Loss of Taste

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Permalink Reply by Neil on May 3, 2010 at 1:47am

Regress him to 3 years ago.
Bring taste sensations of enjoying flavour to present.

Hold your nose. Chew some food. Realise you can't taste without smell.
Let the client hold his nose and taste.

If his physiology changes, then you know you can bring his taste back.

Change his belief about not being able to taste.
Give him some thing to eat/chew.
Link the experience and belief to the chewing.

Find out how his mental processes got rid of taste.
Use this to set up a weight loss clinic, and retire on the money.

Love and respect Neil.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on May 3, 2010 at 3:48am

Hi Jules,

Some of my AIDS and cancer clients had treatment related "hypogeusia" (loss of taste)

Many found that practicing self-hypnosis and using imagery that had them smelling the aroma of their favorite foods -- Foods that had them drooling by just thinking about them would automatically make their mouths water when they thought about them before eating and that would wake up their taste buds--

FYI -- "One Bite at A Time" by Rebecca Katz is filled with outstanding recipes for preparing delicious meals for people suffering from loss of taste--

Warmest regards,

Michael E

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Permalink Reply by Scott Sandland on May 3, 2010 at 8:43am

I worked with a man a few years ago who actually owns a vineyard and winery who lost most of his sense of taste due to throat and mouth cancer treatments. This was a huge deal for him, and he showed up fairly desperate. Fortunately for everyone, I had just read an article online that showed that our sensory input isn't uniquely coded by organ, meaning our brain gets the signals and then translates those into sensations.

In the article I read they were able to hook up a camera to a computer, and the computer was connected to a stimulation pad placed on a person's tongue (who was blindfolded). The camera sent signals to the tongue, which sent signals to the brain. After about an hour of practice the blindfolded person could roll a ball back and forth on a table and play two dimensional "catch" in real time with another person. The third dimension took more practice to acclimate.

With this knowledge I helped my client use site and smell to 'hallucinate' his flavors. Since so much of our sense of taste is connected to our sense of smell this isn't all that far a leap. In one session and a recording he was able to start eating and enjoying food again.

You can do this Jules. It's very realistic to expect great results in this area. Stage hypnotists help people taste things that aren't there all the time, so your job is even easier than theirs!

have fun,
Scott

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Permalink Reply by tc_Burt on May 7, 2010 at 5:47am

I find it hard to appreciate someone who has a 'smell' doesn't have a 'taste', I have 3 teenage and plus girls, and I can definitely taste every perfume and deodorant they spray and every heavily scented shampoo and conditioner they use, however I don't always associate 'taste' and then 'smell' as confirmation, in that order. Often I can taste something which I cannot particuarly smell, but most definitely I generally can taste what I can smell, so maybe odorous foods might assist or the addition of fragrant herbs or even some conditioning with fragrant herbs to stimulate.

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