During the intake discovery session there were no indications of damage related to prolonged high sound levels and the Tinnitus onset came in a short period of time. Her work was mostly office work and she did not find herself in loud places very often short of the occasional concert and motorsports.

The first step was to isolate the frequency of sound she was hearing and that turned out to be around 14000 Hz. The next step was to check on any illnesses she had recently that could cause a sudden onset of Tinnitus. Third was to check on any recent sudden loud noises like something falling or an explosion.

After ruling out external factors that could be attributed to physical damage with the exception of one possible incident at a restaurant where a tray of dishes crashed to the floor a few feet away, there was nothing to suggest it was anything other than she was expecting and looking for the sound.

The first few sessions we probed for thoughts that would increase the sound and stop the sound. If was found the Tinnitus was more intense when she was inward thinking and non-existent when she was outward thinking processing tasks or enjoyable memories like a wonderful getaway.

The fact that the Tinnitus could be turned off when her mind was distracted confirmed that it was not age related or injury related, and that set the path of the therapy to be retraining not to look for the sound.

Once the proper hypnotic suggestions were identified, recordings were made to retrain herself not to expect the sound. Sessions were reduce to every other week and then once a month with tweaks on the suggestions in the recordings as needed.

The eventual outcome after 22 weeks was the elimination of the Tinnitus. The therapy in this case was similar to erectile dysfunction therapy where the anticipation of failure caused the failure. By replacing the anticipation of failure with the anticipation of success is the core of erectile dysfunction therapy.

Her behavior was so chronic she even went to buy new clothes just for her appointments with me. This was totally unnecessary as I do advise people to dress comfortably and jeans and a T-shirt are fine.

During the discovery session it was fairly obvious she lacked self-confidence and self-esteem. Her purchases were meant as a confidence boost that was running her broke. Once she was comfortable talking to me her natural personality started to come through and she turned out to be very pleasant to talk to.

As the discovery continued it was learned that both her parents were heavy drinkers and drinking started the moment they got home and continued until they passed out or went to bed each night. When her parents were drunk she experienced verbal abuse but no physical abuse. She moved out just after her 18^th birthday and stayed with friends until she could afford her own apartment when she was 21.

Her job paid fairly well as she was a personal assistant for three upper managers in a company with about 600 employees. However it was a task driven subordinate job that sometimes involved going out for food. This left her with no real chance to develop her self-confidence and to learn to think for herself.

The approach in therapy was to first make her feel good about herself so she would have less reliance on how she dressed. I used the example of working at a company that all the employees had to wear identical uniforms and I gave UPS as an example. There she was banned from wearing anything other than the company provided clothing. Her initial reply was expected and she said she would not work in a place that uniforms were required.

As therapy progressed, targeted hypnotic suggestions were focused on her self-confidence and self-esteem. There were no real suggestions to stop excessive buying other than she would have money to do things she wanted to do. The reason for this is the excessive shopping was the effect of the upstream cause of her verbal abuse.

After about 6 weeks she was very happy to have money for fun, and that was a first for her. It was always go where her friends wanted to go and never decide for herself. She even started to give away some of her barely worn older clothing to good will. As a bonus to successful therapy, she started to have a boyfriend as she was too self-conscious before to do more than look.

The road to this request requires a bit of explanation, and that road started five years earlier. As dealing with sexual issues is one of my core areas, I provide some novelty hypnosis to enhance the sex lives of people who request it. Most of those people have a high libido and sex is a significant percentage of their lives.

As it would be I had a newlywed couple contact me about enhancing their sex with each other. They would have sex at least one time a day and wanted to increase the level of pleasure. What they wanted was to use hypnosis to increase the intensity of an orgasm without producing premature ejaculation in him, and to have long rolling high intensity multiple orgasms for her.

Fortunately this is easy for me to do as I can target just the orgasm and not impact sensitivity leading up to the orgasm. This is almost opposite of what I do for premature ejaculation where I give the person the ability to self-regulate their sensitivity so they can choose when they want to orgasm.

The effect of orgasms enhanced with hypnosis often leaves the person unable to function for several minutes as the intense pleasure overwhelms their entire body. Desire not to even move and enjoy the pleasure is the typical experience until the orgasm subsides.

As sex was such a big part of this couple’s lives, they were not shy about having frank discussions with people about sex. One of those people was the 37 year old woman who had approached me on this. As I had not heard from this couple in five years it was good to know things were still going strong with them.

So here I was facing this women looking to reduce her negative emotions that tends to cause Multiple sclerosis to get worse, and replace that with positive emotions that would slow or stop the progress. At that time, that was the common understanding of how emotions impacted Multiple sclerosis. She was still able to walk without assistance but admitted that some mornings her legs were not on line.

She indicated that there was some loss of sensitivity during sex, but it was not significant. She described it as being similar to having sex too long and becoming desensitized. She could still have orgasms during sex, but she really had to focus on it. I asked her to provide her medical records so I could review them, and she complied with the request.

She indicated that her normal libido was two to three times a week, and she wanted to increase that to be more like her friend’s shooting for daily. This proved to be an interesting challenge as libido is more a function of hormones and not so much of giving a hypnotic suggestion. Some modification is easy, but doubling desire was a place I have not gone yet in my practice. I would have to rely on increased pleasure to be an addictive draw. I asked her if her husband was up to the task, and she jokingly replied she knew of some little blue diamond shaped pills that may find a new home in the bedroom.

As to insure therapy had the most impact, I wanted her to have sex with her husband immediately after therapy. The effect of hypnosis fades over time and in this case I wanted it to be as potent as it could be so it would set in and be permanent. To insure this her appointments were scheduled to accommodate her husband’s availability.

This would not be the typical client for this type of hypnosis. In this case I had to deal with conflicting emotions caused by Multiple sclerosis along with all the other fallout from the condition. I needed to find that spot in her subconscious that was all about sex and desire while shutting everything else completely out.

To understand that, I needed to know about some of her most intimate sexual desires to stir her fantasies. This is not typical to ask, but as this was a first time for me, I wanted to cover all the bases. At first I thought it would be difficult for her to open up, but she said she learned a lot about sexual openness from her friends who referred her to me.

Unknowing how long this would take we agreed to leave things open ended as to the number of sessions and frequency. I conducted the first induction and took her down to deep somnambulism to judge her reaction to the suggestions. I was looking to create sexual excitement and anticipation about next sex with her husband. I also wanted her to be more aware of sexuality around her being in how people dress, sex in advertising and so on to keep her thinking about sex more than her normal.

In subsequent sessions she was much more comfortable with me as any fears she had about me were unfounded. It was discovered that weekly sessions were adequate but they needed to be a bit longer than the typical one hour. Some sessions were 75 minutes and others were 90 minutes. During those sessions I also restored some of her sexual sensitivity in her vagina and clitoris and made her skin more aroused during sex too.

After one month she was having sex five times a week and after six weeks she was up to six times a week. I am sure after another few weeks she would be up to daily sex, however the limiting factor was her husband’s endurance.

After therapy ended she was happy with the results and came back at my request after six months so I could evaluate her. There was no intended charge for the evaluation but she did ask for a booster session at that time, and I was more than happy to do that session for her. She indicated she felt the progress of Multiple sclerosis was slowed as a result of having more sex but there was no real tracking done. I also noted that her taste in clothing changed to be a bit more sexually provocative. This was an unexpected change on a subconscious level, but there were no complaints from anyone on that.

The reason I decided to write about this is I wanted to make people aware of this and that I will be accepting people on a case by case basis. I don’t particularly know if this would be classified as therapy, but as it did move things in the desired direction, I will let you be the judge of that.

A person who feels they are TI can get that way with a variety of reasons with some that are medical and others that are not. The non-medical reasons range from watching significant conspiracy theory programming with one example being ‘Info Wars’ hosted by Alex Jones in the USA. Another reason could be a rogue hypnotic suggestion while in a self-induced hypnotic state. Other reasons can range from an exposure to some chemical that caused a high. That could be from household chemicals, paint thinner or more deliberately methamphetamines or other man made recreational drugs.

The medical reasons are typically associated with schizophrenia. As schizophrenia is on a gradient from mimicked to severe, each case must be evaluated to establish the direction of therapy. Mimicked schizophrenia has no physical symptoms and is a taught behavior. Genuine schizophrenia can be seen in a brain scan, and you do not need a degree to see the difference between a healthy brain and one that is not.

In this case mild genuine schizophrenia was present and it was later established that the medication dosage she was on was actually too much once therapy was underway. Medication deals with the effects and not the cause.

The onset of this case was due to suspicions caused by a combination of things she saw that did not make sense to her (an unknown), a regular diet of conspiracy programming on YouTube and schizophrenia.

The first stage of therapy was to understand the things she saw that did not make sense to her and educate her what they were and why they were normal and harmless. One of the things she saw was water treatment and could not reason as to why it was needed. This caused her to go to conspiracy channels on YouTube and that ended up feeding her suspicions and not resolving them. This is a classic example of how TI thinking is fed thus creating suspicions about everything from the air we breathe to the materials food packaging containers are treated with.

After about 3 weeks of therapy she was showing a significant reduction in symptoms. Part of this is from hypnosis and the other part was education about things she did not understand to reduce the level of mystery. The hypnosis reframed how she saw things and reduced the level of suspicion allowing her to process what she was learning.

After 8 weeks she was at the point where medication dosage could be modified down and spacing between sessions could be increased and eventually went to a maintenance schedule that was driven by how severe her schizophrenia was. Unfortunately schizophrenia requires lifelong treatment as the brain is incapable of producing a proper balance of neuro-chemicals. She presently is on sessions every 12 weeks as maintenance and showing no signs of relapse.

As with nearly all OCD cases the underlying reason has to do with some ritual to do with luck. The OCD behavior either is for bringing good luck or keeping bad luck away, and discovery of that luck related reason is key to the therapy.

In this case it was to keep bad luck away and his eastern European upbringing had a significant dose of superstition that was deeply rooted in his core beliefs. His family would perform various rituals that included opening doors with their left hand and choosing the left most door if given a choice. As this was taught to him as a child before the age of 6 when core foundational behavior is taught, breaking the behavior became difficult if not impossible for him to do alone.

In the first session he expressed doubts that hypnosis would work but he was so desperate he was willing to give it a try. So during the intake I focused on learning about all the rituals his family a performed on a regular basis. What I discovered is his OCD behavior was for both aspects of luck being bringing good luck and keeping bad luck away. As time went on over the years he kept modifying the rituals to enhance their effect on luck resulting in OCD behavior. He was eventually heading for 100% of his behavior being driven by this.

As a self-taught example for him about the effects and impact of hypnosis, because he did not believe hypnosis would help, the day after his first session he experienced 32 OCD episodes by noon being 530% of what was normal. Before seeing me he averaged about 12 in a day. He called me in a panic as he was out of control. I pointed out to him that because he did not believe hypnosis would work he actually reversed the suggestion making things worse thus self-proving that hypnosis does work. I told him that all he had to do was accept the obvious that hypnosis works and things would get better. Once he accepted that in his mind, the rest of his day was fine with no further episodes that day and significantly fewer until the next weekly session.

As therapy progressed on a weekly basis there was a need to dismantle the root beliefs based in superstition. The first of a series of layered suggestions was to suggest to leave well enough alone and go back to the unenhanced behaviors he was taught as a child. He accepted that as he saw that his enhancements were actually bringing bad luck.

From there we focused on leaner versions of the rituals making them less intrusive in his daily life until they got to such a low level of impact on his life he was able to not have any overt episodes. He did not want to completely remove his beliefs and making them more efficient to perform with just a thought and not action was his request and was the final outcome.

During discovery it was observed she lacked self-confidence and was doing her best to fit in and be accepted. There was no specific root cause for the lack of self-confidence, however her parents were of old school thinking and did not provide much if any positive motivation but were more of ‘ I think you can do better next time.’  That left her with the never quite good enough mentality in every aspect of her life whether there was some standard to meet or not.

Because of that I felt a layered approach on therapy was best and the first thing I worked on was helping her to get a good night’s sleep. With a good night’s sleep she would be more rested and her thinking would be crisper and less dull. These suggestions were very easy as her personal appearance was a big part of her anxiety.

I pointed out under hypnosis that she was very attractive and in her prime, except she looked visibly run down because of lack of sleep. I said she had that end of the day look before noon arrived. She processed that hypnotic suggestion when I said everyone else was getting their beauty sleep while she was surfing social media. The result was her new priority to look rested and refreshed and leave social media for waking hours. The results of better sleep were very obvious when she arrived for her second session a week later.

The next step was to build her self-confidence and self-esteem to where she felt a bit more of a leader and not so much a follower. That included to not be so critical that she had to be part of every trend and to pick and choose what fit her best. The hypnotic suggestions were based on the observation that not everyone looks good in certain clothing and to only wear what looks good on her. As expected she expanded that concept to include social media trends.

Over the next few sessions she became more self-confident and it was even suggested she may want to even consider starting her own trend.  Therapy was not one size fits all and focused on specifics for her and some other minor issues that may have contributed.

After therapy she would only look at social media on her breaks at work and in her free time. She was better able to budget her time and do some productive things for herself. Her social media usage went from about 6 hours a day to not more than 2 on average. She also expressed she was saving money too as she was not spending so much money on trend purchases.

Ironically about 1 in 3 women find it difficult or impossible to achieve orgasm, and few if any know that hypnotherapy is a non-invasive and very effective option. In this case hypnosis has the ability to adjust physical sensitivity. In men premature ejaculation comes from being over sensitive, so hypnosis simply turns that sensitivity down. With that said, hypnosis can turn up the sensitivity as well for people who can’t achieve orgasm. From my perspective it is as easy as adjusting a thermostat on a wall.

In this case the woman could still feel sexual stimulation but as she described it, what was once a scream was now just a whisper in both vaginal and clitoris stimulation. It did not matter if she used a vibrator and she complained that the vibrator just made her numb before anything started to build.

In the first part of the therapy I did a standard discovery session to understand how she felt about the situation emotionally and any other things that were relevant. She expressed that before surgery she would enjoy sex about 4 times a week on average, and admitted that was a real challenge with two children. Each time she had sex she would orgasm between 1 and 3 times. She also said that her masturbation was regular as she would like to have sex daily but because of her children that was not an option.

I concluded that before surgery she would have roughly 15 orgasms a week. She jokingly said she had missed out on well over 1000 orgasms over 3 years and she wanted that back. From a health perspective sexual activity keeps you younger so there is much more at stake than just desire.

So the first step was to get her into a deep state of somnambulism and build her excitement about being able to orgasm again. This anticipation along with some minor sexual stimulation through hypnotic suggestion let her know that she was on the right track. I did not want her to have an orgasm without some physical stimulation despite it being possible to orgasm without any physical stimulation. This was important to rebuild the bonding with her husband that had eroded after surgery.

In subsequent sessions it was necessary to slowly train her mind to magnify the whisper back to a scream with each session returning more and more sensitivity. After about 5 sessions I told her to have her husband on standby after the next session.

After that next session she was to immediately have sex with her husband but not to do anything extreme with intense focus on having an orgasm, but to have sex the same way she did before surgery. About an hour later she reported by email that she had her first orgasm since surgery. She described the orgasm as 3 on a scale of 10.

Therapy continued a few more weeks as she honed herself and she eventually was reporting regular orgasms of 7 or 8 on the 10 scale. I asked her not to masturbate because I wanted to focus on orgasms during sex to make them more intense. She could return to masturbation after if she wanted but for the sake of the relationship just to avoid solo orgasms. When therapy ended she reported she was about 85 Percent back to where she was. I told her she could get to 100 percent after a few months, as it just required her to be more focused until it became natural without effort. I told her that follow-up sessions were and option to just tweak things if she wanted. About 3 months after the last session she sent me an email saying things were back to normal and thanked me for giving her life back.

As with all cases that involve genuine pain management with hypnosis, I require a referral from a qualified doctor who can make a diagnosis. In this case the doctor who had initially diagnosed her with Fibromyalgia had retired and I needed a referral from a practicing doctor. As a result I suggested a local doctor who could make both the diagnosis and referral for hypnotherapy to treat the symptoms. Once that was done we started straight into therapy.

As with all Fibromyalgia cases I work as part of a team. The other two team members include a massage therapist who sees the client directly after hypnotherapy. What they do is dig out any trigger points and relax the constricted muscles that were symptomatic of Fibromyalgia.

The third member of the team is a Chiropractor. What the Chiropractor does is realign whatever was pulled out of position as a result of the constricted muscles. This is done immediately after massage therapy to get the best results. Between the pain, constricted muscles, and joints out of proper natural alignment, collectively the all feed the symptoms of Fibromyalgia.

Typically the therapy runs for 12 sessions over 21 weeks. At the start of the therapy pain is removed with hypnosis. This happens surprisingly fast once the actual hypnosis starts. Usually in a matter of 5 to 10 minutes all pain is gone. In many cases the person actually falls asleep because it is the first time they were pain free in years. The background pain if you would was constant and the body was in constant battle just to endure it causing prolonged fatigue.

In the case of this client after the initial 3 sessions that are focused on removing the pain and getting her body use to being pain free again, she experienced a typical result. By the time the third session arrived she was already experiencing an increase in her range of motion and was only slowed by muscle atrophy.

Sessions 4 through 12 are focused on insuring there is no relapse and correcting the subconscious error from expecting pain to expecting no pain. The only concern I have a this point is clients overdoing it. When starting off at 100% disability to active sports by mid therapy, there is a real concern of causing an injury in a body that is not fully recovered and lacks proper muscle mass and flexibility as a result of prolonged inactivity. In the case of this client she was extremely happy her life came back on line but followed my instructions carefully not to overdo things. Having sex was fine but lifting and sports were things that had to be eased into. She was once very active in aerobics and fitness and she really had to fight the urge to just jump back into that activity.

In her case and totally an option as it is not part of the therapy, she had a friend who worked  as a physiotherapist who helped her ease back into the physical activity she loved so much. I could see her desire to get back into doing all the things she did before the onset of Fibromyalgia, so throttling her back became part of her therapy.

By the end of the therapy she had experienced near 100% recovery and I felt the little bit that was left would return in about a month as it was mostly related to growing her muscles back and getting back to full range of motion. Because she was still relatively young being just 30 her level of recovery is typical baring other injuries like broken bones. A older client of about 50 may experience between 80% and 95% recovery. It all depends on how much abuse their body has experienced. Over 60 years there is no real way to say how much recovery would occur as normal age related conditions like arthritic pain are more common at that age, but certainly some improvement can be expected.

I was originally contacted by her husband of 6 months who was seeking help out of desperation. Although they had been married 6 months, he was still unable to consummate the marriage because of his wife’s Vaginismus. He was unable to find any qualified help where he lived, and knew he needed to look elsewhere. After some discussion it was decided that he and his wife should travel to see me as doing therapy of this nature via Skype may itself be a violation of Sharia law. So rather than take the chance, they opted to take a bit of a vacation in Bangkok.

It is important to note that both attended all sessions as Sharia law was once again interfering with their love life even beyond the reach of the law. This itself proved to be therapeutic and it eliminated the first barrier of feeling comfortable. It was her first trip abroad and just by seeing how different things were in Thailand was generating dozens of questions in her head. Together this said it was OK here to talk about her problems.

In this case because of time limitations, spacing between sessions was reduced to every other day and not weekly. As the focus of the therapy was in bed, and they were young enough to make several attempts in a very short period of time, it was an acceptable modification.

The first step was to make her feel comfortable about sex and that unfortunately Sharia law greatly oversteps its welcome in bed between two consenting adults. The second step was to allow her to feel it was OK to enjoy physical pleasure with her husband. Once that was achieved the next step was easy by magnifying the physical pleasure of foreplay with hypnotic suggestion. If she was able to achieve her very first orgasm during foreplay, nature would take over and relax the muscles to her vagina and her husband could achieve penetration. Once that was achieved, simple reinforcement and increasing her desire for sex to make up for lost time is all it took.

Collectively all of these steps worked to eliminate her Vaginismus. Her survival instinct and fear of death by stoning or whatever that was tied to sex had been eliminated thus ending the condition.

This case is not particularly unusual, however it does demonstrate one of the unique tools a clinical hypnotherapist has at their disposal that other therapists do not. That tool is the ability to regress someone back to a point earlier in their life to recover a forgotten memory that is significant to the issue at hand.

In this case the person that needed help was a well known and respected businessman in the community. From time to time his name would be mentioned on the local news stations. That itself is not significant except that overwhelming issues that require the help of some professional are blind to age, gender, social status, wealth and profession. Anybody can have an issue that needs help from another, and nobody is immune.

In this case there was something in his past that needed closure however he could not identify. We talked about the option of using Age Regression as a discovery tool. I explained to him that there were 3 types of regression and only 2 of them have some limited therapeutic value. The first was Pseudo Regression that was very light and most likely would not be strong enough to discover the distant memory that needed to be found. It is like asking you to recall what you had for breakfast yesterday and the responses are given in past tense.

The second and very powerful form of regression is called either Full or True Regression. This type of regression is best for finding the exact time and cause of what he wanted to be found. This type of regression can produce temporary amnesia to find the time of the target memory. For example if the time we were examining was before some historic and significant event such as the terrorist attack on the World Trade center in New York, there would be no knowledge of it. That then becomes a time marker and providing the information of what direction to look either further back or further ahead in time.

The third type of regression that I do not use as I see it as a novelty is Past life Regression. There is no therapeutic value in using it, and people that come to see me have enough problem with this life, so never mind past life.

So as we were only doing discovery at this point, I did not expect any closure at this stage and did not make any evaluations about potential direction of therapy. So we did some basic testing to establish what was the best method to place him in deep somnambulism, and then proceeded with the regression.

He turned out to be an excellent subject for regression. He responded in such a way that was textbook classic and worthy of a Hollywood movie. As we regressed further back in time his behavior and speaking changed based on how he acted at the particular time we were viewing. He had no knowledge of events that happened after the time we were viewing so we were able to establish if the unknown problem had been encountered yet or not.

We eventually found our way back to his first grade class as that was looking to be where the incident in question was encountered. While in regression he was talking in present tense about the friendly girl who sat in front of him with the red hair and pigtails, the class pet gerbille, and that he did not like some people in his class who were mean. He spoke as he did using both vocabulary and verbal expressions of that time in his life.

After about 15 minutes of exploring his class we suddenly hit on what we were looking for. His reaction showed he was disturbed about it and his teacher came to him and told him not to worry and they would talk about it later.

As it would be that talk with the teacher never happened and at that young age he did not have the resources to know how to deal with it. It was at this point I allowed him to retain the exact memory of what had happened and returned him to the present. When he was awakened from hypnosis he looked me in the eye and said to me, I have dealt with much worse than that. So in the matter of a minute, he resolved his own anxiety and was not in need of any further assistance.

What had happened was that as time went by, the memory of the incident morphed and was always being just too much to deal with. By the time he got his MBA, it had changed so much from what it was, it was not even close and he knew it. At that point he tucked it away in his head and it only started to become a problem when some incident he experienced years later triggered the memory. By that time his personality and behavior was that of being very thorough, and this thing was denying him that closure. He was spending more and more time trying to recall the problem, but was unable to. Eventually trying to recall the memory became an all consuming task not allowing him to do his work.