Using Traditional Chinese Massage to Facilitate Clinical Hypnotherapy

Traditional Chinese massage is, perhaps, the most effective form of "physical therapy" known today. Based on the principles of acupuncture, it may be applied to many disorders, as the sole form of therapy, with striking results. This paper discusses how this powerful system of "physical therapy":a. is drug-free and totally compatible with clinical hypnotherapy;b. operates with the same clinical "mind-set" as hypnotherapy;c. assumes that each patient has sufficient natural healing resources;d. allows therapists to deliver an even greater state of health to their patients than with hypnotherapy alone;e. increases the therapist's flexibility - by supporting both the therapy and the patient before, during and after a course of treatment; andf. can be used to deliberately create circumstances which represent the optimum therapeutic environment within which hypnotherapy can take place.[A substantially revised version of the earlier unpublished paper that was presented on Sunday 10th April, 1988, at the Regent Hotel, Sydney, to delegates attending the Sixth National Convention of Australian Hypnotherapists