Friday 31 May 2019

Medication and Hypnotherapy

A lot of people ask me why I need to know about their medication when first taking on a client. After all, I'm dealing with their mind, not their body. But it is more complex than that.

The mind is a strange and wonderful thing, that is not only responsible for the way we act and think, but also for the way our bodies behave.

Take a little thing like pain killers. If a prospective client is on a high, regular dose of painkillers, especially of the anti-convulsive type, then I need to know this for two reasons. I need to be aware of any adverse reactions to look out for when the client is under, and, if the clients fails to take these, they may not even go under as they are not sufficiently relaxed enough.

Everything that happens in our bodies, from the way we perceive things, to the way we feel and act, has to go through the mind and the brain first, or else we simply do not notice it. There is the old philosophical question of Bishop Barclay that goes; "If a tree falls down in the woods, and there is no-one to witness it, does the tree make a sound?"

This is the way the mind works. If we can't perceive something happening, how can we be sure that it did happen. All we can do is extrapolate from our knowledge. We have seen objects fall over before, and they all make a sound, therefore we can be fairly certain the tree will in fact make a sound. BUT, we cannot know for sure that it does.

And it is precisely because medication affects the way our body, and therefore our mind perceives things, that, as a hypnotherapist, I need to know what my clients are taking, even if it feels as though it isn't relevant. It could just be the missing piece of the puzzle that helps me, to help you, to deal with your issues.

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