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Patient Suitability for VRH
A1 Relax
Module 1 is used to test the patient's ability to relax and follow suggestions
that lead to an altered state of consciousness (normally a light hypnoidal
state).
Test B1 Hypno profile
Module 2 was developed as a research tool to assess
hypnotic susceptibility. In clinical practice, hypnosis susceptibility
testing can be used to quantify the patient's ability to follow suggestions
during altered states of consciousness. Patients with high hypnosis susceptibility
scores are more likely to achieve the targeted outcomes.
Smoking Cessation
The smoking cessation programs were designed to
help people overcome nicotine addiction. The 4 module program was designed
to address the chemical and/or habitual components of smoking.
The VRH Stop Smoking program was developed as a "stand alone" strategy to assist people in their efforts to stop smoking. The VRH program can also be used as an adjunct to pharmacological strategies (e.g. nicotine patches and gums).
Emotional Conditioning
This program focusses on some of the choices we
make in life and the consequences of those choices if we do not change.
It is a journey which highlights the possibilities we all have within
us to be powerful, confident and in control of our own destiny.
Coping
The Virtual Reality Hypnosis / hypnosleep "Coping"
module is a psychotherapy tool designed to modify coping strategies dominated
by negative beliefs and catastrophizing. The module is used in patients
presenting with stress related syndromes: e.g. intractable pain, complex
pain syndromes, psychosomatic disorders, anxiety, panic, minor depression,
ASD, PTSD and others.
Reframing
The VRH reframing module uses a more traditional
style of hypnosis, and enhances the experience with the use of visual
metaphors and other methods. During an altered state of consciousness,
the patient is provided with an alternative view to reframe the emotional
/ psychological motivation behind the problem behaviour (e.g. smoking),
and this provides the patient with a new understanding of the health implications
associated with negative habits and a subconscious avenue to manage those
urges.
Ego Strengthening
The Ego Strengthening module uses altered states
of consciousness and numerous subliminal processes to modify inappropriate
behaviors (e.g. addictions), which may be generated by existential depression.
Biophilia Programs
Over millions of years of evolution, we have been
conditioned or "hardwired" to seek out environments which are
most conducive to our safety and survival. Environments such as lush forests,
containing plenty of water, food and shelter are instinctively secure
and comforting to us. Each module progressively leads the participant
through a journey to the hidden paradise of Shambala. The journey to Shambala
is a visual and narrative metaphor for life's journey, which acts, additionally,
as a mechanism for cognitive therapy to reduce feelings that lead to anxiety,
grief, panic, depression and their psychosomatic co-morbidities (e.g.
sleep disturbances, irritable bowel, shingles etc).
Victor Frankl Coping
Module (Anxiety and Depression)
The client is led into an altered state of consciousness
where the induced emotional state is used for ego strengthening, reframing
the client's existing reality, and exploring a new meaning to their existence.
The module assists people experiencing existential depression and anxiety
and includes references to coping with the difficulties they may experience
as they search for meaning in their own existence.
Savouring Coping Module (Anxiety and Depression)
In the savouring module, waking hypnosis and guided
imagery are used to create empathy and guide the client through a savouring
technique used to help the client get more out of life - without any associated
feelings of guilt, anxiety or depression.
Pre-Surgical Anxiety
The pre-surgery anxiety program contains three
modules, which were developed for use in pre- and post-surgical environments.
The program was originally developed for Schriners Burns hospital in Cincinnati
USA and is designed to reduce pre-surgical anxiety in patients presenting
for surgery. It is also useful for dental procedures, needle phobia and
other procedures where anxiety is heightened by the anticipation of a
painful medical procedure.
Hypnosedation
This program was designed to access the natural
states of heightened suggestibility, which normally occur when a patient
enters the surgical or medical environment. The module delivers hypnotic
suggestions to reduce anxiety and post procedural pain.
Virtual Analgesia™ Pain Management Program
Biophilia Forests
"Biophilia Forests" was developed as
a general pain management tool, but its use in clinical environments indicate
that a much broader application is possible. Clinicians (i.e. anesthetists,
psychiatrists, psychologists, medical practitioners and hypnotherapists)
have reported positive results from patients presenting with Acute Stress
Disorder, post operative pain (Friedrieksen's ataxia), cancer pain, reduced
analgesic requirements, emotional stress, post herpetic neuralgia (shingles
pain), sleep disorders, repetitive strain injury, bipolar disorder, irritable
bowel syndrome, migraine, back pain, complex pain syndromes, burn pain,
pain during burn debridement, hypnosedation (caesarian section).
Biophilia Beaches
"Biophilia Beaches" was developed as
a follow up procedure to reinforce hypnotic suggestions delivered in "Biophilia
Beaches". The guided imagery and hypnotic suggestions in "Biophilia
Beaches" and "Biophilia Forests" are almost identical,
so their clinical applications should be comparable.
Journeys to paradise parts 1 to 5
Each module uses a different audio visual presentation
to progressively lead the participant through a journey to the hidden
paradise of Shambala. The journey to Shambala is a visual and narrative
metaphor for life's journey, which acts, additionally, as a mechanism
for cognitive distraction.
Relaxing the body and focusing the mind on a narrative and visual metaphor during hypnosis and integrating the altered states of consciousness with cognitive behavior therapy is designed to induce deep relaxation, alter perceptions of "real world" problems, and help to reduce feelings that lead to anxiety, grief, panic, depression and their psychosomatic co-morbidities (e.g. sleep disturbances, irritable bowel, shingles etc).
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