Sea Sickness

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Permalink Reply by Hypno-Jay on February 4, 2012 at 9:58am

Hhhhmmmm I have never dealt with this but sea sickness is a physical response, maybe learning to focus on something else and not the sickness, future pacing and maybe the control room (I love this technique) to tune down the response.

That is the way I would approach it anyhow, I'm sure there are others with experience that will give you sounder advice but there is my 2 cents worth

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Permalink Reply by JImmy Hynes on February 4, 2012 at 10:03am

Yep, on myself - a couple times =\.

First time was in the car going up a windy road that normally gave me trouble. I visualized a dial indicator of my motion sickness level, and then started pulling it down towards zero, and locking it there. That lasted a few months before I got in a situation that broke my hold free.

The next time I was on a boat and did a quick ideomotor parts therapy and convinced the part to make me "comfortable". This worked remarkably well, but it was just the comfort aspect - a few minutes later I was comfortably about to vomit, and a few minutes later, comfortably shivering in the cold.

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Permalink Reply by Barry Neale on February 4, 2012 at 10:09am

HI Fern,

 

There are number of things you can do with nlp hypnosis eft.

 

Most people who have sea sickness also have anxiety about having sea sickness so this is a good place to start. You could do this with EFT in the usual way. Or you could use a scramble pattern or even straight forward direct suggestion.

 

One of the things that I like to do is to have them remember a time when they felt sea sick and ask them whats the first feeling they have on the inside that let's them know they are starting to feel sick and notice where the feeling goes and what color it is. Then you ask them how they would like to feel instead. You give the resource feeling a color and run the pattern in reverse.

 

This can be practised in the session and then they can use it easily if they start to get symptoms.

 

here are the steps

 

1.Identify how you create sea sickness.

Answer the following questions:

a. Where does the stress or feeling start? (The Location)

b. What is the feeling's direction in your body? (The Arc)

c. What color do you associate with the feeling? (The Energy)

 

Eg. The feeling starts in the stomach and goes up to the throat and is vivid red.

 

2. Rate the intensity of the feeling. Use a scale from zero to 10, where 10

is totally awful and zero is none at all.

 

3. Reverse the pattern. Choose a new color, location, direction and emotion.

So for example, maybe choose a calm relaxed feeling. It starts in the mouth, goes down through the heart and into the stomach and is blue.

Repeat seven times.

 

4. Test it.

Measure it again to see if the nausea has lessened, disappeared or

become pleasure, from negative 10, to zero, up to positive 10.

 

Another thing you can get them to do is to tap on the inside of their wrist just above the crease. This is the Nei Guan point and helps to relieve nausea. This is the point that the sea sick wrist bands stimulate.

 

Also because seasickness happens because of what our eyes are telling us and the body is feeling something different I have found that teaching the client how to go into peripheral vision at will is really useful. When you go into peripheral vision you access the parasympathetic nervous system and the body relaxes.

 

hope this helps

 

barry

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Permalink Reply by Kelley Woods on February 4, 2012 at 11:17am

Hi Fern,

After helping fellow cruise ship passengers one dark and stormy night, I wrote an article on this topic. Since doing so, I would also add that EFT is helpful for changing motion sickness suffering.

Best, Kelley

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on February 4, 2012 at 2:31pm

Hi Fern, et al,

The question of preventing and/or assisting peope with sea sickness came up when I was teaching a workshop with Dan Cleary and Dan Cleary, a seasoned sailor and very smart cookie said something along the lines of:

"It's not nice to fool mother nature - if you body-mind wants to throw up and get the bile out - why fight it?" Dan recommend being okay with just letting it go and enjoying the day or night... Dan also said if one experiences slight nausea it is best to stay on deck or go up on deck -- Going/staying below is a bad idea... Focusing on the horizon or land, if possible is a good way to relax into making peace with the motion and conflicting sensory input.

Smooth sailing-

Michael E.

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Permalink Reply by Kathryn Beck on February 4, 2012 at 4:59pm

I had a friend do hypnosis on me for sea sickness and I have done it on a client years ago.  Regression works well to find out where the fear/anxiety comes from, parts therapy is helpful too, and forward progression to feeling relaxed and grounded...and doing that future progression over and over.  It works very well!

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Permalink Reply by John Cleesattel on February 4, 2012 at 7:11pm

The rest of us use the sea sickness remedy that has been proven effective for sailors for over a thousand years for both prevention, and if too late for that, for recovery. It's called "Ginger". Ginger Ale anyone?

John

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