Kathy Gantz, Author at Kathy Gantz

January 15, 2017 by Kathy Gantz

Any surgery can be anxiety-producing. A session guides you through the following steps to manage the surgery that can be so nerve-wracking.

1) Exploration and correction of misconceptions and fears about surgery. It is important to deal with the fear and anxiety surrounding the event, and to confront feelings about doctors, hospitals and pain.

2) How to induce numbness, coldness, stiffness for analgesia/anesthesia.

3) Visualization: Use inner resources, for example selecting a time when you went on vacation, and the injection that you receive before surgery will be your ticket to leave on the trip. You can also imagine all the background noise or voices of the surgery becoming background noise associated with your trip.

4) Preparing for Post Operative Healing: How to ignore sensations of discomfort in the surgery area and how to eliminate post-operative pain, and preparation for returning home. Hypnosis will allow for the most rapid healing because inflammation will be reduced.

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Hypnosis: An Answer to Chronic Pain

January 6, 2017 by Kathy Gantz

After three pain management and hypnosis sessions with Kathy, a client made remarkable progress from chronic pain!

For three to four years, the client had visited a variety of doctors, but could not find any explanation for her persistent back, knee and stomach pain. She was in a great deal of discomfort, anxiety, and stress. Her condition had taken over her life.

After three sessions, she was able to see that the doctors couldn’t provide her an explanation because she was healthy. Together, she and Kathy worked on pain management, stress management, breathing exercises, and her anger issues. She used color, music and a variety of other mental training techniques to create healing imagery.

For example, Kathy guided her in imagining she was in a hot shower, with pain pouring off her body, and washing it down the drain. She had her imagine stimulation in the back and knees. She envisioned being her own doctor and taking control of her health. Kathy also worked on some of her digestive issues.

Because of the psychobiology of thought, these thoughts get anchored and become calcified. It is through mental training that this client was able to get out of her own way and let go of so many of these thoughts.

Healing is a work in progress, but in three sessions, she’s made remarkable advances.

Stay posted for our topic, on pre and post op preparation for surgery with hypnosis.