World Hypnotism Day Celebrates the Healing Benefits of Hypnosis
There is considerable scientific evidence that hypnosis can help reduce, even eliminate pain. "With the recent spate of bad news about pain killers," Ellner says, "one would think that hypnosis, acupuncture, chiropractic medicine, and other healing arts would take their rightful place in the anthology of pain treatment."
New York, NY (PRWEB) December 30, 2004 -- On January 4th, 2005 Certified
Hypnosis Practitioners from all over the world will join to together for World
Hypnotism Day, a special day dedicated to educating the public, the media and
their health care communities about the many benefits of working with a
Certified Hypnosis Professional.
According to Michael Ellner, an
internationally prominent Certified Hypnosis Practitioner and educator, "There
is an urgent need for World Hypnotism Day because there are tens of millions of
people who could be helped to feel better, heal faster and be more effective who
are not utilizing this safe, effective and affordable approach to relieving both
psychic and physical pain."
There is considerable scientific evidence
that hypnosis can help reduce, even eliminate pain. "With the recent spate of
bad news about pain killers," Ellner says, "one would think that hypnosis,
acupuncture, chiropractic medicine, and other healing arts would take their
rightful place in the anthology of pain treatment."
According to the New
York Times (12/28/04), "What we find are patients debating whether to continue
their pain medications. …The degree of alarm and outrage is because something
that's supposed to make people safe is really putting them at
risk."
However, both the media and the medical establishment have
perpetuated misconceptions about the practice and nature of hypnosis. As a
result, many people believe that being hypnotized means losing control when, in
fact, hypnosis is about helping people take control.
New Year's
Resolutions such as stopping smoking and managing weight, chronic problems like
the pain of arthritis, or even pre-operative fears, can be effectively treated
by self-hypnosis - with the guidance of a certified hypnosis
professional.
One of Ellner's major concerns is the damage being done by
self-proclaimed "experts" - a subset of MDs and PhDs, licensed shrinks and
therapists - who insist that some people just "can't be hypnotized" - a notion
which reflects the limitations of their own clinical inflexibility rather than
the subject's ability to be hypnotized.
Not properly trained in the art
and science of hypnosis, these so-called "experts" advise the public to seek out
only those hypnotherapists who are licensed health care providers such as
themselves. Just as one wouldn't expect an MD or PhD to be an expert plumber, by
the same token there is no reason to believe that a licensed health care
provider is an expert in hypnosis.
In fact, thousands of people were
harmed and their families were destroyed by licensed mental health "experts" who
implanted false memories of childhood sexual abuse while they underwent hypnosis
at the hands of these so-called experts (Memories of Things That Never Were,
Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 4/25/00).
Ellner explains further that
Certified Hypnosis professionals are not at odds with most licensed health care
practitioners. "We only have a problem with that subset of shrinks and
therapists who pass themselves off as experts in hypnosis and claim they are
protecting the public," he says, "when in actuality, they are standing in the
way of Certified Hypnosis Professionals who simply want to take their rightful
place in their health care communities. Podiatrists, optometrists, midwives,
chiropractors and psychologists all suffered a similar backlash and operated
within the same realm of "quackery" in the recent past.
Ellner maintains
his private hypnosis practice in the prestigious Metropolitan Medical Healthcare
and Wellness Center in NYC. He enjoys working as part of health care and
wellness teams as well as a stand alone hypnosis practitioner. Ellner will be
teaching advanced hypnosis classes in Boston, Boerne (TX), Detroit, Greater LA
and New York City throughout 2005.
World Hypnotism Day was conceived and
sponsored by The National Guild of Hypnotists in association with The Academy of
Professional Hypnosis, The Association to Advance Ethical Hypnosis, Die Freie
Gesellschaft für Hypnose e.V. (Germany), The Hypnosis Educational Council
International, The Hypnosis Information Network, The International Hypnological
Association, The International Medical And Dental Hypnosis Association, The
National Association of Certified Hypno Counselors, The National Association of
Clergy Hypnotherapists, The National Federation of Hypnotists OPEIU AFL/CIO, The
National Federation of Neuro Linguistic Psychology, The Ontario Association of
Hypnotherapists (Canada) and The National Council for Hypnotherapy
(England).
Ellner can speak extensively about how hypnosis can help
people stay focused on improving their health, lives and careers. Michael Ellner
is available for interview. For further information www.ellner.info.
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