HypnoFertility®

The Science of Hypnosis for Fertility

The conventional treatment for fertility focuses on the body as though it were a hormonal robot and tends to overlook emotional and psychological factors which have considerable physiological impact, including hormonal changes. Stress is known to be a major contributing factor in infertility. About 20% of infertility is unexplained; i.e. medical testing cannot explain the problem

The HypnoFertility program is a mind / body approach based on the premise that our state of mind is very much interconnected with our physiological processes. For every thought or emotion we have, there is a corresponding physical response. An example of that would be thinking about a presentation / speech / exam that you are dreading. You will certainly feel the physical responses – racing heart, butterflies nausea. Our bodies react physically to our every thought. With the HypnoFertility program you will be helped to achieve fertility by exploring prior programming and learning to change any limiting beliefs, release any fears and emotional blocks and learning how to develop more beneficial thought patterns.

A recent Israeli study showed that the success rate of IVF treatments doubled in the test group when the subjects underwent hypnosis during implantation. Professor Eliahu Levitas conducted this study with 185 women. Read some of his findings on hypnosis for fertility.

Dr. Gayle Peterson has developed a technique called Body-Centred Hypnosis. Dr. Peterson has found that high anxiety states in the mother must be reduced in order to normalize pregnancy and birth. She sites several research studies that suggest a positive link between fertility and treatments based on hypnosis. She is a pioneer in the field of mind/body states and their effects on fertility, pregnancy and birthing. Click here to Read Dr. Peterson's article on fertility and depression.
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Studies conducted by Dr Alice Domar, PhD, director of the Beth Israel Deaconess Behavioral Medicine Program for Infertility in Boston support the theory that unresolved issues about having a baby can be removed with counseling and mind/body techniques such as hypnotherapy. In the first study published in 1999 in the Journal of the American Medical Women's Association 42% of 132 infertile women in the program conceived within six months of completing it. In the second study, published in 2000 in the journal Fertility and Sterility, 55% of the previously infertile women who met regularly in a mind/body program conceived, compared with 20% of the control group who used no mind/body techniques and who did not attend meetings.

Dr. Domar emphasizes "mind/body" techniques that include self-hypnotic suggestions to reduce stresses that interfere with conception and healthy pregnancy. Domar is the author of Conquering Infertility, and other books on the topic. See more about Dr. Domar's research here.

Dr. Ernest L. Rossi specializes in psychobiology, or the relationship between the mind and physical body states. He has done extensive research to suggest that human genes must be in a state of physical readiness for conception to take place, and that hypnotic-type suggestions can activate specific genes, including the IL-1, c-fos, and the CYP17 in a specific order. See a list of his research papers here

Click here to read about his book, The Psychobiology of Gene Expressions.

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).