Experiment: Hypnosis and Dementia ... Rewiring the Brain

The brain has always interested me... always.  I can remember being a little kid of about 8 years old and borrowing a book from the library, "How the Brain Works."  It was an adult book, a book that was way too difficult for me to read, but I tried.  I remember sitting out in my back yard on a hot summer day, sitting in the shade and reading that book.  I couldn't understand the book but it still interested me because it was about the brain.

I have believed for a long time in the power of the mind.  Personally I have proven to myself over and over again that the brain... the human mind can accomplish everything that it sets out to achieve.  Even the impossible is made possible through the abilities of the human mind.  If we can think it, we can become it.

Can hypnosis help to rewire the brain of a demented individual?  I believe the answer is YES. 

Last night I made a valiant attempt to make my mom's hypnosis recording so that she could listen to it as she was falling asleep.  Unfortunately, I saved the file in the wrong format and it wouldn't play on my mom's mp3 player. 

Knowing that I needed to give my mom suggestions so that her day is better today, I decided to say the phrases from her custom made hypnosis script; the phrases that I had put on the recording which I saved in the wrong format.

Yesterday, my mom gradually got worse as the day went on.  She was reverting back to Uncle Al type behavior.  Walking on a dark spot on the floor or carpet, my mom began thinking that they were holes in the floor.  Gingerly she would step, feeling the dark spot as though she was dipping her toe into the water to check the temperature.  Her words... she couldn't find them.  She was frustrated because she could remember her words the day before but yesterday, she was losing them again.

I changed her bed sheets last night and sprayed them with Lavender mist which I make by putting a few drops of organic lavender oil into a small spray bottle filled with water.  I make sure that her pillows are scented.  Aromatherapy.... why not?  It seems to help.

Part of our new ritual, give mom lots of hugs.  I hug her all the time and tell her that she's safe and at home.  I hug her as I say, "Oh, my little Mommy... you are a good mom."  My mom, she loves it when I say that sentence to her, loves it.  She hugs me back and snuggles me like I did to her when I was a little girl.  Love has a lot of power.  People don't use the power of love enough, love heals.

8 PM, my mom's bed time arrived and I rushed up to tuck her in.  She took her 8 drops of Ashwagandha extract in her little blue shot glass of cold water, one 10 mg Lisinopril for her high blood pressure, 3mg of Melatonin, one 1000 mg of Vitamin D3 and two sprays in her mouth of Bach's Rescue Sleep Remedy made from the essence of flowers.

I helped my mom position herself on her pillows so that she doesn't snore.  She had a serious case of sleep apnea before she lost 90 pounds.  She couldn't wear the CPAP mask at night, she had trouble breathing with it because she has a deviated septum. Sleep deprivation was making her dementia symptoms worse.

My mom was in her sleep position as I begin to gently stroke her head, just as my mom did to me when I was small ... the same thing her mom did to her when she was a young girl.  I began feeding her suggestions, all the suggestions that I had just recorded but wasn't able to put on her mp3 player because I missed the last formatting step.

I began....

It is now ok to feel safe and secure



It is now OK to release fears


Every day in every way I am getting better and better


Everyday my mind is stronger and stronger

My mom began to laugh, she was laughing and laughing as I made the suggestions.  EXCELLENT!  Emotion helps suggestions penetrate the subconscious mind.  Even humor works... I didn't stop, I continued....

I am a worthwhile person

I attract joy into my life

I feel wonderful today

My mom, she settled down, closed her eyes and was out like a light within 30 seconds.

3 AM  - Squeak, Squeak

Mom was up.  I rushed upstairs to help her back to bed.  She greets me in the kitchen, "Where's the bathroom?  I need to find the bathroom!"

I lead her down the hall to her bathroom and then I tucked her back into bed. 

It is now almost 8 AM.  My mom is still sleeping.  I checked on her, she's breathing.  She's got a soft gentle restful sounding breath; she's getting rest. 

Today, it WILL BE A GREAT DAY!  That's my prediction.  It always is when my mom sleeps through the night.  Her recording is ready for her. We will begin the process of rewiring her brain using hypnosis.  From my observations, hypnosis works and works well.  The brain is magnificent with endless potentials and possibilities to give us all happy days right up to the moment we take our last breath.

Interesting Abstracts from the European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

Hypnosis Reduces Dementia