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topic on today's show. welcome to world of the inception i'm here at the museum of pollutions in berlin and this is the place where your senses will be food. get ready for an exciting show today it's all about perception. and you can use those senses for healing like in hypnotherapy let me show you the. color oh look at your hands and realize that this hand moves towards your forehead and when your hand touches your head you will fall into deep deep. relaxing sleep

sleep. and now she's in a trance and you can use all those healing suggestions. today we talk with dr thomas votes president of the german society for dental hypnosis he uses hypnosis when his patients are experiencing exceptional anxiety or pain to the north opens an entire spectrum of possibilities and the field of health. if gnosis is not and this teaches people who are in a trance are in control of themselves all the time. good nurses is not magic it can even help as doctors treat patients with insomnia or unsightly disorders or even assist those doing surgery. then. find yourself in a beautiful place where the sun is shining and you can close your eyes and drift

far far away a big game in her mind christer of ascii is indeed very far away so the sixty two year old is in a trance a unique mental state. is a seat disappeared i was seeing these pictures as if i were watching a movie. and then i saw a lovely holiday resort where the sun was shining. and it was as if i just been transported there. for. research as well why do investigating what happens in our brains during trance and hypnosis. hypnotherapy can be particularly helpful when psychosomatic factors trigger illness as can be the case with irritable bowel syndrome or sleep disorders. don't spoil your free easy this is a broad generally we see that with functional disorders where we are strong emotions are involved for instance with gastrointestinal respiratory or skin

disorders the psyche also plays a role. i know. there was also a psychological component in christer of eskies case she needed a sister removed from her jaw intense pain and loud noise made the operation especially traumatic then she needed another operation which terrified her but the cyst have to come out so she decided to try hypnosis to get her through the second procedure. when mice guided her into a trance state. and the. builders come to your home as agreed and you let them do their job you ask yes there's noise but you just leave the room where they're working you know for us. in our mind's eye christer is leaving the apartment and all the construction noise

. this should help her feel less anxious about the surgery and the noises that go with it. in these here we use this technique to redirect our focus on other things we specifically address the right brain which controls our emotions and of course also affects our body. this can even be seen. just stephen lawrence at the university hospital m.e.h. studies the brain activity of people in trance states his findings show a clear change in brain wave activity. often enough that. in a normal state of the areas responsible for perception or blue under hypnosis however there is a kind of shutdown the neural network becomes dormant with no sign of brain activity in. despair. or in stark contrast the parts of the brain that control emotion and imagination that active as if someone

is really seeing feeling or experiencing something pain stimuli perceived but not experienced as such. this means stimuli of processed in the brain differently. researchers think that not only is activity altered within regions of the brain but also within the connections between the different brain regions. hypnosis can even replace general anesthesia using only pain medication and local anesthesia like hit during a deep brain stimulation procedure as a whole is drilled in the patient's skull neurosurgeon report right here out incorporates the sounds into the hypnosis. you already have as the workers start and stop drilling with a new matic drill you can open your mouth and it isn't so bad. as.

cardiovascular values for my normal. but the nation does feel the pain but integrates it positively into other experiences and modulator it so be experienced isn't so stressful austin. christer had the same experience she was able to drop into a hypnotic state during her second jaw surgery with the help of the noisy apartment from which she could dreamily escape. i'm here with dr thomas voice he's the president of the german society for dental hypnosis thanks for having me today in hypnosis you put patients in a trance so what exactly is a trance trance as a state of focused attention to it goes from outside to be in our. feeling of the patient how does

a session of work. if you put a patient into a trance usually the first appointment we have just an explanation and we talk about what the patient needs he told me three words it's the truth is reword induction technique and that are three words that he associates with a very relaxing state moment action or place so three words offer his situation what i really like yet so say cation beach and clouds relax in the chair and. you can imagine. goes like a ghost out of his body to a place that is absolutely secure and where you can relax and this place is maybe i don't know where if you have been the

if you want to go there or if it is your vacation you can just imagine maybe you can feel some sand under your feet maybe you can see when you are at the beach also the water and you can just relax and stay at this place. and open office again so durant. con from twenty to one calmly you don't have to say the words. welcome back thank you how was it well actually it was very relaxing but i would be a little bit scared if you would be my dentist with a drill in your hand and i would sit in your chair with my mouth open because. i'm

not sure if this would be pain free this is absolutely right but this is because i did not get any suggestions for you for pain relief we just made it for relax asian and so if you want to have pain relief maybe four to six struction and we have to do it for pain relief this is the reason why i have to know why you are at the dentist ok so that we don't have to go there rather not of my teeth so patients are very often very scared that they will lose control. in a trance but there is nothing to fear about it i have something what i can offer the patient security and ok. may i touch your wrist. so it is like to security and ok and it will become live but we say in medicine cataleptic so it is like it is not your hand maybe its getting also

a bit cold and when when you say stop the treatment. you do the head like that ok ok and if you are in a good state. like this i will stay in perfectly troll of the treatment can you always say that there is very exciting so why don't you just take a closer look at how he works. i can't help was so scared of the dentist he even fainted once in the chair. then when the leak to not me was lying and as a tube sucking up your saliva that's not my kind of thing more. nish minding i hope to tell you. i'm tired i don't know i guess and the moment has arrived. the feeling of being completely vulnerable while lying on your back the harsh light and the howling of the drill can spark panic in cases where patients suffer extreme fear of dental procedures they often avoid going to the dentist at all.

reduced to dental treatment with hypnosis begins with a detailed conversation in which dr both explains exactly what he intends to do. that alone can help to allay the patient's fear. most people want to know what will happen when they're hypnotized. i'm on pause. you can be all new to you more often you can leave your eyes open or closed most patients say it's more pleasant when the eyes are closed just breathe normally in and i. will know just how you feel a little more relaxed from breath to breath breathe in breathe out picture yourself in the here and now is your spirit simply leave your body goes to a place where it feels comfortable and safe. i'm autumn to musician for water once your fruit.