An 18 month trial has been started by the NHS aiming to teach expectant mothers self-hypnosis so that they do not have to rely on drug treatments such as epidurals, gas and morphine for pain relief during labour. 800 first time mothers will participate in the trial of hypnobirthing, that will be run in hospitals in Burnley and Blackburn.
The aim of the trial is to give women greater ability to manage their labour, with the courses lasting several hours and teaching the expectant mothers to enter a state of deep calm and relaxtion. The participants will also be taught to massage themselves to stimulate the release of endorphins, which are a natural painkillers released by the body, and also learn to replace words like 'contraction' and 'pain' with more neutral terms.
Drugs used during labour are expensive and also thought to be potentially dangerous for the mother and the baby, and it is also hoped that with the self-hypnosis helping to control pain, there may be a reduced need for supervision by a midwife during the labour, which will help to ease the pressure on busy maternity wards.
Read on to find out more about the NHS trial into hypnobirthing
Monday, 14 February 2011
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
New Year Hypnotherapy Offer With cmhypnotherapy...
If you have been looking for a hypnotherapist in the Bushey and Watford area for weight loss, stopping smoking, gaining confidence, improving your night's sleep or ridding yourself of that phobia, then why not contact cmhypnotherapy... for an appointment today?
There is a special offer running for the New Year, that offers four hypnotherapy sessions for just £180.00, which is a saving of £40.00 on the usual price of £220.00. So give yourself the New Year boost that you have been looking for and improve your life in 2011 with hypnosis by booking your hypnotherapy sessions today.
Click here to see the details of the special hypnotherapy offer from cmhypnotherapy.....
There is a special offer running for the New Year, that offers four hypnotherapy sessions for just £180.00, which is a saving of £40.00 on the usual price of £220.00. So give yourself the New Year boost that you have been looking for and improve your life in 2011 with hypnosis by booking your hypnotherapy sessions today.
Click here to see the details of the special hypnotherapy offer from cmhypnotherapy.....
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Summer Hypnotherapy Offer at cmhypnotherapy..
Special Summer Hypnotherapy Offer
Summer is almost here and the time for change is now! If you have been meaning to lose some weight, give up smoking, overcome that phobia or are simply wanting to let go of that anxiety and relax, why not try the special SUMMER OFFER at cmhypnotherapy.....? If you book your first appointment before 30th June 2010, you will receive 10% off the first session and then 5% off any subsequent sessions. So start to change your life for the better with hypnosis today and book an appointment at cmhypnotherapy....... Or why not book a Reiki Healing session?
Just mention SUMMER OFFER 2010 when you call or email:
Sessions held at The Kingsfield Centre for Physiotherapy, 54 Chalk Hill, Bushey, WD19 4BX
Or Bodywise, 249 Station Road, Harrow, HA1 2TV Tel: 020 8861 3336 (Monday afternoons)
Daytime, evening and weekend appointments available
Call 0777 051 5377 or email cmarsh@cmhypnotherapy.co.uk
Find out more about hypnotherapy in Bushey and Harrow
Summer is almost here and the time for change is now! If you have been meaning to lose some weight, give up smoking, overcome that phobia or are simply wanting to let go of that anxiety and relax, why not try the special SUMMER OFFER at cmhypnotherapy.....? If you book your first appointment before 30th June 2010, you will receive 10% off the first session and then 5% off any subsequent sessions. So start to change your life for the better with hypnosis today and book an appointment at cmhypnotherapy....... Or why not book a Reiki Healing session?
Just mention SUMMER OFFER 2010 when you call or email:
Sessions held at The Kingsfield Centre for Physiotherapy, 54 Chalk Hill, Bushey, WD19 4BX
Or Bodywise, 249 Station Road, Harrow, HA1 2TV Tel: 020 8861 3336 (Monday afternoons)
Daytime, evening and weekend appointments available
Call 0777 051 5377 or email cmarsh@cmhypnotherapy.co.uk
Find out more about hypnotherapy in Bushey and Harrow
Monday, 3 May 2010
Why Are So Many Women Unhappy?
In today's society, why are so many women who outwardly 'have it all' so desperately unhappy and depressed? Quite often these women have a successful career, a good marriage, happy, healthy children and lots of friends. So guilt as to how they can be depressed when they feel they have so much, just adds to the depression.
According to this newspaper article, people are ten times more likely to be depressed now than they would have been in 1945, with women and adolescent girls being twice as likely to suffer from depression than men. Experts predict that if the rates of depression continue growing at the current rates, that by 2020 depression will be one of the most disabling conditions in the world, only being beaten by heart disease.
So why are the women of today more unhappy than their mothers and grandmothers? Is it all down to chemical imbalances in the brain, or are the ways we live our lives today innately more stressful, although physically less demanding? Humans evolved as social primates, so we have a need to live in a community and interact with other humans. Is this great wave of depression partially caused by the fact that so many more of us live alone or in small family units, sometimes hundreds of miles away from our extended families?
Or is this increase in depression down to the raising of expectations? Our mothers and grandmothers never expected to have it all. They were happy if there was money coming into the house and everyone in the family was healthy and either working or getting an education. We are perhaps the first generation of women who have been brought up to think that we could have it all and, crucially, have it all with no effort and always looking like a supermodel. So modern women juggle high-powered jobs with housework, child care, their relationship with their partner, friends, hobbies and caring for elderly parents. In the media, they are constantly being presented with images of 'A' List women floating around looking gorgeous, holding down glamorous jobs, with designer-clad cute kids, and are given the message that this is the way a modern woman should be.
With the pressure on to always be happy, successful and looking good, is it any wonder that so many women today are beginning to unravel? So is the current epidemic of depression really down to chemicals in the brain going haywire or a sign that there is really something wrong at the heart of Western society?
Find out more in the newspaper article on the depression epidemic
According to this newspaper article, people are ten times more likely to be depressed now than they would have been in 1945, with women and adolescent girls being twice as likely to suffer from depression than men. Experts predict that if the rates of depression continue growing at the current rates, that by 2020 depression will be one of the most disabling conditions in the world, only being beaten by heart disease.
So why are the women of today more unhappy than their mothers and grandmothers? Is it all down to chemical imbalances in the brain, or are the ways we live our lives today innately more stressful, although physically less demanding? Humans evolved as social primates, so we have a need to live in a community and interact with other humans. Is this great wave of depression partially caused by the fact that so many more of us live alone or in small family units, sometimes hundreds of miles away from our extended families?
Or is this increase in depression down to the raising of expectations? Our mothers and grandmothers never expected to have it all. They were happy if there was money coming into the house and everyone in the family was healthy and either working or getting an education. We are perhaps the first generation of women who have been brought up to think that we could have it all and, crucially, have it all with no effort and always looking like a supermodel. So modern women juggle high-powered jobs with housework, child care, their relationship with their partner, friends, hobbies and caring for elderly parents. In the media, they are constantly being presented with images of 'A' List women floating around looking gorgeous, holding down glamorous jobs, with designer-clad cute kids, and are given the message that this is the way a modern woman should be.
With the pressure on to always be happy, successful and looking good, is it any wonder that so many women today are beginning to unravel? So is the current epidemic of depression really down to chemicals in the brain going haywire or a sign that there is really something wrong at the heart of Western society?
Find out more in the newspaper article on the depression epidemic
Monday, 12 April 2010
Holding Money Can Provide Pain Relief
Money may not be able to buy you love, but it seems that it can provide you with pain relief. New research suggests that holding money can relieve pain or even prevent the pain being felt in the first place. It was found that during research, people who had counted money before being subjected to low level pain felt less discomfort than those who had not been given any cash to handle.
It is believed that this is because handling cash boosts our feelings of self-importance and self-esteem, and it has been proven in earlier studies that someone is more able to deal with pain if they have a high sense of self worth.
Read on for the whole news article on how holding money provides pain relief
It is believed that this is because handling cash boosts our feelings of self-importance and self-esteem, and it has been proven in earlier studies that someone is more able to deal with pain if they have a high sense of self worth.
Read on for the whole news article on how holding money provides pain relief
Monday, 22 February 2010
Getting Lots of Sleep Boosts Your Brain Power
Scientists have discovered that getting lots of sleep boosts your brain power, and that even having naps of only an hour or two can be beneficial. It seems that the more hours that people spend awake, the more slow and sluggish their brains become. There may even be a link between the tendency of older people to sleep less and poorer memory in the elderly.
US scientists have shown that memories are embedded in the brain in a certain stage of sleep and that sleep is needed to clear out the brain's short term memory storage and create space for new information to enter. A recent study undertaken by the University of California at Berkeley shows that sleep not only cures a person of any effects of prolonged wakefulness, but also at a neurocognitive level moves you on beyond where you were before you slept.
Read the whole news article on sleep boosts your brain power
US scientists have shown that memories are embedded in the brain in a certain stage of sleep and that sleep is needed to clear out the brain's short term memory storage and create space for new information to enter. A recent study undertaken by the University of California at Berkeley shows that sleep not only cures a person of any effects of prolonged wakefulness, but also at a neurocognitive level moves you on beyond where you were before you slept.
Read the whole news article on sleep boosts your brain power
Friday, 12 February 2010
Is Willpower Better than Nicotine Patches When Trying To Quit Smoking?
New research has shown that willpower maybe a better aid to stopping smoking than nicotine patches and gums. A research team at Sydney University reviewed 511 studies on stopping smoking and they showed that most ex-smokers had given up smoking without the help of nicotine replacement therapies.
It seems that studies that commend the use of nicotine replacement therapies are more likely to have been funded by the drug companies than other studies.The Australian research team also stated that governments were also involved in the medicalising of quitting smoking and implying that giving up smoking is harder than it actually is. The review of the studies showed that between two-thirds to three-quarters of ex-smokers had given up without using stopping smoking aids and that they had found it easier than expected.
Other experts have disagreed with this research and say that the studies on nicotine patches and nicotine gum had been robust and that relying on willpower alone to quit smoking was not particularly successful.
Read all of this news article on willpower versus nicotine replacement therapies to help quitting smoking
It seems that studies that commend the use of nicotine replacement therapies are more likely to have been funded by the drug companies than other studies.The Australian research team also stated that governments were also involved in the medicalising of quitting smoking and implying that giving up smoking is harder than it actually is. The review of the studies showed that between two-thirds to three-quarters of ex-smokers had given up without using stopping smoking aids and that they had found it easier than expected.
Other experts have disagreed with this research and say that the studies on nicotine patches and nicotine gum had been robust and that relying on willpower alone to quit smoking was not particularly successful.
Read all of this news article on willpower versus nicotine replacement therapies to help quitting smoking
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