A contactmusic.com article reports, Dido, a 41-year-old singer, underwent hypnotherapy to help cure her stage fright and the crippling nerves she experienced before her performances.

She was so pleased and thankful to her hypnotherapy treatment that it was successful and had helped cure her stage fright.

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The National Council of Hypnotherapy had released information from a therapist about a client who broke his habit of smoking as a response to the new study of The New England Journal of medicine.

At the age of 50, the client had been trying to quit from smoking for over many years. The client had sworn to one of his family member that he would stop smoking and tried to seek a therapist to help him quit from his habit or addiction.

The client had been smoking 40 cigarettes per day for over forty years and felt that it would be impossible for him to stop from his habit. Later on, he turned to hypnotherapy where he was able to express his real desire to stop from smoking and was eager to learn new techniques to help him break from his habit.

The client’s therapist worked directly on to his subconscious and got to the root of the issue to help him change and stops him from smoking again. At the end of the session, the client left as a non-smoker and felt like he had never smoked ever since.

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Neuroscientists had begun interested on hypnosis for using hypnotic suggestions to test expectations about normal cognitive functioning.

Professor Peter Halligan and David Oakley illustrated how both methodological and theoretical advances using hypnotic suggestions can return novel and insights for neuroscience of consciousness and motor control.

In addition, Halligan and Oakley had also contributed to a new and revealing brain imaging study involving hypnotic paralysis that explores the brain system.

In professor’s Halligan new study, he suggests that hypnosis can provide perceptions and comprehensions to the brain system involved in patients who displayed symptoms of neurological illnesses. The study showed that hypnotic suggestions can be used to simulate symptoms experienced by patients with functional disorder or unexplained paralysis.

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Becca, a mum of two, turned to hypnobirthing to help her ease from fear of giving birth and to learn pain management techniques!

Becca with his husband Paul Selby had feared to have another baby after giving two difficult labors. The couple decided to undergo birth hypnotherapy to help eliminate their fears of not having a baby again.

After taking several hypnosis sessions, both were able to identify things that kept them from worrying about having another baby and gained insights on how to conquer their fears.

As a result, Becca even had a home birth – giving birth to their third child named “Noah” in their dining room, felt less pain and had more control of herself and became calmer and more relax.

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Matthew Mitcham, an Australian 10-metre platform diver had turned into hypnotherapy to help eliminate his drug addiction that almost had ruined his career and life.

In a book, “Twists and Turns”, Matthew revealed that he began using and addicted to methamphetamine after having low self-esteem, anxiety and depression.

Mitcham also added that even winning the 10-meter gold medal at Beijing Olympics, he was only ranked No.2, and felt that he failed to achieve his childhood dream of becoming the best in the world at something which he thinks became his reason to use illegal drugs.

Finally, he also opened up that he had recovered from his drug addiction with the help of hypnotherapy. Matthew is now back for his training for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Popular singer Adele turned to hypnotherapy to help treat her stage fright causing her to have panic attacks and sleepless nights before her Oscar performance.

According to Sun reporters, Adele went to a hypnotherapist to help conquer her stage fright.

In addition, a source told the reporter that Adele’s friend in LA was the one who recommended her to see a hypnotherapist since the singer was getting so nervous that she had begun to suffer from panic attacks and sleepless nights.

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Hypnosis helps Vel Kavadi bearers feel less pain while being pierced by sharp skewers or hooks.

Although some claimed that the reason behind of not feeling the pain was the holy ash that was soiled on the parts of the body. But not many scientific studies have been done on this property of cow’s dung as a component on the holy ash.

Moreover, many psychiatrists say that in order to understand pain, one must realize that pain is composed of both sensory and emotional experience.

Before the piercing of hooks to Kavadi bearers, they all undergo deep preparations such meditation and practicing vegetarian diet.

Assoc Prof Dr Mohanraj shared that it has also been scientifically proven that the state of mind affects the body. Bearers went to a state of trance where they are more susceptible to suggestions. With the bearers’ deep concentration and focus, one can diverse the thought of pain thus resulting to lower the distress or anxiety felt.

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Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge is now using hypnotherapy to fight her morning sickness and other worries.

Princess Kate seeks alternative treatments to help overcome her morning sickness like acute nausea and vomiting caused by her pregnancy for her first child and would be due on July.

With hypnotherapy, Kate would be able to remove her negative thoughts and help her overcome with sicknesses.

It has also believed that through hypnotherapy sessions, Princess Kate was able to throw away her negative thoughts connected with food from her morning sickness and made her crave for healthier and nutritious foods.

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Adam Williams, a supermarket worker turned to hypnotherapy to stop his addiction of eating birthday cakes.

For over a year, Adam blown up to 15 stone after bingeing on the sweet treats that he bought on his work every day.

Buying and eating cakes have been part of Adam’s daily routine. He eats cakes just like any other normal people eating their breakfasts or lunch. He would even experience migraines if he can’t eat a piece of cake a day.

But after piling pounds of weight from eating a lot of cake, Adam turned to hypnotherapy to stop his addiction of eating cakes. He went to a hypnotherapy clinic as an attempt to lose weight as his last resort to help him cut off his addiction.

After taking several hypnotherapy sessions, Adam now’s able to manage to lose four stone and felt much better.

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Research study showed that most people who experience trauma or stress can harm their digestive system which leads to abdominal pain and diarrhea or known as “Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)”.

It has found out that most patients having IBS had most likely experienced psychological trauma such as child or sexual abuse. Researchers also added that what cause IBS are the nerves and muscles of the human body which have been greatly affected due to some dramatic trauma in life.

In association with the nerves of a human body, stress can also over-activate the nerves that connect the human brain and gut, could lead to painful and embarrassing bowel problems.

Saito-Loftus stated that psychological trauma may alert the brain and the gut to become more vulnerable to stress.

Although IBS cannot eventually damage our digestive system, still the danger is substantial, making patients to suffer more on painful bowels which could literally lead to more frequent medication and treatment.

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