NCT04303143

Hypnosis and Direct Autonomic Experience Influence on Chronic Symptoms

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Inner Group Inc. · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Study will look at a limited number of participants with various chronic symptoms. Investigating a new and novel form of hypnosis application called "Direct Autonomic Experience (DAX)" which is using combination of visualization, metaphor, post-hypnotic suggestion and anchoring. Purpose is to confirm that DAX generally appears to impact SUDS value and subjects report observed level of effect on short and longer term measurements. Most significantly, testing that DAX technique/action is reusable later if the measured SUDS value returns or increases.

Detailed description

Hypnosis and Direct Autonomic Experience Influence on Chronic Symptoms One common characteristic of many chronic conditions is the neurology/ biology/ symptomology may change slightly or signficantly over time. So an initial process/plan that worked well for affecting a SUDS discomfort level, may no longer work or work as well. DAX is designed to be adaptive such that as matters that affected the initial SUDS conditions may have changed, shifted, grown or otherwise be different. (Examples are increased lesions with MS). Where initial patterns were created with a certain set of neural condition and pathways. But now days/weeks later, with new pathways created, can a previously installed DAX pattern adjust and shift to accommodate the new neural patterns based on participants willingness and self-instruction, or does it require professional adjustment. Example participant given strong post-hypnotic suggestions/anchor/etc to squeeze right hand in certain way to bring relief to leg discomfort. Initial testing shows working. Now time has shifted, maybe new pathways or other chronic conditions have changed. Can the DAX processes the participant has been taught handle these changes or does it require a professional to re-apply/boost or incorporate new details to get significant changes to reported SUDS discomfort values.

Conditions

• Restless Legs Syndrome
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Trauma, Psychological
• Chronic Disease
• Trauma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Self-Hypnosis	Self-Hypnosis
BEHAVIORAL	Direct Autonomic Experience Control	Direct Autonomic Experience Control. Use of learned mental tool/process to affect outcome measure of SUDS discomfort experience. (eg. Squeeze hand as pre-learned mental anchor to relieve discomfort in lower legs)

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-03-01
• Primary completion: 2021-05-01
• Completion: 2021-07-01
• First posted: 2020-03-10
• Last updated: 2020-07-29