What if theres no specific trigger for chronic hives?
Of course, if you can isolate a particular cause or trigger, and modify your lifestyle or your actions so that you can exclude it, that’s great. But even if it turns out to be impossible to identify any precise activating agent, this doesn’t necessarily mean you are doomed to suffer perpetually with no help but your antihistamines. Urticaria and the mind-body connection This is because ‘non-specific’ immune responses like hives can often be successfully managed – and even overcome – through actively working on what is known as the ‘mind/body link’. We know that beliefs, emotions and thoughts can cause measurable physiological changes in the body. And beliefs, emotions and thoughts can be deliberately influenced. This understanding is what lies behind the successful use of hypnosis. How hypnosis can help you treat chronic hives Hypnosis is the most powerful and effective way of establishing a ‘mindset’ which is most likely to have a beneficial impact on how (or whether) distress is expe
