Hypnotherapy and Your Body : The Mind/Body connection : 
Someone once said to me that the body is like the best ever Chemistry set you could ever be given. It is full of wonderful systems and balances most of which we are unaware of and sometimes take completely for granted. I am fascinated and encouraged by how the body regulates and maintains and repairs itself -
The modern technique of using a radioisotope allows us to trace the chemicals that enter and leave the body and demonstrates that 98% of the atoms of the entire body are replaced every year. Each structure of the body has its own rate of reformation. Apparently the lining of the stomach renews itself in one week and the skin is entirely replaced in one month. The liver is regenerated within six weeks. Some tissues are relatively slow to turn over for example the supporting tissue of the body called collagen however the bone on the other hand is specially dynamic.
Our body is constantly dissolving and renewing itself.
Apparently in the next five years we will have completely renewed our hair and our nails and in five years time not a single atom of our present body will be here and five years ago ‘ you didn’t exist ?’ We each breathe in and out thousands and thousands of times a day and it is automatic. Our body does it for us whilst we concentrate on deadlines and word documents and remembering ‘Aunty Minni’s 60th Birthday.’
Breathing is a miracle in itself. Before oxygen can reach the cells it has to travel through the lungs and blood circulation. The air is inhaled through our noses or mouth and travels down the wind pipe called the trachea and the trachea divides into two smaller tubes one supplying each lung and these tubes known as bronchi branch off getting smaller and smaller until they become microscopic in size and after about 15 generations of branches they terminate into tiny tubes called bronchioles each of which ends in a series of tiny air sacs with very thin delicate walls called alveoli. And surrounding the alveoli is a network of tiny blood vessels known as capillaries. The walls of these capillaries are so thin that the oxygen can easily flow through them and the inside is so narrow that blood cells literally have to squeeze through them. Gaseous exchange takes place between the air in the alveoli and the blood in the capillaries and ideally there should be a match between the amount of blood flowing through the capillaries and oxygen brought to the alveoli by breathing………and this is the physiology of breathing. Breath. Life.
If you are interested in how the body is made and what it looks like look up Google Body Browser. It’s free and a wonderful computer programme. It’s state of the art technology and you may need an upgrade to view it however it is well worth it.
Whilst hypnosis cannot be said to cure anything, it can be said to heal some of the effects of mental, physical and emotional conditions.
It can ‘take the heat’ out of them and by using the wonderful resource that we have – our subconscious mind – we can respond in a much more healthy way. Understanding how much we can participate in our health or illness is a significant first step for everyone in getting well. It is a critically important step. In Carl Simonton’s book on Getting Well Again ( 1978 ) they state clinical trials on life expectancy and disease showed that
‘ the essential difference between these patients and those who would not cooperate was in their attitude toward their disease and their positive stance toward life. The patients who continued to do well, for one reason or another, had a stronger will to live.’
If you think that we can work together, please do not hesitate to call. I am happy to work with your Doctor with your permission and infact would advise that they be included in any programme since I have no medical training. I assure you of complete confidentiality and respect at all times. The hardest decision often is picking up the phone. I will not rush you off the telephone and the time that we spend talking will not cost you anything, only your time.
I look forward to working with you. Fiona 07968 106113.
