Infertility

A recent Israeli study showed that the success rate of IVF treatments doubled in his test group from 14% to 28%, when the subjects underwent hypnosis during implantation. Professor Eliahu Levitas conducted this study with 185 women. BBC NEWS article on Hypnofertility. Also there is logical reason to believe that if hypnosis can help conception in conjunction with IVF then it can help also as a stand alone treatment.

Many times not surprisingly the underlying issues to infertility are stress and lack of confidence, so therefore when we deal with the stress/ confidence we can remove the blocks to fertility. In fact the infertility and stress can escalade into a roundabout of sorts, one feeding off the other. By breaking this vicious circle we can allow the bodys natural system to operate properly.

Hypnofertility also applies to men. At the Institute of Applied Psychology in Lisbon Portugal, a team of researchers led by Katharina Hirschenhauser has concluded that men who actively want to be fathers automatically adjust their testosterone levels at exactly the right time (the middle of their partners' menstrual cycles). Perhaps there is no better hypnotic suggestion for a male partner than the idea that he wants to become a father.

Usually between three to five sessions of hypnosis are recommended for the treatment of infertility, EFT may or may not be used.