Hypnotherapy and Fertility
Infertility can affect every aspect of your life, from your relationships with your parents, family and friends to your career. Going through many months and / years of infertility can leave you feeling out of control and believing that your situation is hopeless.
Our minds have such a powerful effect over our bodies, yet most people don't know how to use them intentionally to effect desired changes in their bodies. Unhealthy beliefs, which can result in negative emotions, over time, will disturb the natural balance in the body. When the body natural balance is disrupted the reproductive system will be affected. If these beliefs, emotions and physiological responses are not addressed fertility may be negatively affected. Our thoughts affect our emotional state and our emotional state affects our health. For every thought feeling or emotion there is a physiological repose in the body.
Fertility is a state of heath and well-being. When the mind and body are in a state of health balance the body naturally produces the hormones needed for reproduction. Hypnotherapy can help to restore this body and mind balance.
Hypnotherapy can help in the following ways:
Decrease the emotional effects of infertility by Reduce Stress, Anxiety and Depression that can result from being unable to conceive.
Increase fertility by:
- Be more successful by learning to be responsible for and influence your emotional and psychological states.
- Replace negative behaviours and habits with positive ones.
- Transform the way you live your everyday life.
- Better understand your own motivations, needs and behaviours and use these positively to have the greatest impact.
- Be more aware of your impact on others and how to manage your behaviour for optimal results.
- Improve and enhance your interpersonal communication at the office and at home.
- Bring about over all positive changes in your everyday life.
Hypnotherapy can help increase the likelihood of conception either naturally or in partnership with medical fertility treatments such as IVF, IUI and FET. It has been shown to increase conception by up to 30% and can double the rate of success of IVF treatment.
You will learn to balance your body and mind and create the perfect environment for you to conceive a healthy baby. Hypnotherapy will help you to create a climate in which conception is encouraged to take place, so that you can give nature a better chance. You have the power to reawaken this innate intelligence and to restore balance and health to your life.
What the experts say
In an article by Suzy Greaves entitled Can Hypnosis Help to Make You Pregnant? Dr. Elizabeth Muir, a clinical psychologist working with hypnotherapy for infertility explains that hypnosis affects the hypothalamus the neural centre at the base of the brain linked to the pituitary gland and controls the flow of hormones in the body. The hypothalamus is sensitive to stress and acts as a bridge between the emotional and physical, turning emotional messages into physical responses that affect hormone levels. Muir believes that the psychological issues surrounding pregnancy are not sufficiently well addressed for many women with fertility problems.
Studies conducted by Alice Domar, PhD, director of the Beth Israel Deaconess Behavioural Medicine Program for Infertility in Boston support Muir's theory that unresolved issues about having a baby can be removed with counselling and mind/body techniques such as hypnotherapy. In the first study published in 1999 in the Journal of the American Medical Women's Association 42% of 132 infertile women in the program conceived within six months of completing it. In the second study, published in 2000 in the journal Fertility and Sterility, 55% of the previously infertile women who met regularly in a mind/body program conceived, compared with 20% of the control group who used no mind/body techniques and who did not attend meetings.
What does hypnotherapy for fertility involve?
The initial consultation will last approx 1 hour 15 mins. This session will be spent asking you relevant questions so that I can ascertain the best possible approach to treatment for you. At the end of this session we can decide how many sessions will be needed, over what period of time. We recommed a mimimum of 4 sessions. The treatment plan will be tailored for you and your partner so that we can take the briefest most effective approach to help you to achieve your goals. The initial session costs £70 and subsequent sessions will cost £60 and will last between 50-60 minutes. During the course of your treatment, telephone and email support is also offered by your therapist.
Individual Sessions are available in Brighton, Hove and Worthing Areas. Also see below details of The Enhance Fertility Programme
The Enhance Fertility Programme
- Helps you feel and stay relaxed, positive and calm
- Resolves any issues which may prevent conception and pregnancy
- Enhances your bodys natural ability to conceive
- Works with your body at key times to promote conception and maintain pregnancy
For every thought in the mind there is a reaction on the the body!
The Enhance Fertility Programme will help you creat a climate in which conception is
encouraged to take place, so that you can give nature a better chance. The course will include deep relaxation and hypnotherapy, course handouts
and a Cd's.
The Enhance Fertility Individual Programme
Individual 4 session programmes currently available in Brighton, Hove and Worthing
Cost: £250 for the 4 x sessions.
Coming soon 5 week The Enhance Fertility Group Programme in Brighton
6 x 50 minute group sessions in small classes involve education, discussion, visualisation and deep relaxation
For further details, book an individual programme or register your interest for group sessions
Call Julie Tel: 07900 883618
Email: info@begintolive.co.uk
Julie Cleasby has experience working with fertility issues using hypnosis and EFT and has undertaken an Advanced
Certificate in Using Hypnotherapy for Fertility Issues. Julie also works in conjunction
with Brighton and Hove Natural Fertility Centre.
