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Finding a Favorite Place

Guided imagery involving a "favorite place" can be an excellent technique to help someone feel more comfortable. In fact, it

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Moving Past the Pain Scale

Most people who have been to a doctor's office or emergency room are familiar with the questions: "Are you having

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Hypnotherapy: The Key to Escaping the “Empty Room” of Chronic Pain

Living with chronic pain can be a lonely experience. Maybe this loneliness is due partly to the invisibility of pain.

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Active Alert Hypnosis

That kind of direction, along with a swinging pocket watch, is what many people associate with the state of hypnosis.

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Hypnosis for Abdominal Pain — How Do We Know it Works?

After my first training workshop in clinical hypnosis, I didn't fly home from Virginia to California — I floated. It

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A Short Introduction to Clinical Hypnosis for Pain Management

It happens so often that it is unremarkable: A child has fallen and scraped her knee, and sits crying and

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