Hypnotherapy

[Nannysue1]

Has anyone had hypnotherapy? ( not for AF) and if so has it effected your AF in anyway?.

[Thecyclist]

Yes many times, very successfully. So much so I decided to train as a Hypnotherapist, if you have any questions please ask.

It is extremely relaxing experience, feeling like you have had a great nights sleep. It is a completely natural state, we experience trance on a daily basis, like when we you drive and don't remember where you have been, or day dream and zone out from everything else going on around you. It's a state of focus and relaxation, you are 100% aware of what is going on and what is being said. You are always in control and can bring yourself out of trance at anytime if you choose. It's not about doing anything you don't want to do, or say. Unfortunately the old stage hypnotism gave hypnotherapy a bad name.

It is all about allowing your unconscious mind to be talked to so that positive behaviours and emotions can be reinforced or installed bypassing your conscious mind and all it's filters. The mind is like an iceberg, 10% (your conscious mind) and 90% (unconscious), all memories, experiences, values, beliefs are stored unconsciously and it is in this area changes are made. It also runs your body, breathing etc. So changing things at an unconscious level can have a huge impact on you.

Hope that helps!

[Nannysue1 in reply to Thecyclist]

Thankyou for all of that wonderful info. I have actually had hypnotherapy a few times but not with AF. I'm now in permanent AF so was just wondering if it would effect it. Funny you should mention sleep, thats exactly what I want to use it for 😴. Many thanks for your reply. Sue.

[jeanjeannie50 in reply to Nannysue1]

Let us know if it works please Sue.

[Nannysue1 in reply to jeanjeannie50]

You too Jean? 🤪 just need to shut my mind down at night, find it impossible. The minute my head touches the pillow, bang, off it goes, running at full speed.

Will let you know. Now just to find a reputable, qualified and local practioner.

[Beehive1 in reply to Nannysue1]

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[Beehive1 in reply to Nannysue1]

Hi I have posted a link to the main UK site for registered hypnotherapists. I am also qualified as a hypnotherapist and registered with BAThH. All members need to fulfil various criteria. You should be able to source one in your area via the register.

[Nannysue1 in reply to Beehive1]

Thank you very much

[Ppiman]

I have but it wasn’t for AF but for general relaxation. It failed completely, sadly, and, fortunately, was free!

I have since learned that there’s no such thing as “hypnosis” in the way the media tends to portray it, and especially the idea of a “trance”. It’s more that some people have an ability to relax deeply when soothed by repetitive music or voice commands and, in that super-relaxed state, can be open to suggestions that bring them to enter a second relaxed state (or other) when a certain stimulus arises.

It’s worth trying, for sure, but a test before you do is to ask yourself if you are one of those who can’t help but yawn when another person in view does. Apparently that is a decent test of susceptibility. I do yawn but not always.

Steve

[Sixtychick]

I have had hypnotherapy several times over the years, when I get problems with anxiety, which I get from time to time. My PAF causes me anxiety, as did Covid and hypnotherapy does help me.

[Nannysue1 in reply to Sixtychick]

Thankyou.

[Maglynne007]

I had hypnotherapy to try and help with weight loss. It did not affect my PAF and neither did it help with weight loss. In fact hypnotherapy had no affect on me whatsoever. I would go as far to say I found it boring and couldn’t wait for it to end. Sorry

[Nannysue1 in reply to Maglynne007]

Oh dear😂🤪 but thanks for your reply. Horses for courses I suppose.

[Bagrat]

I feel the use of words can be confusing. I have had counselling from a psychotherapist for anxiety and this included deep relaxation (hypnotherapy) and I found it most beneficial. As Thecyclist said it is a normal part of life which we need to remember and use to improve our mental health

[Coco51]

Yes! I became very anxious and agoraphobic after my second Ablation for persistent AF. There were 3 months in the blanking period when the AF seemed to get worse. I had the most awful thoughts and fears which were controlling my life and made me permanently tense.

Well, the hypnotherapy (from a clinical psychologis) changed everything. In 8 sessions I learned to relax and the AF stopped. I get it infrequently now and when I do, it bothers me less. I still use the hypnotherapy recordings and techniques and the hypnotherapy has really helped me cope.

Hope that helps

[Nannysue1 in reply to Coco51]

Thankyou that sounds great, glad it worked for you.

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Hi Nannysue1,

Yes I had hyptontherapy back in 1988 to stop smoking. Decades before I had my AF diagnosis. I was a 40 cigs a day man back in the day. Stopped dead in my tracks after one 2 hour 45 minute session. Cost me $A 40 back in the day. Never ever smoked since.

John