EP #1030: Self-Hypnosis to Reduce Stress, Help to Manage Pain, Sleep Better, Boost the Immune System for Ultimate Self-Care

Send us a text Lisa is joined by Barbara Ford Hammond who talks about using self-hypnosis to reduce stress, help to manage pain, sleep better, boost the immune system and calm the nervous system. Barbara creates hypnotic downloads for personal hypnotherapy that listeners work through in their own time. Barbara has been a hypnotherapist, trainer and pain management specialist for nearly 30 years. Her work can be in the left-brain logical camp or the right-brain creative field and she is as happy discussing neuroplasticity as she is talking about soul healing. For many years Barbara has suffered with back problems up to and including an iatrogenic injury during surgery that led to permanent nerve damage. The on-going issues from that led her to having a spinal cord stimulator implanted. In times of incapacity she developed a pain management protocol based around the techniques she used and continues to use herself. Barbara creates hypnotic downloads for personal hypnotherapy that listeners work through in their own time. From Barbara's website: www.barbaraford-hammond.com Hypnosis is the altered state of consciousness that occurs within us if we are bored, fixated or mesmerised, relaxed or doing something either repetitive or learnt. It is a familiar experience because we are all slipping in and out of differing mind states several times each day. Hypnotherapy makes use of these natural abilities by inducing the hypnotic state to enable healing and/or change to be made on a subconscious level. Have you ever experienced a song playing over and over in your mind as if it is on a loop? Have you ever driven somewhere and not remembered your journey on arrival at your destination? ​ These are examples of trance states. Normal and natural - that we all experience. The subconscious mind 'runs' us. It is in charge of everything automatic, it looks after our memories so we don't have to keep relearning, it holds on to habits (good and bad), it adjusts our emotions and generally does everything it can to protect and keep us alive. Tasks: we learn … they become automatic. Habits (all of which are in the subconscious-good and bad): learn … automatic. Because our fears, habits, phobias etc. are in our subconscious that is where we need to deal with whatever is causing us problems or difficulties. ​By using hypnosis as the tool or key for access to the subconscious we can change bad habits to good, identify and remove fears and phobias, reduce stress and boost the immune system to make us healthier, fitter and stronger in mind and body. A good example of change is when someone stops smoking. Within an hour the subconscious mind can accept a complete new programme that every cell in the body understands. All dependency is removed and the person is happy and free from cigarettes. No mumbo-jumbo or spooky powers - just a gentle yet powerful way to solve your problems.​ Self Hypnosis There can't be many people that haven't heard about or know how powerful hypnosis can be. Maybe if you have been living under a rock you don't know (apologies here to all rock dwellers). How much more do you think you might achieve if you could hypnotise yourself to success and abundance? And, at the same time come out of the everyday trances that our lifestyles and society imposes on us. Hypnosis is a skill that once learnt is yours forever so whatever life sends your way you will always be in control and one step ahead. Using hypnosis reduces stress, boosts your immune system, enables you to build your confidence and self-esteem, release phobias and develop the positive mind state for success ... if you want to. ​When you apply my hypnotic techniques you become your true self and you can make permanent changes on a sub