradition, disease is said to be caused by energetic imbalances in physical, emotional, spiritual, social and/or environmental needs.


What is Complementary and Alternative Medicine?

  • Complementary or integrative approaches are those that work alongside traditional medicine
  • Alternative approaches are those that work outside traditional medicine
  • Those practicing complementary and alternative approaches often see our life's experiences and how we cope with them as the source of difficulties � it's not what has happened to a person, but how the person perceives and deals with what happened that affects the problem.


    How Do I Perceive Disease?

    As a practitioner of alternative techniques I believe that disease is rooted in our past experiences and comes about as a means of coping with an experience. In effect, the body "hired" the disease to protect the individual from the experience. Of course, on a conscious level it seems ridicuous that a disease could be to protect us but it may make perfect sense to the subconsious.

    If a disease was hired to protect us then the flip side of that is the disease can be fired. Somatic healing is based on the idea that every part of the body and all its functions are directly controlled by the subconscious. And every disease or physical condition can be directly influenced when accessed through the subconscious mind


    How Can Hypnosis Help Me?

    Hypnosis is used to access the subconscious mind. By doing so we can use visualization to directly communicate with the brain, various organs of the body, and even diseases. Through this communication it may be possible to determine why the disease is in the body, what it hopes to gain, and perhaps rationalize with it and convince it to leave. If we accept these possibilities it opens up a new way to deal with the disease.

    Our bodies are designed to be self-healing. If you cut yourself, typically you clean it off, perhaps bandage it, and it heals on its own. When you break a bone, the doctors set it in its proper position, put a cast on to keep it in that position, but the body does the healing. When you have surgery, the incision is stiched up so the skin and tissue can heal together. The doctor is not doing the healing, your body is.

    Our immune system takes care of the healing. And it does at times require additional assistence in the form of antibiotics, antivirals, and other medicines to help it heal. But what if you can strengthen the immune system using hypnosis to the extent that the body can fight off serious disease? How many times have you seen an article or watched a TV show about someone with a serious disease who refused to accept the outcome and through the power of their mind overcame it?


    What is Hypnosis Being Used With?

    Hypnosis is being used to improve the quality of live for those with avariety of disease, including mesothelioma, other forms of cancer, arthritis, and multiple sclerosis,

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