Pain Management - A Mind Over Matter Situation Thanks To Self Hypnosis

A feature article by Alan B Densky, Nov 04, 2007         

Summary: Think of the many times the discomfort of pain has kept you from joining activities that you enjoy - perhaps partaking in sports and even sitting can be impossible when you're in pain. There are many dangers associated with drugs for pain relief. But there is no hazard in a hypnotherapy pain relief program. So isn't it time to look into this method

 
The axiom "no pain, no gain" simply isn't true. Think of all of the times pain has stopped you from participating in activities that you enjoy - perhaps partaking in sports and even sitting can be impossible when you're in great discomfort. Did you gain anything from missing out on memories?

However, the saying that "Pain is all in your head" can, in fact, be true. If that is so, then the cure is all in your head, too. With self hypnosis, pain can completely disappear. Despite what you may think, hypnosis is simply a mental state during which messages can connect with the unconscious mind more easily. The state of hypnosis is characterized by deep relaxation. In fact, with regular practice of a hypnotherapy pain elimination regimen, you will feel much more calm over all.

Pain indicates that something in your body is not right. So pain is technically a beneficial thing. But once you have your medical practitioner give you a check up to make sure that the pain isn't signaling a dangerous condition like a tumor, it's time to manage or even eliminate the pain.

There is no danger in a hypnotherapeutic pain relief program. You cannot "get stuck" in a hypnotic state. The worst that would ever happen when you use hypnotherapy for pain control is that you might fall into a natural state of sleep for a half hour- think of all of the times that discomfort has kept you from sleeping!

This isn't to say that a hypnotherapeutic pain management system is similar to sleep, because that is the major misunderstanding about hypnosis. If you are asleep, you are unconscious. If you are not conscious, then you cannot hear anything. If you cannot hear anything, then a hypnotist cannot help you. In truth, hypnosis is actually a state of keen awareness.

Even though you are consciously aware of everything, hypnotherapeutic pain management programs can help both mental and physical causes and lead to many successful avenues to eradicate pain. Medications simply block the reception of the physical feeling of pain temporarily, but hypnotherapeutic pain regimens can actually decrease the amount and strength of pain signals that you perceive. You can literally reprogram your body to distribute less pain-inducing chemicals to your receptors. This means that you can use fewer pain-killing medications, or often no prescriptions at all.

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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 very hard. Using hypnotherapy, you can also learn how to program your brain to generate pain-relieving endorphins on demand and then distribute them to the painful area where they are needed.

Thanks to endorphins, the brain is capable of inducing analgesia, which is a mild anesthesia, as well as full anesthesia (numbness). Medical journals are full of accounts both in pre-anesthesia days, as well as in modern times, when major surgery has been done under hypnoanesthesia.

Hypnosis can also be used to program the mind to focus your attention away from pain, which will make you perceive far less discomfort. Additionally, hypnotherapeutic pain management CDs can help our mind realize and comprehend that the pain is there, but not to let us experience it. A qualified hypnotherapist will understand how to completely address additional hypnotic suggestions that will lead to your recovery.

A very effective hypnosis pain remedy comes from Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. No doubt that after living with chronic pain, you may be doubtful that a hypnotherapeutic pain program will help. In many cases, NLP techniques actually work far better for modern thinkers than traditional hypnosis does because it was developed for people like you who are brought up to analyze and question everything. When we analyze, we tend to put up barriers to the acceptance of post-hypnotic suggestions.

Feelings of stress always make us perceive far more pain than we are actually experiencing. One of the most powerful NLP patterns for eliminating anxiety is known as the "Flash." This tool reprograms the mind to use thoughts that create stress to actually trigger thoughts that create feelings of relaxation instead. After you have used this practice, it will be difficult or impossible to think the thoughts that distress you, because your unconscious will instantly and automatically exchange them in a Flash for thoughts that relax you instead.

Pain relief and hypnotherapy go hand in hand. If you're tired of coping with medications that leave you incapable of driving or to fully experience 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 self hypnosis pain management since 1978. A well-known authority in the hypnosis field, he offers headache and migraine hypnosis & NLP CDs and free self-hypnosis resources on his Neuro-VISION website.

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