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Hypnotherapy is used to help an individual become deeply relaxed and in a state of altered consciousness. A person in this state of mind is deeply focused and highly responsive to ideas. NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Three components of NLP are neurology, language, and programming. The practice of NLP is understanding how individuals organize feelings, thoughts, and language to produce behaviours.
Many times, anxiety is a learned behaviour. Some individuals may experience anxiety as the result of an event. Others feel anxious a majority of the time. Anxiety can be detrimental to the body. Increased heart rate, high blood pressure, and the inability to focus are examples of how anxiety affects the health of an individual.
Hypnotherapy and NLP are useful tools for overcoming anxiety. When something happens, we remember the event and how we reacted to it. This reaction becomes second-nature and is repeated when similar situations arise. If anxiety was the reaction, this becomes habitual and stressful for an individual. Hypnotherapy and NLP can encourage a client to recall the anxiety-provoking event and change the way the person reacts. This helps to change the conscious and unconscious mind. Hypnotherapy and NLP aid in the removal of limitations and to change the way a person thinks.
Many NLP and hypnotherapy sessions begin with the therapist listening to a client describe situations that cause anxiety. Patterns of anxiety and how it happens may be revealed. The therapy session may then focus on the NLP to help promote flexibility in the way an individual thinks, the way the past is remembered, and the way future events are imagined. Hypnosis comes into play by helping the client to relax and build new resources to deal with anxiety.
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A study in women with breast cancer found that drinking red wine may help limit the toxic effects of radiotherapy.
“The possibility of certain dietary practices or interventions can reduce radiation-induced toxicity, which is very intriguing,” says Dr. Gabriella Macchia, Catholic University, Campobasso, Italy.
It is known that certain components of red wine can protect against the harmful effects of radiation and these components are in particular polyphenols and tannins.
In the current study, Macchia and colleagues assessed the potential effects of protection on different levels and consumption of red wine in 348 women treated with radiation therapy after breast cancer surgery and the results were “interesting,” said Macchia.
In the study, women who drank only one drink per day had a much lower risk of side effects of radiation on the skin. Read the rest of this entry »