Full hypnosis download Travel sickness

Well, we’ve done it. Over at hypnosisdownloads.com we’ve finally put together a hypnosis download to stop you feeling travel sick.

I’ve been around plenty of people who were travel sick (yuk!), but only ever really felt it badly myself on one occasion. I was in the centre aisle on a hovercraft hovering its way across the English Channel. I couldn’t see out of the window and I felt very… oh, yes very bad. I was about twelve at the time. I’ve travelled by hovercraft several times since then, but I remember that the first time back on after that trip was, um, interesting!

Brain foolery

The reason some people get travel sick is because the brain becomes confused. The mechanisms in the inner ear can sense that you are moving, but your eyes are fooled into feeling you are stationary. Especially if you are in an enclosed space, like a car or a boat.

Puzzled by this mixed message, your brain concludes that you must have been poisoned and so, hey presto, tries to empty your stomach in an effort to save your life. Gee, thanks! This is why it’s not good to read when you are a passenger in a car (thus re-enforcing the stationary message). And why it is good to focus on the distance – a natural physical thing to do when you are moving somewhere. Your eyes and your inner ears need to be in agreement that you really are moving.

Hypnosis has long been used to soothe nausea (we produced a download on morning sickness for this very reason, and another one for the nausea that often accompanies chemotherapy). Our travel sickness hypnosis session should help reinstruct the unconscious mind to replace nausea with comfort when travelling. Please let me know how you get on with it.

Travel should broaden the mind – not empty the stomach.

Bon voyage

Mark