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or simply close this window.- Hypnosis has been used to help people quit smoking, lose weight and even to treat painful diseases like fibromyalgia. But now, therapists are using it to treat menopause symptoms.
"I have a very difficult time with sleep and constant [aches]," complains menopause patient Neville Motta.
That was before Motta began taking part in group hypnotherapy sessions led by Patrick Bowe, and after just two sessions, Motta says, "It really has made a difference."
And Motta isn't alone. For two years, busy hotel manager Marty Ranone was plagued by menopausal symptoms. She complained of the usual night sweats and not being able to sleep well.
"When you're not sleeping at night and you're kind of like in a fog, I mean it affected me. I don't know if my staff was seeing it but I certainly knew I wasn't performing at my peak," says Ranone.
She says she tried just about everything to relieve her symptoms. After using several types of estrogen patches and different medications, she found that nothing was helping. In fact, she says, it was getting worse.
But then she was referred to the hypnosis center, and "from the very first session the sleeping was improved dramatically," says Ranone, and what's more, she says the night sweats are gone.
Hypnotherapist Patrick Bowe explains that, "working with menopause, you use imagery and create cool scenes for people so that instead of feeling hot, you feel cool and comfortable."
Bowe adds that it's all about knowing how to use our minds to their full potential.
"Hypnosis isn't really a state, it's really a form of meditation, or internalization. So it's more, it's really much more a use of our natural abilities that we all have, it's just that in civilization we have not developed those abilities to use them ourselves, so it's all self hypnosis really."
As for Barbara Ranone, well, "I am an absolute big believer."
On a side note, Patrick Bowe says that he is about to undergo a new study looking at the effect of hypnosis on cancer patients.
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