I have firsthand experience of what Multiple Sclerosis can do to a person and how it can impact a family.  19 years ago my sister was diagnosed with MS while she was pregnant with her first and only child.  Her daughter has never known a mother without MS.

Now, me being a strong believer in alternative therapies, I spent years encouraging my sister to seek an alternative to the traditional approach her doctors were taking.  My sister, being like most people, wanted to believe in her doctor's knowledge and experience.  She wanted to believe that her doctor could help her.

Well, after 18 years of slowly and steadily getting worse, it took my sister witnessing the miracle of our cousin beating breast cancer for the second time for her to step away from the medical model and take a different approach.  My cousin was unable to do radiation or chemo and she was forced to find another way.  Fortunately she discovered a chiropractor and healer who got her on a raw food diet, among other approaches and today she is still cancer free.

My sister is now off her medications, eating raw and finally showing some improvement in her symptoms.  I worked with her using hypnosis for a few years before she made the transition to this new approach and know firsthand the power of hypnosis and healing.

We want to trust that our doctors know what they are doing, but here is what the Physician's Desk Reference says about MS: "15%-that's almost 1 out of every 7-of the people diagnosed with MS will show symptoms only once, and then never again.  Then there's the 50% of people diagnosed with MS whose symptoms show up & disappear every couple years, but who don't get any worse (especially during the first 10 years after diagnosis)."

With our nervous system being the communication system for every single function in the body, symptoms of MS are hugely varied.  Therefore diagnosis can be really difficult.  And most doctors treat the loss of any symptom as a mis-diagnosis.  So what's really going on here?

What we want for you is to know that there are choices in how you approach any diagnosis.  We are not suggesting that you ignore your doctor.  But blindly trusting is not serving you either.

That's is why I was so excited when our autoimmune disorder specialist, Roger Moore, PhD wanted to create a program on MS.  I felt that with his expertise on board we could create a truly powerful and healing program.  And we did.

Try our "Hypnosis for Multiple Sclerosis" hypnosis mp3 download.  Notice the results you get.  If you are unhappy, you can always receive your money back.

Really, what do you have to lose, except your symptoms.

When does smoking become a different type of health risk?

by Dr. Elizabeth White
Smoking Cessation Specialist

The harmful effects of smoking have been proven by both scientists and doctors alike.  It is one of the major causes of cancer.  But who would have thought that a drug that is championed for relieving the symptoms of withdrawal and cravings could prove to be responsible for people committing suicide.  Recently here in Lancashire in the UK, a 39 year old man stabbed himself to death only two months after giving up smoking using Champix (also known as Chantix).

“A smoker stabbed himself to death only weeks after beginning a course of drugs to help him quit his 20-a-day habit.  Omer Jama, 39, a television editor, had no history of mental illness.  Omer was found dead at his home two months after he was prescribed Champix. The drug he had been taking for two months Champix has been linked to depression and reports of suicide.

The European Medicines Agency, the drug's licensers, issued guidance on Champix's active ingredient Varenicline to Doctors two months after Mr Jama's death.  It said "updated warnings" were needed to increase awareness of cases of suicidal thoughts.”

So that begs the question wouldn’t you be much safer and healthier to find a natural method that is known and proven not to have side effects, while also having extremely high success rates?

Here are the facts on the prescription methods:

And these are only some of the benefits you receive when you quit:

20 minutes:  Your blood pressure and pulse rate return to normal

8 hours:         Oxygen levels in your blood return to normal.

24 hours:      Carbon monoxide has been eliminated from your body. Your lungs start to clear out mucus and other smoking debris.

48 hours:      There is no nicotine left in your body. Your ability to taste and smell is greatly improved.

72 hours:      Breathing becomes easier. Your bronchial tubes begin to relax and your energy levels increase.

2-12 weeks: Circulation improves throughout the body, making walking and running a whole lot easier.

3-9 months:  Coughs, wheezing and breathing problems get better as your lung function is increased by up to 10%.

5 years:         Heart attack risk falls to about half that of a smoker.

10 years:      Risk of lung cancer falls to half that of a smoker. The risk of a heart attack falls to same as someone who has never smoked.

 

What don’t you understand?  Why wouldn’t anyone choose the natural way to quit?  If you’d like to hear more, experience the benefits and see what all the fuss is about just click here:

 

Freedom From Smoking

Dr. Elizabeth White

Hypnotherapist

www.lizwhite-nlp.co.uk

Natural Pain Relief

If your doctor is telling you that your pain is just in your head, don’t get upset.  Your doctor is just giving you the latest medical advice.  And that advice may have you turning to a more natural approach to pain relief.  Pain medication is generally addictive and has tremendous side effects.  However, the latest medical advice should have you looking for that more natural alternative.

The link between emotions and pain and has been overlooked for too long in western medicine.   Many psychologists will tell you that pain is actually an emotion.  Pain and emotion are how the body responds to trouble.  The perception of pain actually occurs in your mind, not in your body, so when someone tells you the pain is just in your head, they are actually speaking the truth.  This does not diminish the feeling or the truth of your experience, however it does give us some new ways of thinking about how to treat it.

In fact, the pain pathways that are set up to transmit the sensation of pain will actually continue transmitting that feeling even though the underlying condition or injury has been healed.  Many types of pain seem to have no actual injury or source for why the pain is occurring.  Dr. John Sarno, in his book The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain actually identifies all chronic soft tissue pain as having an emotional undercurrent or even an emotional cause.

These are some of the ideas that informed our creation of our Relief From Chronic Pain program.  This program approaches pain as something that occurs in your mind and therefore can be controlled by your mind.  Imagine being able to control your sensation of comfort or discomfort.  How would that change your life?

Are you ready to release yourself from the bondage of chronic pain?  Are you tired of taking more and more medication because it just doesn’t work as well as it used to?  Can you already begin to imagine how much joy you’ll have in your life when the pain is gone?  Just take a moment and check out our Relief from Chronic Pain program and see if you’re ready to live pain free.

Is Hypnosis a Good Alternative to Sleep Medication for Insomnia?

Many people today have trouble getting a good night’s sleep.  And because of that they suffer from a variety of ailments.  They have trouble concentrating, get anxious, get sick more often, and can develop psychological problems in the long term.  Unfortunately, prescription medication for insomnia causes as many problems as it attempts to help.

Many prescription and over the counter sleep aids are addictive.  And among those that aren’t, there are many other unpleasant side affects.  They include drowsiness, confusion, forgetfulness and dry mouth.  Also, most medications lose effectiveness over time so you have to take more of it to work and the side effects increase.  And then there is the problem of what happens when you try to stop taking the medication.

So, it would seem like an alternative approach to medication would be helpful for insomnia sufferers.  Fortunately, there are and there are studies to prove their effectiveness.  

A study in Norway (Dr. Borge Sivertsen, from the University of Bergen) found that behavioral therapies produced a 90.1% sleep efficiency rating (the time spent in bed actually sleeping).  Whereas the prescription medication zopiclone was no more effective than a placebo (81.9% sleep efficiency rating).  And the great thing about behavioral therapies is that they increase the natural ability of a person to solve their own problems and live a more fulfilling life.

Another major difference between behavioral therapy and medication was in the quality of slow wave sleep (or deep sleep).  Therapy  raised the patients' average slow-wave sleep 27% by the end of treatment, and had increased it 34% six months later.  On the other hand, patients who took the sleeping pill had a big drop in the amount of slow-wave sleep they got. They had 20% less slow-wave sleep at the end of treatment. Six months later, they had 23% less slow-wave sleep.

So which approach would you rather take?  One that is more effective with no negative side effects or one that is less effective, addictive and can make you feel worse?  The choice is an easy one.  The key is finding a behavioral approach that is less expensive than medication.  That’s where we come in.

Hypnosis is one of the most powerful behavioral techniques because it addresses the subconscious mind (which controls 88-90% of our behavior).  By resolving those inner conflicts and teaching the subconscious a new habit of easy and effective sleep, you can learn to sleep more efficiently and deeply without any negative side effects.  In fact, you could say that one of the most powerful side effects would be how much happier and productive you are.

The great thing about our new Relief from Insomnia product, is that it combines the powerful subconscious techniques of hypnosis along with great conscious tips (in our Lifestyle Action Steps pdf) for developing great sleeping habits.  And it is about as inexpensive as you can get.  Imagine being able to sleep easily and consistently through the night, even when you are away from home.  Now that is one of my favorite side effects.