Stress Free Surgery: A Self Relaxation Program to Help You Prepare for and Recover from Surgery

Forty years of research has shown that patients who are psychologically prepared for surgery have vastly improved outcomes. In this audio presentation, Thomson explains the techniques that allow patients to tap into their own inner resources so that they are in the best frame of mind for surgery.

Linda Thompson is a paediatric nurse practitioner. Certified as an approved Consultant in Clinical Hypnosis by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis she incorporates hypnosis into her practice to help children help themselves with a variety of physical and emotional problems.

"Linda Thomson's Stress Free Surgery can make a wonderfully helpful contribution to people needing comfort and support at a most vulnerable time in their medical care. Her positive, supportive and gentle hypnotic encouragement to move through surgery and post-surgery with a calm and positive frame of mind can make a big difference in how well and how quickly someone recovers. Anyone going through surgery can benefit from listening to these well-constructed sessions. Michael D. Yapko, PhD. Clinical Psychologist and author of Trancework: An Introduction to the Practice of Clinical Hypnosis (3rd ed.) "Linda Thomson, PhD is a very skilled and experienced Hypnotherapist who has developed 2 CD set entitled: A Self Relaxation Program to Help You Prepare for and Recover from Surgery This is a valuable and powerful technique which can be used effortlessly by any individual, themselves, who has to undergo surgical procedures." Prof V M Mathew, Consultant Psychiatrist"