2nd Asian Neurofeedback Conference 2016

During the 2nd Asia Neurofeedback Conference this year, I speak about Tic disorder and Tourette syndrome management by using Neuro-hypnotherapy and EEG biofeedback. I am really glad to be here today. 

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Abstract

This paper discussed EEG biofeedback as a standalone tool or used together with neuro-hypnotherapy approach for Tics and Tourette Syndrome. In this paper, the advantages of EEG biofeedback alone or integrating EEG biofeedback in neuro-hypnotherapy were explained. Four cases of patients with presenting problems related to tics and Tourette syndrome were presented. The protocol and improvement were mentioned and highlighted. 

Speakers of the day

*Special thanks to Miss Tan Wan Yen. Thank you for giving me a hand in doing research.

Impact Journalism Day: Healing powers of hypnosis promoted by Swiss

In the large burns unit of the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) in Lausanne, Switzerland, hypnosis is used on a daily basis.

A study has shown that hypnosis reduces the time patients spend in intensive care and saves $26,000 a patient.

The hospital now wants to extend this insight into other departments.

"If hypnosis were a medication it would already be in all hospitals, but it is an approach, and thus it must overcome cultural barriers," says Pierre-Yves Rodondi, a doctor at the University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the hospital.

"There are scientific studies, unfortunately ignored by a large part of the medical community, that demonstrate the effectiveness of hypnosis in pain management: it is a tool that should be integrated into treatment. It even works with those who are sceptical."

According to a scientific study carried out at the hospital and published in the journal Burns, hypnosis helps patients with severe burns to recover faster and cuts the cost of therapy.

The study found it reduces anxiety, the use of drugs, the overall need for anaesthetics and, on average, reduces the time spent by patients in intensive care by five days. The savings could be converted into more specialist hospital staff.

"It could be related to a lower level of stress, but this is just our hypothesis," explains Maryse Davadant, a nurse in the intensive care unit and a pioneer in the use of hypnosis at CHUV. 

"On average, we start the first session a few days after the patient is admitted, when he or she is no longer intubated and unable to concentrate.

"Then we teach them to do self-hypnosis: this is a tool that the patient will always have, and the analgesic effect lasts even after therapy.

"We have two nurses in the ICU who only do hypnosis.

"We offer it to everyone, some are aware of it and are interested, whereas others are more sceptical, but almost everyone tries it and is satisfied."

Source:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/impact-journalism-day-healing-powers-of-hypnosis-promoted-by-swiss-20160609-gpfkpd.html

[Workshop]南方大学学院催眠工作坊Hypnosis workshop for students of Southern University College

Retrieved from: http://www.southern.edu.my/chinese/news/news.php?id=869

谢谢南方大学辅导处心理咨询师的邀请。

7月5日我将到南方大学给予催眠讲座，只开放给南方大学学院生。

欢迎通知你在南大的同学知道，我主要会教导如何用催眠来克服考试所带来的压力与恐惧（考试前恐惧问题）。

Thanks for the invitation from the counseling psychologist of Southern University College, 

I will conduct a hypnosis workshop there for their students. 

It is an absolute pleasure to share my knowledge with those who attended the mentioned workshop. 

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First neural evidence for the unconscious thought process

Hemingway (1964/2010) describes a process that people who engage in creative pursuits from time to time recognize. While you are engaged in one thing—say a conversation with friends—consciously, something that you had been working on beforehand is still simmering unconsciously. At times the simmering is quite vigorous, and the repeating conscious intrusions can make it difficult to fully concentrate on your current activity—talking to your friends.

The idea of that incubation or unconscious thought can aid creativity or problem solving is old (Schopenhauer, 1851), and 10 years ago, we started to link the process of unconsious thought to decision making in a series of experiments (Dijksterhuis, 2004; Dijksterhuis and Nordgren, 2006;Dijksterhuis et al., 2006). The idea was based on two considerations. The first was that it is quite a small step from problem solving to decision making and the second was that the process of unconscious thought as described in the first paragraph can often be sensed, introspectively, when one is in the process of making an important decision such as buying a house or choosing between one’s job and a job offer for a new one.

In our initial experiments, we gave participants the task to choose between four alternatives (houses, cars, roommates, etc.) on the basis of a number of aspects (often 12 per alternative). Participants either decided immediately after reading the decision information, or after a period of conscious thought, or after a period of distraction during which unconscious thought was assumed to take place. In our early experiments, unconscious thinkers made better decisions than participants in the other two conditions. We initially called this the deliberation without attention effect; however, now we prefer the term unconscious thought effect (UTE).

These initial findings led a number of colleagues to also investigate the relation between unconscious thought and decision making and, looking back now at 10 years of unconscious thought research, the research seems to have revolved around two questions. The first is whether unconscious thought indeed leads to better decisions that conscious thought or no thought, the second is whether unconscious thought really exists in the first place (and if so, what exactly is it)? The contribution by Creswell et al. (2013) constitutes a major step towards answering the second question, so I focus briefly on the first before devoting the remainder of this introduction to the second and to the work by Creswellet al.

Does unconscious thought lead to better decisions? As such things tend to go, 10 years of research has led to a rather predictable answer: Probably, but only under some circumstances. The paradigm we developed turned out to be much more fragile than we had hoped, and although the UTE has been replicated independently in well over dozen laboratories, at least equally often people did not obtain any evidence for improved decision making after unconscious thought. Some individual papers, as well as a recent meta-analysis (Strick et al., 2011), identified a number of moderators. It seems that unconsious thought is beneficial when decisions are based on a lot rather than on little information, when the decision information is presented blocked by decision alternative rather than completely randomized, when the distraction task is not too cognitively taxing, and when the decision information contains visual stimuli in addition to verbal stimuli. It is encouranging for proponents of the work on unconscious thought that unconscious thoughts seem to be more fruitful when the experimental set-up becomes more ecologically valid.

That being said, some people have argued that unconscious thought does not really exist in the first place. People may make better decisions after being distracted, but that does not yet mean that any decision related mental activity took place while they were distracted. Some have proposed, for instance, that participants in unconscious thought conditions form an impression of the decision alternatives online—that is, while they read the decision information—and later simply retrieve this information. These participants may perform better than conscious thinkers, because under some circumstances, conscious thought can actually hamper decision making. Although it is indeed very likely that a reasonable proportion of participants in some unconscious thought experiments indeed merely retrieved online impression (which, by the way, can be prevented by presenting the stimulus materials rapidly), this cannot explain why unconscious thinkers also often outperform immediate decision makers (Strick et al., 2010), something that has been curiously overlooked when this alternative explanation was first published. However, there is also evidence that people who are not given the goal to make a decision before they are distracted make worse decisions than people who do have the goal (Bos et al., 2008), and this rules out this alternative explanation even more effectively. Unconscious thought is a goal-directed unconscious process, and merely distracting people does not do anything.

The experiment by Creswell et al.—in which they provide the first neural evidence for the UTE—also provides strong evidence for the unconscious thought process. They indeed found that unconscious thinkers made better decisions than conscious thinkers and than immediate decision makers. More importantly, they compared neural activity among people who were thinking unconsciously while they were engaged in a distraction task with the neural activity of people doing this same distraction task without engaging in unconscious thought. They found evidence forreactivation. The same regions that were active while people encoded the decision information—the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and left intermediate visual cortex—were active during unconscious thought. Moreover, the degree of neural reactivation differed between participants and was predictive of the quality of the decision after unconscious thought.

This is a breakthrough in unconscious thought research, and, quite appropriately in a celebratory sort of way, published almost exactly 10 years after the first experiments with the unconscious thought paradigm. Again, Creswell et al. provide the first neural evidence, and thereby—in my view at least—unambiguous evidence for the unconscious thought process. Finally, they also provide insight into the characteristics of the unconscious thought process.

Althought some aspects of the unconscious thought process can be carefully deduced from moderators, direct process-oriented evidence is scarce. Unconscious thought leads the representations of the decision alternatives in memory to become better organized and more polarized (Dijksterhuis, 2004; Bos et al., 2011) and interestingly, a recent paper shows that unconscious thinkers rely more on gist memory than on verbatim memory (Abadie et al., in press) thereby also integrating fuzzy-trace theory (e.g. Reyna and Brainerd, 1995) and unconscious thought theory. The reactivation account by Creswell et al. is fully in line with these earier findings, as earlier work on reactivation has repeatedly found (for references see the article by Creswell et al.) that reactivation improves memory and learning processes.

The work by Creswell and colleagues constitues a vital step forwards. The combined evidence now suggests that unconscious thought is a goal-directed process of neural reactivation during which memory representations of—in this case decision alternatives—change.

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Source: http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/8/845.full

Scans Show How Hypnosis Affects Brain Activity

The word "hypnosis" tends to conjure up images of subjects partaking in silly activities they might not otherwise agree to. But over the past few decades, scientific study of hypnosis has begun to identify how the approach can work to alter processes such as memory and pain perception. According to a new report, hypnotic suggestions regulate activity in certain regions of the brain and can help it manage cognitive conflicts.

A well-known example of cognitive conflict involves a person trying to name the color of ink used to print letters that spell out a different color. For example, the word "blue" spelled out in red ink. It usually takes subjects longer to read out such a list than it does to read a list of color names written in matching colored inks. In previous work, Amir Raz and his colleagues at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University had illustrated that hypnosis could be used to reduce this conflict in highly hypnotizable individuals. In the new work, they used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and readings from scalp electrodes to monitor brain activity while subjects completed the ink-naming task.

The researchers also gave the subjects a posthypnotic suggestion to interpret the colored words as gibberish, which presumably would allow them to focus more on the color of the ink instead of reading the word. Highly hypnotizable individuals had better accuracy and quicker reaction times compared to those previously identified as being less responsive to hypnosis. The imaging data indicated that the hypnotizable subjects showed reduced brain activity in both visual areas and the anterior cingulate cortex, which is involved in conflict monitoring. Thus, the authors conclude, the results "illuminate how suggestion affects cognitive control by modulating activity in specific brain areas.

Source：http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scans-show-how-hypnosis-a/

Unreserved Magazine | Cover Story - Think Healthy For the Mind, Body and Soul

Currently I am attached to the SOL Integrative Wellness Centre as a clinical hypnotherapist at KL Malaysia, Malaysia. I work closely with psychiatrist, child psychologist, neurotherapist, chinese physician, nutritional therapist, naturopath and physiotherapist to offer non-pharmacological therapies for ommon health issues.

What is Neuro-hypnotherapy?

Neuro-hypnotherapy is first of its kind in Malaysia developed by Hiro Koo. It is a technique by combining technology and art of science. It is a safe, non-invasive, drug-free and painless procedure whereby one is able to determine the brainwave state while conducting the neuro-hypnotherapy. To analyse the brainwaves, your clinical hypnotherapist will use the neurotherapytechnology, whereby one can observe the brainwave going into different state such as delta, theta, alpha and beta brainwave while the suggestion is being given by the clinical hypnotherapist during the therapy session, personalized self-hypnosis method will be developed based on the brainwave observation. 

Is Total Mind Control Possible?

Can hypnosis be used to make someone do something against his or her own will? This question has been the source of great controversy. I served as a consultant about hypnosis to Woody Allen’s film, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, in which the character of Voltan uses hypnosis to get others to steal for him without recalling the event.

Source: http://www.newmindcentre.com/2014/10/were-on-tv-astro-iii3.html

So, can hypnosis be used for mind control? 

There has certainly been a lot of research on the subject. The CIA and KGB have both experimented with hypnosis to create the perfect spy or even an assassin. But while I have read many stories about these experiments, I've never seen any proof of their success. Much may be possible in the dark and sinister underworld of spies and madmen, but university research on the possibilities has always been limited by ethics.

Could you be hypnotized and forced to do something illegal or diabolical? The general answer is that you cannot. There is a possibility, however, that if one had unlimited resources of money, power, and time, devious plans could be designed: There really were many secret experimental programs like "MK-Ultra" that used hypnosis and drugs to push mind-control to its limits. Is it possible that your friendly neighbor could have been implanted with a program to suddenly become a killer when "triggered" by the right signal?

What has been documented is that if you found a subject whose personality was deviant to begin with and wanted to direct their minds to do something extreme like plant a bomb or commit an assassination, you may be able to guide him or her to do it—with or without hypnosis. The hypnotic trance is a state of awareness that makes a person more easily persuaded. But the art of persuasion relies on many factors. To convince a normal person to become a killer is extremely unlikely. But if you are able to use coercion—such as kidnapping and threatening the life of their child—a person could very well be able to do anything to protect their offspring. Similarly, it may be possible to convince a person that something horrific will happen unless they follow your instructions precisely. Hypnosis could be used to plant such images, feelings, and stories in an innocent person who may then give in to the pressure and commit an attack they would otherwise never consider. 

You may have read in the spy novels about nefarious masterminds who use so-called “mind-control” techniques to program innocents to do their bidding like so many robots. And again, while this is unlikely, evildoers may be able to recruit the types of individual whose personality already is ready, if not eager, for violence, which could presumably include combat veterans who killed many enemy combatants in active duty. Perhaps this person also has strong philosophical leanings that following orders is correct, regardless of the consequences. If such a person volunteers for a covert project and enough time is spent applying all sorts of techniques to "reprogram" the subject, anything may be possible. Hypnosis could be used to promote a more complete mind reprogramming and solidify a specific plan with great detail—and create a hypnotized walking time-bomb.

Fortunately, there are not many people who are eager or willing to volunteer for such an experiment. There are also, however, many fanatics who do not need any additional persuasion to become assassins. We all know the madness of martyrs who become suicide bombers in the name of fanatical belief. We need hardly worry about someone using hypnosis to reprogram an individual to become a killer; there are enough individuals already eagerly seeking opportunities to inflict harm. 

You cannot be programmed to become killer without your knowledge. Hypnosis can be persuasive, but does not give the hypnotist control over your mind, morality, or judgment. So do not fear hypnosis—it should continue to develop as an effective technique to promote desired change in behavior, thinking, and emotions (without shifting to mind-control). It's a powerful tool and we should use it for beneficial purposes, not evil intentions. 

All retrieved from:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hypnosis-the-power-trance/201509/is-total-mind-control-possible?utm_source=FacebookPost&utm_medium=FBPost&utm_campaign=FBPost

【我的少女時代 Our Times】观后感

最近听说在台湾制作的【我的少女時代 Our Times】好评如潮，于是抱着好奇的心去观赏了这部电影。 

我个人认为这部电影里头人物的心理发展建构得很写实，也善用了亲和感(rapport)，呼应(pacing)和镜像术(Mirroring)的催眠原理。善于运用这些手法，确实能成功勾起我们潜意识里的情绪。 当我们情绪随着剧情达到高峰点时，电影里开始播起舒服调调的主题曲“小幸运”，确实能在我们心里造成个心瞄(anchoring)。这或许就是为何我们每次听到这首歌曲就不自觉勾起潜意识里的情绪反应。一直想要重播这首歌曲，去勾起潜意识里那悸动的情绪。

最让我印象深刻的就是男主角因为好友逝世而性情大变的情节。当一个人的情绪无法得到适当的宣泄，会在心理形成一个伤口，或许就是如此造成了反叛的个性。一个人在无法原谅自己的情况下（内疚），变得反叛再让人责备这补偿效应比起让他接受自己那内疚的情感来得容易许多。这行为其实并不出奇，许多人在现实生活中都会运用简单快速的补偿方法来“解决心理的情绪问题”。就如一个人心情不好，与其寻找适当方法来应对内心的情绪，大部分的人都会运用简单快速的方法来暂时麻木情绪；如睡觉或大吃大喝这种补偿效应。

看似自信的徐大宇，其实被内疚这情绪反应折磨得很痛，实在让人看了心疼。
然而现实生活中，我们身边有许多人被情绪所扰从而个性被扭曲。如果你们去了解他们的故事，你也会有不同的见解。

总结来说，我觉得拍摄手法有非常好的运用了心理学与催眠的原理，是很用心的创作。

*纯属个人意见和以催眠角度来分析该电影。绝对尊重制片人的用心和创意。

那什么是临床催眠疗法？
脑科学研究证明，大脑前额叶不仅与意识和思维等心理活动有关，而且前额叶与调节内脏器官活动的下丘脑之间也存在着紧密的纤维联系。这种结构上的联系可能是人类能主动利用意识和意象来调节和控制内脏生理功能的主要物质基础。潜意识对调节和控制人体的呼吸、消化、血液循环、免疫反应、物质代谢以及各种反射和反应均起着很大作用。许多研究证明，在催眠状态下暗示身体处于不同状态，代谢率就出现相应的变化。如催眠暗示正在从事重体力劳动时，代谢率可上升25％，应用自体发生训练法进行自我催眠，使心身放松后，代谢率比平时的安静状态降低15～20％。因此，在催眠状态下，根据强化的原则，自己不断地强化积极性情感、良好的感觉以及正确的观念等，使其在意识和潜意识中印记、贮存和浓缩，在脑中占据优势，就可以通过心理生理作用机制对心身状态和行为进行自我调节和控制。


催眠时的脑电波状态？
催眠时脑波主要呈现ALPHA状态。ALPHA脑波在8至14赫兹，ALPHA脑波在优势脑波时，人的意识清醒，但身体却是放松的，它提供意识与潜意识的桥梁，由于在这种状态下，身心能量耗费最少，相对的脑部获得的能量较高，运作就会更加快速，顺畅，灵感及敏锐。脑的活动活泼，现代科学积极倡导ALPHA脑部视为人们学习与思考的最佳脑部状态，道理就在于此。慢速ALPHA脑部频率在8至9赫兹，多见临睡前茫茫然的状态，意识逐渐走向模糊。中间ALPHA脑部在频率9至11赫兹，多见点子或灵感发挥威力的状态，身心集中而注意力集中。快速ALPHA脑部频率在12至14赫兹。


脑波检测服务 EEG biofeedback and autonomic dysfunction (dysautonomia) assessment让你更了解你的脑波自律神经状态：
透过脑电波，我们可以看见肉眼察觉不到的身心状态。精密测量脑电波，对觉醒活动必需的休息、注意力、集中力等三种状态进行神经反馈测试，从而对大脑的自律神经系自我调节能力进行科学的分析，正确了解活动中的大脑功能。这能让我们更了解自己大脑的自律神经是否操作顺利。透过脑电波Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta, Hi-Beta的呈现状态，我们能够更了解你目前的脑波状态是否属于亚健康。我们中心有提供独家脑波和自律神经状态检测服务哦！




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[Corporate Health Talk on Stress Management] Group Hypnotherapy Session at Lonpac Insurance Bhd

 Group hypnotherapy session to relieve stress
Yes, you can train your brainwaves like a muscle!
"Ubah frekuensi gelombang otak" by using neuro-hypnotherapy training method.
I mentioned about this concept in newspaper before.

                       Chinese Physician was sharing how to use therapeutic massage to reduce stress.

 Naturopath was sharing how to reduce stress by using the concept of nutritional therapy.

She shared similar nutritional therapy tips on 8TV program too.

Health Talk conducted in English at Lonpac Insurance Bhd.

Health Talk Topic:

Stress Management tips from Clinical Hypnotherapist, Chinese Physician and Naturopath.

Speakers:

Esther Peh, President of Naturopathic Medical Association Malaysia 

Hiro Koo, Clinical Hypnotherapist 

 Madam Low, Chinese Physician

Group Activities:

1) Group hypnotherapy session 

2) Therapeutic massage DIY session

3) DIY juice therapy

4) Brain assessment for understanding your stress, focus and attention abilities

Contact us if you are interested. 

What REALLY helps beat the misery of the menopause?

What REALLY helps beat the misery of the menopause? Ditch yoga for hypnosis and don't just rely on HRT, new guidelines state

• Report by North American Menopause Society sorts fact from fiction
• Guidelines suggest exercise, yoga and herbal remedies are no good
• But researchers say hypnosis might combat some of the symptoms 

Trendy therapies such as yoga and acupuncture do not help women beat the misery of menopause, experts say.

Herbal supplements are also unlikely to do much good – but hypnosis might combat some of the symptoms.

New guidelines on how to ease embarrassing and energy-sapping hot flushes warn that many of the remedies tried by millions simply do not work.

For other therapies, there is not enough evidence to say whether they do help, so women would be better fast-tracking to treatments with proven benefit, the US experts say.

And despite the widely held belief that alcohol and spicy food can trigger hot flushes, there is no data to support this, they add.

Hot flushes – the most common and most distressing symptom of the menopause – can disturb sleep, drain energy and cause embarrassment.

A single flush can last from a few seconds to an hour. 

Hormone-replacement therapy is the main treatment, but is not suitable for all and many who could take it are put off by fears that it may trigger breast cancer.

Those who do start on it can suffer unpleasant side-effects, from headaches to heartburn, leading many women to search for alternatives.

However, with options ranging from Chinese herbal supplements and dietary advice to powerful anti-depressants and acupuncture, it is hard for them to know where to start.

Hypnosis is one of the few treatments backed by solid evidence that it works, the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) advises.

‘From 50 to 80 per cent of women approaching menopause try non-hormonal therapies for hot flushes. 

'Many don’t really work and sticking with them can just prolong the misery,’ it says. 

‘With little guidance on what does work, many women just experiment with products or suffer.’

NAMS asked a panel of experts to review medical literature on the topic. 

They found solid evidence of the effectiveness of hypnosis and cognitive behavioural therapy – including counselling, sleep advice and relaxation techniques. 

In one study, women who had hypnosis five times a week had a dramatic reduction in the number and severity of hot flushes.

The guidelines also recommend some prescription drugs, including the anti-depressant Seroxat and the epilepsy drug gabapentin. 

However, herbal supplements, including popular black cohosh tablets, evening primrose oil and ginseng, are unlikely to work, NAMS says.

Exercise, yoga, acupuncture and chiropractic also lack evidence that they give relief.

Dr Janet Carpenter, who led the panel, said: ‘Many women try one thing after another and it is months before they stumble on something that truly works. 

'This information will be critical in maximising the selection of the most effective therapies.’

Charles Kingsland, of the Hewitt Fertility Centre at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, said HRT was the most effective treatment, although the placebo effect – the mere belief that something will work – means other options appear helpful to start with.

‘What you have to be careful of are the things that may be harmful, not only to your health but to your pocket,’ he said.

‘In the menopause, general well-being is essential. Exercise the body and mind.

‘So many women in my menopause clinic have such low self-esteem, sometimes I think that’s often the worst thing. That’s where all the psychotherapy stuff comes in.’

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3245619/Hypnosis-helps-beat-misery-menopause-not-yoga.html#ixzz3mrAFUS1H

[Corporate Health Talk] Group Hypnotherapy Session for Stress Reduction and Relaxation at Kenanga Group Office

Health Talk conducted in English at Kenanga Group Office.

Health Talk Topic:

1) Understanding Women's Health by Miss Esther, President of Naturopathic Medical Association Malaysia

2) Train your mind like a muscle by Hiro Koo (clinical hypnotherapist)

3) Therapeutic massage & acupuncture treatment by Madam Low (TCM Practitioner)

Group Activities:

1) Group hypnotherapy session 

2) Detox juice recipe

3) DIY Therapeutic massage

这是为Kenanga Group客户量身订造的健康讲座。结合了身(Naturopathic)心(Clinical Hypnotherapy & EEG biofeedback)灵(TCM)的一个讲座会。主要集中在交流和学习实用知识，运用于生活中。让忙碌的投资者们，也可以在午休时间轻轻松松的充充电。

这个午后，出席者大都觉得非常充实。

有者还说迫不及待的准备把这满满的新知识回家和家人分享呢！

Improving sleep and cognition by clinical hypnotherapy in the elderly

Sleep quality markedly declines across the human lifespan. Particularly the amount of slow-wave sleep (SWS) decreases with age and this decrease is paralleled by a loss of cognitive functioning in the elderly. Here we show in healthy elderly females that the amount of SWS can be extended by a hypnotic suggestion "to sleep deeper" before sleep. In a placebo-controlled cross-over design, participants listened to hypnotic suggestions or a control tape before a midday nap while high density electroencephalography was recorded. After the hypnotic suggestion, we observed a 57% increase in SWS in females suggestible to hypnosis as compared to the control condition. 

Furthermore, left frontal slow-wave activity (SWA), characteristic for SWS, was significantly increased, followed by a significant improvement in prefrontal cognitive functioning after sleep. 

Our results suggest that hypnotic suggestions might be a successful alternative for widely-used sleep-enhancing medication to extend SWS and improve cognition in the elderly.


Source:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25660206/

【伊白女王 III】Q-E3 大马时尚美容Magazine (20/07/2015) 催眠 X 自信

催眠 X 自信

你有完美的嗓子，梦想站在大舞台上高歌一曲；你有高挑的身材，梦想在时尚秀场上展现猫步。你心里想了想: “我有的是天赋，为什么就是没勇气踏上那个舞台？“。成千上万双眼睛注视着自己，心开始退缩了。

你还记得上次小编与临床催眠治疗师 Hiro Koo先生的专访吗？这一次，Mr. Koo会延续分享有关催眠的话题之外，还会带你寻找埋没在深处的自信心。想要重拾自信的你要用心看完哦！

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Text: 瀞瑩

Edit: Elizabeth

Photography: Chris

[Exhibitor] National Cancer Survivors Day 2015

I am here and I care!

It is an honour to be invited to participate in National Cancer Survivors Day 2015 which organized by the National Cancer Society Malaysia. Managing mental health needs is a crucial part for cancer patients or survivors. My role today is to provide brain assessment, support and treatment advice if necessary. 

There is a healthtalk on how the clinical hypnotherapy able to help cancer patients and cancer survivors. In fact, clinical hypnotherapy has proven to be extremely valuable in the treatment of cancer. Hypnosis has been shown to be effective for decreasing chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting in children with cancer. 

Indeed, hypnotherapy is an effective supplement therapy in the management of terminally ill cancer patients in a hospice setting. It is useful in addressing: 

(1) management of anxiety, depression, anger, and frustration; 

(2) management of pain, fatigue, and insomnia; 

(3) management of side-effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy; 

(4) visualization to promote health improvement. 

By successfully addressing these areas, studies have shown that hypnotherapy improves the individual quality of life and life expectancy. Further, there is a quantifiable cost savings to the hospital in terms of reduced medication and need for medical care.

One of the most well-known techniques involves the use of “positive mental images” of a strong army of white blood cells killing cancer cells. One 10-year follow-up study involving 86 women with cancer showed that a year of weekly “supportive/ expressive” group therapy significantly increased survival duration and time from recurrence to death. Postoperative complications and hospitalizations for the hypnotic intervention group are significantly shorter than the norm.

You can read this review:

"Hypnosis for Cancer Care: Over 200 Years Young" - The goal of this review was to summarize the empirical literature on hypnosis as an integrative cancer prevention and control technique. We have reviewed where hypnosis has strong support for its efficacy (surgery and other invasive procedures), where it holds promise (weight loss, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, metastatic disease), and where more work is needed.

Neuro-hypnotherapy is first of its kind in Malaysia developed by myself by combining technology (EEG biofeedback) and art of science (Clinical Hypnotherapy) which is best of two worlds. 

Feel free to contact me for a free brain assessment session. 

For more information on volunteering opportunities, you can contact the NCSM.

Source:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3755455/

http://web.wellness-institute.org/blog/bid/399323/The-Use-of-Hypnosis-in-Treating-Cancer

马来西亚失眠治疗-催眠疗法与营养治疗相结合

在Newmindcentre,
我们将催眠治疗与营养治疗相结合，有效克服失眠问题

引起失眠的原因有很多，多数是由心理因素引起。因此，催眠治疗失眠可以取得良好的效果。专家表示，长期失眠的人，其内心的痛苦是常人难以体会的，必须尽快采取有效措施进行治疗。专家指出，在临床催眠师语言的诱导下，能使患者达到全身乃至心灵深处的放松。临床催眠师的循循诱导，能使患者摆脱所有影响睡眠的症结；再通过一针见血的语言指令，使一切造成压力、紧张、不安、挫折的因素得以宣泄，深层的病因被临床催眠师消除，从而能使患者体验到心身放松的快感和愉悦。 失眠者只要经常体验这种松弛状态，那么恢复正常的睡眠功能那是指日可待的事情了。由此可见，催眠治疗失眠可谓是除药物治疗以外一种最有效的治疗方法，而且绝对是绿色无污染的。

基于营养的临床催眠治疗或心理治疗，能补充身体所需的营养成分和消除对身体有害的食物成分，从而达到身体最佳分子结构、身体健康、心理功能良好的一种疗法。
它的理论基础是人体缺少某些营养成分，可导致一系列心理症状，如镁缺乏症可引起不恰当的运动、定向困难和幻觉等。當血液中的血清素濃度太低時，即會感到心情低落、憂鬱。 
对心理障碍和身体障碍病人的检查发现，这些人往往有某种营养成分的缺乏。
斯可卜(ScoPp，A.L.)发现90%的心理咨询病人营养达不到标准水平。另一方面，有些食物则可造成心理功能紊乱，如某些食物可引起变态反应，使儿童学习困难。
芬固(Feingold)等人在食物中清除添加剂、储存剂、糖等后，改善了多动症和学习困难儿童的症状。
营养成分的缺少，可通过计算机饮食调查、头发重金属检车分析、生物反馈Biofeedback等科技测查等方法调查了解个人身心状态和营养缺失报告。
针对性地补充营养或避免不合适食物，对慢性抑郁症、焦虑、多动、学习无能和精神病有一定效果，营养疗法若与催眠疗法结合，可提高失眠或其他心理保健之疗效。 





我们有两个“大脑”？
肠道是最原始的第一大脑，只有通过更加高效的营养供应我们才能建立起第二大脑，这样我们才能找到更好的食物。心理和肠道关系密切。我们的肚子非常敏感，它能感知。我想，每个人都或多或少注意到了：悲伤的时候有人会吃很多东西，有人会吃不下东西；压力大的时候有的人会打嗝，有的会腹泻或便秘。很多时候，悲观情绪或注意力障碍也是消化系统出了问题的信号。
一直以来，情绪的研究都离不开大脑神经系统。现在，越来越多的研究表明，病原微生物能够影响宿主的大脑和行为, 甚至诱发精神疾患。肠道细菌能影响小鼠的大脑神经系统发育和行为模式的发展。肠道微生物还与高血压、高血脂、慢性疲劳综合征、肥胖等慢性炎症状态有关，甚至与孤独症和抑郁症等精神疾病有关。

腸道健康與大腦息息相關 
美國哥倫比亞大學解剖細胞生物學教授，也是醫學博士Michael D. Gershon提出「第二大腦」的學說，也就是， 每個人都有兩個大腦，一個位於頭部；一個藏在人體肚子裡的腸道，又稱為「腹腦」。 腸子在結構與神經化學層面上，與大腦息息相關，「頭腦」與「腹腦」兩者必須合作，否則肚子亂糟糟、腦袋慘兮兮。 

腸子分泌重要的荷爾蒙— 血清素 ，在腸道會促進腸道蠕動，也作用在大腦，是大腦的幸福分子，與情緒平衡有關。當血液中的血清素濃度太低時，即會感到心情低落、憂鬱。 

您是否曾發現，如果一早順利排便，肚子輕鬆了，心情相對也會開心、不焦慮。腹腦和大腦相互聯繫，一個出毛病，另一個也受影響，所以保養我們的第二個大腦很重要。就健康的角度來說，我個人建議一天至少一次排便。 

肠道内布满了神经元，数量几乎和头脑一样多 肠道被称为我们人体的“第二大脑”，研究表明，胃肠存在着一些内分泌细胞，其分泌的物质具有类似大脑内分泌素，可调节胃肠神经，乃至全身神经系统的功能。此外，肚子里有一个非常复杂的神经网络。它拥有大约1000亿个神经细胞，比骨髓里的细胞还多。

研究表明，慢性胃肠疾病一般与细菌感染有关，而细菌的毒素对人体恶性刺激也有可能影响大脑和神经系统的调节功能，从而引起或加 重失眠。值得一提的是， 医学心理学列出了38种身心疾病，其中属于胃肠疾病的如：贲门痉挛、十二指肠溃疡、胃溃疡、过敏性结肠炎、痉挛性结肠炎、溃疡性结肠炎、呕吐等11种之 多，占了1/4多。可以看出失眠与胃肠疾病具有共同的身心障碍基础。

胃神经症与人的精神状态有关，它常以精神过度紧张或精神创伤为发病基础，症状复杂，有反酸、嗳气、厌 食、烧心、恶心、呕吐、食后饱胀感、上腹部不适感及疼痛等症状。腹疼程度不一，无节律性与周期性，精神紧张时则疼痛出现或加剧，精神愉快则消失。疼痛也可 因适当的暗示而缓解。此外，病人多有头晕、头疼、失 眠、心悸、胸闷、注意力不集中、记忆力减退、阵发性面部潮红及手掌多汗等全身症状。

失眠，不可乱用安眠药

对于顽固性失眠症患者，适当给予镇静安眠药以改善失眠状况是可以的，但要特别注意避免由此引发成瘾依赖行为，安眠药常常有时间滞后的抑制作用，会导致白天嗜睡、乏力、精神萎靡而容易发生意外跌倒等不良后果，甚至有的老人发生进食、饮水时的呛咳和窒息，更为严重的是，患有睡眠性呼吸暂停症者约占老年人群的1/4，而安眠药可延长呼吸暂停的时间，以致发生猝死。

肠道菌群失衡与失眠
益生菌能产生一种γ-氨基丁酸的代谢产物，这种代谢产物是一种非蛋白质组成的天然氨基酸，人体大脑系统最安全的镇定剂，有抑制性神经传递，抗精神不安、抑制中枢神经系统兴奋、减低血压的作用，因此具有安眠、抗焦虑抗抑郁的作用。
同时，益生菌通过减弱神经系统的敏感度来改善睡眠，当有炎症发生而影响睡眠的时候，益生菌增强调节T细胞的功能，减弱发炎部位向神经系统传递的信号。






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