Benefits of doing Hypnosis before a surgical procedure

There are many reasons to do hypnosis before a surgical procedure.  Harnessing the power of the unconscious mind creates a more relaxed and positive attitude going into a surgical procedure.  It puts you in the driver’s seat.  Programming your mind and body for success.

Let’s look deeper at the reason for this.  Your unconscious mind controls your autonomic nervous system.  In other words, all the automatically occurring functions in your body are driven by the unconscious mind.  This includes your respiratory system, your circulatory system (heart), digestive system, elimination and so much more.  So how does this help you with a surgical procedure?

Frequently, people going into surgery experience varying levels of stress.  Your autonomic nervous system has 2 parts, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic.  The sympathetic is the fight or flight part that is activated when a person feels threatened or highly stressed.  On the short term this a good thing. However, when allowed to be more activated than the parasympathetic nervous system, it creates stress on the physical body that can cause conditions making a surgical procedure more difficult.   Activating the parasympathetic nervous system allows the body to relax and the unconscious mind to be open to new programming.  Programming the mind to cooperate with medications and the surgical team creates a win/ win for you and your surgical team.  By practicing hypnosis regularly prior to surgery your body can be completely relaxed and ready to cooperate with a surgical team.  By giving  specific suggestions for what should happen during a surgical procedure you can direct the body to respond in a desired way, thus improving the odds of success.

Programming the mind to direct the body to heal more rapidly and completely is a win for anyone undergoing a surgical procedure.  People have shaved weeks off their expected healing time with hypnosis.

There are no potential risks in doing hypnosis prior to a surgical procedure, only benefits!