Hypnox - A Hypnotic Alternative to Botox?
Tuesday January 6, 2009
You're getting very sleepy...Your eyelids are getting heavier with every breath...Now that you're under my spell... Would you believe me if I told you that you could erase your frown lines permanently without surgery or injections? Well, that is the claim of Hypnox, a 25-minute self-hypnosis audio recording that proclaims itself as an all-natural alternative to Botox.
Botox works by weakening the nerve impulses that tell targeted facial muscles to contract. The desired result is more relaxed muscles that are unable to produce the very facial expressions that lead to frown lines and crows feet. The idea behind Hypnox is that by listening to the recording repeatedly over time, your mind will retrain your facial muscles not to frown, thereby producing a Botox-like effect.
So, what do you think? My natural tendency is to be highly skeptical of anything that promises surgical results without surgery (or in this case, Botox results without Botox). But I must admit the idea is intriguing, and I would love to hear from anyone who has used this product. I want to know your results, good or bad. Even if you haven't tried it, I still want to know whether or not you think something like this could be effective.
For now, as far as I'm concerned, the jury is still way out on this one. However, if you happen to be one of those rare people who is immune to Botox, then maybe you could add Hypnox to your list of Botox alternatives.
If you've tried Hypnox, or any of the other "all-natural" methods that claim to be able to re-train your facial muscles, please join the discussion on our plastic surgery forum.
Hello, Natalie. I am a professional Certified Hypnotist in Pennsylvania and this is the kind of stuff that borders on the ridiculous.
There are hypnotists who will try to increase breast size, grow hair, remove scars (!) and now, this. Hypno-Botox?
No. As a professional… I just don’t buy it. And neither should you.
Hello Bryan : I’m curious.. as a professional hypnotherapist, I’m sure you can agree that hypnosis has proven successful in treating habits – smoking, nail-biting and over-eating, for example. Could you not agree that we often frown, sometimes for long periods of time, without realizing we’re doing it (while concentrating, excercising, driving for example?) .. and could you not agree that hypnosis is quite capable of helping us be more mindful and aware of habits we sometimes do not even know we have? And as we know, awareness of these habits will help to reverse them. And JUST LIKE WITH BOTOX – once the frowning stops, the skin can smooth out. We simply do not need to give up control to a potent paralytic neurotoxin in order to achieve these same results.
Best regards,
Joan
A botox procedure basically works by a toxin being injected into the face, relaxing the muscles, causing wrinkles to reduce.
In almost every hypnotic session the subject relaxes their facial muscles, causing a smoothing of the skin. It’s one of the signs that you are taught to observe when you are assessing whether a subject has gone into a trance.
Now if a hypnotherapist deliberately works on relaxing the muscles in the face even more, then there ought to be an increase in the relaxation of the facial muscles, which will lead to even more line reduction.
This is of course not a botox operation as such, but the effects are very similar – a relaxation of the facial muscles which leads to a smoothing of the skin. I think it’s a very good idea!
I have been using Hynox for a couple of months now & I find it to be a really useful tool (along side other methods) I have trained myself to sleep on my back – great for helping with wrinkles & I am now much morw aware of what my face is doing, so will stop myself from frowning etc I am really grateful to Joan for developing this, as I was concidering Botox, but would now never dream of it!