Dr. Flavio Shares

Una bella exposicion, junto con Marisela Aranegui

Huge study finds that lifestyle modification is more effective than medication in avoiding diabetes.

Most people are surprized by this notion of duality. How do you feel about this?

La Mente y la Salud – una cuestión de importancia Nacional

La hipnoterapia está cobrando una importancia magnifica en la sociedad presente porque los problemas de salud con los cuales nos enfrentamos no son realmente problemas físicos, sino que son consecuencias de cómo muchas veces la persona se ve a si misma.

Un ejemplo interesante de esto se publicó en el 2002. En este estudio, 3234 personas con pre-diabetes fueron divididas en tres grupos: uno, el placebo, no hicieron muchos cambios, el otro grupo tomó un remedio para bajar la azúcar en la sangre, y el otro grupo cambió su estilo de vida, o sea mejoró la nutrición y hizo un poco de ejercicio. Comparando con el placebo, o sea no hacer nada, en 2.8 años del estudio, los que tomaron el remedio bajaran el riesgo de la diabetes en 31%. Pero, durante el mismo tiempo, los que cambiaron sus estilos de vida bajaron el riesgo de la diabetes en el 58%. O sea, resulta casi dos veces más efectivo cambiar el estilo de vida que tomar remedios para un pre-diabético evitar la enfermedad! Esto es algo muy importante cuando consideramos que las autoridades dicen que la mitad de las personas mayores de 65 años padecen de pre-diabetes, y 10 millones de ellos padecen de diabetes, con consecuencias desastrosas.

Basado en resultados de estudios como este quizás usted se pregunte: porque los médicos no le dicen a las personas que ajusten sus pesos en lugar de recetar más remedios? La verdad es que hacen: le dicen a las personas que bajen de peso, sin embargo el sobrepeso nacional sigue aumentando junto con la diabetes y sus complicaciones.

El problema no viene por falta de información, y por lo tanto la solución no puede ser más información solamente. Se da cuenta usted de lo importante que es esto? Saber algo no es suficiente para que este algo se incorpore en sus vida diaria. Los hipnoterapeutas conocen esto hacen unos 3000 años, y por esta razón dicen que nuestras vidas son reflejos del auto imagen albergada en la mente subconsciente, y no solamente de lo que sabemos.

La única solución a la crisis nacional de salud es un cambio en el auto imagen. En este cambio se especializan los hipnoterapeutas.

Como siempre,

Flavio Souza-Campos

PS: Aquí pueden leer un resumen del estudio original mencionado arriba: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11832527

WHAT IS HYPNO-ANESTHESIA? FASCINATING!

Introduction

Perhaps one of the most impressive demonstrations of the power of the mind is that of anesthesia. Hypnotists have traditionally pierced the cheeks, pinched to the point of bleeding, and immersed the hands of hypnotized people into freezing water for extended periods of time. These “experiments” have been carried out in laboratories, under controlled conditions, and by stage hypnotists alike, all apparently without eliciting much reaction from their subjects. Clearly, the view of actual blood dripping from a hypnotized person who is not screaming with pain must be impressive to those watching hypnosis shows.

Definition of hypno-anesthesia

The term “hypno-anesthesia” refers to the induction of anesthesia using hypnosis. Hypnosis is a mental state of connection between the conscious and unconscious portions of the mind. Finally, “anesthesia” comes from the Greek and can be translated as “absence of sensation”.

Medical anesthesia

Medical anesthesia encompasses three features: analgesia, or the absence of pain, muscular relaxation, which prevent autonomic, reflexive, contractions, and amnesia, sedation or full unconsciousness. In medical general anesthesia, for instance, the patient is asleep and unaware, relaxed and devoid or reflexive contractions, and free of pain or other sensations.

The very first public demonstration of medical anesthesia happened in 1846. A story I often share with students is how the dentist Dr. William Morton (1819 – 1868) is historically credited with the discovery of the first successful anesthetic, although that credit may have cost him his life because of the fierce battles that followed his application for a patent.

It took a while before the technique of ether inhalation was perfected, and made available to general surgeons. The trick was to induce enough anesthesia to make surgery possible, without depressing respiration to the point of killing the patient.

Before the mid 19th century some surgeons did operate using hypnotic anesthesia, most notably Dr. James Esdaile (1808 – 1859) who is reputed to have performed over 5000 surgeries using only hypnosis for anesthesia.

Hypno-anesthesia for routine surgery

Performing surgery under hypnotic anesthesia is possible, but much more complex than the use of modern chemical anesthesia. There are more skilled anesthesiologists at surgical centers in the United States today than hypnotists capable of inducing the kind of hypnosis needed for surgery. Furthermore, chemical anesthesia takes a few minutes to induce and the patient does not need to understand, cooperate, or believe in anything in order for it to work. Hypnotic anesthesia for use with routine surgery in the United States today is, therefore, practically not used.

Common uses of Hypno-anesthesia

Considering the ready availability of chemical anesthesia, not just for surgery, but also over the counter analgesics, why do modern hypnotherapists talk so much about hypno-anesthesia? Consider these situations:

 

Emergency pain, such as in accidents, or the pain experienced before medical care is available or possible  

Chronic pain that either does not respond to medications, or pain that requires toxic levels of medications for amelioration

Emotional or psychological pain

Dental pain, either before the dentist is available, or during dental procedures

Childbirth

 

All of the situations above can generate a great deal of suffering to afflicted individuals, yet all of them can be ameliorated with the use of hypnosis. What makes hypnosis in all of the above examples great is that the hypnotist does not even need to be present. It is possible to work with a person, and through something called post-hypnotic suggestions, help that person help himself for years.

One inherent advantage of the use of hypnosis for the reduction of physical or emotional discomfort is that relaxation is naturally attained. Relaxation itself, often, is of great physical a

Hi, my name is Flavio; I am a de-hypnotist.

The name of my occupation is not simply a new spin on an old idea; it more accurately represents what we actually do. It may be easier to understand this if we start at the beginning.

If nothing had ever happened to you, you would be totally innocent like a happy baby, but you would lack the wisdom of the serious adult you are.

Ideally then, all life experiences should make us wiser, but in practice that is not what happens. It seems that pain hurts more than pleasure pleases, about five times as much in fact, according to scientists. Consequently, we seem to be willing to invest much more energy into avoiding pain than in obtaining any sort of benefit.

The emotional impact of a negative life lesson can be so devastating and painful that we forget, or rather, archive those memories, emotions and lessons learned in a part of the mind where they serve the intended limiting purpose, while freeing everyday thoughts for more immediate concerns.

This arrangement allows us to go on with our lives, not having to think about each past pain all the time, while at the same time protecting ourselves from experiencing that pain again. Indeed this arrangement is quite functional, for some time at least.

Just as a baby who masters crawling discovers that the skill is no longer useful when he learns to walk, all life “lessons” also cease to be useful at some point. Letting go of previous ideals and mastering new ones is what leads to evolution and growth. Thus, no matter how big the lesson learned was at one point, eventually but certainly, it will cease to be useful and will be replaced with a higher truth. Life will invariably put us in a situation where our “learned lessons” no longer work, they no longer get us the intended result; in fact what we knew to be true before now seems to hinder us.

We know this is the case when we are unable to do something, or to stop doing something, despite our best efforts. Read the following two examples; the first exemplifies the inability to do something, enjoy reasonable heights. The second is an example of the inability to stop doing something, overeating. I will then offer an explanation of what may have limited these two people, and why they had to be de-hypnotized to improve the quality of their lives.

Some years ago, I was at a water park with my daughters. I skillfully avoided the really high structures, pretending the low drops were better for the kids. Eventually I gave into their insistence for the high drops and triumphantly climbed the first few steps into the wild blue yonder. As we waited in line, high above the earth, I clung firmly to the metal structure, palms sweating and all. When my daughters asked me how I was doing, of course, I said something about checking the underside of the structure for corrosion.

There was no reason for alarm or concern. The structure was indeed safe, and we were only a few feet above the ground. But I was terrified to the point of “seeing” the curvature of the Earth from high above it.

It was obvious that there was a limiting lesson engraved on my mind, even though I could not remember it or free myself from its claws. I had to admit to myself that I was unable to enjoy reasonable heights. That night, after the girls went to sleep, I went to work. I used hypnosis to de-hypnotize myself. I first remembered how casual the news was: oh, he died. Then the whole thing came back to me.

I was three or four years of age. All of us boys climbed on trees and played outside back in those days. But that day, my buddy Mat had climbed and fallen down. Yes he hit his head, but we all bumped our heads from time to time. Mat went to sleep that night and never woke up the next morning, all because he climbed a tree, fell and bumped his head. “Climbing is dangerous; it could kill!” was the lesson firmly implanted into my mind in order to deal with the pain of losing my friend, the pain of not having his death explained t

Three signs that you may have anger - Not what you think

A few years ago Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler made history with another great movie: Anger Management. In that movie Mr. Nicholson plays the part of an odd therapist who helps people with anger problems. He explains to his protagonist client played by Adam Sandler that anger is not just something you experience episodically, but an illness that one may or may not have. In fact the movie compares anger to diabetes.

There is no doubt that anger serves an evolutionary purpose by boosting strength through what has come to be known as the fight or flight response. In extreme situations of danger or injustice, anger can get one to act in adaptive ways that lead to survival.

The utility, or perhaps the unavoidability of this type of episodic anger is well recognized both in therapy and in the legal system. In the therapeutic context you may hear terms such as justified anger or situational anger. In the legal context there are instances where temporary insanity by virtue of presumably unavoidable anger leads to crimes that are met with reduced or attenuated sentences. These situations are, however, rare.

The most common consequence of anger is that represented in the movie, where a person simply “has anger” as in an illness. While the explosive type of anger we are all familiar with makes the “diagnosis” of anger obvious, the much more insidious, systemic anger experienced by most people leads to profound loss of quality of life.

During our many years of therapy, we have identified three types of situations presented by clients that can be explained by the presence of systemic anger. More importantly, we have observed that when systemic anger is resolved, the original situation for which the client came in is also resolved.

The three types of situations involve a client who:

Seems unable to DO something he wishes to do and is capable of doing

Seems unable to STOP doing something he no longer wishes to do

Presents with illnesses that defy clear medical diagnoses or resolution

A common suggestion in our metaphysics classes is that you contemplate your life deeply and ask yourself whether one or more of the above applies to you. If you identify at least one of them, consider that some anger may linger within you. Addressing that anger and healing it completely will most definitely improve the quality of your life.

As always,

Flavio Souza-Campos

Esta es la mejor explicación que hemos visto sobre la mente, la hipnosis y la banda gástrica virtual. Una amiga comentó que por primera vez entendió como lograr sus metas en la vida cuando leyó este breve texto.

Otras personas dijeron que la simplicidad y brevedad de la explicación son útiles. Aun otros pidieron el texto completo, para tener más detalles.

Esta información fue preparada para usted, y para las personas que usted aprecia. Muchas son las personas diariamente que preguntan acerca de los misterios de la mente, de la hipnosis y sobre la relación entre el cuerpo y la mente. Aquí usted tiene un breve regalo que espero les sea útil.

 

Felicidades,

Flavio Souza-Campos

Farewell to President Obama

My wife and I were talking this past weekend about our daughter’s birthday coming up when it suddenly dawned on me that the Obama Presidency is coming to an end. “Hard to believe” I told my wife… “It feels like late January already”… “Yes, time flies when we are having fun” she remarked.

At some point I became nostalgic of the Obama years. So much happened in our lives during the past eight years, with news about the President seemingly always in the background. I was reminded of all the criticism and sharp questions I heard. The political opposition seemed to blame just about everything on the President, and students of metaphysics seemed concerned about the changes to what makes America great.  

I thought of recording a few comments and sending to students only. Then it occurred to me to make some notes first, and eventually the video was born. These remarks are not intended as a rigorous historical account of events or of conditions in Europe before America was established, but the general tone of the video is largely correct.

The message I wanted to convey to students was one of forgiveness, which is based on refraining from judgment, and gratitude, which are both keys to happiness.

Here are the notes in case you prefer to read them. The video can be seen here: https://youtu.be/jnac4XGpRQE

 

Because of our position as a therapist and professor people often ask our opinion on a number of topics, such as in this case, president Obama and his Presidency

We do not think it would be appropriate to judge the President, or any of his decisions really, because we are not aware of all of the information and details available to the President when each decision was made 

We often feel that others make mistakes or do bad things; but when we take the time to examine all the information available to that person at the time the decision was made, we are often surprised to discover, even if only within the privacy of our minds, that, given the exact same scenario, we would not have been as effective as the person we so eagerly judged 

I admire Secretary of Defense Robert Gates not only for his many accomplishments but also for the person he is. To me Secretary Gates comes across as a highly effective professional with a conscience and a heart. Secretary Gates provides a unique insight into the Obama presidency and the person of the President himself in his book Duty. Reading Duty I was sensitized by the feeling that President Obama is a good man, who means well, and does want what he honestly feels is best for the country 

It is within human nature to inquire into what is best for the country, and disagreements are inevitable. One angle seldom explored is whether the country as whole is serving the spiritual purpose for which it was founded

The notion that the United States and all other countries exist for a spiritual purpose surprises some folks, but a country is nothing more than a venue through which a group of souls can evolve spiritually. Over time, countries that no longer fulfill the evolutionary needs of the souls therein incarnated cease to exist, and indeed new countries flourish in their places

There are many ways of understanding the purpose for which the United States of America was founded, but we can begin by asking what most people refer to when they speak of the Great American Experiment 

Considerer what life was like in Europe in the 16th, 17th and 18th Had you not been born to royalty, would you have had a chance to even learn to read? Would you have had your most basic needs, such as food and shelter met? Had you been killed in the streets, would anyone have cared? Would your life have mattered? What chances would your babies have had of surviving past the first year? Would you have participated at all in the organization of your community? 

Before the United States existed, and for most of human history, there were two classes of people: royalty and peasants. While those born

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