Blog

How Do You Talk About Dis-Ease? By James Duncan, CHt © 2005 One of the most important factors in achieving wellness or creating and maintaining health is the way in which we think and talk about our health and the challenges we face in our health. Unfortunately so many people are completely unaware of how the words and concepts we choose to think and use to discuss our health have the potential to impact it to an amazing degree. This impact can very often have a negative effect over the long term if gentle and compassionate care is not given to the reframing of these concepts...

---

Helping Phantom Limb Pain by Toni Ray Over the years scientists have noted many complaints of a strange form of pain called phantom limb pain. This pain is strange because it is located in an appendage that no longer exists. By many of the amputees the pain is described as totally unbearable. Phantom limb pain has even driven some victims crazy. For the amputee population this is a very real problem that definitely needs to be solved. After James Peacock had his right arm amputated last December, he expected some difficulties. With those difficulties came pain so unbearable it could not be controlled...

---

Healing Thought From The Strangest Places James Duncan, CHt While going through some of my mother’s belongings after her passing. In the corner of a closet, I discovered a cannonball. I had never seen it, it in spite of having helped her move twice. Why did my mother have this strange item? I found it interesting and strangely beautiful so I packed it with the things to keep and kept working. The cannonball kept popping into my mind until I had the strange feeling that I should bring it into my office. Without any idea of where to put it or why I felt so strongly about it, I took it to my office...

---

The fresh face of hypnosis: an old practice finds news uses - New Wisdom Better Homes & Gardens, Feb, 2004, by Debra Gordon Last year, Andrea Tickle was pregnant with her first child. To combat the pain of childbirth, she could have chosen an epidural or narcotics but decided, instead, on a drug-free approach. To help her, Andrea contacted a Pennsylvania hypnotherapist named Wendy Goldenthal. Goldenthal specializes in a hypnosis technique called HypnoBirthing that teaches pregnant women to take advantage of their body's natural anesthetic abilities in order to make childbirth a less...

---

Finding Spiritual Peace "trying too hard too hard to be spiritual is an expression of fear...thinking too much about interior peace, destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly checks his pulse, is not doing anything to get better." WORKING at something just draws attention to when we fall short of whatever it is we THINK the outcome should be, rather than enjoying what the reality of our successes. Finding well-being, peace of mind or inner spirituality is not so much a path of process as many people think. It is just a path. And simply BEING on that...

---

Explaining Hypnosis without Understanding It By James W. Duncan, CHt © 2004 How does it work, this hypnosis thing? There are so many ways to attempt to explain the workings of the mind and yet no one really knows how it works. And hypnosis, well that is a whole other thing that is probably never going to be understood. But can we give it an explanation that explains how understanding it can be based on not understanding it? That may be the best way to approach it. Think for a moment on all the things that happen every day for which we have no knowledge or understanding...

---

There's Entrancing News About Hypnosis It's gaining credibility as a treatment for a multitude of troubles, from nicotine addiction to post-traumatic stress disorder Hypnosis helped James Williams cut back on his drinking eight years ago. So when he developed a fear of flying after September 11, he again sought hypnotic relief. "I had always thought hypnosis was a stage show kind of thing. But I've found it incredibly effective at getting me to focus on what I want to accomplish," says Williams, 56, a vice-president of Polyonics, a Westmoreland (N.H.) maker of bar-code stickers. Indeed, today...

---

From the Los Angeles Times Hypnotic reach Doctors find recovery is aided by helping patients into healing trances. By Benedict Carey Times Staff Writer January 5, 2004 Hypnosis transports some people beyond serenity and absorption to a state of pure silliness. A solemn voice whispering to relax, breathe deeply and imagine a waterfall can bring to mind high school séances, Ouija boards, Woody Allen routines. Yet the very same technique, the same voice, can move others to climb mountains. After a fall on a climbing expedition that mangled her ankles,...

---

  Chronic Pain PAIN…Pain…pain…pain…discomfort! Rev. Fr. Martin J. Patton Recent changes effective last January 1st (2001) are requiring hospitals and doctors to treat pain. New standards require that every patient’s pain be measured regularly from the time they check in and proper pain relief begun. The patients will rate their pain from zero, no pain, to 10, the worst pain imaginable. Physicians will prescribe those pain medications that sometimes help but most often because of the side effects are not tolerated well by the patient or the body develops...

---

THE BODY/MIND CONNECTION: WHY HYPNOSIS IS THEIDEAL INTERVENTION   by Anne H. Spencer, Ph.D. Lilly Tomlin once said, "When I speak to God, they call it prayer. When God speaks to me, they call it schizophrenia!" A decade ago when I told clients that we could talk to their immune cells and make a change for the better, their doctors thought I was schizophrenic. Times have changed. Now mainstream America is fully aware that traditional medicine is not the only answer. Alapathic medicine is one of perhaps several solutions to a current medical challenge.   Every...

---