The wife of Premier League footballer Wes Brown has talked about her experiences of hypnobirthing and how it changed her view of childbirth.

Leanne Brown told the Manchester Evening News how she tried the labour technique for her third child and it was "beautiful", although she admitted that when she first attended the classes she was sceptical.

She described how the births of her first two children were manic and painful, but her third was fine because she was relaxed. 

Ms Brown said: "All the talk in parenting classes is about pain and pain relief, so you're bound to get frightened.

A growing number of organisations are promoting the use of hypnotherapy in dentistry as a means to alleviate pain, reports Worldental.org.

A rising number of anecdotal cases suggest that hypnosis could replace other methods of pain relief - like injecting anaesthesia medication - when practised by trained professionals.This is because hypnosis "can be used as a means to tell your subconscious that 'the drill will not hurt', or that 'the tooth extraction is a fast and painless process'," for example.Some bodies, like the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association, are so convinced in its ability to help patients that they are advocating the provision of hypnotherapy courses in complementary health care.Similarly, the USC School of Dentistry (University of South Carolina) is teaching students hypnosis that can be used as an alternative to Novocain injections - the oldest injectable local anaesthetic still in use.

Bruxism is a habit that affects around eight-ten per cent of the population which is characterised by grinding of the teeth and clenching of the jaw.

The habit affects people's sleep, in fact, it is the third most common sleep disorder behind insomnia and snoring.

It can be frequent and severe enough to lead to jaw disorders, headaches, damages teeth, loss of sleep for self and partner.

Other symptoms of Bruxism include chewed tissue on the inside of the cheek, indentations on the tongue, damaged teeth and tooth sensitivity.

Joanna Lumley has revealed how she used hypnotherapy to overcome her horrific anxiety attacks.

Whilst in her mid-20s, the actress' anxiety got so bad that when on stage, she convinced herself there were assassins in the audience trying to kill her.

She said the issue put her on "the brink of utter insanity", but claimed she was able to completely overcome it - thanks to hypnotherapy.

Describing the condition in The Daily Telegraph, she said: "I couldn't cross the road, I didn't dare go into shops, I had to concentrate on breathing in and breathing out.

Arachnophobia is mainly learnt from our parents or peers, research shows Spiders, snakes, claps of thunder - we can have phobias about anything.
But new research has revealed that while they often run in families, that's not because we genetically inherit them, but because we learn them from our parents - scientists from Rutgers University in New Jersey, who conducted the study, have suggested.
As a toddler, if your mother screamed the first time you proudly showed her the spider you'd just found, her behaviour certainly primed you to find spiders frightening, too.

Hypnotherapy can be a fantastic cure for sufferers of premature ejaculation, according to new research.

In a feature for contracostatimes.com, health journalist Laura Casey studied how hypnotherapists are attempting to cure sexual health problems and concluded that premature ejaculation is often a mental condition which can be cured via hypnosis.

Casey discovered that many hypnotherapists provide a course aimed at activating the parasympathetic nervous system, in order to elongate the sexual experiences of male patients.

 

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In the early 1990's one Sheffield-based dentist took to using the skills of hypnotherapists to ease the fear that many people feel when visiting the dentist. It was a complete success, which saw urgent calls for the service to be given to cancer patients in the local area too.

Dental phobia affects 25 per cent of the population, with fear of the procedure, cost and potential pain playing a big role in establishing the phobia.