Dizziness Treatments

Hypnotherapy And NLP For The Treatment Of Dizziness

We get to see a lot of people to help them to stop being dizzy, to give them our combination of hypnotherapy and NLP treatment for dizziness. We use a variety of approaches that work including training the mind and body to literally become more ‘centred’.

Now over the years we have seen a number of high ranking people from the medical professions. True, NLP is not yet widely accepted within the traditional medical industries but it is bound to be sooner or later for one simple reason.

It works.

Dizziness Treatments Case History: The Dizzy Surgeon

Anyway the first time I saw a surgeon it was to get him to stop being dizzy. Now dizziness is not a good problem for an orthopaedic surgeon to have, some of those operations last for hours. This man had had this problem for years, and it had steadily been getting worse as time had gone by. It had reached the point where he had begun to sway to and fro whilst in theatre, and he was desperate.

Which is why he eventually turned up at my door, I suppose. Mind you, he had spent the previous four years going up and down Harley Street seeing top ENT specialists and consultant neurologists, and he had a host of possible ideas as to why he was suffering from dizziness

Their 'treatments' hadn’t helped his dizziness at all

‘You are my last resort,’ he said, in a resigned tone.

‘Good’, I said, ‘that’s my favourite’. And I went on to explain that I always plan on being people’s last resort. That is, they won’t need to see anyone after me because they will be OK. At least, that’s the plan.

If you want to make dizziness worse, then keep thinking about it!

As he sat in the chair swaying back and forth I asked him if it was the kind of problem where the more he thought about it the worse it got. That’s a trick question really, it’s always like that. Focus on the problem and, lo and behold, it gets worse.

Sure enough his swaying did get worse, and I thought to myself, ‘surely it can’t be this easy’.

The Art Of Being Centred

I got him to focus on a point approximately two inches below his navel, and told him that when his mind started to drift, to bring his awareness back to this point.
Now those of you who are into Japanese based martial arts will recognise this point in the body as something called, in Japan, hara. It’s about where the physiological centre of balance is for the body. It’s where the power comes from when someone punches through a plank, it’s where you ‘move from’ when you get good at Judo or Aikido. And if you are into meditation you may know that the same point in the body is called the sacral chakra by some, and those into Chinese ways may be familiar with it under the name 'dan tien'

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I am not saying that these things are the same in these different systems, just related. Anyway, it doesn’t matter what you call it,- this area a couple of inches below the navel,- you could call it ‘Benjamin’ and it would still be there and still be very useful.

A million years ago I did a lot of martial arts myself and I always used to take beginners into the middle of the dojo (training area) and demonstrate this. That is, I would get them to stand with their feet shoulder width apart with one foot slightly in front of the other. Then I would tap them very gently on the top of the head with my finger tip whilst saying ‘think about this, think about this’. After a few seconds of this I would push them very gently on the shoulder.

And they would fall over, or nearly fall over.

Then I would get them to stand in the same way and get them to focus in a ‘tenaciously gentle’ way on 'hara', this point a couple of inches below the naval. If you have your hand resting on someone’s shoulder as they take their awareness into the centre of their body like this you can feel them getting more solid and grounded, much more. It is very tangible.

You can still push them over, especially if they are a beginner, but it takes much more effort.

So anyway I stood the surgeon up and did exactly what I had done all those years ago, I got him to focus on ‘hara’ and the swaying stopped, well virtually stopped.

Breathing Into The Earth

Then I got him to do a powerful breathing technique which involves breathing normally and imagining that the out-breath is powering down through the body, through the feet and deep into the centre of the earth.

And the swaying completely stopped, and he was very impressed.

Then I sat him down and did a range of NLP techniques to get him to focus on what he wanted, being stable and centred (rather than stopping dizziness).
He came back the following week and reported that the treatment had eliminated about 70% of the dizziness problem and after an hour’s more work he was fine, and stayed that way.

Once Again This Isn’t About Not Wanting The Problem – It’s Just About Aiming At The Solution

So here is yet another example of what works, getting the client to think about what he wanted, rather than trying not to think about what he didn’t want, not getting him to stop being dizzy, getting him to start being centred. I recommend the ‘hara’ technique to everyone. You can do it anytime, and the more you gently focus on your ‘centre’ the more centred you will become. It’s this simple. It is especially obvious when giving treatments for dizziness but it works to help a host of issues.