script to control diabetics

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Permalink Reply by Henxy on September 23, 2010 at 2:59am

ROFL...
Control the symptoms of diabetes, rather than the diabetic?!

Permalink Reply by Pete & Lorraine on September 23, 2010 at 3:30am

As far as I know keeping Diabetes under control is centered around eating appropriate foods and portion control, to avoid a hypo and medication at set times to avoid a coma. Is it Type 1 or 2 ? Type 2 can be helped with weightloss adding gastric banding or using Hypno-Band type therapy. I read somewhere there are trials in the US to see if Type 1 can be controlled by gastric band.
Both types are around eating appropriately, what is the problem you need to deal with.

Permalink Reply by Bridget McKenna on September 23, 2010 at 1:53pm

If someone had a script to give you, it wouldn't necessarily be applicable to your client. Trance allows the subject to call on their own inner resources for healing, and in my opinion full congruence and trusting your (and their) unconscious will get them further than reading a script. It's sort of like giving a talk: if you know what you want to say and get into a good state, you'll give a great talk. If you read from index cards, your audience won't be nearly as engaged.

I'd suggest reminding their unconscious that what their doctor calls "diabetes" is not a thing but a process; something their body is doing in a certain way, that it also knows how to do in an entirely different way. When they were born, and for many years of their life, their body ran those processes in ways that enhanced their health a well-being, and if given a chance to remember, it can begin to change the process back to the healthy one at the exact speed that's right for them. And yes, suggestions about finding it easier every day to eat in a way that will increase their health.

I think one thing that's very important is to separate their idea of the "thing" (the disease) from their identity. Diabetics in particular tend to confuse the process with the person, hence "I am a diabetic." I'd suggest that even before and after trance, you use lots of language that dissociates them from "that process," spatial anchoring (and more language) that places it in their past, and robust health in their future. I'd avoid mentioning "controlling" the disease, or doing anything to the disease at all, since that's going to put their focus on what they DON'T want, rather than what they do: good health. Given the goal-seeking nature of human neurology, they're bound to feel better faster if they're aimed at what they want.

Those are a few of my ideas on the subject--I hope you find them helpful.

Permalink Reply by Melissa J. Roth on September 23, 2010 at 3:23pm

Diabetes is a complex issue and is affected more by stress and sleep deprivation than eating habits. I have found stress and poor sleep habits will drive blood sugar up faster and higher than food consumption. Diabetes results from the body's inability to absorb and utilize insulin. Too much insulin is circulating in the blood stream but the cells are not able to utilize it all to convert glucose into energy.

So, for many clients who are overweight helping them to release their excess weight will be beneficial. Some diabetic clients have poor quality diets and eat and drink simple carbohydrates. Helping them clean up their diet will benefit them. Regular physical exercise---daily mild to moderate--will benefit all diabetics whether they are over weight or under weight. For all diabetics, help them to reframe the stresses in their lives and to get consistent, restorative sleep. These are all behavior modification applications.

Beyond behavior modification, search for the benefit to the client from being diabetic. Maybe they get attention. Maybe they get accommodations at work. Maybe they use diabetes as a daily reminder to pay attention to their health. There is always a benefit. Find it and reframe it so the unconscious mind can get more of whatever the benefit is from something/some behavior that is healthy, positive and beneficial to the client. Remind their UM that its highest prime directive is the preservation of the body and that continuing to have elevated blood sugar levels harms the body and therefore is in direction violation to the highest prime directive of the UM. Give it a laundry list of alternative behaviors to prime the pump.

Also, look up Kathy Moore from San Antonio, Tx on this site. She did a 2 yr research project on using hypnosis for diabetes. She is on HypnoThoughts.

Permalink Reply by Melissa J. Roth on September 23, 2010 at 3:24pm

Also, thanks for joining the group.

Permalink Reply by Antoine Pruyssers on December 2, 2011 at 6:55pm

I'm really disappointed about the first two reactions in this topic.

Are you people really into the business of HELPING people?

Seriously?

Before you type something, please do some research before you give away your ignorance people!

Melissa, thanx for being the great hypnotist you are!

You are a great example, of a caring hypnotist, and your comment really lifted my spirit, after reading the first 2.