Hypnosis & Imagery for Fertility

You are not alone!  Many couples set out to start their family thinking it will happen easily and quickly, only to discover that they are unable to conceive a baby.  Each year, millions of dollars are spent by men and women trying to overcome "infertility" issues.  About one third of these couples are labeled with "unexplained infertility" when no medical cause can be found, adding to the confusion, anxiety and fear.  

Couples often undergo expensive and sometimes painful treatments, including fertility drugs, Intrauterine Insemination (IUI), and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), without success.  The average women will have 7 attempts at these procedures before they either get pregnant or give up.  This process can create feelings of disappointment, frustration, stress, depression, fear and anger.  

Women often blame themselves when pregnancy does not occur, leaving them to question, "What's wrong with me?"  When males experience fertility problems they might feel as if they have failed their partner or failed as a man.  These underlying emotions further contribute to the difficulty of trying to conceive.

"The mind/body approach to fertility is based on the premise that knowledge is power and that a change in perception based on new information is powerful enough to effect subtle changes in your endocrine, immune, and nervous systems. Regardless of what you’ve been told about your fertility, you need to know that your ability to conceive is profoundly influenced by the complex interaction among psychosocial, psychological, and emotional factors, and that you can consciously work with this to enhance your ability to have a baby."

-- Dr. Christiane Northrup, excerpted from Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom

While great improvements have been made in Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), the success rates for these procedures alone is about 2-28%.  Couples invest a great amount of money, time, and emotion with each attempt at pregnancy.  

Hypnotherapy and Guided Imagery are natural and safe methods which have been proven to enhance fertility naturally and improve success rates with medically assisted procedures, such as IVF.  

Studies show that using mind-body techniques can increase chances of conception by 42-65%.  Hypnosis reduces stress and deals with the underlying emotional issues that are blocking conception.

Hypnosis and Guided Imagery techniques transform the fear, anger, sadness and frustration you are feeling and provide you with the tools to achieve relaxation, confidence, and peace of mind to help you conceive the child you've been dreaming about.  These techniques are especially helpful with "unexplained infertility" cases, maximizing your chances of conceiving naturally or through medical assistance by reducing stress and helping you to regain a sense of hope and control.

Hypnotherapy actually changes your subconscious programming, allowing you to release limiting beliefs and blocks that prevent you from conceiving.  Subconscious suggestions can also help balance your hormones and optimize your body's physical responses, which affect ovulation, conception, and embryo implantation.  

Once you have successfully conceived, Hypnosis and Guided Imagery continue to provide the benefits of relaxation, increasing your ability to have a healthy pregnancy and delivery.

Researchers at Soroka University in Israel found that the success rate of IVF treatments doubled when the subjects underwent hypnosis during implantation.  28% of women in the group that were hypnotized became pregnant as compared with 14% of those not hypnotized.

The study of 185 women was presented to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.  Researchers wanted to see if hypnosis could make the embryo transfer stage of IVF more successful.  If the womb is contracting at this point, it can affect the chances of the transplant being a success.  

Hypnotic suggestions helped the women to relax and alter the body's responses, making the women 50% more likely to conceive.

Read about Professor Eliahu Levitas study here.

Hypnosis for fertility helps to lower stress, relieve anxiety, lift depression, and give you a greater sense of control over your situation.  It creates a state of homeostasis between mind and body. This allows conception to occur more easily, either through natural or medically assisted methods. 

Stress has been identified as a major contributing factor in fertility issues.  Physical changes occur in the body as a result of the frustrations with getting pregnant, which can result in increased difficulty in conceiving.  When the cycle of stress is broken, chances for conception and pregnancy are greatly enhanced.