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@NewADD – You are soooooooooooooooo right. It takes the right person to do that kind of negotiation. You want someone with enough interpersonal skills that the employees feel listened to and enough business skills that concrete change actually happens!

But, to start with, can you imagine what the perfect set up for your business would be? What people and skills do you need in place so that you can take advantage of your own skills and talents? If you don’t have that clear vision, then that’s the place to start. If you’re thinking that that’s a tough thing to do all by itself, I hear ya! Do you have a friend, someone you respect and trust, who is a well organized, clear thinker? He or she might be an engineer or an analyst. Sitting down with them for a half day or so and working through this issue might be just what you need. They don’t have to be a high powered consultant. They just need to be able to help you organize what you already know. When I look at a problem, I don’t see a solution. I usually see hundreds! I find that having someone logical and organized to help me prioritize and decide on a single way forward helps me tame the static.

Good luck!

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Many hypnotherapists and meditation web site post samples of their work. These samples tend to stick to general topics, such as relaxation or stress reduction, but they give you an idea of what hypnosis can feel like. Like most skills, letting go and relaxing takes a few repetitions to get the idea and you may find that you work better with one therapist’s style than another’s. I will post links to a variety of samples so you can experience hypnosis in the quiet and comfort of your own home (rather than somewhere full of distractions, like the Iowa State Fair!)

Here is a site with a selection of absolutely free guided visualizations done with a calm, female voice (Mary Maddux) http://www.meditationoasis.com/podcast/listen-to-podcast/

The sessions are short – 10 minutes or so – so they won’t take much out of your day. They are a nice way to calm down for sleep as well. Please pay attention to your breathing. Deep, slow breaths (i.e. “belly breathing”) are a sign to the body to relax. They are the opposite of the shallow, fast breathing people do when excited.

I will post other samples over the next little while

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Important advice I received was to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the TEAM. Make sure any of your deficits are compensated for elsewhere. And that goes for everyone on the team. Whether diagnosed with a condition or not, we all bring our unique characteristics to the table.

Reading between the lines, though, in this case I wonder whether there is clear communication going on of your expectations and your staff’s frustrations. Is there a neutral third party you could bring in who could talk to everyone individually (including you) and find some way of working together?

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Larynxa, I had a bad experience with a place that had “sound and light machines” and recordings where an experienced hypnotherapist should have been.

While it’s true that the effectiveness of hypnotherapy is still being debated, might I add that so is the effectiveness of Vitamin D, the number of hours of sleep you need at night and whether people over 60 should be taking an aspirin every day. The fact is that there has been a lot of properly documented research into hypnosis. At the bottom of this message I have cited a number of studies. Because hypnosis is so good at helping people deal with emotional issues, and feelings are often wrapped around “bad habits”, like smoking and overeating, hypnotherapy is an effective part of a weight-loss strategy (including nutrition, sleep and exercise).

I am looking into how hypnosis can help people deal with ADHD. I don’t have a definitive answer yet and am interested in what other forum members have found. I know that hypnosis can be a big help with some of the side issues people with ADHD face, such as low self-esteem, lack of self-confidence and addictive behavior. I suspect that hypnosis can help you set up or reinforce good habits and discipline.

Here is what one hypnotherapist said about working the ADHD children:

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“I’ve found that ADHD kids don’t just suffer distractibility or ‘novelty addiction’. A feature of ADHD seems to be an amazing ability to focus of attention when something is found to absorb their interest.

I liken this to being a hunter in the wild. A hunter needs speed, to be able to respond to unexpected new stimuli but they also need to sustain focus for long periods and be able to narrow down their sights when the prey comes into view-whether this ‘prey’ is a soccer goal or tiger.

I will often start off a discussion by describing a prehistoric hunt then ask them to close their eyes and picture seeing hunters moving swiftly then, bit by bit, as they get closer narrowing down their focus-but I’ll blend it with references to their school day or sporting challenges. This also reframes ADHD from a purely pathological, dysfunctional deficit into an attribute that can be harnessed.”

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If anyone has had any experiences with hypnosis and ADHD, whether helpful or not, I’d encourage them to add to the discussion.

Bill

_Research_

90.6% Success Rate for Smoking Cessation Using Hypnosis University of Washington School of Medicine, Depts. of Anesthesiology and Rehabilitation Medicine, Int J Clin Exp Hypn. 2001 Jul;49(3):257-66. Barber J. 87% Reported Abstinence From Tobacco Use With Hypnosis Performance by gender in a stop-smoking program combining hypnosis and aversion. Johnson DL, Karkut RT. Adkar Associates, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana. Psychol Rep. 1994 Oct;75(2):851-7. PMID: 7862796 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

81% Reported They Had Stopped Smoking After Hypnosis

Texas A&M University, System Health Science Center, College of Medicine, College Station, TX USA. Int J Clin Exp Hypn. 2004 Jan;52(1):73-81.

Hypnosis Patients Twice As Likely To Remain Smoke-Free After Two Years

Guided health imagery for smoking cessation and long-term abstinence. Wynd, CA. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2005; 37:3, pages 245-250.

Hypnosis More Effective Than Drug Interventions For Smoking Cessation

Ohio State University, College of Nursing, Columbus, OH 43210, USA Descriptive outcomes of the American Lung Association of Ohio hypnotherapy smoking cessation program. Ahijevych K, Yerardi R, Nedilsky N.

Hypnosis Most Effective Says Largest Study Ever: 3 Times as Effective as Patch and 15 Times as Effective as Willpower.

Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit.

University of Iowa, Journal of Applied Psychology, How One in Five Give Up Smoking. October 1992.

(Also New Scientist, October 10, 1992.)

Hypnosis Over 30 Times as Effective for Weight Loss

Cochrane, Gordon; Friesen, J. (1986). Hypnotherapy in weight loss treatment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 54, 489-492.

Two Years Later: Hypnosis Subjects Continued To Lose Significant Weight

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (1985)

Hypnosis Subjects Lost More Weight Than 90% of Others and Kept it Off

University of Connecticut, Storrs Allison DB, Faith MS. Hypnosis as an adjunct to cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy for obesity: a meta-analytic reappraisal. J Consult Clin Psychol. 1996;64(3):513-516.

Hypnosis More Than Doubled Average Weight Loss

Kirsch, Irving (1996). Hypnotic enhancement of cognitive-behavioral weight loss treatments–Another meta-reanalysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64 (3), 517-519.

Hypnosis Showed Significantly Lower Post-Treatment Weights

Weight loss for women: studies of smokers and nonsmokers using hypnosis and multi-component treatments with and without overt aversion. Johnson DL, Psychology Reprints. 1997 Jun;80(3 Pt 1):931-3.

Hypnotherapy group with stress reduction achieved significantly more weight loss than the other two treatments.

J Stradling, D Roberts, A Wilson and F Lovelock, Chest Unit, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7LJ, UK

Hypnosis can more than double the effects of traditional weight loss approaches

University of Connecticut, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology in 1996 (Vol. 64, No. 3, pgs 517-519).

Weight loss is greater where hypnosis is utilized

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (1996)

Hypnosis Reduces Frequency and Intensity of Migraines

Anderson JA, Basker MA, Dalton R, Migraine and hypnotherapy, International Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis 1975; 23(1): 48-58.

Hypnosis Reduces Pain and Speeds up Recovery from Surgery

[Hypnosis and its application in surgery] Faymonville ME, Defechereux T, Joris J, Adant JP, Hamoir E, Meurisse M, Service d’Anesthesie-Reanimation, Universite de Liege, Rev Med Liege. 1998 Jul;53(7):414-8.

Hypnosis Reduces Pain Intensity

Dahlgren LA, Kurtz RM, Strube MJ, Malone MD, Differential effects of hypnotic suggestion on multiple dimensions of pain. Journal of Pain & Symptom Management. 1995; 10(6): 464-70.

Hypnosis Reduces Pain of Headaches and Anxiety

Melis PM, Rooimans W, Spierings EL, Hoogduin CA, Treatment of chronic tension-type headache with hypnotherapy: a single-blind time controlled study. Headache 1991; 31(10): 686-9.

Hypnosis Lowered Post-treatment Pain in Burn Injuries

Patterson DR, Ptacek JT, Baseline pain as a moderator of hypnotic analgesia for burn injury treatment. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology 1997; 65(1): 60-7.

Hypnosis Lowered Phantom Limb Pain

Treatment of phantom limb pain using hypnotic imagery. Oakley DA, Whitman LG, Halligan PW, Department of Psychology, University College, London, UK.

Hypnosis Has a Reliable and Significant Impact on Acute and Chronic Pain

Hypnosis and clinical pain. Patterson DR, Jensen MP, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA USA 98104 Psychol Bull. 2003 Jul;129(4):495-521.

Hypnosis is a Powerful Tool in Pain Therapy and is Biological in Addiction to Psychological

Functional anatomy of hypnotic analgesia: a PET study of patients with fibromyalgia. Wik G, Fischer H, Bragee B, Finer B, Fredrikson M, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Karolinska Institute and Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Eur J Pain. 1999 Mar;3(1):7-12.

Hypnosis Useful in Hospital Emergency Rooms

Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2000 May;18(2):327-38, x. The use of hypnosis in emergency medicine. Peebles-Kleiger MJ, Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences, Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS, USA. peeblemj@menninger.edu

Significantly More Methadone Addicts Quit with Hypnosis. 94% Remained Narcotic Free

A comparative study of hypnotherapy and psychotherapy in the treatment of methadone addicts. Manganiello AJ, American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 1984; 26(4): 273-9.

Hypnosis Shows 77 Percent Success Rate for Drug Addiction

Intensive Therapy: Utilizing Hypnosis in the Treatment of Substance Abuse Disorders. Potter, Greg, American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, Jul 2004.

Raised Self-esteem & Serenity. Lowered Impulsivity and Anger

American Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy (a publication of the American Psychological Association)

2004 Apr;46(4):281-97)

Hypnosis For Cocaine Addiction Documented Case Study

The use of hypnosis in cocaine addiction. Page RA, Handley GW, Ohio State University, Lima, OH USA 45804. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 1993 Oct;36(2):120-3.

Study 1: Healed 41% faster from fracture

Study 2: Healed significantly faster from surgery

Two studies from Harvard Medical School show hypnosis significantly reduces the time it takes to heal.

Harvard Medical School, Carol Ginandes and Union Institute in Cincinnati, Patricia Brooks, Harvard University Gazette Online at http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/05.08/01-hypnosis.html.

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The Rick Green meeting turned into the Dr. Umesh Jain meeting and it was A M A Z I N G ! !

I wrote about it here: http://www.hypnothoughts.com/group/kidsworks/forum/topics/coping-with-adhd-resources

It was my first time at the meetup but it won’t be my last! I realize this was a special meeting, but just meeting so many people who speak my language was wonderful all by itself.

Bill

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With ADD comes the ability to hyperfocus on something you find really engaging, right? Just imagine what would make sex really engaging for you. What could change so you could lose yourself in the moment? What would change the mood for you? What would draw in your other senses?

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@Saffron – Excellent articles! They correspond nicely with what I have been reading – which is to take in beneficial bacteria through yogurt and fermented foods, rather than supplements. One thing that the article doesn’t seem to cover is that some digestion is not possible without the requisite bacteria, particularly fiber or parts of raw vegetables. Mark also does not seem to cover what makes the gut ecology more welcoming to the beneficial bacteria, i.e. what we should be eating regularly.

@Ivriniel – I understand about your BS indicator and it makes sense to me. I don’t think I’m the way I am because of diet or gut bacteria. But if I can get the focus I need when I need it with better nutrition, I’m in favour.

Bill

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