Hypnosis and the Treatment of Cancer
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A Word From Rick Collingwood
I have spent the past thirteen years working as a clinical hypnotherapist, 
and I have been a hypnosis trainer since 1996. During that time I have 
worked with thousands of individuals afflicted with a vast array of both 
physical and emotional challenges. The majority of those people have been 
able to quickly move beyond their presenting restrictions, but alas there 
are always the few who are an exception to the norm. Those few were mostly 
people possessed of what I term "A third dimensional only" belief system. 
Individuals who believe nothing of what they cannot see, hear, or touch.
There is endless speculation from all quarters regarding the causes and 
cures of and for cancer, and there are even more therapies available to the 
afflicted, but there is no panacea or magic bullet to rectify the situation. 
While billions of dollars are spent every year in research, cancer itself 
continues to spread throughout the world like a curse, seeming to strike 
randomly with a willful vengeance, leaving much physical, mental, emotional 
and financial destruction in its wake.
Among the available therapies there is everything from Medical Ozone 
treatments to Fruit Juices that claim to produce miraculous healing 
properties. Between those two are a myriad other choices, but for most 
cancers the fact remains that there is no cure, and I would advise to steer 
a wide berth around any person who claims that they can cure cancer if those 
claims cannot be backed up with valid and verifiable scientific evidence. I 
would also advise any person diagnosed with cancer to listen firstly to 
their oncologist and medical doctor. Personally, common sense dictates that 
fresh food, clean water, some daily sunshine, exercise, and good sleep is an 
idealistic pattern for all to partake or whether presently healthy or 
otherwise.
During my career with hypnosis I have, I believe, stretched the boundaries 
of what is supposed academically that hypnosis is, as opposed to my own 
belief. I believe that although a tremendous amount of mechanistic and 
functional information has been assimilated during scientific studies into 
the nature of hypnosis, the essence of hypnosis, which are the energetic 
transference aspects have been ignored and mostly lost. There are also many 
derivatives of hypnosis that facade themselves behind other names and 
acronyms, which often purport remarkable or instant remedies for all manner 
of ills. To I propose the inclined remember that miraculous cures, more 
often than not fade into the non-permanence of wishful thinking.
The condition of induced hypnosis is not only a matter of clinical 
mechanisms. Effective hypnosis is an interchange of many variances between 
the hypnotist and the subject, and there are safe and effective hypnosis 
protocols that at the very least offer a measurable degree of physical and 
emotional comfort for not only cancer sufferers, but also for many other 
health conditions.
The reasons for undertaking this cancer trial are many. Firstly, I was 
having success's using hypnosis to alleviate the crippling effects in 
sufferers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and non insulin dependent diabetes. 
Then I did some work with a family member who had been diagnosed with 
Parkinson's disease. That hypnosis work yielded some significant results in 
the amelioration of his symptoms (I will stress here that I insist that any 
sick person I work with must remain under their doctors' care and stay on 
their prescribed medications).
The final reason I undertook the study was because of the numerous 
testimonials arriving in my email inbox from people all over Australia, 
reporting significant benefits from the negative effects of many health 
conditions, by the regular use of my Mind-Body healing CD.
All of the participants in the study were required to use the CD daily as an 
adjunct to their weekly, in person, hypnosis sessions for the entire 
duration of the study. All of them requested to keep it, despite the fact 
that they can continue their personal sessions for as long as they wish at 
no cost to themselves.
Beyond my years as a therapist and my sometimes cavalier attitude as to the 
uses and effectiveness of hypnosis as a valid health enhancing therapy, I 
learned a lot from this study.
I learned about excruciating physical and emotional pain. I learned about 
hope. I learned about fear. I learned about faith and the strength of the 
human spirit. But mostly I learned about respect. Not only for the sufferers 
who took part in the study, but for every victim of cancer and also for 
those people from all of the caring professions who work day in and out to 
bring healing and comfort to the sufferers of cancer.
In my opinion this study has been a success beyond my expectations and I 
believe also beyond the expectations of the participants. In that regard I 
would like to thank them all and I would also like to thank my colleague 
Nathan Elliott, a Pharmacist also endowed with the knowledge and skills of 
hypnosis. Without his academic and professional expertise this trial would 
not have been possible, to that end I consider that this was our trial, not 
mine alone.
I would also like to extend thanks to everybody else who in their own ways 
helped to ensure that the trial made it to a successful conclusion. This 
includes the medical doctors and oncologists who had the open-mindedness to 
approve their patients into the trial.
In my final analysis if I were to be asked? Do you think hypnosis can cure 
cancer? I would have to answer, I don't believe that anything can cure most 
cancers, but I do believe that cancer is sometimes created from within. That 
being the case, stress or emotionally inspired cancer will be very difficult 
to cure from without. Or I could take the cynical approach repeat a half 
truth that a colleague of says, which is "The Only Thing Mankind Ever Cured 
was Fish and Bacon, and Given The Right Tools The Body Cures Itself".
I would strongly discourage any person from undertaking hypnosis for 
curative purposes without first consulting their medical doctor and also 
ensuring that the hypnotherapist has adequate knowledge and training in the 
use of hypnosis, and the specialist techniques required to work with pain 
management affect any valid improvement in health related conditions.
From a moral standpoint, and in a gesture of good faith to those who are 
genuinely ill and suffering the all too often resulting financial hardship. 
Please email me directly at, [log in to unmask], explain your plight, and 
leave your name and postal address for a complimentary Mind-Body healing CD.
The above offer is restricted to sick people suffering genuine financial 
hardship ONLY.
If this does not apply to you and you would like to buy a CD please click 
here.

Rayilyn Brown
Director AZNPF
Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation
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