南洋商报 Nanyang Siang Pau (27/11/2014) - 脑波反馈催眠疗法Neuro-Hypnotherapy专访

在此特别鸣谢南洋商报的专访，让更多人了解我所研发的脑波反馈催眠疗法Neuro-Hypnotherapy。希望可以以此让更多客户受惠。

有兴趣进行此疗法的你，可以email我询问更多详情：[email protected]

TV3 Buletin Utama (8th November 2014)

 We're in the News of TV3 Malaysia!

Once again, thanks to all TV3 team members for the opportunity to promote a completely safe, non-drug, natural approach to improving mental focus, concentration, cognitive functions, attention and more (Brain Trainer/EEG biofeedback and neuro-hypnotherapy) to the public.

Our Services on Newspaper Headline (29 August 2014)

Nanyang Siang Pau Newspaper Headline 南洋商报头条新闻 (29 August 2014), 

旅游与文化部长纳兹里正坐在我的临床催眠疗法沙发上检查他的脑电波。

Tourism and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz was sitting on my clinical hypnotherapy chair and checking his brainwaves. 

China Press Newspaper  中国报(29 August 2014)

旅游与文化部长纳兹里正坐在我的临床催眠疗法沙发上检查他的脑电波。

Tourism and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz was sitting on my clinical hypnotherapy chair and checking his brainwaves. 

 Harian Metro (29 August 2014)

Tourism and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz was sitting on my clinical hypnotherapy chair and checking his brainwaves. 

Menopause-related hot flashes treatment in Malaysia

Hypnosis is an effective treatment for menopause-related hot flashes and night sweats, new research finds.

The alternative therapy reduced hot flashes by as much as 74% in the study conducted by researchers at Baylor University’s Mind-Body Medicine Research Laboratory and funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Only hormone therapy, which many women can’t take or want to avoid, is more effective for treating the most common symptom of menopause, says researcher Gary R. Elkins, PhD.

“If you compare this treatment with off-label use of antidepressants or other non-hormonal therapies, it works as well or better,” he says.

Hot Flashes, Night Sweats

Hot flashes are a sudden rush of heat, followed by facial flushing and sweating, often followed by chills and clamminess. The progression is familiar to most women of a certain age.

Hot flashes and night sweats are the most common symptoms of menopause, affecting some 80% of women.

They are linked to declining estrogen levels, but it remains unclear just why the sudden lack of estrogen sends the body into thermal mayhem, and why some women are more affected than others.

Hormone therapy is a very effective treatment for menopause-related hot flashes, but concerns about risks have limited its use among women.

“There is certainly a need for non-pharmacologic treatments for hot flashes and night sweats,” says North American Menopause Society (NAMS) Executive Director Margery Gass, MD.

Hypnosis and Hot Flashes

In an earlier study, Elkins and his Baylor colleagues showed that hypnosis dramatically reduced hot flash and night sweat frequency in breast cancer patients with treatment-related symptoms.

In the newly published study, they set out to determine if the alternative treatment would do the same in women whose symptoms were related to menopause.

A total of 187 postmenopausal women who reported having at least seven hot flashes a day, or 50 a week, were recruited for the trial.

Half the women were given self-hypnosis training that consisted of five, 45-minute weekly sessions.

During the sessions they received suggestions for mental imagery designed to minimize the intensity of their hot flashes, such as images of a cool place. The women were also given a recording of the hypnotic induction, and they were asked to practice self-hypnosis at home daily.

The rest of the women had an equal number of sessions with a clinician, but hypnosis training was not given.

Instead, clinicians talked to the women about their symptoms and gave them encouragement about how to deal with them. These women were also asked to listen to a recording each day at home, but their recording simply had information about hot flashes.

The study participants kept "hot flash frequency" diaries, and they also wore small sensors on their bodies that recorded their hot flashes.

Hot Flashes Less Frequent and Intense

After 12 weeks:

• Women in the hypnosis group reported 74% fewer hot flashes on average, compared with 17% fewer among the other women.
• The skin sensors showed a 57% reduction in hot flashes among the hypnosis group, compared to a 10% reduction in the non-hypnosis group.
• The women treated with hypnosis were far less likely than the other women to report that their hot flashes interfered with their daily lives and sleep.

“Many women do not want to take hormone therapy or any drug for hot flashes,” Elkins says. “This study shows that an alternative, non-drug treatment can be highly effective.”

Elkins recommends that women who want to try the treatment seek out a qualified practitioner affiliated with either the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis or the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.

Gass says she would like to see Elkins’ findings duplicated, but she adds that hypnosis could prove to be a badly needed new treatment for hot flashes.

“This will certainly appeal to women who want to avoid drugs and who want a treatment that has few, if any, side effects,” she says.

The study, which was published this week in the journal Menopause, was funded by the NIH’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Source: http://www.webmd.com/menopause/news/20121025/hypnosis_halts_hot_flashes

Tinnitus Treatment Malaysia (Non Drug Approach)

It is important to keep in mind that tinnitus is a symptom, not a disease. As such, the optimal treatment strategy should be directed toward eliminating the disease, rather than simply alleviating the symptom. Also, because tinnitus may be symptomatic of a more serious disorder, it is important to try to find the medical cause before deciding on treatment.

Preventing and Minimizing Tinnitus

Here are a few things patients can do to help prevent and minimize tinnitus:

• Reduce exposure to extremely loud noise
• Avoid total silence
• Decrease salt intake
• Monitor one's blood pressure
• Avoid stimulants such as caffeine and nicotine
• Exercise
• Reduce fatigue
• Manage stress
• Educate yourself

While there is no known cure for most forms of tinnitus, there are many management options available and most tinnitus sufferers can find varying degrees of relief from one or a combination of the following.

Medications

There is no single medication that works on all tinnitus patients. 

Counseling or Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Regardless of the cause of tinnitus, if a person is not bothered by the tinnitus, it ceases to be a problem. Psychological intervention aimed at successfully reducing the stress, distress and distraction associated with the tinnitus can be very productive and often produces the most attainable goals.

Stress Management

The very high correlation between stress and tinnitus disturbance underscores the need to maintain one's composure and logic when trying to cope with tinnitus. Relaxation, guided imagery and self-hypnosis are examples of self-help methods used to help combat the stress, anxiety and sleep disturbances associated with tinnitus.

Other Treatment Options

Other options that may help patients with tinnitus include:

• Support Groups — Local peer support groups offer emotional support to patients and a place to discuss and share treatment techniques.
• Dental Treatment — Jaw joint disorders, called temporomandibular (TMD), may exacerbate tinnitus. Splints and exercises may relieve these problems.
• Nutritional Counseling — All tinnitus patients should maintain a balanced diet.
• Biofeedback Training— Biofeedback is a technique of making unconscious or involuntary bodily processes detectable by the senses in order to manipulate them by conscious mental control. Biofeedback with counseling can help relieve stress patterns that can worsen the perception of tinnitus.
• Alternate Approaches — Although there is no scientific data showing consistent benefit from approaches such as hypnosis, acupuncture, naturopathy, chiropractic care and many herbal preparations, some patients do perceive a benefit.

Reviewed by health care specialists at UCSF Medical Center.

Research study: How EEG biofeedback training can help for Tinnitus
 
Biofeedback-based behavioral treatment for chronic tinnitus: 
results of a randomized controlled trial. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19045972/

The effects of neurofeedback on oscillatory processes related to tinnitus. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23700271
 
EEG biofeedback for subjective tinnitus patients. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21592701

EEG biofeedback for treating tinnitus. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17956812/
 
Tuning the tinnitus percept by modification of synchronous brain activity. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17943012/


Chronic tinnitus: which kind of patients benefit 
from an outpatient psychotherapy ? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19623511/


Research study: How hypnotherapy can help for Tinnitus

Role of hypnotherapy in the treatment of debilitating tinnitus. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22533067

Effectiveness of Ericksonian hypnosis in tinnitus therapy: preliminary results. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22545384/

Effectiveness of combined counseling and low-level laser 
stimulation in the treatment of disturbing chronic tinnitus. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19205171

Ericksonian hypnosis in tinnitus therapy. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/18225612
 
Effects of relaxation therapy as group and individual 
treatment of chronic tinnitus. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/8657857
 
Hypnosis for Tinnitus. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P...j00777-0039.pdf
 

10 Ways Hypnosis Can Help You Lose Weight—For Good

Close your eyes. Imagine your food cravings floating away. Imagine a day of eating only what's good for you. Imagine hypnosis actually helping you lose weight—because the news is: It does. Harvard Medical School psychotherapist Jean Fain gives you ten hypnotic suggestions to try right now.

By Jean Fain

When I tell people how I make much of my living—as a psychotherapist hypnotizing people slim—they inevitably ask: Does it work? My answer usually brightens their eyes with something between excitement and incredulity.

Most people, including my colleagues at Harvard Medical School, where I teach hypnosis, don't realize that adding trance to your weight loss efforts can help you lose more weight and keep it off longer.

Hypnosis predates carb and calorie counting by a few centuries, but this age-old attention-focusing technique has yet to be embraced wholeheartedly as an effective weight loss strategy.

Until recently, there has been scant scientific evidence to support the legitimate claims of respected hypnotherapists, and a glut of pie-in-the-sky promises from their problem cousins, stage hypnotists, hasn't helped.

Even after a persuasive mid-nineties reanalysis of 18 hypnotic studies showed that psychotherapy clients who learned self-hypnosis lost twice as much weight as those who didn't (and, in one study, kept it off two years after treatment ended), hypnotherapy has remained a well-kept weight loss secret.

Unless hypnosis has happily compelled you or someone you know to buy a new, smaller wardrobe, it may be hard to believe that this mind-over-body approach could help you get a handle on eating.

Seeing is definitely believing.

So see for yourself. You don't have to be entranced to learn some of the invaluable lessons that hypnosis has to teach about weight loss. The ten mini-concepts that follow contain some of the diet-altering suggestions my weight management clients receive in group and individual hypnotherapy.

1. The answer lies within. Hypnotherapists believe you have everything you need to succeed. You don't really need another crash diet or the latest appetite suppressant. Slimming is about trusting your innate abilities, as you do when you ride a bicycle. You may not remember how scary it was the first time you tried to bike, but you kept practicing until you could ride automatically, without thought or effort. Losing weight may seem similarly beyond you, but it's just a matter of finding your balance.

2. Believing is seeing. People tend to achieve what they think they can achieve. That even applies to hypnosis. Subjects tricked into believing they could be hypnotized (for example, as the hypnotist suggested they'd see red, he flipped the switch on a hidden red bulb) demonstrated increased hypnotic responsiveness. The expectation of being helped is essential. Let me suggest that you expect your weight loss plan to work.

3. Accentuate the positive. Negative, or aversive, suggestions, like "Doughnuts will sicken you," work for a while, but if you want lasting change, you'll want to think positive. The most popular positive hypnotic suggestion was devised by doctors Herbert Spiegel and David Spiegel, a father- son hypnotherapy team: "For my body, too much food is damaging. I need my body to live. I owe my body respect and protection." I encourage clients to write their own upbeat mantras. One 50-year-old mother who lost 50-plus pounds repeats daily: "Unnecessary food is a burden on my body. I'm going to shed what I don't need."

4. If you imagine it, it will come. Like athletes preparing for competition, visualizing victory readies you for a victorious reality. Imagining a day of healthy eating helps you envision the necessary steps to becoming that healthy eater. Too tough to picture? Find an old photograph of yourself at a comfortable weight and remember what you were doing differently then; imagine resurrecting those routines. Or visualize getting advice from a future older, wiser self after she's reached her desired weight.

5. Send food cravings flying. Hypnotherapists routinely harness the power of symbolic imagery, inviting subjects to put food cravings on fluffy white clouds or in hot air balloons and send them up, up, and away. If McDonald's golden arches have the power to steer you off your diet, hypnotists understand that a counter symbol can steer you back. Invite your mind to flip through its Rolodex of images until one emerges as a symbol for casting out cravings. Heave-ho.

6. Two strategies are better than one. When it comes to losing weight and keeping it off, a winning combination is hypnosis and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), which helps revamp counterproductive thoughts and behaviors. Clients who learn both lose twice as much weight without falling into the dieter's lose-some, regain-more trap. You've already tried CBT if you've ever kept a food diary. Before my clients learn hypnosis, they keep track of everything that passes their lips for a week or two. Raising awareness, every good hypnotherapist knows, is a key baby step toward lasting change.

7. Modify, modify, modify. The late hypnosis innovator Milton Erickson, MD, emphasized the importance of using existing patterns. To alter one client's lose-regain, lose-regain pattern, Erickson suggested she first gain weight before losing it—a hard sell nowadays, unless you're Charlize Theron. Easier to swallow: Modify your highest- calorie craving. Instead of a pint of ice cream, how about a cup of frozen yogurt?

8. Like it or not, it's survival of the fattest. No suggestion is powerful enough to override the survival instinct. Much as we like to think it's survival of the fittest, we're still programmed, in case of famine, for survival of the fattest. Case in point: a personal trainer on a starvation diet who wanted me to suggest away her gummy bear addiction. I tried to explain that her body believed her life depended on the chewy candies and wouldn't give them up until she got enough calories from more nutritious foods. No, she insisted, a suggestion was all she needed. I wasn't surprised when she dropped out.

9. Practice makes perfect. One Pilates class does not produce washboard abs, and one hypnosis session cannot shape up your diet. But silently repeating a positive suggestion 15 to 20 minutes daily can transform your eating, especially when combined with slow, natural breaths, the cornerstone of any behavioral-change program.

10. Congrats—it's a relapse. When clients find themselves, against their healthiest intentions, overindulging, I congratulate them. Hypnosis views a relapse as an opportunity, not a travesty. If you can learn from a real or imagined relapse— why it happened, how to handle it differently—you'll be better prepared for life's inevitable temptations. 

Source: http://www.oprah.com/health/Hypnosis-for-Weight-Loss-Can-Hypnosis-Help-You-Lose-Weight

FAQs about Virtual Gastric Band - Hypno-Band Weight Loss System in Malaysia

The Hypno-Band could change your life forever. Imagine having the results usually achieved by having a surgical Gastric Band fitted but not having to go through surgery, and spending thousands of pounds!

Gastric Band surgery is not for everyone. Usually the surgery is only carried out on people classified as "clinically obese" and with a high Body Mass Index (BMI). A surgical Gastric Band works by reducing the size of the stomach and therefore you eat smaller portions and feel full. Through this method it is possible to lose weight easily. The surgical method does have drawbacks however. It is very costly, typically costing £4000 to £6000 and of course you will need to go through a surgical procedure.

What if you could have all the benefits of a surgical Gastric Band, without the surgery and cost?
Well now you can! By using the Hypno-Band hypnotherapy system we create a state of mind where you will believe you actually have a Gastric Band fitted! You will eat smaller portions and feel full. The Hypno-Band system is a long term solution to your weight problems.

How does it work?
ANS:
Over four sessions we take you through the process of having a gastric band fitted, only in your mind. By using suggestion and visualization, your mind will be convinced that your stomach has become smaller and that you need less food. By eating less and less often you will begin to lose weight. The process uses hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioural techniques to help you achieve your ideal weight and stay there!
Each session in the Hypno-Band system lasts for one hour and before beginning the process a full assessment will be carried out.


Does it involve surgery?
ANS:
No! the HYPNO-BAND system is a non-invasive behaviour changing method using the techniques of hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy.

Does it hurt?
ANS:
On the contrary. The HYPNO-BAND procedure is extremely relaxing and pleasurable.

Are there side effects?
ANS:
No. There are no side effects associated with undergoing this procedure.

So it's safe?
ANS:
Yes! the HYPNO-BAND system is perfectly safe.

Will I be under the hypnotherapists control?
ANS:
Never. No hypnotherapist can make you do anything you do not want to do nor make you behave in a way you would not normally behave.

Am I suitable for the HYPNO-BAND weight loss system?
ANS:
If you are over weight and really want and are committed to losing weight then you should be suitable. The only exception would be if there is a physiological reason for your weight problems or if you are taking certain medications.

Will it work for me?
ANS:
The key to success is YOU! No weight loss system will work unless you are committed to losing weight. You must be prepared to change your eating habits and life-style. If you are totally serious about losing weight then it will certainly work for you. The HYPNO-BAND system provides you with the tools and ability to lose weight and maintain a healthier body.

How long does it take?
ANS:
The whole process takes four one hour sessions. Usually this is achieved over eight days but this is flexible and at your convenience.

Success Story:

• I'm on the hypno-diet: Wife loses four stone after therapist convinces her she's got a gastric band. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1184806/Im-hypno-diet-Wife-loses-stone-therapist-convinces-shes-got-gastric-band.html#ixzz3AU35Kn4Q 
• 催眠“虛擬”胃束帶 肥媽狂瘦35公斤http://dailynews.sina.com/bg/news/int/kwongwah/20111129/01152953974.html
•  'Gastric Mind Band': Hypnotic Weight Loss http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/MindMoodNews/gastric-mind-band-prompts-weight-loss-hypnotism/story?id=11700551 
• Hypno-Band helped Kevin Barr lose 10st by making him believe he had undergone gastric surgery http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/real-life/hypno-band-aided-kevin-barrs-weight-1234772  
• Stay tuned for more updates  

Kevin feared for his life before Hypno-Band treatment

Kevin Barr after Hypno-Band treatment

Mind over matter: Marion Corns weighed 15st 6lbs (Up) before she had Gastric Mind Band hypnotherapy which made her think her stomach was the size of a golf ball and now weighs 11st 7lbs (Down)

Trance: Janice slimmed down to a trim 11st in just seven months after being physically unable to eat unhealthy foods. Read more:http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/woman-loses-six-and-a-half-stone-1437502#ixzz3AiMnHUtP



Now you can start your hypnosis for weight loss session in Malaysia. 
I am a licensed Hypno-Band practitioner and registered clinical hypnotherapist(MSCH, AHPM, APA-The Society of Psychological Hypnosis, PSIMA-Malaysia Psychological Association). 
For your infomation,
Contact me now for more information.

Your Gut Microbes Can Affect Your Health in Numerous Ways

Your Gut Microbes Can Affect Your Health in Numerous Ways

In recent years, it’s become increasingly clear that the microbes in your gut play a much more vital role in your health than previously thought possible. In fact, probiotics, along with a host of other gut microorganisms, are so crucial to your health that researchers have compared them to "a newly recognized organ." Besides research implicating gut bacteria in mental health and behavior, other research has shown that your microbiota also has an impact on:

1. Immune system function: Biologist Sarkis Mazmanian5 believes bacteria can train your immune system to distinguish between "foreign" microbes and those originating in your body. His work is laying the groundwork for new therapies using probiotics to treat a variety of diseases, particularly autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's.
Mazmanian and colleagues were recently awarded the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" for identifying an organism that originates in the human body (opposed to a fermented food) that has demonstrable health benefits in both animal and human cells. The organism has been namedBacteroides fragillis, and is found in 15-20 percent of humans. His group hopes to one day be able to test this body-originated bacteria in human clinical trials.
2. Gene expression: Researchers have discovered that the absence or presence of gut microorganisms during infancy permanently alters gene expression. Through gene profiling, they were able to discern that absence of gut bacteria altered genes and signaling pathways involved in learning, memory, and motor control. This suggests that gut bacteria are closely tied to early brain development and subsequent behavior. These behavioral changes could be reversed as long as the mice were exposed to normal microorganisms early in life. But once the germ-free mice had reached adulthood, colonizing them with bacteria did not influence their behavior.
In a similar way, probiotics have also been found to influence the activity of hundreds of your genes, helping them to express in a positive, disease-fighting manner.
3. Diabetes: Bacterial populations in the gut of diabetics6 differ from non-diabetics, according to a study from Denmark. In particular, diabetics had fewer Firmicutes and more plentiful amounts of Bacteroidetes and Proteobacteria, compared to non-diabetics. The study also found a positive correlation for the ratios of Bacteroidetes to Firmicutes and reduced glucose tolerance. The researchers concluded:

"The results of this study indicate that type 2 diabetes in humans is associated with compositional changes in intestinal microbiota."

4. Obesity: The make-up of gut bacteria tends to differ in lean vs. obese people. This is one of the strongest areas of probiotic research to date, and you can read about a handful of such studies here. The bottom line is that restoring your gut flora should be an important consideration if you're struggling to lose weight.
5. Autism: Establishment of normal gut flora in the first 20 days or so of life plays a crucial role in appropriate maturation of your baby's immune system. Hence, babies who develop abnormal gut flora are left with compromised immune systems and are particularly at risk for developing such disorders as ADHD, learning disabilities and autism, particularly if they are vaccinated before restoring balance to their gut flora.
To get a solid understanding of just how this connection works, I highly recommend reviewing the information shared by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride in this previous interview.

Source: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/06/20/gut-brain-connection.aspx 

MH17 news: Use hypnotherapy to deal with grief

One of my friends from Association of Hypnotherapy Practitioners, Malaysia (AHPM) talks about how to use hypnotherapy to deal with grief. We have started our corporate social responsibility service with an aim to help MH17 and MH370 victim's family. Feel free to contact me if you know anyone of the victim's family.

催眠有什么用途？

生活中很多人不知道心理学，或者不怎么了解心理学，而却知道催眠。对催眠十分感兴趣，但是却也不知道催眠到底有什么用途？只是感觉催眠是一种类似魔术一样的表演。

催眠治疗咨询范围： 

1、神经症：抑郁症，酒瘾症，烟瘾症，强迫症，焦虑症，紧张症，恐惧症，口吃症，怯场症，自卑症，厌食症，固执症，恐病症，厌学症，疑病症，网瘾症，神经 官能症，妄自菲薄症，自我完美症，自毁自贱症，神经衰弱症，脾气暴躁症，过度压力症，惶恐不安症，自信缺乏症，书写痉挛症，过度食欲症，食欲缺乏症，情感 挫折症，失恋痛苦症，亲子代沟症，择业茫然症,精神紧张症，离休综合症，抑郁自闭症，社交恐怖症，产后忧郁症 

2、生理障碍：过度自慰症，阳痿早泄症，异常性心理，性心理障碍，急慢性胃炎，洁癖，胃痛，神经性哮喘，神经性尿频，遗尿，性欲缺乏症，性功能障碍，阳痿，早泄，梦精遗精，麻痹性癔病，舞蹈症，癫痫，面神经麻痹，神经性心脏病，月经闭止，痛经，经血过多。 

3、儿童行为障碍：包括咬指甲，拔头发，遗尿，口吃等儿童不良行为,儿童退缩行为，儿童多动症。 

4、神经系统某些疾患：包括面神经麻痹，偏头痛，神经病，失眠，先天性神经衰弱，神经性头痛，更年期综合症神经衰弱。 

5、其他用途：增强自信心，增强行动力，提升销售业绩不良习惯的改变，提高记忆力，提高学习能力，克服恐惧，如戒酒，戒烟，减肥，减轻压力，术后镇痛，疼 痛控制，无痛分娩，减轻癌和关节疼痛，改善肌体抵抗力，破坏或消除由于病毒引起的湿疣和其他疾病等等，年龄回溯，前世回溯。

催眠可以用来： 

(1) 催眠可以建立信心，肯定自我价值：改善你的自我观感，导正负面行为。增进自信与自许，强化自尊，善处逆境心情。 

(2) 催眠可以增加心灵财富：心灵财富丰富的人，是对自己满足的，金钱无处不在，当你需要时，它自然能出现，让我们时时刻刻丰富自己的心灵。 

(3) 催眠可以控制体重与饮食问题：更新饮食习惯，促成体重增减，维持适当目标体重，增强体能与运动动机。 

(4) 催眠可以消除睡眠困扰：脱离事务、职业烦恼。自我催眠带来欲睡前奏，醒来有如充电饱满。 

(5) 催眠可以处理生活各式压力：学习减压或消除压力技巧，改善特殊行为模式，降低血压，放松身心。 

(6) 催眠可以掌握演说能力：不再害臊，终止羞怯。获得谈话信心，消除面谈紧张，降低演出、 演讲或讲课的恐惧。 

(7) 催眠可以终止焦虑、恐慌、恐惧与恐怖症：消除对事务的恐惧，如登高、航空旅行、人群、蜘蛛、疾病等。学习面对事务之不同反应，以新的正确的态度克服恐惧。 

(8) 催眠可以改善生活品质：以积极的动机，目标的设定及达成，实现个人的满足。以成功般的满足舒适心灵。 

(9) 催眠可以克服学习困难：增强教学技巧，改善学习习惯，提升记忆力与集中力，导正学习态度，增强应试技巧。 

(10) 催眠可以增强运动表现：强化运动成效，集中重点，启发成功感、胜利感、成就感。增强毅力与协调性。增强全方位的意向态度。 

(11) 催眠可以提升个人创造力：开启写作、绘画、表演艺术潜能。启动创作动机。增强洞察力，问题解决能力。 

(12) 催眠可以促进健康身体：缓解及减低慢性病症状，如结肠炎、肌肉痉挛和溃疡。控制气喘、偏头痛等。缓解皮肤疾病。改善免疫系统与促进自然痊愈。 

(13) 催眠可以疼痛控制：安全、自然的方法以替代麻醉，如外科手术止痛、烧伤止痛，牙医止痛等。控制慢性病的病痛，如关节炎或背痛。 

(14) 催眠可以革除坏习惯建立新习惯：增强积极动力，提升正面行为。消除负向思考，解脱忿怒、忧郁、挫折。 

(15) 催眠可以协助自然生产：减低疼痛，轻松分娩，恢复迅速，建立亲子亲密关系。 

(16) 催眠可以解除感情与肉体创伤：重现并去除人生创伤或悲剧事件。搜寻记忆，年龄回溯，时间回溯。 

心理学是一门跟生活息息相关的科学，为人为人的生活服务的学科。里面有很多既神奇好玩又有效的心理技术，能够帮助人解决各种心理上的疑难杂症，所以，作为21世纪的我们不可不了解心理学，了解心理学中技术，比如催眠。（文章来自：关明宇博客）

摸圆东西可以让人更放松

据美国《女性健康》杂志最新报道，《自主神经科学：基础与临床》刊登美国一项最新研究发现，摸摸圆东西可以让人更放松。

　　越来越多的数据显示，社交恐惧症已经成为现代社会的一大心理疾病。有的人一想到社交情景或公开场合，就不由自主地感觉手心出汗，心跳加速，极度紧张。针对这些问题，来自哈佛大学、耶鲁大学和麻省理工学院的学者进行了研究。他们发现，触摸过粗糙物件之后，人们会感觉社交活动更难应对。新研究主要成员之一，麻省理工学院管理学院的乔舒亚·阿克曼博士表示，用大拇指捻摸佛珠、项链等圆圆的东西有助于调节情绪，放松心情，克服焦虑、恐惧。

 　最新研究报告还指出，触摸或抚摸具有安慰效应，触摸圆润之物，感觉顺畅，而触摸粗糙之物，则感觉不顺。另外，肌肤接触也具有安抚作用，比如让爱人按摩手脚，有助于平稳心跳，放松紧张情绪。

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