Hypnosis for Medical IV's and Needles and Blood Draws

Working in the medical world, I get to see many situations where simple, easy, hypnosis could be used. There are everyday medical procedures that frighten many patients. Such as getting your blood taken or even getting a shot. Some patients get so frightened that they actually can faint. Sometimes people actually get so frightened that their veins constrict and get smaller, therefore, making it even more difficult to start an I.V. line. Some people will never go to a doctor because of this fear. Hypnosis affords a simple perfect solution to this problem that you can carry with you anywhere.I.V. 's are a way to administer fluids and/or medications directly into the circulatory system. Hypnosis can help to alleviate or take away the discomfort and the fear. Injections are simply a way to get your body to slowly absorb various medications. Here are some simple hypnotic techniques that anyone can learn.Simple dissociation technique works well in these situations. Just imagine being in a safe place real or imagined. Make it as real as possible. See what you would see, hear what you would hear, taste what you would taste. The idea is to make it as real as possible.Some other visualizations that work can be that the patient can "picture and imagine" a thick gel pad covering the arm. It becomes thicker and thicker. So thick, that nothing can be felt underneath the pad.Another visualization to use is simply going into self-hypnosis and imagine having the arm get numb. You will be able to feel them working, maybe a little discomfort but nothing will bother you. Some people respond well to the idea of having an "empty sleeve" so that they do not even know there is an arm there.For blood draws, one may want to add the visualization of the veins dilating filling up with blood pumping to the surface. Or imagine floating in a warm bathtub and you veins just feeling the heat of the warm water. What you may find that will happen is that the veins will dilate just by the pure visualization of the warm water.For needles, practice getting so relaxed that your arm feels as if it is not a part of your body. Because of your powerful mind, you have the ability to turn off the sensation in an arm, a leg, anywhere on your body. Just like a switching station, you can shut off the feeling of the hand or the arm or whatever part you want.If you have a fear from a previous incident as a child, hypnosis is the perfect solution to releasing that old emotions.You may want to schedule an appointment with a medical hypnotist who specializes in this area. I know that I work with patients even by phone or Skype if they can't come into the office. Sometimes, I even go into the hospital setting.