Adequate sleep enhances weight loss. It could be associated with the role of hypothalmus (which regulates sleep and appetite) or it could be hormonal?
Its relevance to hypnosis - there could be an argument that spending time in a hypnotic trance state may have a negative effect on weight loss in a similar way to sleep. Is there any evidence to suggest otherwise???
Almost anyone that comes to a Clinical hypnotherapist to lose weight has had enough information digested as to how and what to eat. Clinical Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness in which the unconscious mind becomes receptive to positive changes and new ways of addressing issues in your life is fed back to you. The treatment includes natural deep states of relaxation and calm, which are both therapeutic and rejuvenating. Clients come to a hypnotherapist to reframe and shift their thoughts, feelings and behavior about food and eating, hence enhancing weight loss with suggestion and motivation.
Ghrelin and leptin are both produced in the body. A sleep-deprived person over stimulates their ghrelin production, which increases their desire for food. Among the hormonal effects sleep restriction causes an increase in ghrelin levels in the blood. Ghrelin is a hormone that has been shown to reduce energy expenditure, stimulate hunger and food intake, promote retention of fat and increase glucose production in the body. Simultaneously lack of sleep reduces the production of leptin, which is the body’s appetite suppressant. So if you don’t have enough sleep the hormones in your body gets out of whack and you feel hungry and such cravings lead to weight gain.
Adequate sleep is an important factor in successful weight loss. During hypnosis suggestions are given that adequate sleep be a part of a lifestyle package along with diet and exercise. Sleep is one of the important factors that can influence a person’s ability to stay on a diet.
Thursday, 8 March 2012
What is the difference between a natural and normal birth?
Normal birth is often not a ‘natural’ birth but a mother does use pain relieving medications and interventions. Giving birth as nature intended is a ‘Natural Birth’ having a deep intuitive instinct about the birth and when supported and released on the unnatural fear, give birth without any interventions and in a calm and gentle manner. A mother surrounded by her family, friends and health care professionals who remind her of the power of labour and encourage her quietly and patiently to birth her baby naturally, will be able to trust the birth process and be confident that she has the strength and wisdom to give birth her way. Another way of describing natural child birth is when a mother prepares for the birth of her baby confident in her own ability to give birth, being willing to feel the surges and finding comfort in her response to what she feels with no medical intervention. In contrast to a mother giving birth attended by physicians in a busy hospital with medications, machines and epidurals.
Dr Grantly Dick-Read quoted saying:
"While I have not used pure hypnotism very often I have used suggestion a great deal, indeed almost constantly, and I am irked when I see how my colleagues neglect to avail themselves of this harmless and potent remedy. It accounts for easily half of the success of local anaesthesia". This suggests that denying mothers of natural birth experience are hampering the miracle of childbirth hampered by the agony and anguish of the clinical/technical aspects of childbirth rather than the joy/enjoyment it should bring.
Dr Grantly Dick-Read quoted saying:
"While I have not used pure hypnotism very often I have used suggestion a great deal, indeed almost constantly, and I am irked when I see how my colleagues neglect to avail themselves of this harmless and potent remedy. It accounts for easily half of the success of local anaesthesia". This suggests that denying mothers of natural birth experience are hampering the miracle of childbirth hampered by the agony and anguish of the clinical/technical aspects of childbirth rather than the joy/enjoyment it should bring.
A Father’s Role in the Birthing Process
"The transition to fatherhood is one of the most significant and challenging experiences a man will ever face. In order to have a satisfying and successful experience fathers must feel safe, supported and confident. To optimize the possibilities for our families, we need to provide appropriate educational, physical and emotional support for father love". Patrick M. Houser 2009
The days when a father paced up and down in the waiting room while his wife gave birth elsewhere is over. Now fathers are in alliance with the creative process of pregnancy and birth with mothers. Today nearly 90% fathers are present at the birth and are also involved in the caretaking of their children. In 1995 fathers only spent 15 minutes a day with their children and in 1995 it went up to 2 hours. This coincidence may be due to fathers entering the birthing room and becoming involved in the birth process. Fathers are beginning to discover facets of their instinctive and parental love and are putting it into action.
The father/birth companion an integral role in the birthing. The success of the mother’s birth experience depends on the support and assistance of the father/birth companion. The father role as a facilitator during the birthing process helps to condition the mothers mind to relax and respond to his prompts, giving support and continuous assurance of her ability to birth her baby gently. He will instinctively know what to do and maintain peace and calm surrounding the birth.
The father will be a liaison between the mother and her health care professionals before and during birth as a woman in labour can be sensitive and unassertive.
The father/birth companion can protect the mother’s space, be her advocate and give her gentle prompts, gentle touches, arm stroking and shoulder stroking. He can play the CD- Relaxation for Natural Birth. He can make her a jug of water with Five-flower Remedy, spray Essential oil of Lavender in the room. Have Homeopathy-Arnica 200c from Helios ready –give her one when she will go into labour and maybe give her a couple during labour if there is time. He can also give her when her baby is born and each hour for the next 3 hours. (A good idea is to give this to a mother to support tissue under stress).
The father’s is the main point of contact between the midwife and the mother, when she is in labour. He will answer the midwife’s questions about the mothers needs. The father will be the guardian of the birthing room to make sure the environment remains conducive to a relaxed happy birthing. He has learnt hypnobirthing techniques together with the mother, which will enable her to relax and to be her coach at the birth. Fathers find that being involved to this extent enables them to form a very strong bond with their newborn. Father/birth companion involvement is integral for a successful birth as it empowers the mother and is a positive experience when both actively contribute to the birth of their child. Single mothers can have a good birth with hypnobirthing too with support from the midwife or a birth partner.
The couple can come to hypnobirthing classes together learn to enjoy their pregnancy and remain calm and confident throughout. They can practice the scripts together and the father/ partner can use the back-stroking or arm stroking method to gently sooth the mother and create a closeness between them and the baby. Together they can learn the suggested relaxation techniques and practice them daily. There is a bond already formed between the two parents and their baby, who will be tuned in to both the parent’s voices. By knowing that birthing and caring for their baby is a natural process, a mother can allow her birthing body to birth her baby naturally. ‘Whatever you do is right’ is a concept they should follow throughout the pregnancy and birth. By learning what is best for them and their baby they will create an empowering labour and birth.
The days when a father paced up and down in the waiting room while his wife gave birth elsewhere is over. Now fathers are in alliance with the creative process of pregnancy and birth with mothers. Today nearly 90% fathers are present at the birth and are also involved in the caretaking of their children. In 1995 fathers only spent 15 minutes a day with their children and in 1995 it went up to 2 hours. This coincidence may be due to fathers entering the birthing room and becoming involved in the birth process. Fathers are beginning to discover facets of their instinctive and parental love and are putting it into action.
The father/birth companion an integral role in the birthing. The success of the mother’s birth experience depends on the support and assistance of the father/birth companion. The father role as a facilitator during the birthing process helps to condition the mothers mind to relax and respond to his prompts, giving support and continuous assurance of her ability to birth her baby gently. He will instinctively know what to do and maintain peace and calm surrounding the birth.
The father will be a liaison between the mother and her health care professionals before and during birth as a woman in labour can be sensitive and unassertive.
The father/birth companion can protect the mother’s space, be her advocate and give her gentle prompts, gentle touches, arm stroking and shoulder stroking. He can play the CD- Relaxation for Natural Birth. He can make her a jug of water with Five-flower Remedy, spray Essential oil of Lavender in the room. Have Homeopathy-Arnica 200c from Helios ready –give her one when she will go into labour and maybe give her a couple during labour if there is time. He can also give her when her baby is born and each hour for the next 3 hours. (A good idea is to give this to a mother to support tissue under stress).
The father’s is the main point of contact between the midwife and the mother, when she is in labour. He will answer the midwife’s questions about the mothers needs. The father will be the guardian of the birthing room to make sure the environment remains conducive to a relaxed happy birthing. He has learnt hypnobirthing techniques together with the mother, which will enable her to relax and to be her coach at the birth. Fathers find that being involved to this extent enables them to form a very strong bond with their newborn. Father/birth companion involvement is integral for a successful birth as it empowers the mother and is a positive experience when both actively contribute to the birth of their child. Single mothers can have a good birth with hypnobirthing too with support from the midwife or a birth partner.
The couple can come to hypnobirthing classes together learn to enjoy their pregnancy and remain calm and confident throughout. They can practice the scripts together and the father/ partner can use the back-stroking or arm stroking method to gently sooth the mother and create a closeness between them and the baby. Together they can learn the suggested relaxation techniques and practice them daily. There is a bond already formed between the two parents and their baby, who will be tuned in to both the parent’s voices. By knowing that birthing and caring for their baby is a natural process, a mother can allow her birthing body to birth her baby naturally. ‘Whatever you do is right’ is a concept they should follow throughout the pregnancy and birth. By learning what is best for them and their baby they will create an empowering labour and birth.
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