Dr. Mapes performing manipulation under anesthesia at a local surgery center. 

Mind body therapies are misunderstood by many poeple. Dr. Elmer Green from the Menninger Foundation and C. Norman Shealy, Neurosurgeon and pain specialist are two people that have spent their lives researching and verifying the power and effectiveness of such techinques. Recent knowledge from new brain imaging equipment such as Positron emission Technique and SPECT scanners, have proven that the human mind and body are intimately connected and when one of them is sick the other is also.  When we use hypnosis we do basically two things: 1. we teach you to relax, to decrease stress allowing the body and mind a chance to take a break and heal.  and 2. We have you focus on things in a positive way.  Surprisingly, this is helpful for healing more often than one might think. 

  Biofeedback is another mind body tool that I use. It is a tool using electronic equipment to feed back information about what is going on inside your body. This is information that you usually never have.  With the new information, you can learn to control things that you otherwise would have no control over. Things that have always been controlled by your autonomic nervous system, you learn to control them with your conscious, thinking part of your brain.  

Autogenics relaxation therapy,  Jacobson's relaxation therapy, and other mind body techniques are also ways that you can learn to control things that have previously been controling you.

Therapeutic hypnosis may not be for everyone but for those people who can benefit from it, it is a safe and wonderful way to obtain goals including good health.

The mind body connection is more powerful than most people realise. Hypnosis has been used for centuries with a record that shows that it is more effective, much safer than medicine for most conditions.

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A partial list of conditions that hypnosis can help includes:

CHRONIC PAIN

ASTHMA

HYPERTENSION

WEIGHT CONTROL

DRUG OR ALCOHOL ABUSE

SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION

CHRONIC STOMACH OR INTESTINAL PROBLEMS.

DEPRESSION

CHRONIC STRESS

PANIC ATTACKS

SLEEPLESSNESS

ALLERGIES

MIGRAINE HEADACHES

FIBROMYALGIA

DYSMENORRHEA