Study: Listening to hypnosis techniques can reduce hot flushes

London (PA Media/dpa) – Listening to hypnosis techniques can reduce the severity and number of hot flushes menopausal women experience, research suggests. A new study found that 20 minutes per day of recorded hypnosis – where women are encouraged into a hypnotic state and picture scenarios where they feel cool – reduces symptoms, such as sudden feelings of warmth, sweating or heart palpitations. Writing in the journal Jama Network Open, researchers including from Baylor University in Texas said the findings were clinically significant. They concluded that “self-administered clinical hypnosis was shown to be an effective, clinically significant intervention for the treatment of hot flashes due to its efficacy in reducing hot flash scores (ie, frequency and severity) by more than half and yi