Hypnosis is defined as "a procedure during which a health professional or researcher suggests that a client, patient, or experimental participant experience changes in sensations, perceptions, thoughts, or behavior." Modern research seems to suggest that hypnosis has a genuine effect on brain functioning. Hypnotherapy can speed up the release of fears, phobias, and emotional blockages by tenfold or more over some conventional methods of psychotherapy. An important find is that hypnotherapy helps cure skin diseases that are the result of some emotional trauma.

We all know that the skin is the largest and most sensitive organ in the body and as an organ; it is controlled completely by our sub-conscious mind. For example, when we are embarrassed the skin on the face will become red. We cannot produce the same effect voluntarily. Similarly, the skin pales when one experiences fear and anxiety. The skin responds to outside environment like sweating in heat, shivering in cold, it glows when we are happy, etc.

How can hypnotherap helps cure skin diseases?
The skin contains many millions of nerve endings that are closely connected to the body's control centre - the brain. The skin uses these close links with the nervous system to react to reflective and emotional events. This means that through hypnosis the sub-conscious mind can be educated to reprogram signals that are sent to the skin.

When stress occurs in our lives, and we experience and block emotional difficulties, the skin reacts. It can't talk in words but its emotional language may be expressed by an appearance of rashes, eczema or an outbreak of psoriasis. As researchers learn more about the skin, the emotions and the brain, the key discovery appears to be the body's ability to turn intensely experienced ideas and fantasies into physical realities. It is here that hypnotherapy can intervene to help cure skin diseases in patients with chronic psychosomatic skin afflictions that are non-responsive to other simpler approaches.

Hypnosis is currently an underused therapy in dermatology. In appropriately selected patients, it can decrease or eliminate symptoms, and, in some cases, it can induce lasting remissions or cures of skin diseases. If you are a patient of a stubborn skin disease, talk to your dermatologist. Many dermatologists choose to refer patients with complex cutaneous surgical problems to competent specialists in dermatologic surgery. Likewise, many dermatologists choose to refer patients with complex psychosomatic dermatologic problems to competent specialists in hypnosis-assisted therapy. It is unfortunetae to observe that very few doctors refer patients for hypnosis, though research studies show that hypnotherapy helps cure skin diseases very effectively. You can ask for a referral and try hypnosis. You may find it works like magic!

Some of the skin diseases where hypnotherapy helped cure skin diseases are: verruca vulgaris, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, urticaria, acne excoriée, alopecia areata, congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma , dyshidrotic dermatitis, erythromelalgia, furuncles, glossodynia , herpes simplex , hyperhidrosis, ichthyosis vulgaris, lichen planus, neurodermatitis, nummular dermatitis, postherpetic neuralgia, pruritus, rosacea, trichotillomania, vitiligo.