Chemotherapy:

Imagery has been successfully tested as a strategy for relieving nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy in cancer patients, and it has also been found to relieve stress and promote weight gain in those with cancer. Patients using the Simonton method have successfully used guided imagery as an adjunct therapy to conventional cancer treatments to mobilize their immune systems.

Other studies have shown that guided imagery is particularly helpful for patients preparing for and recovering from surgery. A 1996 study at the Cleveland Clinic showed that patients who used guided imagery prior to breast cancer surgery had less anxiety before and less pain after the surgery than did the control group. The members of the guided imagery group used 37 percent less pain medication, regained their bowel function sooner, and were released from the hospital an average of a day and a half earlier. Blue Shield of California has even begun to distribute guided imagery recordings to its members scheduled for major surgery in the hope that the practice will decrease surgical complications and the pain and anxiety associated with surgery.

 This imagery combines images of tumors shrinking and fighter cells battling and triumphing over cancer cells. In the 1970s, O. Carl Simonton, M.D., chief of Radiation Therapy at Travis Air Force base in Fairfield, California, and psychotherapist Stephanie Matthews-Simonson, devised a program - today known as the Simonton method - that utilized guided imagery to help his cancer patients. The patients pictured their white blood cells attacking their cancer cells (sometimes in scenes that resembled the popular video game "Pac-Man"). Simonton found that the more vivid the images his patients used (for example, ravenous sharks attacking feeble little fish), the better the process worked.

According to the national institute of health today nearly two million Americans are alive and are considered cured from cancer. That means after five years or more after the initial diagnosis and treatment they are free of cancer. Now let me repeat that after five years or more after the initial diagnosis of cancer they are free of cancer. That means there is no evidence of cancer anywhere in there body. Can you imagine how many people two million is? Well take a moment right now and imagine a large beautiful meadow stretching as far as the eye can see. You might begin to imagine thousands and thousands of smiling happy people filling up that meadow they are survivors. There are all kinds of people men, woman, young people, old people, black people, and white people. There are tall people and short people. They all have one thing in common once they had cancer but now they do not have any cancer at all. They are survivors they come from all walks of life. They are housewife’s, farm workers, doctors, laborers, teachers and bus drivers. They are secretaries, sales people, factory workers, stockbrokers and accountants. They are people just like you. And as you imagine this beautiful meadow filling up with these millions of survivors you may wish to join them. Imagine yourself right there with them. Five years from now free of cancer. A survivor free of disease. Healthy and happy. Two million Americans alive today and free of cancer. For many of these survivors the treatment that they received was chemotherapy. If your doctors have recommended  chemotherapy treatment for you it is because they have identify your particular type of caner as one that is especially venerable to the chemicals used in chemotherapy treatment to destroy cancer cells. Ask your doctor and health care professional any questions you may have about your treatment. Knowledge can be you’re ally against fear and uncertainty, allowing you to use your energy for positive thoughts and healing images. The medical literature today is complete with studies examine the relationship between the mind and the body. In a resent issue of the Harvard mental health letter studies were reported that examined the immune system and length of survival of cancer patients. One study reported that during diagnosis and treatment patients who showed a fighting spirit were alive and healthy at follow up, while patients that felt mainly stoic resignation and helplessness were more likely to have died or suffered recurrence. Another study show that patients that were involved in a process to learn how to take charge of there lives communicate better with family assert themselves more with doctors and participate in there treatment lived on an average of twice as long.  As others who received only standard medical care. Another group of cancer patients studies showed their immune system inprove by several measures receiving six weeks of group therapy. It a scientific fact there is a definite relationship between our minds and body’s it can make a difference. 

 You Can Use The Power Of The Mind to Get Better Results.

 Scientific and voluminous clinical studies have shown that clinical hypnosis has been extremely successful in treating such conditions as anxiety disorders, stress reduction, hypertension, stress disorder, weight control, pain management, addictions, smoking cessation, and managing the distress of cancer and chemotherapy.