29/08/2015
In 1978, Dr. Dabney Ewin, a surgeon specializing in burns helped a patient that had slipped and fallen into a vat of 950-degree molten aluminium. He hypnotised the burned man and with imagery facilitated him in cooling and comforting his wounds. By doing this he improved the patients’ outcome. Such burns usually require months to heal, but this patient healed in just eighteen days, without a single skin graft.
Ewin later incorporated forgiveness into his regimen because he noticed the anger, which burn victims had towards themselves or someone else. It became clear that their anger was interfering with their ability to heal by preventing them from relaxing and focusing on getting better. “Their attitude affected the healing of their burns, and this was particularly true of skin grafts.” With someone who’s real angry, we’d put three or four skin grafts on, but his body would reject them.”
He hypnotized the patients of surgeon friends before they went under the knife in order to minimize their pain. (This was before anesthesia was widely used.) If he could reach them within half an hour of the injury, the hypnotic suggestions of “coolness and calm” seemed to halt the continued burning response of the skin that usually occurs for twelve to twenty-four hours, leading to speedier recoveries.
“What you’re thinking and feeling affects your body,” he would explain to his patients.
-Taken from: The science of forgiveness: “When you don’t forgive you release all the chemicals of the stress response.”
http://www.salon.com/2015/08/23/the_science_of_forgiveness_when_you_dont_forgive_you_release_all_the_chemicals_of_the_stress_response/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits
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