That’s the word from researchers at Baylor University’s Mind-Body Medicine Research Laboratory.
Relaxing — specifically, hypnotic relaxation therapy — reduced hot flashes in post-menopausal women by as much as 80 percent, researchers there have found. And it worked in a matter of weeks.
Besides that, women who used the relaxation therapy felt less anxious and depressed and said their quality of life was better.
Therapists provided the 187 women in the study with weekly hypnosis sessions. But participants also practiced self-hypnosis during the five-week study, according to an article published online Oct. 22 in Menopause: The Journal of The North American Menopause Society. Read full article.
