Hypnotherapy Pain Reduction
The saying "no pain, no gain" just isn't true. Think about all of the times pain has kept you from engaging in activities that you enjoy - perhaps fishing, running, playing tennis and even sitting can be unbearable when you're in great pain. Have you gained anything from missing out on memories?
However, the saying that "Pain is all in your head" can, actually, be correct. If that is so, then the cure is in your head, too. With hypnosis, pain can completely disappear. Despite what you may believe, hypnosis is simply a mental state during which messages can connect with the unconscious more easily. The state of hypnosis is characterized by deep relaxation. In fact, with regular practice of a self hypnosis pain elimination regimen, you will feel much more tranquil over all.
Pain indicates that something in your body is amiss. So pain is technically a beneficial thing. But after you have your doctor check you out to make sure that the pain isn't indicative of a dangerous condition such as a tumor, it's time to manage or even eliminate the pain.
There is no risk in a hypnosis pain relief program. You can't "get stuck" in a state of hypnosis. The worst that could possibly happen when you use self hypnosis for pain control is that you might fall into a natural sleep state for a half hour- think of all of the times that discomfort has prevented you from getting sleep!
This isn't to say that a hypnosis pain management system is the same as sleep, because that is the chief misconception about hypnosis. When you are asleep, you are unconscious. If you are unconscious, then you cannot hear anything. If you cannot hear anything, then the hypnotist cannot help you. Hypnosis is actually a state of keen awareness.
Despite being consciously aware of everything, hypnosis pain management programs can tackle both physical and mental causes and present many effective avenues to eradicate pain. Medications merely block the reception of the physical symptoms of pain on a temporary basis, but hypnosis pain regimens can actually reduce the amount and strength of pain signals that you perceive. You can literally reprogram your body to send less pain-inducing chemicals to your receptors. This means that you can use fewer pain killing medications, or often no medications at all.
Endorphins are opiate-like compounds that are created in the brain. They are the elements that cause athletes to get a high when they workout intensely. Using self hypnosis, you can also learn how to program your brain to create pain-relieving endorphins on demand and then send them to the painful part of your body where they are required.
Thanks to endorphins, the brain is capable of inducing analgesia, which is a light anesthesia, as well as complete anesthesia (numbness). Medical journals are full of accounts both in pre-anesthesia days, as well as in modern times, when invasive surgery has been done under hypnoanesthesia.
Hypnosis can also work to program the mind to direct your attention away from pain, and that will make you perceive far less discomfort. Further, hypnosis hypnosis pain management programs can help our mind know and comprehend that the pain is there, but not to let us feel it. A certified hypnotherapist will be familiar with how to completely address additional hypnotic suggestions that will assist in your recovery.
A very effective hypnosis pain remedy comes from Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. No doubt that after dealing with chronic pain, you may be doubtful that a hypnosis pain program will work. In a lot of cases, NLP methods actually work better for modern thinkers than traditional hypnosis does because it was created for people like you who are brought up to analyze and question everything. When we analyze, we tend to construct barriers to the acceptance of post-hypnotic suggestions.
Tense feelings always make us perceive far more pain than we are actually experiencing. One of the most successful NLP patterns for eliminating stress is known as the "Flash." This technique reprograms the unconscious to use thoughts that create stress to actually trigger thoughts that bring about feelings of relaxation in their place. After you've used this technique, it will be difficult or impossible to think the thoughts that trouble you, because your unconscious mind will instantly and automatically exchange them in a Flash for thoughts that relax you instead.
Hypnosis and pain relief go hand in hand. If you're tired of coping with prescriptions that render you in no condition to drive or to fully experie life, or worse, of living with the throbbing, stabbing or shooting pulsations of discomfort, a hypnosis pain elimination program can offer safe, natural and instantaneous relief.
Alan B. Densky, CH has been helping clients with hypnosis pain relief since 1978. A well-known authority in the hypnotherapy field, he offers pain management hypnosis & NLP CDs and free self-hypnosis resources on his Neuro-VISION website.
Published October 22nd, 2007
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