It’s Conceivable! Hypnosis for Fertility

by Lynsi Eastburn, BCH

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Victoria, BC Canada: Trafford Publishing, 2006.  PB 132 pp   $21.00.

If you have experienced the emotional blow of being diagnosed as infertile and yet you “know” there is a baby in there or you have been given a diagnosis of unexplained infertility, then It’s Conceivable will help you to understand how your body/mind connection affects this process.  “The creation of new life goes far beyond…scientific understanding into the realm of deep mystery… To stand at the edge of this mystery is one of the most exhilarating and sacred of all human experiences.” (Jia Gottlieb, MD Introduction).

Lynsi Eastburn is a National Guild of Hypnotists Board Certified Hypnotherapist and Certified Instructor as well as a Certified HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Educator, specializing in Fertility.  She has created a Center for Women’s Wellness in Colorado where women have access to professionals in complementary modalities including hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, acupuncture, nutritional counseling and massage.  She developed the Certified HypnoBirthing Fertility Therapist program and the Gestalt-based Hypnotherapy program and is co-owner and instructor of the Eastburn Institute of Hypnosis in Colorado.  She is a faculty member of the Leidecker Institute in Illinois and the HypnoBirthing Institute in New Hampshire.  She has received awards for her groundbreaking work in the field of hypnosis for fertility and is a regular presenter at the National Guild of Hypnotists Convention in Marlborough, MA, the HypnoBirthing Conclave and Colorado Free University. 

It’s Conceivable details how the power of the mind, liberated through hypnosis, connects the mind and body into a single unit, allowing the body (a complex biochemical machine) to create new life.  “Our bodies know how to procreate and they know how to give birth… this is why hypnosis has been so successful with fertility assistance – it facilitates the mind/body/spirit balance which is simply in harmony with nature.” (p. 17) 

There is incredible pressure placed on a woman before the age of 35 by the medical profession that considers pregnancy after that age to be of high risk.  These pressures have a debilitating often devastating effect on a woman wanting to get pregnant.

An insensitive comment, intentional or not, can have a distressing effect and should the subconscious interpret the words, high risk, to be too dangerous, it can instantaneously put up a roadblock to pregnancy.  According to hypnosis professionals, these words are called “painted words” and become imprinted in the subconscious mind.  “Because the language of the subconscious mind is emotion, any words which elicit emotion will have a hypnotic effect.”  Therefore when a woman is told that she is high risk, these words trigger a fear response, which automatically bypasses her critical factor, deeply imprinting the suggestion that she is high risk. (p. 18) Insensitive comments are not limited to the medical world as well intentioned family members or friends often times use “painted words” that are equally devastating.  “Fortunately, hypnosis can quickly and often easily reverse the effect.” (p. 18)

A young woman friend trying to get pregnant and who has experienced the effects of such statements told this reviewer, “We’re constantly bombarded with news stories about infertility, ads pushing the need for drugs, and even well-intentioned people putting negative messages in our heads, that subconsciously I think it can be a huge factor in an individual’s well-being.”  She continued, that she had found the summaries of the case studies in It’s Conceivable to be the most inspirational and “a good way of reinforcing… that this book doesn’t just explore theoretical concepts but actually presents how these positive thinking techniques have been able to get real women pregnant.”  (LM, my friend) 

It’s Conceivable has 16 Chapters, explaining how Hypnosis will assist you in using your whole brain; how to stop negative thoughts; how to find the source of the problem; how to release subconscious blocks; a short section with wonderful case studies and a final chapter on creating your own reality.  It is a lovely, hopeful, empowering book. 

Reviewed by: Monte Mohr, Doctoral Student 
Holos University Graduate Seminary 
www.HolosUniversity.org

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