FERTILITY NEWS - HYPNOSIS CAN DOUBLE THE
SUCCESS RATE OF IVF TREATMENT.
A small British run alternative health clinic in
Southern Spain
has achieved a considerable level of success in helping women become
pregnant, both when using IVF and without, which fits in with other
research into the phenomenon world wide.
At the Elite Clinic in Fuengirola in Southern
Spain they have started to
receive telephone calls from across
Europe
from women interested in trying the
comparably low cost treatment. The first hypnosis session lasts approx 90
minutes, subsequent sessions (normally 3 or 4) last one hour.
A team from
Soroka University
,
Israel
, found that in a control group, 28% of
women who were hypnotized became pregnant, compared with 14% of those who
were not. The study of 185 women was presented to the European Society of
Human Reproduction and Embryology conference in
Berlin
.
The Chinese had noticed several thousand years
ago that women who had
difficulty conceiving often had an underlying emotional issue preventing
conception. Modern studies have now confirmed that psychological and
emotional blocks can create infertility issues. There may be subconscious
fears around pregnancy, labor, childbirth, hospitals, medical treatments,
motherhood, loss of independence or individuality, questions about their
husband's ability to be a good father, unresolved dysfunctional patterns
from a woman’s own childhood, or even the fear that a new baby might be
a threat to the relationship with her spouse.
Hypnotherapy can be a highly effective mind-body technique, often helping
individuals identify and process subconscious blocks that may be
interfering
with conception. In a relaxed, therapeutic environment, the hypnotherapist
and the individual work together to bring about positive attitudes and
beliefs
regarding childbirth and motherhood.
Dr. Christiane Northrup in her book Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom
says:
"The mind / body approach to fertility is based on the premise that
knowledge
is power and that a change in perception based on new information is
powerful
enough to effect subtle changes in your endocrine, immune, and nervous
systems. Regardless of what you’ve been told about your fertility, you
need to
know that your ability to conceive is profoundly influenced by the complex
interaction among psychosocial, psychological and emotional factors, and
you canconsciously work with this to enhance your ability to have a
baby."
So can hypnosis help to make you pregnant?
One in seven women seek medical help to aid conception. Inevitably, given
this demand and the low success rates of conventional treatments for
infertility, alternative practitioners have not been slow to offer
therapies that theyclaim will increase fertility.
Dr Elizabeth Muir, a clinical psychologist who has specialized in treating
infertility for seven years, uses hypnotherapy to help couples for which
there is no apparent medical reason why they should not have a child. Muir
believes that the psychological issues surrounding pregnancy are not
sufficiently well addressed for many women with fertility problems, and
she claims asuccess rate of 45 per cent for her clients.
Hypnotherapy works on the premise that the conscious and subconscious
minds may be at odds with each other," she says. "I believe that
while a woman
might consciously want a baby, her subconscious may be stopping her from
getting pregnant. Most women I see have psychosomatic infertility related
to conflicts or unresolved issues about having a baby. A
combination of counseling and hypnotherapy can remove these
problems."
