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Hypnoesitherapy

Noesitherapy is a unique form of pain control based on the procedures pioneered by eminent Spanish Surgeon Dr. Angel Escudero, who has performed over 1,000 surgical procedures without anaesthetic.

The technique came about because Dr Escudero was troubled by the length of recovery time, and the high occurrence of infection on a patient after surgery, under chemical anaesthesia.

The name derives from the Greek word 'Noesi' meaning 'the action of thinking,' married with the word 'therapy' meaning 'healing' - Noesitherapy (Noesi is pronounced no - ee -sea) - 'healing by thinking.'

In May 1991, the BBC screened a series of programmes about alternative medicines and therapies called "Your Life In Their Hands".  One particular programme was entitled simply "Angel" and it featured a millionaire Spanish surgeon called Dr Angel Escudero.  This man had perfected a technique which he called Noesitherapy, and which he used for inducing instantaneous anaesthesia in his patients without any form of drugs or hypnosis, but simply by talking to the patient for a couple of minutes.

The film showed a patient having surgery to correct a badly bent leg.  The surgeon made a large, deep incision and proceeded to saw, drill and hammer, removing a wedge of bone and breaking the leg in order to correctly re-align the deformed limb.  During the entire operation, the patient was fully conscious, chatting and joking with the doctors.

One man, a real sceptic, was told only to have saliva in his mouth and say the words "my arm is anaesthetised".  He then plunged a large needle through his own arm with absolutely no pain or discomfort.  Dr Escudero instructed him to say, "the holes made by the needle remain anaesthetised but the rest of my arm retains its normal sensibilities".  Dr Escudero pinched the man's arm about an inch from the needle and this produced a cry of pain, but when the needle was lifted pulling the man's flesh he felt nothing at all.

The results of Noesitherapy acan be outstanding, apparently miraculous and evidently attainable, allowing 80% of patients treated to maintain a comfortable pain free state for as long as necessary.

The human mind is basically made up of two parts; the conscious mind and the subconscious mind.  The conscious mind takes up only 12% of the volume of the brain.  It learns by past experiences and uses them in current situations.  For example if someone told you to place your hand in a pan of boiling water, you would refuse as the conscious mind recalls that boiling water would burn and hurt.  On the other hand, the subconscious mind is the remaining 88%.  It is responsible for everything our bodies do without having to think, such as our heart beating or breathing.  It is totally unable to reason, argue or reject.  It does believe everything it is told, accepts and obeys.  The subconscious mind is only capable of doing as it is told and follows instructions exactly to the letter.

Therefore, using Noesitherapy combined with hypnosis - Hypnoesitherapy - it is possible to give direct instructions to the subconscious mind, often with staggering results.

For hypnoesitherapy to work the client must identify a need and a wish, and the therapist needs the belief and the desire - that is all.  For example, let's say that the client presents with lower back pain, and the wishes he or she has may be for their back to be comfortable, healthy, strong, supple and relaxed.  These wishes enable the client to instruct their sub-conscious that they need their back muscles to be less tight, not go into spasm and to regenerate their strength.

Once this stage of the therapy is complete, the notion of psychological anaesthesia is introduced, and again, using a positive affirmation, the client tells their subconscious mind that they wish to obtain it.  Strange as it may seem the client is only then required to say "my back is anaesthetised and comfortable", and the psychological anaesthesia is activated.  However, in saying this, it may take a second or two before the client realises that the response has taken place.

Dr. Escudero has also been featured "Carol Vorderman's Mysteries" and although he does not directly utilise hypnosis it appears that by applying traditional hypnotic trance to his methods (hypnoesitherapy), the potency of the therapy is increased.

Hypnoesitherapy has wide ranging applications and can be used to help many clinical and psychological conditions, including:

• Asthma
• Eczema
• Arthritis
• Stroke
• Blood Pressure Problems
• Migraine
• Sciatica
• Frozen shoulder
• Tennis elbow
• Depression
• Stress
• Anxiety 
  

Hypnoesitherapy can also be useful in helping patients undergo dental surgery without anaesthetic.