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HEALTH Suspend your disbelief about hypnosis, and while you’re at it, forget about swinging watches and the phrase “You’re getting sleepy.” Despite the fact that people have been using hypnotherapy for decades to help them ditch behaviors like overeating and smoking—and that major medical organizations recognize it as valid therapy for a range of health issues— it’s still viewed as mental sleight of hand, a tool of stage performers, not doctors. But thanks to a spate of recent research—most notably a study that showed, via MRI imaging, how the brain actually changes during hypnosis—the practice has gained more legitimacy and is often combined with talk therapy or meds. Now, “people are signing up for it at the recommendation of their physician,” says health psychologist Laurie Keefer, Ph.D., director of psychobehavioral research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. During a session, a therapist will ease you into a hyper-focused relaxed state (by having you concentrate on, say, soothing words), then give you suggestions to help you conquer your health problem. You’ll be physically alert but mentally calm, similar to what happens when you are driving and reach your destination but don’t remember how you got there. Here, why over a half a million people couch-surf away what ails them each year, and what you can expect. INSOMNIA New York City writer Patricia Morrisroe could fall asleep easily. But four hours later, she’d be up again, her mind reeling. The problem started in childhood and gradually worsened. Patricia tried cognitive behavioral therapy and meds; when they didn’t help, she decided to visit a hypnotherapist. Patricia was hypnotized once, then given a recording to listen to nightly. Immediately, the then 50-year-old had what she describes as “the best sleep of my life.” The results wore off after 10 days (Patricia’s hypnotherapist suspects this is because she was only partly susceptible to hypnosis; about a third of the population can’t be hypnotized at all), but many people see results as long as they listen to the recording. People with stress-linked sleep disturbances are great candidates for hypnotherapy, says psychotherapist Marty Lerman, Ph.D., author of Mindshift. That’s because hypnosis can teach you how to acknowledge and release spinning thoughts. The payoff: A study found women who listened to hypnotic suggestions for sleep (such as a fish swimming deeper into water) at night experienced up to 80 percent more restorative slow-wave sleep compared with when they heard a nonhypnotic text. That stress connection is why you’ll see the best results if you have a session or two with a therapist who can tailor a recording to your specific stressors. For example, if a jam-packed schedule is stealing your Zs, she might include a statement like “You have time to complete all your daily tasks.” Nonpersonalized sleep hypnosis apps are okay, say experts, as long as you choose one that’s been created or vetted by a certified hypnotherapist (check the description in the app store). Try Sleep Well Hypnosis (free), a 25-minute session you listen to nightly; it promises consistent, deep sleep in one to three weeks. GUT TROUBLES When she was 25, Amber Ponticelli started getting sharp abdominal pains every time she ate. ER and gastro docs thought she had IBS, but their suggested dietary tweaks (like eating six small meals As far back as ancient times, healers have used forms of hypnosis. A brief look back, from hokey to legit. 3000 B.C. Ancient Greeks go to “sleep temples” dedicated to Aesculapius, the god of healing, to be treated in rituals that use hypnotic-like trances. The temples are filled with snakes, Aesculapius’s symbol. Um, not soothing. 1843 English doctor James Braid coins the term hypnosis (after Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep) and studies how it can be used to help ease anxiety and pain. 1960 The American Psychological Association recognizes hypnotherapy as a valid medical procedure. 1774 Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer (mesmerized; get it?) claims the hypnotic state is controlled by an occult force. He is soon discredited. 1860s Civil War surgeons hypnotize injured soldiers before amputations. 2008 Research in the journal Nature finds evidence that hypnotherapy is effective at treating IBS. 78 WOMENSHEALTHMAG.COM / July/August <strong>2017</strong>
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