Hypnotic Surgical Healing Medical and psychological research has shown that empowered patients who control their own feelings and thoughts heal faster and better following surgery.
Patients require less sedatives who, before, during and after surgery, listened to soothing music.
Music in the operating room, as claimed by one researcher, is equivalent to a half milligram of Valium. In addition, a Japanese study demonstrated biochemically that less stress hormones were found in the blood following listening to relaxing music. There is voluminous evidence that verbal suggestions are heard and accepted by the subconscious. A similar study revealed 24 percent less pain medication was required the day after abdominal surgery by patients who also listened to positive suggestions during surgery. It must be pointed out that general anesthesia administered prior to and during surgery is a form of chemical hypnosis.