I’ll Pass on the Anesthesia, Thanks!
Good Monday morning to you! The wrist is feeling better, thank you very much and the world is aligning itself simply. Even the news in the hypnotic world has improved, since the ickiness of last Thursday
Once again, we have a brave hypnotist who faced the surgeon’s scalpel. Notice that the pioneers in non-anesthesia seem to be hypnotists these days, like Liesl van Dreau and her tonsillectomy. Well, good for us. Faster healing, less side effects. The other wonderful and timely thing about this recent surgery is that it involved total self-hypnosis. He did it himself.
In case you have not heard about this, here are the details:
- Who: Alex Lenkei, Age 61
- Where: Worthing Hospital in West Sussex, UK
- What: Used self-hypnosis opposed to anesthesia for Orthopaedic surgery to remove a walnut-sized growth and adjusting a tendon on his hand.
- Surgery Purpose: To improve his hand mobility that had been decreased due to arthritis.
- Length of the Procedure: 81 minutes.
Pretty amazingly wonderful. There was an interesting quote:
“The anesthetist Dr. Richard Venn, believes Lenkei managed by way of the hypnosis to get his own body to release large amounts of pain-killing chemicals that prevented him from feeling pain during the procedure.”
I would love to know what self-suggestions Lenkei did use. It sounds wonderful.
Sources:
news-medical.net
www.thesun.co.uk
April 21st, 2008 at 8:13 am
Very impressive indeed.
I used a bit of hypnoanesthesia this weekend as well. A friend who was visiting had a patch of very dry skin on her foot crack open and start bleeding, which was accompanied by a lot of pain that lingered after we’d taken care of the bleeding and applied an appropriate moisturizing agent. At her request, since I knew the physical cause had been dealt with as best we could at the time, we did some hypnotic pain control to make her comfortable while she kept the foot elevated for a while.
And then, for her amusement, I pointed her to your blog entry A Walk in the Woods. ;^)
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April 21st, 2008 at 10:10 am
Well, that is awesome. My reflexologist would have words for your friend. LOL. Glad i could be part of the healing process.
April 21st, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Although according to what I’ve read, anesthesia is supposed to be one of the easier trance results, but I’m not sure whether I want to try it out.
Or to put it another way, I don’t like pain and I’m not really willing to test the results out.
However, it would be an excellent thing to have available in an emergency, or when one of my infrequent muscle tension headaches strike.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:50 am
Hi Ellie,
This story is also an awesome PROOF Element that any professional hypnotist can use in their marketing. Make that SHOULD be using in their marketing.
Even if they don’t do pain management, the fact that major news agencies worldwide are carrying this story gives major believability that Hypnosis works.
I’ve been encouraging my newsletter readers to be sure and print out copies of this story to put in their New Client prospect packets, and of course to write about it on their blogs.
Cheers,
Craig Eubanks
HypnosisMarketingTips.com
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Terry (you are hypnomedia,aren’t you?), I am with you on the pain front. But you really should give it ago on the tension headaches.
And Craig - huge thanks for the advice. That’s a great idea.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
You are correct: I am Terry.
And I have been controlling the tension headaches by avoiding anything with caffiene, including even modest amounts of chocolate and most teas. I suspect its a result of drinking a large hot tea every morning for several years straight: the headaches started when I stopped drinking them when I was away from work for an extended periods. I think I became sensitive to caffiene, because I could usually trace one of these headaches to some recent caffiene intake, so I make an effort to avoid it at all costs. So far, its worked very well.
However, I will remember your advice if something happens to change things.