Anne King, owner of Anne King's Hypnosis Center, on the outskirts of Boerne, says she is so happy with the effectiveness of the "One-session Allergy elimination" technique she began using a few years back, that she's offering a "money back" guarantee... practically unheard of in the hypnosis world. King says she based her program on an NLP (neurolinguistic programming) technique she learned at the National Guild of Hypnotists convention in 1998.

The theory behind the hypnosis/NLP technique, according to King, is that allergies occur due to a mistake in the immune system. Dust, pollens, dander and other allergens are not dangerous; however, the body reacts to them as if they were. "Once a substance is flagged as a danger, it will always cause an allergic reaction until the immune system is re-educated," she says.

The miscommunication occurs like this: Macrophages, octopus-like white blood cells in the immune system, search out and ingest foreign elements in the body. If the macrophages recognize an element as dangerous, they send up a warning flag.
The warning flag causes Helper T-cells to rush in. The Helper-T's have a marker, like a key hole, on their sides, and, if it links to the macrophages' flag element, the Killer T-cells are called in. Killer T-cells charge in like an infantry armed with histamine. The histamine is released to explode the "perceived dangerous" element. And, you have an allergic reaction. Most allergies get created for two reasons, King continues. They might be caused due to emotional experiences over a period of time or from a single, catastrophic event. They may or may not be emotionally laden, she adds, but there is often an environmental overload. Take the example she used of Mrs. X as a case in point. Mrs. X developed an allergy to house dust after the birth of her first child. When she came in for an allergy session with King, she spontaneously regressed to a time when she, as a child, (thinking she was being helpful) was sweeping up the garage while her dad "puttered." As the garage literally flooded with dust, he yelled at her to "Stop cleaning!" The birth of her own child triggered the response.

In the Allergy Elimination hypnosis session, King says clients are asked to choose a harmless substitute substance for the allergen. Then they visualize a "clone" of themselves outside a protective barrier, interacting with the harmless counter element, yet having no adverse reactions. Gradually the allergen is substituted for the counter and the "clone" self is merged with the self having the hypnosis session. The entire process takes about an hour. King was recognized by the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association as their "Educator of the Year" in 2001. She has been teaching her allergy technique to area hypnotists for about three years now. According to her own research and that of other practitioners, the technique is at least 80 percent effective. The only drawback, she feels, is that the technique only works on one allergy at a time. However, the process gets faster and faster, and multiple allergens can be eliminated one after the other as the client gets more adept with the process, she says. Clients are advised to have an allergy panel completed before they start the program. She says she has personally worked with clients using the technique for everything from pollen to pet dander to metals and food allergies. Most with wonderful results.

There really only appear to be two reasons why an allergy elimination might not work, she adds. First, the person has a vested interest in maintaining the allergy. Maybe it helps them get out of work or buy more attention from friends or family members. Or, they are overly suggestable to the negative comments of others. With the latter in mind, King always cautions her clients not to dwell on thoughts of failure or doubt and to avoid negative people as much as possible. For more information about eliminating allergies using hypnosis, contact Anne King at (830) 537-5411 or e-mail her at hypnosis@endlessemail.com. You can also contact Kathy Moore at (210)735-6777 or e-mail her at hypnotist@mooreinspire.com. Kathy has personally had three allergies sessions for cedar and ash and reports no symptoms, even though by this time in December she's usually starting to get sick.

Anne King has been a hypnotist since 1986 and conducted over 10,000 hypnosis sessions. She relocated to Boerne and opened her hypnosis school there in 1996. She is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists, the International Hypnosis Federation and is a board member of the IMDHA.

Kathy Moore, owner of Moore Inspirations, has been in practice since 1999. Besides maintaining a busy private practice, she teaches three self-hypnosis courses and team teaches the "Living Lightly" weight loss course through Community Education at NISD. For more information on classes, check the Continuing education section of the website at www.mooreinspire.com

"Change Your Life by Changing Your Mind" with hypnosis from Moore Inspirations. www.mooreinspire.com