Self-Hypnosis for Allergies and Skin Disorders
Allergic reactions can range from having itchy eyes to breaking out in hives. Allergens are basically substances that are foreign to the body and cause allergic reactions. During an allergic response, the body produces histamine in an effort to protect itself; but all too often the brain simply makes a mistake. This over-reaction of your immune system, in an effort to fight off what it perceives to be a threat, may cause you to sneeze or breathe incorrectly. Self-hypnosis rectifies this mistake by creating a new reaction to the allergenic substances. Once the subconscious understands that particular substances are not life-threatening, it then stops producing histamines unnecessarily when in contact with them. This is when the allergy usually disappears. You can release an allergic reaction or set of reactions within a short space of time by using trance methods; but there really is no textbook formula for treating allergies in a general manner. This is due to the fact that there are a large variety of allergies out there. Because people suffer in such uniquely different ways, you may have to attempt a number of strategies before finding the one that works best for you.
Allergies respond particularly well to the placebo effect. If your subconscious has been convinced that an inhaler filled with water is medicinal, the end result may possibly be the disappearance of asthma. This is because your mind switches off an allergic reaction once it knows that you are safe within your surrounding environment. Allergens that have the potential to create an allergic reaction include: pollen, grass, dust mites, cats, dogs, feathers, milk, eggs, wheat, peanuts, bee and wasp stings, mould and fungi, household chemicals, drugs and medicines, along with many others. The symptoms that result from exposure to allergens depend largely on the route of entry taken and the amount of exposure to the allergens. The chemical structure of an allergen ultimately defines the route it takes; for example, dust-mites may have little effect upon the skin but can seriously affect breathing; when allergens are swallowed they often make their way to parts of the body far from the point of entry. This can cause symptoms to occur that sometimes appear new and unrelated to the allergy.
Allergic reactions range from mild to severe. In a severe reaction, known as anaphylaxis or anaphylactic shock, there is an increase in blood pressure caused by dilation of the blood vessels. Severe reactions sometimes follow mild reactions. A person could suffer low blood pressure after experience itching and sneezing. This type of reaction should be treated as an emergency and immediate medical attention is necessary.
Allergies can develop at any age or time, even while you are in the womb. They are common in children but may give rise to symptoms for the first time in adulthood. Although you may inherit the tendency to develop allergies from your parents, you may never actually suffer the same symptoms. When an allergy develops in adulthood, there may be psychological problems in need of address.
There are often psychosomatic forces at work behind an allergy. Even if the mind is not responsible for an allergy formation, the potential for it causing or exacerbating further allergic reactions is nearly always present. Your emotional state can help or worsen allergic symptoms. High stress levels affect the body's natural ability to fight allergens. So, by lowering your stress levels in trance, you also bolster your immune and belief system. This makes you less prone to the effects of allergens because now you have re-aligned your emotions so that they can work effectively for you again. While self-hypnosis helps most allergic conditions, some require professional medical treatment. Please ensure you get a diagnosis before using self-hypnosis to treat your allergy.
Gaining Relief from Allergies
During a hypnotic session, give your subconscious the following suggestions and repeat them a few times. Use your imagination, but more importantly put belief and expectation behind them:
"My immune system is growing stronger and stronger. It reacts appropriately every time I come in contact with allergens. It always reacts appropriately."
"My body is generating new ways to fight hay fever."
"There is a protective shield around me now. A bright yellow force field surrounds my entire body. It protects me from allergens. Nothing can penetrate this powerful shield. It is strong and present at all times." (If you have a pollen allergy, imagine pollen deflecting away from the shield, back into the environment.)
"My body is fighting allergens as a whole unit." (Often when we think about our particular allergy or symptom we tend to focus on the areas of entry. If we imagine our entire body fighting allergies as a single unit, this draws attention away from the areas most affected and bolsters our overall capacity to deal with allergens effectively.)
"Energy is moving from my mind to the route of entry. This area is filled with and protected by healing energy. Nothing can affect it or travel into it."
There are many alternative approaches to the treatment of allergies. Eating fish increases your intake of Omega-3 fatty acids, which are useful in combating allergies. Fruit and vegetables with high levels of antioxidants are also beneficial, especially citrus fruit. The antioxidants create a natural antihistamine action and help protect the body by bolstering our defense mechanisms.
Here are some other useful ways to combat allergies:
Reduce intake of dairy products.
Cut down on processed food. Eat fresh.
Cut down on refined sugar and white flour. This reduces the toxin load on your immune system.
Increase your vitamin C intake. It acts as a natural antihistamine.
Put a drop of lavender oil with one teaspoon of carrier oil and rub it into your sinus area. The helps prevent hay fever and other allergies.
There are special covers you can buy for your pillowcases and mattresses that help reduce exposure to dust mites. They may prove useful at nighttime.
Wash your bed clothes at least once a fortnight.
Use a dehumidifier to keep humidity in your house below fifty per cent.
Clean or replace any air vents, and fit with a vent filter if necessary.
Vacuum regularly.
The more clutter you have, the more dust you have. Avoid shelves, big light shades, pictures and so on.
Self-Hypnosis for Skin Disorders
People often compare the skin to a mirror of the self. Imbalance within the nervous system is often reflected in the condition of your skin. Psychosomatic forces may trigger responses or exacerbate already existing ones. Therefore it is important to work with causation, symptom and reaction when dealing with skin disorders. You must find out which of the above relates to you, in other words, which one is most likely to trigger a negative response.
The symptoms of most skin disorders are usually not constant, which illustrates that you have an ability to switch off from symptoms. Simply involving yourself in things that make you happy can cause a symptom to disappear. But thinking thoughts of a fearful nature may cause the symptom to reappear. The unconscious controls this on and off switch mechanism, and can become habitual over time. But you can unlearn this habit by using hypnosis. When you change your subconscious attitude towards particular objects, actions or situations in trance, you also change your reactions, reflexes and responses to them in reality.
A reaction such as a rash may compound a person's inability to seek help. This is often due to their problem being visible to the onlooker, making it harder to get support from family, friends, GPs or therapists. From time to time people can literally get under your skin. This is why it's necessary to mentally protect yourself in the presence of those who bring out the worst in you. The rash may be a way for your subconscious to move you quickly away from a person or situation you unconsciously fear. So it's down to you to convince it otherwise. You are the one in full control. You dictate how you wish to feel and behave. By breathing deeply and repeating affirmations of control, you can remain in command of your body's physiological reactions. Once again your mind has learned that there is really nothing to fear from objects, people, situations or environments.
The Effects of Stress on Your Skin
Stress increases the vulnerability of the nervous system and this has a direct effect on your skin. The more you are stressed, the more your nervous system reacts in response to stress by creating a reaction. Using self-hypnosis as a means to relieve stress can significantly reduce your negative reactions. It's also another vital part of regaining control of autonomic functions such as breathing and heart rate. By reducing stress, you reduce symptoms. And by regaining control over your autonomic system you put yourself back in charge of your physiological functions.
Using Imagery to Heal Your Skin
Some skin conditions respond very well to being exposed to ultra violet light. In self-hypnosis you can create imagery that has a similar effect to UV light. By imagining the sun is safely shining down on you, mental exposure to its healing rays can have a positive healing effect upon the skin. Alternatively, you can visualize yourself getting into a warm bath of healing water, feeling the water touching your toes first, then your feet and legs, the way you would normally step into a bath. A spiritual person may imagine God intervening and blessing the water, making it pure and giving it the ability to heal your skin. The idea is to render up images of your skin in perfect condition as much as possible. By doing this, you are reprogramming your subconscious to fulfill what it understands is your desire. Imagine that you are looking in a mirror. Notice how your skin is beginning to clear up. Focus your attention upon the desired result and think no more about the feared reaction. "Every day in every way my skin is getting better and better." This type of suggestion spurs the imagination and can be repeated while looking in the mirror. If your skin condition started at a certain age, a useful technique is to regress yourself back in time and see your skin as it was before the condition started. By associating in the present how your skin felt back then, your subconscious can revert back to a once used program, thus making your physiological responses the same again.
Using Imagery to Heal Warts, Psoriasis, and Eczema
Common warts are a virus that can remain on the skin for unpredictable lengths of time. For many people they disappear during the transition from child to teenager or from teenager to adult. You may choose from a variety of procedures for treating warts. Freezing the wart with liquid nitrogen is one popular way. Another involves the application of acid on a regular basis. As a last resort some people get them surgically removed. But even then, there is always the risk of a new wart growing back in the same spot or different location. All of us have the capacity to fight wart-causing viruses, but simply haven't learned how to direct our healing power. The subconscious must know that you want rid of warts and also that you trust in its ability to eliminate them. "I trust in my subconscious to eliminate these warts." Warts are highly susceptible to changes in blood flow. Imagery is often effective with hypnosis to change blood flow in the body. Just imagine sitting in front of an open fire and warming your hands over it. Involve the senses and really feel the heat in your hands, as they get hotter and hotter. Or imagine holding a mug of hot tea with your hands tightly around it. By actively visualizing this in hypnosis the brain will begin dilating the blood vessels in the hand in response to the heat. Those with psoriasis or eczema should also use imagery that affects skin temperature. Imagining the sun's warm rays on your skin will increase your skin's temperature and alter the blood flow to the skin. This will help your skin to dry out, thus improving your skin's condition. Psoriasis seems to get better in the summertime and worse in the winter, but the good news is, changing seasons does not interfere with self-hypnosis. Whenever there's no sun in the sky or the availability of a sun bed, use hypnosis to recreate its effect in your mind.
Psoriasis and eczema can be irritating and extremely painful at times. In milder cases of eczema the skin becomes dry, flaky, hot and itchy. In more severe cases it can get broken, raw and bleed. The causes of eczema are difficult to identify, but, as always, psychological forces are more than likely attributing to the maintenance and agitation of the symptom, thus making it difficult to overcome through purely medicinal means. A traumatic experience may trigger the beginning of a skin disorder such as eczema. A shock to the system can cause your body to manifest the disease, as eczema is often an outward expression of an internal crisis.
Outbreaks of psoriasis and eczema will happen through times of increased stress. Financial difficulty, dry humid conditions, pollen, dust-mites, certain foods, drinks and preservatives, contact with yeast, tobacco, detergent, and even blood circulation can bring it on. As with allergies, the immune system sees the stimulus as a threat and produces an unnecessary response in the skin such as shedding or flaking. Hypnosis can alter this response by using a protective shield or imaginary pane of glass to gradually expose yourself to the stimuli that aggravates your skin. By using such techniques, over time your immune system eventually stops overreacting.
Using Glove Anesthesia to Stop Itching and Scratching
Here is a good technique for altering your perception to sensitivity. It involves numbing your hand through the use of imagery, in order to gain relief from itchy areas that tend to be scratched more than others. It may take a few goes to get right, but is worth the practice as it can be used to help a range of problems.
On getting yourself nice and relaxed into hypnosis, imagine placing your hand into a bucket of ice cold water.
Involve your senses and clearly imagine the coldness of the icy water as it now begins to numb your hand. Getting colder and colder, freezing cold water, numbing your hand until it's as cold as an icicle, frozen solid and completely numb.
When you are satisfied it's numb, take your hand out of the icy water and move it to the area of most discomfort, where the scratching can get bad.
Lay your hand upon this area and feel the numbness transferring from your hand into the itchy region. Feel it getting numb until there is no sensitivity there at all, until you can feel absolutely nothing.
When you finish this, continue to work on the other areas of the body in the same way.
Whenever you want, imagine returning to the bucket and regenerating the analgesia in your hand by placing it back into the freezing water.
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