The Possibilities in Hypnosis, Where the Patient Has the Power - (linked article)
    By JANE E. BRODY

“Stress and Health in Dementia Caregivers.”  Jan Kiecolt-Glaser, Ohio State School of Medicine, conducted a study evaluate the impact of stress on healing.  A small, eraser sized wound healed nine days faster on the control group then the stressed caregivers.

“Stress Weakens the Immune System.”  Synopsis of pertinent research about the effects of stress;  psychologymatters.org/stressimmune.html

Gallup Healthways Well-Being Index is the countries largest poll of health and wellbeing.  They found the impact of a negative work environment alone is 12.3 million sick days a month nationwide or about $14 billion a year in wages alone.

The American Psychological Association published an online study reflecting the response of 1,848 adults October 24, 2007.  Some of the findings were 77% experienced physical symptoms during the last month as a result of stress, 74% found work a significant source of stress, 48% of adults lay awake at night because of stress and on average report losing 21 hours of sleep.

“We’re stressed,We’re Struggling and We Like Weekends” Detroit Free Press, April 30, 2008, The data from the countries largest poll on health and happiness done by the Gallup Organization and Healthways Inc.  showed stress, chronic health conditions (Including preventable ones) and negative work environment are having a dramatic impact on workers productivity.  A graph showing Americans happiness rises sharply on the weekends and drops during the week.  Americans overall job happiness increased when employees were given the chance to meet and get to know each other.

“Less Stress, Happy Heart” Loriena Yancura, Ph.D , This study looks at 716 older men and the way they coped with stress.  Those that coped better had higher levels of HDL (good) cholesterol.  Those that lashed out or handles stress poorly had higher levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol.  Hostility was linked to higher levels of LDL.

“What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Cholesterol” By author Stephen Devries, MD  “ Even if you’re eating well and exercising, you may still be at risk for heart disease because your still not managing your stress,”  he says.  “Stress should be addressed as carefully as problems like high blood pressure”.

“Finding Clues to Aging in the Fraying Tips of Chromosomes” Claudia Dreifus, This article is an interview with Elizabeth H. Blackburn, a cell biologist.  The article explains how scientists have proven psychological stress actually ages cells by wearing down the tips of chromosomes called telomeres.  As we age telomeres naturally wear down.  This has been proven to occur more rapidly in stressed people.  This is scientific proof of the mind –body connection.

“Emotional Stress and Prostate Cancer”  George Kulik, Ph.D,  Hypothesizes that emotional stress activates anti-apoptotic signaling in prostate cancer cells and, as a result, contributes to the progression of prostate cancer and resistance of advanced prostate cancer to therapies.

“Pathophysiological process underlying emotional triggering of acute cardiac events” Philip C. Strike, Kesson Magid, Daisy L. Whitehead, Lena Brydon, Mimi R. Bhattacharyya,  and Andrew Stepoe, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and North Carolina School of Medicine.

“Hypnosis as a modulator of cellular immune dysregulation during acute stress” Kiecolt-Glaser and colleagues, Department of Psychiatry, Ohio State University College of Medicine.   Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 69(4):  674-82 Aug 2001.  Analyzed the effects of hypnotic-relaxation training on the cellular immune function during a stressful event The research showed evidence that hypnosis-relaxation can reduce detrimental immune function changes associated with acute stress.

“Cellular and humeral immunity, mood and exam stress:  the influences of self-hypnosis and personality predictors” Gruzelier and colleagues, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Behavior, Imperial College Medical School, London, International Journal of Psychophysiology.  The study found that self-hypnosis, a low cost psychological intervention, had a sizeable influence on cell-mediated immunity brought on by stress.  These findings support the premise that hypnosis is a cost effective modality that can be applied to other populations such as patients with compromised immunity.

“Psychological treatment of recurrent symptoms of cold and flu in children”, Hewson-Bower B, Drummond PD, Journal of Psychosomatic Research 51 (1):  369-77. July 2001, this study investigates the effects of stress management and relaxation with guided imagery on upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs).  It was conducted on 45 children with 10 or more URTIs in the past year.   The study concludes that psychological treatment appeared to interrupt a chronic illness cycle in children with symptoms of recurrent URTI.

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