Archive for May, 2007

MRI Scan Terror

Full hypnosis download: Overcome MRI Scan Anxiety The inspiration to produce a hypnotic session to quickly overcome MRI scan anxiety was two fold. Firstly so many people - friends and family have told me they could ‘never bear to have one of those scans! And secondly I have treated, over the years, dozens of clients (some sent by doctors) who had to have MRI scans but were terrified of the prospect.People feel they’ll be claustrophobic inside the scan machine and also fear general sense of lack of control.My intention for this hypnosisdownloads.com session is to deal with the claustrophobia and suggest that time seems to pass very quickly during the MRI scan itself. This sounds strange but we know that our sense of time passing is subjective. When you’re bored, or in a situation you don’t like, time seems to slow down. When you’re having a great time then time seems to speed up. We use hypnosis to alter the subjective experience of time.Because MRI scans are so sensitive to movement then stillness is required and the best way to keep still is to relax deeply. Clients I’ve treated for MRI scan anxiety have said afterwards that they actually enjoyed the deep stillness and relaxation they experienced in the scan. Many also stated how time had ‘flown’ and the whole procedure had seemed much quicker than they had expected. We all have infinite space in our minds Actually this sounds a bit, well, new agey. But it’s actually a simple fact that we can be on a train physically but psychologically we can be anywhere in the world as we daydream. We might be in a plane but asleep and in our dream we could be wondering through a vast desert. So we are on the plane but not on the plane-if that makes sense. Mentally we can have all the space we need. If you can be in an MRI scan physically but relaxing in your favorite park or garden or beach-psychologically then you feel as if you have all the space around you. Amazingly your body responds to what your mind is doing. (which is why people’s hands become warmer when they simply imagine warming them around an open fire). So this is the secret of relaxing in what seem to be confined spaces. When I am at the dentist I don’t confine myself to the dentist’s chair or clinic I ‘travel’ hypnotically in my mind so that I feel as relaxed and comfortable as possible. So the two aspects of this session are: Hypnotic time distortion and deep rest and relaxation achieved through hypnotic suggestion. That’s all from me for now. Mark Tyrrell