Studies
See studies below on why come on sober, fun and utopian "trips" to be happy, equitable, green, or vegan through dream and energy work, hypnotherapy, safer meditations, and sound therapy. Come with me on trippy experiences without psychedelics.
Worry and stress can trigger mental and physical issues, such as anxiety, digestive disorders, and heart attacks. But there's hope! Like the Care Bears, I'll beam care to you. For example, one of my missions is to help people imagine how the world would be if everyone was relaxed and slept soundly. I can put people to sleep!
Why get "forked" by me or lulled to sleep with lullabies and more
Since 2002, I tried too many natural healing modalities and practitioners to list. In 2022, I finally realized some key answers to my healing were inside me, such as dream work, energy work, hypnotherapy, and sound therapy like lullaby-ish music boxes and tuning forks. But I couldn't find anyone offering all that together and in a way where I could feel comfortable having a decades-old, overdue, healing ugly-cry I didn't know I needed. Then I accidentally had a healing ugly-cry as soon as I heard a music box song from when I was a kid living in chaos. When I told a friend what happened, she told me that crying releases the feel-good chemicals oxytocin and endorphins. When I looked it up, I also learned that people who bottle their emotions can experience them more intensely and be more aggressive. The good news is, people cry more in societies with greater gender equality.
Most recently, everyone who knew that I got vibrating tuning forks wanted to "fork." I'd never experienced so many people wanted to get forked by me. I've forked new people everyday since. But don't take my word for it. See studies below. If you want to fork though, you have to pay. You just have to lay there. But don't get any ideas! We'll be fully clothed.
Why join me in not being like other people
Though my techniques pay respect to safety protocols I learned from over a hundred hours of classes, I do it differently. See for yourself in my story and sessions. In case you haven't noticed, I'm not trying to be like anyone else. I can help you do that too. Studies show being your true self can make you happy.
Why try different practitioners
There are many different dream and energy work, hypnotherapy, and sound therapy schools of thought and methods. So you might have different experiences with different practitioners. And studies show the more motivated you are to change, heal, and trust your practitioners, the more you might benefit. Plus, people who are more open-minded tend to live longer.
Dream work studies
If you don't dream, you might experience fatigue, irritability, changes in memory, issues with cognition and problem-solving, cardiovascular issues, and diabetes. So if you can, try to wake up without an alarm clock and write down your dreams while staying in the same position you woke up in. Also, people who meditate regularly remember more of their dreams.
If you wake up in a bad mood, you might have had a bad dream. If you have bad dreams, the good news is at least you're dreaming and you might even be healing. Studies:
People who had high-intensity lucid dreams reported lower levels of psychological distress including reduced symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress, compared to those with low-intensity lucid dream. High-intensity lucid dreams include strong control, confidence, and vividness. But inducing lucid dreams through techniques like waking up several times in the middle of the night might cause harm. That technique has been linked to sleep disturbances and schizophrenia-like symptoms. So we can play with other techniques.
Energy work studies
Qigong (breathwork, dreamwork, feng shui space clearing, movement, voice)
Mind-body exercises like qigong significantly reduced anxiety. Preliminary research shows qigong can help improve mood, depression, anxiety, stress, cognitive functioning, attention, memory, immunity, inflammation, pain, headaches, lung function, arthritis, bone density, blood pressure, heart health, substance use, and quality of life.
"Qigong" is pronounced "chigong," and it translates to "energy work."
Reiki
Reiki treatments and trainings are in 15% of hospitals in the United States. Studies show reiki:
Since the 1990s, studies showed that reiki dramatically altered people’s experience of emotional and physical pain, reduced negative side effects of chemotherapy, and improved surgical outcomes. One study was on people with burnout (mental exhaustion, emotional detachment, a lowered sense of personal accomplishment) who received reiki from someone trained in reiki versus from someone pretending to give reiki. That study used a quantifiable physiological measurement that reiki helped people's nervous systems relax.
Hypnotherapy studies
Pre-recorded hypnosis tracks might not work as well as sessions where you tell a hypnotherapist your specific triggers and wishes. And then the hypnotherapist can create a custom session for you.
Most meditation styles fall under two types: focused attention and open monitoring. Hypnosis is more like a focused attention type of meditation.
Studies show that:
MRI scans of people's brains under hypnosis showed important changes in areas responsible for mental clarity, pain regulation, and self-reflection. These changes can help you break old thoughts and actions. Hypnosis also helps people change their biases of other people.
A sleep lab found that slow-wave sleep—which is critical to restoring your body and brain—increased by 81% in people who received hypnosis before sleep.
One meta-analysis found that "the average participant receiving hypnosis reduced anxiety more than about 79% of control participants."
More studies show how it can help with all kinds of issues, especially pain. You can watch a BBC documentary of someone getting drilled into their bone to get two teeth taken out while they experience hypnosis as anesthesia. The more hypnotizable someone is, the greater the reduction in their pain.
Meditation studies on how to do it safely
People who meditated for more than 30 minutes a day, five days a week, woke up more in the middle of the night and had shallower sleep than those who meditated less. In a study of 73 Western Buddhist meditation practitioners and experts, 47% experienced delusions, 82% experienced fear, anxiety, panic, or paranoia, 73% described “moderate to severe impairments” and 17% required hospitalization. If you pay too much attention to bodily sensations, you might increase the part of your brain that manages excessive arousal, which can then lead you to shut down your limbic system and experience intense fear and dissociation, sometimes for years.
A different study found time spent in mindful meditation did not increase mindfulness or non-judgment and acceptance of present thoughts and emotions. But bonding with the group seemed to increase mindfulness.
If you have general anxiety and stress, it might help to listen to a focused attention meditation on your breath. That's also known as a tranquility practice. If you have depression (such as anger and irritability) or feel forgetful, it might help to listen to this open monitoring meditation to accept the present.
For looping thoughts (rumination), people who distracted themselves with random thoughts ruminated less than people who just practiced mindfulness.
If during or after meditating you experience disturbing sensations, emotions or no emotions for a long time, confusion, sleep issues, or hallucinations, ground yourself: Or get help from professors at the Cheetah House who study negative reactions to medication.
Sound therapy studies
Studies showed that:
Page updated July 24, 2024
Copyright © Jessian Choy 2022-present
See studies below on why come on sober, fun and utopian "trips" to be happy, equitable, green, or vegan through dream and energy work, hypnotherapy, safer meditations, and sound therapy. Come with me on trippy experiences without psychedelics.
Worry and stress can trigger mental and physical issues, such as anxiety, digestive disorders, and heart attacks. But there's hope! Like the Care Bears, I'll beam care to you. For example, one of my missions is to help people imagine how the world would be if everyone was relaxed and slept soundly. I can put people to sleep!
Why get "forked" by me or lulled to sleep with lullabies and more
Since 2002, I tried too many natural healing modalities and practitioners to list. In 2022, I finally realized some key answers to my healing were inside me, such as dream work, energy work, hypnotherapy, and sound therapy like lullaby-ish music boxes and tuning forks. But I couldn't find anyone offering all that together and in a way where I could feel comfortable having a decades-old, overdue, healing ugly-cry I didn't know I needed. Then I accidentally had a healing ugly-cry as soon as I heard a music box song from when I was a kid living in chaos. When I told a friend what happened, she told me that crying releases the feel-good chemicals oxytocin and endorphins. When I looked it up, I also learned that people who bottle their emotions can experience them more intensely and be more aggressive. The good news is, people cry more in societies with greater gender equality.
Most recently, everyone who knew that I got vibrating tuning forks wanted to "fork." I'd never experienced so many people wanted to get forked by me. I've forked new people everyday since. But don't take my word for it. See studies below. If you want to fork though, you have to pay. You just have to lay there. But don't get any ideas! We'll be fully clothed.
Why join me in not being like other people
Though my techniques pay respect to safety protocols I learned from over a hundred hours of classes, I do it differently. See for yourself in my story and sessions. In case you haven't noticed, I'm not trying to be like anyone else. I can help you do that too. Studies show being your true self can make you happy.
Why try different practitioners
There are many different dream and energy work, hypnotherapy, and sound therapy schools of thought and methods. So you might have different experiences with different practitioners. And studies show the more motivated you are to change, heal, and trust your practitioners, the more you might benefit. Plus, people who are more open-minded tend to live longer.
Dream work studies
If you don't dream, you might experience fatigue, irritability, changes in memory, issues with cognition and problem-solving, cardiovascular issues, and diabetes. So if you can, try to wake up without an alarm clock and write down your dreams while staying in the same position you woke up in. Also, people who meditate regularly remember more of their dreams.
If you wake up in a bad mood, you might have had a bad dream. If you have bad dreams, the good news is at least you're dreaming and you might even be healing. Studies:
- US veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) received a lucid "dream plan" to enact in sleep to change the outcome of a recurring nightmare or stay present in the dream to let it integrate. After a week, 85% of veterans no longer had PTSD.
- Another study showed participants upsetting images. The more fear they felt in their sleep the night before, the less fear they felt in response to those images
- 50% of people who asked their dreams for answers to issues in their waking life felt their dreams solved their issues.
- Students who had nightmares about a test performed better than ones who didn't.
- If you feel in awe of your dreams, you might have a better day.
People who had high-intensity lucid dreams reported lower levels of psychological distress including reduced symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress, compared to those with low-intensity lucid dream. High-intensity lucid dreams include strong control, confidence, and vividness. But inducing lucid dreams through techniques like waking up several times in the middle of the night might cause harm. That technique has been linked to sleep disturbances and schizophrenia-like symptoms. So we can play with other techniques.
Energy work studies
Qigong (breathwork, dreamwork, feng shui space clearing, movement, voice)
Mind-body exercises like qigong significantly reduced anxiety. Preliminary research shows qigong can help improve mood, depression, anxiety, stress, cognitive functioning, attention, memory, immunity, inflammation, pain, headaches, lung function, arthritis, bone density, blood pressure, heart health, substance use, and quality of life.
"Qigong" is pronounced "chigong," and it translates to "energy work."
Reiki
Reiki treatments and trainings are in 15% of hospitals in the United States. Studies show reiki:
- Has no adverse effects.
- Promotes relaxation.
- Boosts mood and sleep.
- Improves anxiety and depression, insomnia, and nausea.
Since the 1990s, studies showed that reiki dramatically altered people’s experience of emotional and physical pain, reduced negative side effects of chemotherapy, and improved surgical outcomes. One study was on people with burnout (mental exhaustion, emotional detachment, a lowered sense of personal accomplishment) who received reiki from someone trained in reiki versus from someone pretending to give reiki. That study used a quantifiable physiological measurement that reiki helped people's nervous systems relax.
Hypnotherapy studies
Pre-recorded hypnosis tracks might not work as well as sessions where you tell a hypnotherapist your specific triggers and wishes. And then the hypnotherapist can create a custom session for you.
Most meditation styles fall under two types: focused attention and open monitoring. Hypnosis is more like a focused attention type of meditation.
Studies show that:
- Hypnosis is not a state of sleep or unconsciousness. Hypnosis can feel different depending on if you're focused during it (which can produce theta brain waves) versus if you're feeling sleepy.
- Clients are in control and can oppose suggestions. Asking clients at the start of hypnosis to relax can help clients respond to suggestions.
- Most hypnotized clients describe their experience as focused attention instead of "trance."
- The more a client uses their imagination during hypnosis, the more likely they are to benefit.
MRI scans of people's brains under hypnosis showed important changes in areas responsible for mental clarity, pain regulation, and self-reflection. These changes can help you break old thoughts and actions. Hypnosis also helps people change their biases of other people.
A sleep lab found that slow-wave sleep—which is critical to restoring your body and brain—increased by 81% in people who received hypnosis before sleep.
One meta-analysis found that "the average participant receiving hypnosis reduced anxiety more than about 79% of control participants."
More studies show how it can help with all kinds of issues, especially pain. You can watch a BBC documentary of someone getting drilled into their bone to get two teeth taken out while they experience hypnosis as anesthesia. The more hypnotizable someone is, the greater the reduction in their pain.
Meditation studies on how to do it safely
People who meditated for more than 30 minutes a day, five days a week, woke up more in the middle of the night and had shallower sleep than those who meditated less. In a study of 73 Western Buddhist meditation practitioners and experts, 47% experienced delusions, 82% experienced fear, anxiety, panic, or paranoia, 73% described “moderate to severe impairments” and 17% required hospitalization. If you pay too much attention to bodily sensations, you might increase the part of your brain that manages excessive arousal, which can then lead you to shut down your limbic system and experience intense fear and dissociation, sometimes for years.
A different study found time spent in mindful meditation did not increase mindfulness or non-judgment and acceptance of present thoughts and emotions. But bonding with the group seemed to increase mindfulness.
If you have general anxiety and stress, it might help to listen to a focused attention meditation on your breath. That's also known as a tranquility practice. If you have depression (such as anger and irritability) or feel forgetful, it might help to listen to this open monitoring meditation to accept the present.
For looping thoughts (rumination), people who distracted themselves with random thoughts ruminated less than people who just practiced mindfulness.
If during or after meditating you experience disturbing sensations, emotions or no emotions for a long time, confusion, sleep issues, or hallucinations, ground yourself: Or get help from professors at the Cheetah House who study negative reactions to medication.
Sound therapy studies
Studies showed that:
- Music that triggers memories could improve conditions such as dementia and other memory issues, anxiety, stress and depression, learning disabilities, and many physical illnesses, such as chronic pain, cancer, and Parkinson’s disease. Music you choose can relieve pain more than music someone else picks for you. Listening to music reduces insomnia and improves sleep quality with effects comparable to prescription sleep medications, such as Z-drugs and benzodiazepines.
- Singing. Some people don't treat women equally no matter how women sound or look. That can be a form of femmephobia. If you have it, maybe a therapist or hypnotherapist trained in energy, somatic, and transpersonal psychology can help you notice suppressed stereotypical feminine parts of you and why you might not value femininity as equally as masculinity. If you're a woman or non-binary person frustrated by how some people treat you, choose your own singing adventure with me. Singing reduces stress hormones.
- Singing bowls improved emotional and physical health, such as for people with metastatic cancer.
- Theta wave music is the dominant frequency in healing and creativity.
- Tuning forks might help relieve muscle and bone pain. Biofield Tuning can relieve anxiety symptoms.
- Vibroacoustic therapy — when sounds and vibrations are applied directly to the body — could be an effective treatment for chronic pain and injury recovery.
Page updated July 24, 2024
Copyright © Jessian Choy 2022-present
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